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Jun 2005
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Spitzer Proposal ID #20203
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The recycling of matter between the interstellar medium (ISM) and stars drives the evolution of a galaxy's visible matter. To understand this recycling, we propose to study the physical processes of the ISM, the formation of new stars and the injection of mass by evolved stars and their relationships on the galaxy-wide scale of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Due to its proximity, favorable viewing angle, multi-wavelength information, and measured tidal interactions with the Milky Way (MW) and Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), the LMC is uniquely suited for surveying the agents of a galaxy's evolution (SAGE), the ISM and stars. Our uniform and unbiased survey of the LMC (7x7 degrees) in all IRAC and MIPS bands will have much better wavelength coverage, up to ~1000 times better point source sensitivity and ~11 times better angular resolution than previous IR surveys. Full and uniform coverage of the LMC is necessary to study the galaxy as a system, to develop a template for more distant galaxies and to create an archival data set (rights waived) that promises a lasting legacy to match current LMC surveys at other wavelengths. SAGE will reveal over 6 million sources including ~150,000 evolved stars, ~50,000 young stellar objects and the diffuse ISM with column densities >1.2e21 H/cm2. In contrast to the MW and SMC, the diffuse IR emission in the LMC can be unambiguously associated with individual gas/dust clouds, thereby permitting unique studies of dust processes in the ISM. SAGE's complete census of newly formed stars with masses >1-3 Msun will reveal whether tidally-triggered star formation events in the LMC are sustained or short-lived. SAGE's complete census of evolved stars with mass loss rates >1e-8 Msun/yr will quantitatively measure the rate at which evolved stars inject mass into the ISM. SAGE will be the crucial link between Spitzer's survey of individual IR sources in the MW (GLIMPSE) and its surveys of galaxies (e.g., SINGS) and a stepping stone to the deep surveys (e.g., GOODS & SWIRE).
Babler Brian
Bernard Jean-Philippe
Blum Robert
Boulanger Francois
Churchwell Edward
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