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MAGPIMiddle Ages Galaxy Properties with Integral Field Spectroscopy Survey |
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MAGPIMiddle Ages Galaxy Properties with Integral Field Spectroscopy Survey |
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Galaxies have undergone significant dynamical, morphological and chemical evolution over the past 8 billion years. It is predicted that environment is a key driver of this evolution 4 billion years ago (z~0.3), when simulations suggest there was the greatest diversity of evolutionary pathways between satellite and central galaxies. This critical epoch is beyond the reach of existing Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) surveys. Current simultaneous 3D spectroscopy of stars and ionised gas has been limited to a short evolutionary window of 2 billion years look-back time. An important missing piece of the puzzle is how stars and ionised gas looked like in the progenitors of today’s galaxies.
The MAGPI Survey began in 2019 to address these gaps, with observations complete in 2025. We use adaptive optics-aided MUSE observations to achieve a spatial resolution similar to what is obtained in the local Universe with IFU surveys such as SAMI but pushing out to the distant Universe, 4 billion years ago.
The Middle Ages Galaxy Properties with Integral Field Spectroscopy (MAGPI) survey is a large program on the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope, using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) to obtain spatially-resolved spectroscopy of stars and ionised gas for galaxies in a range of environments 3-4 Gyrs ago.
The project is designed to reveal the mechanisms responsible for the morpho-kinematic variety of today’s massive galaxies.
| https://magpisurvey.org/ | |
| Trevor Mendel, Claudia Lagos, Emily Wisnioski, Kate Harbore | |
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| Oct. 1, 2019 | |
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