Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) science: Gas and dust in nearby galaxies
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| author | Liu, Daizhong Saintonge, Amelie Bot, Caroline Kemper, Francisca Lopez-Rodriguez, Enrique Smith, Matthew W. L. Stanke, Thomas Andreani, Paola Boselli, Alessandro Cicone, Claudia Davis, Timothy A. Hagedorn, Bendix Lasrado, Akhil Mao, Ann Viti, Serena Booth, Mark Klaassen, Pamela Mroczkowski, Tony Bigiel, Frank Chevance, Melanie Cordiner, Martin A. Di Mascolo, Luca Johnstone, Doug Lee, Minju M. Maccarone, Thomas Thelen, Alexander E. van Kampen, Eelco Wedemeyer, Sven |
| author_facet | Liu, Daizhong Saintonge, Amelie Bot, Caroline Kemper, Francisca Lopez-Rodriguez, Enrique Smith, Matthew W. L. Stanke, Thomas Andreani, Paola Boselli, Alessandro Cicone, Claudia Davis, Timothy A. Hagedorn, Bendix Lasrado, Akhil Mao, Ann Viti, Serena Booth, Mark Klaassen, Pamela Mroczkowski, Tony Bigiel, Frank Chevance, Melanie Cordiner, Martin A. Di Mascolo, Luca Johnstone, Doug Lee, Minju M. Maccarone, Thomas Thelen, Alexander E. van Kampen, Eelco Wedemeyer, Sven |
| contents | Understanding the physical processes that regulate star formation and galaxy evolution are major areas of activity in modern astrophysics. Nearby galaxies offer unique opportunities to inspect interstellar medium (ISM), star formation (SF), radiative, dynamic and magnetic physics in great detail from sub-galactic (kpc) scales to sub-cloud (sub-pc) scales, from quiescent galaxies to starbursts, and from field galaxies to overdensities. In this case study, we discuss the major breakthroughs in this area of research that will be enabled by the Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST), a proposed 50-m single-dish submillimeter telescope. The new discovery space of AtLAST comes from its exceptional sensitivity, in particular to extended low surface brightness emission, a very large 2 degree field of view, and correspondingly high mapping efficiency. This paper focuses on four themes which will particularly benefit from AtLAST: 1) the LMC and SMC, 2) extragalactic magnetic fields, 3) the physics and chemistry of the interstellar medium, and 4) star formation and galaxy evolution. With ~1000-2000h surveys each, AtLAST could deliver deep dust continuum maps of the entire LMC and SMC fields at parsec-scale resolution, high-resolution maps of the magnetic field structure, gas density, temperature and composition of the dense and diffuse ISM in ~100 nearby galaxies, as well as the first large-scale blind CO survey in the nearby Universe, delivering molecular gas masses for up to 10^6 galaxies (3 orders of magnitude more than current samples). Through such observing campaigns, AtLAST will have a profound impact on our understanding of the baryon cycle and star formation across a wide range of environments. |
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| spellingShingle | Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) science: Gas and dust in nearby galaxies Liu, Daizhong Saintonge, Amelie Bot, Caroline Kemper, Francisca Lopez-Rodriguez, Enrique Smith, Matthew W. L. Stanke, Thomas Andreani, Paola Boselli, Alessandro Cicone, Claudia Davis, Timothy A. Hagedorn, Bendix Lasrado, Akhil Mao, Ann Viti, Serena Booth, Mark Klaassen, Pamela Mroczkowski, Tony Bigiel, Frank Chevance, Melanie Cordiner, Martin A. Di Mascolo, Luca Johnstone, Doug Lee, Minju M. Maccarone, Thomas Thelen, Alexander E. van Kampen, Eelco Wedemeyer, Sven Astrophysics of Galaxies Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Understanding the physical processes that regulate star formation and galaxy evolution are major areas of activity in modern astrophysics. Nearby galaxies offer unique opportunities to inspect interstellar medium (ISM), star formation (SF), radiative, dynamic and magnetic physics in great detail from sub-galactic (kpc) scales to sub-cloud (sub-pc) scales, from quiescent galaxies to starbursts, and from field galaxies to overdensities. In this case study, we discuss the major breakthroughs in this area of research that will be enabled by the Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST), a proposed 50-m single-dish submillimeter telescope. The new discovery space of AtLAST comes from its exceptional sensitivity, in particular to extended low surface brightness emission, a very large 2 degree field of view, and correspondingly high mapping efficiency. This paper focuses on four themes which will particularly benefit from AtLAST: 1) the LMC and SMC, 2) extragalactic magnetic fields, 3) the physics and chemistry of the interstellar medium, and 4) star formation and galaxy evolution. With ~1000-2000h surveys each, AtLAST could deliver deep dust continuum maps of the entire LMC and SMC fields at parsec-scale resolution, high-resolution maps of the magnetic field structure, gas density, temperature and composition of the dense and diffuse ISM in ~100 nearby galaxies, as well as the first large-scale blind CO survey in the nearby Universe, delivering molecular gas masses for up to 10^6 galaxies (3 orders of magnitude more than current samples). Through such observing campaigns, AtLAST will have a profound impact on our understanding of the baryon cycle and star formation across a wide range of environments. |
| title | Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) science: Gas and dust in nearby galaxies |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01202 |