Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Nov 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009sf2a.conf...11m&link_type=abstract
SF2A-2009: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics, held 29 June - 4 July 2009 in
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Scientific paper
The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS) is a large program on the Canada France Hawaii Telescope to survey the Virgo Cluster (PI: Laura Ferrarese, http://astrowww.phys.uvic.ca/~lff/NGVS.html). The survey will perform deep imaging of the central region of the cluster up to its virial radius and in five band--passes (u*,g',r',i',z'). The total exposure time will be 771 hours over 4 semesters from Spring 2009 to Spring 2012, with a French exposure time contribution of 325 hours. Because of its depth and extension, the survey will be the main optical reference for all future studies of the Virgo cluster in the coming decades. The program's main scientific objectives are: the characterization of the faint-end shape of the luminosity function, galaxy scaling relations, globular cluster populations, the role of environmental effects in galaxy evolution, the role of nuclear star clusters and black holes in galaxy evolution, star formation and chemical enrichment in the cluster environment.
Balkowski Ch.
Boissier Samuel
Boselli Alessandro
Bournaud Frederic
Driel Wim van
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