THE NEXT GENERATION VIRGO CLUSTER SURVEY (NGVS). I. INTRODUCTION TO THE SURVEY*

Ferrarese, Laura; Côté, Patrick; Cuillandre, Jean‐Charles; Gwyn, Stephen; W. Peng, Eric; A. MacArthur, Lauren; Duc, Pierre–Alain; Boselli, A.; Mei, S.; Erben, T.; W. McConnachie, Alan; R. Durrell, Patrick; Christopher Mihos, J.; Jordán, Andrés; Lançon, A.; H. Puzia, Thomas; Emsellem, Éric; L. Balogh, Michael; P. Blakeslee, John; Van Waerbeke, Ludovic; Gavazzi, R.; Vollmer, B.; J. Kavelaars, J.; Woods, David; M. Ball, Nicholas; Boissier, S.; Courteau, Stéphane; Ferriere, E.; Gavazzi, G.; Hildebrandt, H.; Hudelot, P.; Liu, Chengze; E. McLaughlin, Dean; Mellier, Y.; Milkeraitis, Martha; Schade, D.; Balkowski, Chantal; Bournaud, F.; G. Carlberg, R.; C. Chapman, S.; Hoekstra, Henk; Y. Peng, Chien; Sawicki, Marcin; Simard, Luc; E. Taylor, James; Brent Tully, R.; van Driel, W.; D. Wilson, C.; Burdullis, Todd; Mahoney, Billy; Manset, N.

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THE NEXT GENERATION VIRGO CLUSTER SURVEY (NGVS). I. INTRODUCTION TO THE SURVEY*

Published in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series • May 1, 2012

Authors:

Laura Ferrarese

Patrick Côté

Jean‐Charles Cuillandre

Abstract

ABSTRACT The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS) is a program that uses the 1 deg 2 MegaCam instrument on the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope to carry out a comprehensive optical imaging survey of the Virgo cluster, from its core to its virial radius—covering a total area of 104 deg 2 —in the...

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Physics

Virgo Cluster

Astrophysics

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