ECOGAL · ECOology for Galaxies using ALMA archive and Legacy surveys
Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2023-10-01 → 2025-09-30
- EU contribution
- €214,934
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF
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Results in brief
ECOology for Galaxies using ALMA archive and Legacy surveys
Galaxy formation and evolution are closely linked to the surrounding environment and to the properties of their host dark-matter haloes. To advance our understanding, it is essential to measure the non-stellar baryonic components in and around galaxies across a range of environments, thereby enabling a more complete characterisation of the connection between baryonic (normal) matter and dark matter halos. Motivated by this, ECOGAL (ECOology for Galaxies using ALMA Archive and Legacy surveys) aims to exploit the wealth of observations accumulated in the ALMA archive over the past decade to constrain the cold interstellar medium and to investigate both the cold and hot phases of the circumgalactic medium (CGM).
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Project objective
Galaxy formation and evolution are intimately connected to the galaxy's surrounding environment and its halo. Baryonic components other than stellar mass, including interstellar medium (ISM) and circum-galactic medium (CGM) must be better constrained in different environments in order to fully characterise the relation between baryon and halo, which is fundamental concerning galaxy evolution in a cosmological context.I propose a project ECOGAL (ECOology for Galaxies using ALMA archive and Legacy surveys) that leverages the 10-year repository of the ALMA archive to constrain cosmic molecular gas density and investigate CGM in different phases (cold and hot) for several (proto)cluster systems at redshift greater than 1. With the complete dust and FIR line emission catalogue from the ALMA archive within optical/infrared(IR) legacy survey fields, ECOGAL will i) constrain cosmic gas density beyond redshift 1 with unarguably better number statistics; and ii) build a first representative sample on CGM properties in (proto)clusters at z=1-3, through carbon and carbon monoxide line emissions (cold phase) and thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (tSZ) effect signals (hot phase).With the timely convergence with current and next-generation optical/IR facilities (JWST, Euclid, the Vera Rubin observatory) and a decade-old ALMA archive at submm/mm, the outcome of ECOGAL will produce a state-of-the-art reference to studies of galaxy formation and evolution in a large-scale structure. The Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) and DTU space have extensive access to the most advanced optical/IR facilities and extragalactic surveys and offer the necessary computing resources and research environment.Therefore, they are the optimal places to carry out this project. The expertise of G. Magdis and his group support is also essential to make this proposal successful.
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · Kongens LyngbyCoordinatorDenmark
Links
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- DOI: 10.3030/101107795
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