Large Scale Structure and Galaxy Evolution in COSMOS
- Creators
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Scoville, Nick
- COSMOS Team
- Other:
- Macchetto, F. Duccio
Abstract
Galaxy evolution and AGN growth in the early universe are believed to be strongly driven by merging (hierarchical growth) and galaxy dynamical interactions. Thus, a full exploration of the environmental influences is absolutely essential to understanding this early evolution. The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS; Scoville et al. in Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser. 172:1, 2007) is specifically designed to probe the correlated coevolution of galaxies, star formation, active galactic nuclei (AGN) and dark matter (DM) large-scale structures (LSS) over the redshift range z > 0.5–3. The survey includes multi-wavelength imaging and spectroscopy from X-ray to radio wavelengths covering a 2 deg^2 equatorial field. Given the very high sensitivity and resolution of these datasets, COSMOS also provide unprecedented samples of objects at z > 3 and will be a fundamental resource for future cosmology studies. I reviewthe characteristics of the COSMOS survey and showexciting initial results mapping large scale structures in galaxies and dark matter.
Additional Information
© 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. I gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the entire COSMOS collaboration consisting of more than 100 scientists.The HST COSMOS Treasury program was supported through NASA grant HST-GO-09822.Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 19741
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-90-481-3400-7_44
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20100831-112515115
- NASA
- HST-GO-09822
- Created
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2010-09-10Created from EPrint's datestamp field
- Updated
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2021-11-08Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Series Name
- Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings