Journal
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 447, Issue 3, Pages 2857-2879Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu2635
Keywords
instrumentation: miscellaneous; instrumentation: spectrographs; techniques: imaging spectroscopy; surveys; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: kinematics and dynamics
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Funding
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO) [CE110001020]
- Australia Astronomical Observatory
- University of Sydney
- STFC (UK)
- ARC (Australia)
- AAO
- Australian Research Council [FT100100457, DP130100664, ARC FS110200023]
- Marie Curie Career Integration Grant [303912]
- John Stocker Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Science and Industry Endowment Fund (Australia)
- ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory under programme [177.A-3011]
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- National Science Foundation
- US Department of Energy Office of Science
- STFC [ST/L005042/1, ST/L00075X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/M000966/1, ST/L005042/1, ST/L00075X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Australian Research Council [FT100100457] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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The SAMI Galaxy Survey will observe 3400 galaxies with the Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral-field spectrograph (SAMI) on the Anglo-Australian Telescope in a 3-yr survey which began in 2013. We present the throughput of the SAMI system, the science basis and specifications for the target selection, the survey observation plan and the combined properties of the selected galaxies. The survey includes four volume-limited galaxy samples based on cuts in a proxy for stellar mass, along with low-stellar-mass dwarf galaxies all selected from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. The GAMA regions were selected because of the vast array of ancillary data available, including ultraviolet through to radio bands. These fields are on the celestial equator at 9, 12 and 14.5 h, and cover a total of 144 deg(2) (in GAMA-I). Higher density environments are also included with the addition of eight clusters. The clusters have spectroscopy from 2-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) and Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and photometry in regions covered by the SDSS and/or VLT Survey Telescope/ATLAS. The aim is to cover a broad range in stellar mass and environment, and therefore the primary survey targets cover redshifts 0.004< z< 0.095, magnitudes r(pet) < 19.4, stellar masses 10(7)-10(12) M-circle dot, and environments from isolated field galaxies through groups to clusters of similar to 10(15) M-circle dot.
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