Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Dec 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004aas...205.9414g&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society Meeting 205, #94.14; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 36, p.1497
Mathematics
Logic
Scientific paper
Integral Field Spectrographs are a new class of powerful astronomical instruments capable of operating on unprecedented volumes of high-redshift space as well as showing a fantastic amount of detail in the nearby Universe. These instruments are therefore ideally suited to observationally advance our understanding of the formation and structure of galaxies, specifically:
Gas falling into a proto-galaxy leaves a visible signature in the form of a faint halo of Lyα emission around the system. IFS observations simultaneously map the spatial distribution of this faint emission and measure its velocity structure. These are the key observables with which to constrain dark matter halos in the context of the standard model. These observations probe large volumes of space and are also expected to yield many serendipitous discoveries of Lyα galaxies. The distribution of these systems is another key prediction of galaxy formation scenarios.
The increasing sophistication of cosmological simulations is beginning to address the internal properties of galaxies, and not just their global characteristics. As the closest analogues to disk-like proto-galaxies, the internal properties of nearby disk galaxies provide one of the most stringent test of cosmological simulations. A comprehensive IFS survey of the nearby galaxies is therefore required as it will simultaneously map the kinematics and dynamics, and chemical composition and ages of disk galaxies.
Allington-Smith Jeremy
Bower Richard
Gerssen Joris
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