VST-SMASH: the VST Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural Hierarchy
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| author | Tortora, Crescenzo Ragusa, Rossella Gatto, Massimiliano Spavone, Marilena Hunt, Leslie Ripepi, Vincenzo Dall'Ora, Massimo Abdurro'uf Annibali, Francesca Baes, Maarten Belfiore, Francesco Michel Concetto Bellucco, Nicola Bolzonella, Micol Cantiello, Michele Dimauro, Paola Kluge, Mathias Lelli, Federico Napolitano, Nicola R. Nucita, Achille Radovich, Mario Scaramella, Roberto Schinnerer, Eva Testa, Vincenzo Unni, Aiswarya |
| author_facet | Tortora, Crescenzo Ragusa, Rossella Gatto, Massimiliano Spavone, Marilena Hunt, Leslie Ripepi, Vincenzo Dall'Ora, Massimo Abdurro'uf Annibali, Francesca Baes, Maarten Belfiore, Francesco Michel Concetto Bellucco, Nicola Bolzonella, Micol Cantiello, Michele Dimauro, Paola Kluge, Mathias Lelli, Federico Napolitano, Nicola R. Nucita, Achille Radovich, Mario Scaramella, Roberto Schinnerer, Eva Testa, Vincenzo Unni, Aiswarya |
| contents | The VLT Survey Telescope Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural Hierarchy (VST-SMASH) aims to detect tidal features and remnants around very nearby galaxies, a unique and essential diagnostic of the hierarchical nature of galaxy formation. Leveraging optimal sky conditions at ESO's Paranal Observatory, combined with the VST's multi-band optical filters, VST-SMASH aims to be the definitive survey of stellar streams and tidal remnants in the Local Volume, targeting a low surface-brightness limit of $μ\sim$ 30 mag arcsec$^{-2}$ in the g and r bands, and $μ\sim$ 28 mag arcsec$^{-2}$ in the i band, in a volume-limited sample of local galaxies within 11 Mpc and the Euclid footprint. |
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| spellingShingle | VST-SMASH: the VST Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural Hierarchy Tortora, Crescenzo Ragusa, Rossella Gatto, Massimiliano Spavone, Marilena Hunt, Leslie Ripepi, Vincenzo Dall'Ora, Massimo Abdurro'uf Annibali, Francesca Baes, Maarten Belfiore, Francesco Michel Concetto Bellucco, Nicola Bolzonella, Micol Cantiello, Michele Dimauro, Paola Kluge, Mathias Lelli, Federico Napolitano, Nicola R. Nucita, Achille Radovich, Mario Scaramella, Roberto Schinnerer, Eva Testa, Vincenzo Unni, Aiswarya Astrophysics of Galaxies The VLT Survey Telescope Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural Hierarchy (VST-SMASH) aims to detect tidal features and remnants around very nearby galaxies, a unique and essential diagnostic of the hierarchical nature of galaxy formation. Leveraging optimal sky conditions at ESO's Paranal Observatory, combined with the VST's multi-band optical filters, VST-SMASH aims to be the definitive survey of stellar streams and tidal remnants in the Local Volume, targeting a low surface-brightness limit of $μ\sim$ 30 mag arcsec$^{-2}$ in the g and r bands, and $μ\sim$ 28 mag arcsec$^{-2}$ in the i band, in a volume-limited sample of local galaxies within 11 Mpc and the Euclid footprint. |
| title | VST-SMASH: the VST Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural Hierarchy |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09608 |