One of the prominent science goal of the ELTs will be to study the physics and mass assembly of galaxies at very high redshifts. Here, we present the galaxy evolution science case for EAGLE, which is a NIR multi-integral field spectrograph for the E-ELT currently under phase A study. We summarize results of simulations conducted to derive high-level requirements. In particular, we show how we have derived the specifications for the ensquared energy that the AO system needs to provide to reach the scientific goals of the instrument. Finally, we present future strategies to conduct galaxy surveys with EAGLE.
@article{arxiv.0909.1747,
title = {The physics of galaxy evolution with EAGLE},
author = {M. Puech and M. Lehnert and Y. Yang and J. -G. Cuby and S. Morris and C. Evans and B. Neichel and T. Fusco and G. Rousset and H. Flores},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.1747},
year = {2015}
}
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6 pages, 4 Figures, to appear in the proceedings of the AO4ELT meeting held in Paris, 22-26 June 2009