EMU: Evolutionary Map of the Universe
Abstract
EMU is a wide-field radio continuum survey planned for the new Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope. The primary goal of EMU is to make a deep (rms ~ 10 microJy/beam) radio continuum survey of the entire Southern Sky at 1.3 GHz, extending as far North as +30 degrees declination, with a resolution of 10 arcsec. EMU is expected to detect and catalogue about 70 million galaxies, including typical star-forming galaxies up to z~1, powerful starbursts to even greater redshifts, and AGNs to the edge of the visible Universe. It will undoubtedly discover new classes of object. This paper defines the science goals and parameters of the survey, and describes the development of techniques necessary to maximise the science return from EMU.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1106.3219,
title = {EMU: Evolutionary Map of the Universe},
author = {Ray P. Norris and A. M. Hopkins and J. Afonso and S. Brown and J. J. Condon and L. Dunne and I. Feain and R. Hollow and M. Jarvis and M. Johnston-Hollitt and E. Lenc and E. Middelberg and P. Padovani and I. Prandoni and L. Rudnick and N. Seymour and G. Umana and H. Andernach and D. M. Alexander and P. N. Appleton and D. Bacon and J. Banfield and W. Becker and M. J. I. Brown and P. Ciliegi and C. Jackson and S. Eales and A. C. Edge and B. M. Gaensler and G. Giovannini and C. A. Hales and P. Hancock and M. Y. Huynh and E. Ibar and R. J. Ivison and R. Kennicutt and Amy E. Kimball and A. M. Koekemoer and B. S. Koribalski and Á. R. López-Sánchez and M. Y. Mao and T. Murphy and H. Messias and K. A. Pimbblet and A. Raccanelli and K. E. Randall and T. H. Reiprich and I. G. Roseboom and H. Röttgering and D. J. Saikia and R. G. Sharp and O. B. Slee and Ian Smail and M. A. Thompson and J. S. Urquhart and J. V. Wall and G. -B. Zhao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.3219},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Accepted by PASA; see http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rnorris/papers/n252.pdf for higher-resolution figures