Astronomy Night with Dr. Tadayuki Kodama (Tohoku University), Dr. Brian Lemaux (Gemini-N/NOIRLab), Dr. Roy R. Gal (Institute for Astronomy University of Hawai’i – Manoa), Dr. Ben Forrest (University of California, Davis), Dr. Ekta Shah (University of California, Davis), Mr. Finn Giddings (Institute for Astronomy, UH), and other team members.
In these observations, the team will be using the Multi-Object InfraRed Camera and Spectrograph (MOIRCS) on the Subaru telescope, operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, located on Maunakea to target several suspected large structures of matter under formation when the universe was less than 15% of its current age. These structures are some of the most massive found to date in the early universe, and the team will be exploring and mapping them in depth by targeting emission originating from ionized Oxygen from galaxies housed inside these structures.
Combining these observations with previous observations from Subaru’s Hyper Suprime-Cam targeting Hydrogen emission from galaxies in these massive structures will allow the team the physical conditions that galaxies experience as they assemble into large-scale structures in the early universe. Join us as we explore the nature of these cosmic titans!
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