A Comprehensive Redshift Survey of the Brightest Herschel Galaxies – Z-GAL
The proposed three years ANR project will accompany and support, through an effective partnership, a Large Program of ~190 hours using the IRAM NOEMA interferometer. The aim of this project is to build a comprehensive redshift survey of the brightest sub-millimeter galaxies (SMGs) selected from Herschel and provide a sizeable and homogeneous sample of about 200 SMGs with reliable redshifts, to address the following science goals: i) increase the number of lensed SMGs with known redshifts at the peak of the cosmic star-formation rate density; ii) find rare objects, including hyper-luminous SMGs, and study their statistical properties; iii) enable follow-up observations of the lensed sources and derive the properties of the massive deflector dark matter haloes at z~0.5-1 and the large-scale structures they trace; iv) measure cosmological parameters (Omega_Lambda); and v) further explore the physical properties of these dusty luminous star-forming galaxies in the early universe.
Project coordination
Pierre Cox (Institut d'astrophysique de Paris)
The author of this summary is the project coordinator, who is responsible for the content of this summary. The ANR declines any responsibility as for its contents.
Partner
IRAM INSTITUT DE RADIO ASTRONOMIE MILLIMETRIQUE
LAM Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Marseille
IAP Institut d'astrophysique de Paris
Help of the ANR 416,959 euros
Beginning and duration of the scientific project:
December 2019
- 48 Months