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The Hector Survey: integral field spectroscopy of 100,000 galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2015

J. Bland-Hawthorn
J. Bland-Hawthorn*
Affiliation:
Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA), School of Physics, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia email: jbh@physics.usyd.edu.au
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Abstract

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In March 2013, the Sydney–AAO Multi-object Integral field spectrograph (SAMI) began a major survey of 3400 galaxies at the AAT, the largest of its kind to date. At the time of writing, over a third of the targets have been observed and the scientific impact has been immediate. The Manga galaxy survey has now started at the SDSS telescope and will target an even larger sample of nearby galaxies. In Australia, the community is now gearing up to deliver a major new facility called Hector that will allow integral field spectroscopy of 100 galaxies observed simultaneously. By the close of the decade, it will be possible to obtain integral field spectroscopy of 100,000 galaxies over 3000 square degrees of sky down to r=17 (median). Many of these objects will have HI imaging from the new ASKAP radio surveys. We discuss the motivation for such a survey and the use of new cosmological simulations that are properly matched to the integral field observations. The Hector survey will open up a new and unique parameter space for galaxy evolution studies.

Keywords

galaxies: evolution – galaxies: kinematics and dynamics – galaxies: structure – techniques: imaging spectroscopy
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 10 , Issue S309: Galaxies in 3D across the Universe , July 2014 , pp. 21 - 28
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2015 

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