2015MNRAS.447.2857B

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2015MNRAS.447.2857B - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 447, 2857-2879 (2015/March-1)

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: instrument specification and target selection.

BRYANT J.J., OWERS M.S., ROBOTHAM A.S.G., CROOM S.M., DRIVER S.P., DRINKWATER M.J., LORENTE N.P.F., CORTESE L., SCOTT N., COLLESS M., SCHAEFER A., TAYLOR E.N., KONSTANTOPOULOS I.S., ALLEN J.T., BALDRY I., BARNES L., BAUER A.E., BLAND-HAWTHORN J., BLOOM J.V., BROOKS A.M., BROUGH S., CECIL G., COUCH W., CROTON D., DAVIES R., ELLIS S., FOGARTY L.M.R., FOSTER C., GLAZEBROOK K., GOODWIN M., GREEN A., GUNAWARDHANA M.L., HAMPTON E., HO I.-T., HOPKINS A.M., KEWLEY L., LAWRENCE J.S., LEON-SAVAL S.G., LESLIE S., McELROY R., LEWIS G., LISKE J., LOPEZ-SANCHEZ A.R., MAHAJAN S., MEDLING A.M., METCALFE N., MEYER M., MOULD J., OBRESCHKOW D., O'TOOLE S., PRACY M., RICHARDS S.N., SHANKS T., SHARP R., SWEET S.M., THOMAS A.D., TONINI C. and WALCHER C.J.

Abstract (from CDS):

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 deg2 (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 rpet < 19.4, stellar masses 107-1012 M☉, and environments from isolated field galaxies through groups to clusters of ∼ 1015 M☉.

Abstract Copyright: © 2015 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society (2015)

Journal keyword(s): instrumentation: miscellaneous - instrumentation: spectrographs - techniques: imaging spectroscopy - surveys - galaxies: evolution - galaxies: kinematics and dynamics

Simbad objects: 8

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Number of rows : 8
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA 		ICRS (J2000)
DEC 		Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026 		#notes
1 EDCC 442 ClG 00 25 31.36 -33 02 47.7           ~ 19 0
2 ACO 85 ClG 00 41 36.21 -09 19 30.4           ~ 974 0
3 ACO 119 ClG 00 56 08.57 -01 12 00.8           ~ 577 2
4 ACO 168 ClG 01 15 07.58 +00 19 10.8           ~ 379 2
5 ACO 2399 ClG 21 57 19.01 -07 50 57.5           ~ 197 0
6 ACO 3880 ClG 22 27 49.5 -30 34 40           ~ 104 2
7 APMCC 917 ClG 23 41 33.4 -29 09 12           ~ 19 0
8 ACO 4038 ClG 23 47 31.1 -28 12 10           ~ 349 3

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