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I demonstrate with examples from the Galactic centre the astronomical potency of imaging spectroscopy, derived by scanning a slit across a portion of sky to produce a data cube with one spectral and two spatial dimensions.
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Allen, D. (1994). The Power of Imaging Spectroscopy. In: McLean, I.S. (eds) Infrared Astronomy with Arrays. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 190. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1070-9_10
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