NOAO > Observing Info > Approved Programs > 2010B-0615
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PI: Aaron Romanowsky, UC Santa Cruz, romanow@ucolick.org
Address: UCO/Lick, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
CoI: Jacob Arnold, UC Santa Cruz
CoI: James Bullock, UC Irvine
CoI: Robin Ciardullo, Pennsylvania State University
CoI: David Martinez-Delgado, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg
CoI: Chris Purcell, UC Irvine
CoI: Jay Strader, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CoI: Michael Merrifield, University of Nottingham
Title: Resolved Tracers of Substructure in Galaxy Halos
Abstract:
We propose a pioneering study of the kinematics and metallicities of stellar
streams and shells in the halos of disk galaxies outside the Local Group,
using planetary nebulae and globular clusters as tracers. The initial step is
a wide-field narrow- and wide-band imaging survey using Subaru/Suprime-Cam.
Follow-up spectroscopy will be used to capture the ongoing build-up of
fundamental halo quantities such as mass, angular momentum, and metallicity.
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