NOAO > Observing Info > Approved Programs > 2001A-0273
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PI: Mark Dickinson, STScI, med@stsci.edu
Address: 3700 San Martin Dr., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
CoI: Max Pettini, IoA
CoI: Piero Rosati, ESO
CoI: Casey Papovich, JHU/STScI
CoI: Mauro Giavalisco, STScI
CoI: Chuck Steidel, Caltech
CoI: Kurt Adelberger, Harvard
CoI: Alice Shapley, Caltech
Title: A survey for lensed Lyman break galaxies
Abstract: Research on high redshift (z > 2) galaxies has now started moving beyond ensemble statistical studies and into detailed physical analyses of galaxy properties. These include recent attempts at high-S/N, high resolution optical and infrared spectroscopy (e.g., Pettini et al.\ 1998, 2000; Teplitz et al. 2000) and sub-mm observations (Chapman et al. 2000). These, however, are limited by the faintness of most Lyman break selected galaxies - only gravitationally lensed examples are bright enough for detailed spectroscopic study, and only two such lensed objects are known at z ~ 3. Here we propose to continue our ``snapshot'' survey for Lyman break galaxies lensed by massive foreground galaxy clusters. These will be ideal targets for measuring stellar population properties, metallicities, and kinematics with 8-10m spectroscopy, and dust content with SCUBA.
National Optical Astronomy Observatory, 950 North Cherry Avenue, P.O. Box 26732, Tucson, Arizona 85726, Phone: (520) 318-8000, Fax: (520) 318-8360
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