Résumé / Abstract Seminaire_IAP
« Towards an Understanding of Gas Accretion and Star Formation in Galaxies »

Guinevere Kauffmann
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (Garching, Allemagne)

The GALEX Arecibo SDSS Survey (GASS) is an ongoing large targeted survey at Arecibo, home to the world's largest single-dish radio telescope. GASS is designed to measure the neutral hydrogen content of a representative sample of ~1000 massive galaxies, uniformly selected from the SDSS spectroscopic and GALEX imaging surveys. A sister survey COLD GASS is being conducted at the IRAM 30m telescope to better understand the connection between atomic and molecular gas and star formation in the same galaxies.
I will discuss recent results from both surveys, highlighting how how the outer disks of spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way are still being assembled at the present day.
vendredi 19 novembre 2010 - 11:00
Salle des séminaires Évry Schatzman, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
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