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Galaxies in 3D across the Universe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2015

Denis Burgarella
Affiliation:
Aix-Marseille Universit, CNRS, LAM (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille) UMR 7326, 13388, Marseille, France email: denis.burgarella@lam.fr
Toru Yamada
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute, Tohoku Univ., Japan email: yamada@astr.tohoku.ac.jp
Giovanni Fazio
Affiliation:
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge Massachussets, USA email: gfazio@cfa.harvard.edu
Marcin Sawicki
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy and Physics and Institute for Computational Astrophysics, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada email: sawicki@ap.smu.ca and the WISH team
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Abstract

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WISH is a new space science mission concept whose primary goal is to study the first galaxies in the early universe. The primary science goal of the WISH mission is to push the high-redshift frontier beyond the epoch of reionization by utilizing its unique imaging and spectrocopic capabilities and the dedicated survey strategy. WISH will be a 1.5m telescope equipped with a 1000 arcmin2 wide-field Near-IR camera to conduct unique ultra-deep and wide-area sky imaging surveys in the wavelength range 1 - 5 μm. A spectroscopic mode (Integral-Field Unit) in the same Near-IR range and with a field of view of 0.5 - 1 arcmin and a spectral resolution R = 1000 is also planned. The difference between WISH and EUCLID in terms of wavelength range explains why the former concentrates on the reionization period while the latter focuses on the universe at z < 3. WISH and JWST feature different instantaneous fields of view and are therefore also very complementary.

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Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2015 

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