EMU：宇宙演化图谱
宇宙学与河外天体物理
2015-05-28 v1 天体物理仪器与方法
摘要
EMU 是一项为新的澳大利亚平方千米阵列探路者（ASKAP）望远镜计划的广域射电连续谱巡天。EMU 的主要目标是在 1.3 GHz 频率上对整个南天进行深度（均方根噪声约 10 微央斯基/波束）射电连续谱巡天，向北延伸至 +30 度赤纬，分辨率为 10 角秒。EMU 预计将探测并编录约 7000 万个星系，包括红移 z~1 处的典型恒星形成星系、红移更高的强大星暴星系，以及直至可见宇宙边缘的活动星系核。它无疑将发现新的天体类别。本文定义了该巡天的科学目标和参数，并描述了为最大化 EMU 的科学回报所必需的技术发展。
引用
@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}
}
备注
Accepted by PASA; see http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rnorris/papers/n252.pdf for higher-resolution figures