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PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA
卷 37, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2020.16
关键词
galaxies: clusters: general; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: high-redshift; galaxies: luminosity function; submillimetre: galaxies
资金
- Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities (MICIU) under the 2014 Ramon y Cajal programme [RYC-2014-15686, AYA2017-84061-P]
- FEDER (European Regional Development Funds)
- Italian Ministero dell'Istruzione, Universita e Ricerca, through the grant 'Progetti Premiali 2012-iALMA' [CUP C52I13000140001]
- INAF under PRIN SKA/CTA FORECaST
- National Science Foundation of China [11890693]
- European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant [707601]
- STFC [ST/S00033X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
We illustrate the extraordinary discovery potential for extragalactic astrophysics of a far-infrared/submillimetre (far-IR/submm) all-sky spectroscopic survey with a 3-m-class space telescope. Spectroscopy provides a three-dimensional view of the Universe and allows us to take full advantage of the sensitivity of present-day instrumentation, close to fundamental limits, overcoming the spatial confusion that affects broadband far-IR/submm surveys. A space telescope of the 3-m class (which has already been described in recent papers) will detect emission lines powered by star formation in galaxies out to z similar or equal to 8. It will specifically provide measurements of spectroscopic redshifts, starformation rates (SFRs), dustmasses, andmetal content for millions of galaxies at the peak epoch of cosmic star formation and of hundreds of them at the epoch of reionisation. Many of these star-forming galaxies will be strongly lensed; the brightness amplification and stretching of their sizes will make it possible to investigate (by means of follow-up observations with high-resolution instruments like ALMA, JWST, and SKA) their internal structure and dynamics on the scales of giant molecular clouds (40-100 pc). This will provide direct information on the physics driving the evolution of star-forming galaxies. Furthermore, the arcmin resolution of the telescope at submm wavelengths is ideal for detecting the cores of galaxy proto-clusters, out to the epoch of reionisation. Due to the integrated emission of member galaxies, such objects (as well as strongly lensed sources) will dominate at the highest apparent far-IR luminosities. Tens of millions of these galaxy-clusters-information will be detected at z similar or equal to 2-3, with a tail extending out to z similar or equal to 7, and thousands of detections at 6 < z < 7. Their study will allow us to track the growth of the most massive halos well beyond what is possible with classical cluster surveys (mostly limited to z less than or similar to 1.5-2), tracing the history of star formation in dense environments and teaching us how star formation and galaxy-cluster formation are related across all epochs. The obscured cosmic SFR density of the Universe will thereby be constrained. Such a survey will overcome the current lack of spectroscopic redshifts of dusty star-forming galaxies and galaxy proto-clusters, representing a quantum leap in far-IR/submm extragalactic astrophysics.
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