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9 - Physics
University of Nottingham
Kinematic properties of early-type galaxy haloes using planetary nebulae
Merrifield is the UK leader of the international (UK/Netherlands/Australia/Italy/US/Germany) PN.S project, having been involved since its inception. He undertook pre-project proof-of-concept observations, and was principal investigator for the UK’s contribution to building the custom-designed novel spectrograph, funded by the Royal Society. He played a major role in developing the core elliptical galaxy programme on which this paper reports. He was the principal author of all the observing proposals that produced the data presented here, and was PI for more than half of the resulting allocation of telescope time (159 nights on the WHT for PN.S projects to-date).