The Wide Area VISTA Extra-Galactic Survey (WAVES)

Driver, S.P.; Davies, L.J.; Meyer, M.; Power, C.; Robotham, A.S.G.; Baldry, I.K.; Liske, J.; Norberg, P.

Abstract

The “Wide Area VISTA Extra-galactic Survey” (WAVES) is a 4MOST Consortium Design Reference Survey which will use the VISTA/4MOST facility to spectroscopically survey ∼2 million galaxies to rAB < 22 mag. WAVES consists of two interlocking galaxy surveys (“WAVES-Deep” and “WAVES-Wide”), providing the next two steps beyond the highly successful 1M galaxy Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the 250k Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey. WAVES will enable an unprecedented study of the distribution and evolution of mass, energy, and structures extending from 1-kpc dwarf galaxies in the local void to the morphologies of 200-Mpc filaments at z∼1 . A key aim of both surveys will be to compare comprehensive empirical observations of the spatial properties of galaxies, groups, and filaments, against state-of-the-art numerical simulations to distinguish between various Dark Matter models.

Citation

Driver, S., Davies, L., Meyer, M., Power, C., Robotham, A., Baldry, I., …Norberg, P. (2016). The Wide Area VISTA Extra-Galactic Survey (WAVES). In N. R. Napolitano, G. Longo, M. Marconi, M. Paolillo, E. Iodice, & M. Capaccioli (Eds.), The Universe of Digital Sky Surveys (205-214). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19330-4_32

• Online Publication Date: May 16, 2016
• Publication Date: 2016-05
• Deposit Date: Sep 6, 2017
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Pages: 205-214
• Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings
• Series Number: 42
• Book Title: The Universe of Digital Sky Surveys
• ISBN: 9783319193298
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19330-4_32
• Related Public URLs: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.00676