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| Paper: |
High-redshift Science with Herschel-SPIRE |
| Volume: |
380, At the Edge of the Universe: Latest Results from the Deepest Astronomical Surveys |
| Page: |
367 |
| Authors: |
Hatziminaoglou, E.; SPIRE High-z Specialist Astronomy Group |
| Abstract: |
The Spectral and Photometric Imaging REceiver (SPIRE), is one of three instruments to fly onboard ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory. It consists of an imaging photometer operating simultaneously in three bands centered on 250, 360 and 520 μm, and an imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer covering the wavelength range between 200 and 670 μm. The SPIRE consortium’s Guaranteed Time (GT) programme will dedicate almost half of its time to Key Projects covering the high-z universe. This part of the SPIRE GT programme will carry out a number of blank-field surveys with a range of depths and areas optimised to probe the rest-frame bolometric emission from galaxies as they formed most of their stars. A sample of rich clusters spanning the redshift range between 0.2 and ≃ 1 will also be observed. The programme will address issues such as the history of star formation and energy production, structure formation, cluster evolution, cosmic infrared background fluctuations and AGN-starburst connection. There is a wealth of ancillary data in the selected fields that will allow source identifications and will enable detailed studies of the redshifts, spectral energy distributions, and infrared properties of detected galaxies. |
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