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Head of Astronomy
Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain Tel. +34 922 425432 (sea-level office) |
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Head of Astronomy
Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain Tel. +34 922 425432 (sea-level office) |
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Current WHT projects
I'm project scientist for the William Herschel Telescope's new imager/spectrograph ACAM, and also work on the proposed highly-multiplexed wide-field spectrograph for WHT prime focus - WEAVE. I'm manager of the WHT, and instrument specialist for adaptive optics (NAOMI). |
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Current research projects
BAL quasars -
In collaboration with astronomers from
Bologna, Leiden, Santander and Virginia Tech, I'm
investigating the nature
of the high-velocity outflows in broad-absorption-line quasars.
Over the last few years, we've obtained data from a variety of telescopes
for this project:
INT, Keck, Mercator, NOT, TNG, VLT and WHT in the optical/near-IR,
IRAM and JCMT at sub-mm wavelengths, and
Effelsberg, GMRT, VLA, VLBA and WSRT
in the radio.
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Other activities
Click here for my pages about other topics, including sky brightness, the citation impact of large telescopes, astronomy on the QM2, and crosswords for pan-dimensional beings. |
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La Palma
Click here for pictures, and information about the island of La Palma. |
| My publications, and listing in ADS, listing in astro-ph |
Chris Benn
(crb@ing.iac.es)
2018 October 3