TY - JOUR
T1 - Evolutionary Map of the Universe : tracing clusters to high red-shift
AU - Norris, Ray P.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) is a new radio-telescope being built in Western Australia. One of the key surveys for which it is being built is EMU (Evolutionary Map of the Universe), which will make a deep (~10 μJy/bm rms) radio continuum survey covering the entire sky as far North as +30°. EMU may be compared to the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS), except that it will have about 45 times the sensitivity, and five times the resolution. EMU will also have much better sensitivity to diffuse emission than previous large surveys, and is expected to produce a large catalogue of relics, tailed galaxies, and halos, and will increase the number of known clusters by a significant factor. Here we describe the EMU project and its impact on the astrophysics of clusters.
AB - The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) is a new radio-telescope being built in Western Australia. One of the key surveys for which it is being built is EMU (Evolutionary Map of the Universe), which will make a deep (~10 μJy/bm rms) radio continuum survey covering the entire sky as far North as +30°. EMU may be compared to the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS), except that it will have about 45 times the sensitivity, and five times the resolution. EMU will also have much better sensitivity to diffuse emission than previous large surveys, and is expected to produce a large catalogue of relics, tailed galaxies, and halos, and will increase the number of known clusters by a significant factor. Here we describe the EMU project and its impact on the astrophysics of clusters.
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/548662
U2 - 10.1007/s12036-011-9119-z
DO - 10.1007/s12036-011-9119-z
M3 - Article
SN - 0250-6335
VL - 32
SP - 599
EP - 607
JO - Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy
JF - Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy
IS - 4
ER -