Adaptive Optics Views of the Hubble Deep Fields Final report on LLNL LDRD Project 03-ERD-002

Max, C E ; Gavel, D ; Pennington, D ; Gibbard, S ; van Dam, M ; Larkin, J ; Koo, D ; Raschke, L ; Melbourne, J

关键词: BLACK HOLES;    GALAXIES;    LASERS;    LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY;    MILKY WAY;    NUCLEI;    OPTICS;    SKY;    STA;   

DOI  :  10.2172/902259
RP-ID  :  UCRL-TR-228357
PID  :  OSTI ID: 902259
Others  :  TRN: US200717%%508

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

We used laser guide star adaptive optics at the Lick and Keck Observatories to study active galactic nuclei and galaxies, with emphasis on those in the early Universe. The goals were to observe large galaxies like our own Milky Way in the process of their initial assembly from sub-components, to identify central active galactic nuclei due to accreting black holes in galaxy cores, and to measure rates of star formation and evolution in galaxies. In the distant universe our focus was on the GOODS and GEMS fields (regions in the Northern and Southern sky that include the Hubble Deep Fields) as well as the Extended Groth Strip and COSMOS fields. Each of these parts of the sky has been intensively studied at multiple wavelengths by the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the XMM Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and several ground-based telescopes including the Very Large Array radio interferometer, in order to gain an unbiased view of a significant statistical sample of galaxies in the early universe.