The Physics and Mass Assembly of distant galaxies with the E-ELT

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2009-11-04

arxiv.org/abs/0911.0729v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

21 pages, 13 figures, 7 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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One of the main science goal of the future European Extremely Large Telescope will be to understand the mass assembly process in galaxies as a function of cosmic time. To this aim, a multi-object, AO-assisted integral field spectrograph will be required to map the physical and chemical properties of very distant galaxies. In this paper, we examine the ability of such an instrument to obtain spatially resolved spectroscopy of a large sample of massive (0.15) redshift bin. We find that a survey of Ngal galaxies that fulfil the range of science goals can be achieved with a ~90 nights program on the E-ELT, provided a multiplex capability M Ngal/8.

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