The VLT Survey Telescope Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural Hierarchy (VST-SMASH) aims to detect tidal features and remnants around very nearby galaxies, a unique and essential diagnostic of the hierarchical nature of galaxy formation. Leveraging optimal sky conditions at ESO's Paranal Observatory, combined with the VST's multi-band optical filters, VST-SMASH aims to be the definitive survey of stellar streams and tidal remnants in the Local Volume, targeting a low surface-brightness limit of μ∼ 30 mag arcsec−2 in the g and r bands, and μ∼ 28 mag arcsec−2 in the i band, in a volume-limited sample of local galaxies within 11 Mpc and the Euclid footprint.
@article{arxiv.2411.09608,
title = {VST-SMASH: the VST Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural Hierarchy},
author = {Crescenzo Tortora and Rossella Ragusa and Massimiliano Gatto and Marilena Spavone and Leslie Hunt and Vincenzo Ripepi and Massimo Dall'Ora and Abdurro'uf and Francesca Annibali and Maarten Baes and Francesco Michel Concetto Belfiore and Nicola Bellucco and Micol Bolzonella and Michele Cantiello and Paola Dimauro and Mathias Kluge and Federico Lelli and Nicola R. Napolitano and Achille Nucita and Mario Radovich and Roberto Scaramella and Eva Schinnerer and Vincenzo Testa and Aiswarya Unni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.09608},
year = {2024}
}
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4 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, published in the ESO Messenger 193