TY - GEN
T1 - Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA)
T2 - Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade
AU - GAMA Team
AU - Driver, Simon P.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The GAMA survey has now completed its spectroscopic campaign of over 250,000 galaxies (r <19.8 mag), and will shortly complete the assimilation of the complementary panchromatic imaging data from GALEX, VST, VISTA, WISE, and Herschel. In the coming years the GAMA fields will be observed by the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder allowing a complete study of the stellar, dust, and gas mass constituents of galaxies within the low-z Universe (z <0.3). The science directive is to study the distribution of mass, energy, and structure on kpc-Mpc scales over a 3 billion year timeline. This is being pursued both as an empirical study in its own right, as well as providing a benchmark resource against which the outputs from numerical simulations can be compared. GAMA has three particularly compelling aspects which set it apart: completeness, selection, and panchromatic coverage. The very high redshift completeness (similar to 98%) allows for extremely complete and robust pair and group catalogs; the simple selection (r <19.8 mag) minimizes the selection bias and simplifies its management; and the panchromatic coverage, 0.2 mu m - 1 m, enables studies of the complete energy distributions for individual galaxies, well defined sub samples, and population assembles (either directly or via stacking techniques).
AB - The GAMA survey has now completed its spectroscopic campaign of over 250,000 galaxies (r <19.8 mag), and will shortly complete the assimilation of the complementary panchromatic imaging data from GALEX, VST, VISTA, WISE, and Herschel. In the coming years the GAMA fields will be observed by the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder allowing a complete study of the stellar, dust, and gas mass constituents of galaxies within the low-z Universe (z <0.3). The science directive is to study the distribution of mass, energy, and structure on kpc-Mpc scales over a 3 billion year timeline. This is being pursued both as an empirical study in its own right, as well as providing a benchmark resource against which the outputs from numerical simulations can be compared. GAMA has three particularly compelling aspects which set it apart: completeness, selection, and panchromatic coverage. The very high redshift completeness (similar to 98%) allows for extremely complete and robust pair and group catalogs; the simple selection (r <19.8 mag) minimizes the selection bias and simplifies its management; and the panchromatic coverage, 0.2 mu m - 1 m, enables studies of the complete energy distributions for individual galaxies, well defined sub samples, and population assembles (either directly or via stacking techniques).
KW - CATALOG
UR - http://www.ing.iac.es/conferences/mos/
UR - http://www.aspbooks.org/a/volumes/table_of_contents/507
M3 - Conference paper
SN - 978-1-58381-898-5
T3 - Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series
SP - 269
EP - 275
BT - Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade
A2 - Skillen, I.
A2 - Balcells, M.
A2 - Trager, S. C.
PB - Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Y2 - 2 March 2015 through 6 March 2015
ER -