Observability of Early Evolutionary Phases of Galaxies at mm Wavelengths
Abstract
Several lines of evidence and theoretical arguments suggest that a large fraction of starlight is absorbed by interstellar dust and re-radiated at far-IR wavelengths, particularly during early evolutionary phases of early type galaxies, which may even, under some circumstances, experience an optically thick phase. Therefore far-IR to mm observations are crucial to understand the galaxy evolution. The strong K-correction makes surveys at mm wavelengths ideally suited for studying high- galaxies. The broad redshift range covered by mm surveys at sub-mJy flux limits offers a good chance for gaining important information also on the geometry of the Universe.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9602152,
title = {Observability of Early Evolutionary Phases of Galaxies at mm Wavelengths},
author = {G. De Zotti and P. Mazzei and A. Franceschini and L. Danese},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9602152},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Invited review at the ESO IRAM NFRA Onsala Workshop "Science with Large Millimeter Arrays", Muenchen; tex file, 7 pages, 3 fig.s available on request