Review Article

The Integral Field View of the Orion Nebula

Figure 1

Color-composite image of the Huygens region observed with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) [6]. The fields of the different IFS studies carried out so far are shown on the image as well as the morphological structures that they contain. Additionally, the location of Ori C, the Orion-S Cloud, and the Dark Bay are also marked. Squares represent the PMAS studies with the integral field unit (IFU) that provides a spatial resolution of [37, 53, 54, 65]. Rectangles show the FLAMES studies using the Argus IFU with a spatial resolution of [51, 66, 67]. The early work of Vasconcelos and collaborators [27] with GMOS on the LV2 proplyd had a slightly smaller field of view and spatial resolution than FLAMES. The field of view of the fiber-based PMAS/PPak mode of about 1  is presented on the Dark Bay. As it is seen in Figure 8, this IFS mode was used to map the whole Huygens region with a spatial resolution of [33, 36].
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