FROM ALHAMBRA TO JAVALAMBRE. A SCIENTIFIC PROJECT

The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre, with its 2 very wide field telescopes has been purposely built to conduct large scale surveys. The use of medium-narrow band filters, pioneered by the ALHAMBRA project, will produce a low resolution spectrum of every pixel in the sky. The first defined projects, J-PLUS@T80 and J-PAS@T250 are driven by the study of the nearby Universe and the study of dark energy respectively. Their unbiased nature and observing strategy will produce relevant data in all the main fields of astrophysics and cosmology, from the discovery and study of Solar System minor bodies to the systematic analysis of  galaxy evolution with redshift, 2D studies of resolved objects, star formation and the building up of the galaxy stellar masses,  the large scale structure and clustering, clusters of galaxies, high redshift objects and dark energy.

Date: 
26/03/2015 - 13:30
Speaker: 
Prof. Mariano Moles Villamate
Filiation: 
CEFCA & IAA-CSIC


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