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Chris Benn
Researcher at Spanish National Research Council
Publications - 112
Citations - 3744
Chris Benn is an academic researcher from Spanish National Research Council. The author has contributed to research in topics: Quasar & QSOS. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 110 publications receiving 3507 citations.
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Neural-network selection of high-redshift radio quasars, and the luminosity function at z ∼ 4
TL;DR: In this article, the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) under project AYA2011-29517-C03-02 was used to fund the study.
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INGRID: A near-infrared camera for the William Herschel Telescope
Chris Packham,Keith L. Thompson,Almudena Zurita,Johan H. Knapen,Ian Smail,Robert Greimel,Daniel F. M. Folha,Chris Benn,A. Humphrey,R. G. M. Rutten,David R. Ciardi,Matthieu Bec,Richard G. Bingham,Simon Craig,Kevin Dee,Derek Ives,Paul Jolley,Peter Moore,Marti Pi i Puig,Simon G. Rees,Gordon Talbot,Sue Worswick +21 more
TL;DR: In this article, the Isaac Newton Group Red Imaging Device (INGRID) was used to provide a field of view >16 arcmin 2 (at the Cassegrain focus) whilst Nyquist sampled the median summer seeing disc.
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Integration and early testing of WEAVE: the next-generation spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel Telescope
Gavin Dalton,Scott Trager,Don Carlos Abrams,Piercarlo Bonifacio,J. Alfonso L. Aguerri,Antonella Vallenari,Georgia Bishop,Kevin Middleton,Chris Benn,Kevin Dee,S. Mignot,Ian Lewis,J. Pragt,Sergio Picó,Nicholas A. Walton,Juerg Rey,Carlos Allende Prieto,Emilie Lhomé,Marc Balcells,David Terrett,Matthew Brock,Andy Ridings,Jure Skvarč,Marc Verheijen,Iain A. Steele,Remko Stuik,Gabby Kroes,N. Tromp,Jan Kragt,Dirk Lesman,C. J. Mottram,S. D. Bates,Frank Gribbin,José Alonso Burgal,José Miguel Herreros,Jose Miguel Delgado,Carlos Martin,Diego Cano,Ramón Navarro,Mike Irwin,Luis Peralta de Arriba,Neil O'Mahoney,Andrea Bianco,Alireza Moleinezhad,Alireza Moleinezhad,Rik ter Horst,Emilio Molinari,Marcello Lodi,José Guerra,Andrea Baruffalo,Esperanza Carrasco,Szigfrid Farcas,Ellen Schallig,Sarah Hughes,Vanessa Hill,Daniel J. Smith,Janet E. Drew,Bianca M. Poggianti,Angela Iovino,Mat Pieri,Shoko Jin,Lillian Dominguez Palmero,C. Fariña,Adrian Martin,Clare Worley,David Murphy,S. Guest,Huw R. Morris,Eddy Elswijk,Menno de Haan,H. Hanenburg,Bernardo Salasnich,D. Mayya,Rafael Izazaga-Pérez,E. Gafton,Elisabetta Caffau,D. Horville,Francisco Paz Chinchón,Jesus Falcon-Barosso,Boris T. Gänsicke,Jose San Juan,N. Hernandez +81 more
TL;DR: An update on the overall integration progress of the WEAVE next-generation spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel Telescope (WHT), now planned for first light in mid-2020, is presented, with components now arriving at the observatory.
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High-redshift QSOs in the FIRST survey
Chris Benn,M. Vigotti,Marco Pedani,Joanna Holt,K.-H. Mack,K.-H. Mack,R. L. Curran,S. F. Sanchez +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, a pilot search for high-redshift radio quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) with very red (O - E > 3) star-like optical identifications was conducted.
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Design drivers for a wide-field multi-object spectrograph for the William Herschel Telescope
Marc Balcells,Chris Benn,David Carter,Gavin Dalton,Scott Trager,Sofia Feltzing,Marc A.W. Verheijen,Matt J. Jarvis,Will J. Percival,Don Carlos Abrams,Tibor Agócs,Anthony G. A. Brown,Diego Cano,Chris Evans,Amina Helmi,Ian Lewis,Ross J. McLure,Reynier Peletier,Ismael Perez-Fournon,Ray M. Sharples,Ian Tosh,Ignacio Trujillo,N. A. Walton,Kyle B. Westhall +23 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a science case and design drivers for a wide-field multi-object spectrograph (MOS) with integral field units for the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope (WHT) on La Palma.