The Messenger Surveys

4MOST Consortium Survey 7: Wide-Area VISTA Extragalactic Survey (WAVES)

Authors
  • Driver, Simon P. [International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research/University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia]
  • Liske, Jochen [Hamburger Sternwarte, Universität Hamburg, Germany]
  • Davies, Luke J. M. [International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research/University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia]
  • Robotham, Aaron S. G. [International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research/University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia]
  • Baldry, Ivan K. [Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, UK]
  • Brown, Michael J. I. [School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia]
  • Cluver, Michelle [Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia]
  • Kuijken, Koen [Sterrewacht Leiden, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands]
  • Loveday, Jon [University of Sussex, Brighton, UK]
  • Meyer, Martin J. [International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research/University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia]
  • Norberg, Peder [Department of Physics, Durham University, UK]
  • Owers, Matt [Department of Physics and Astronomy, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia]
  • Power, Chris [International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research/University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia]
  • Taylor, Edward N. [Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia]
  • The WAVES Team

Section
Surveys
Abstract

WAVES1 is designed to study the growth of structure, mass and energy on scales of ~ 1 kpc to ~ 10 Mpc over a 7 Gyr timeline. On the largest length scales (1–10 Mpc) WAVES will measure the structures defined by groups, filaments and voids, and their emergence over recent times. Comparisons with bespoke numerical simulations will be used to confirm, refine or refute the Cold Dark Matter paradigm. At intermediate length scales (10 kpc–1 Mpc) WAVES will probe the size and mass distribution of galaxy groups, as well as the galaxy merger rates, in order to directly measure the assembly of dark matter halos and stellar mass. On the smallest length scales (1–10 kpc) WAVES will provide accurate distance and environmental measurements to complement high-resolution space-based imaging to study the mass and size evolution of galaxy bulges, discs and bars. In total, WAVES will provide a panchromatic legacy dataset of ~ 1.6 million galaxies, firmly linking the very low (z < 0.1) and intermediate (z ~ 0.8) redshift Universe.


Dates
Created: 2019-03-01/2019-03-31
Length
4 pages

Cite this article:

Driver, S., Liske, J., Davies, L., Robotham, A., Baldry, I., Brown, M., Cluver, M., Kuijken, K., Loveday, J., Meyer, M., Norberg, P., Owers, M., Power, C., Taylor, E., The WAVES Team; 4MOST Consortium Survey 7: Wide-Area VISTA Extragalactic Survey (WAVES). The Messenger 175 (March 2019): 46–49. https://doi.org/10.18727/0722-6691/5126