Project Description

Background

• ELT
• Star formation
• Universal in all environments?
• Constant over time / outside the Milky Way?
• High-z galaxies
• What is different to today’s galaxies

Tools

• Illustris

  • What is Illustris?
  • Why is this interesting to use?

• SimCADO

  • What is SimCADO?
  • What can SimCADO deliver?

Questions

• Using SmCADO to observe galaxies generated by Illustris

  • Why? - To determine the observational limits of key observational quantities?

  • Why? -

    • Because time on the ELT (TMT etc) will be very expensive
    • Because we want to find out which fundamental questions the ELT will help us answer

• What properties of the illustris galaxies do we want to look at?

  • Star formation rate
  • Star formation distribution at different z
  • General galaxy structure in high-z galaxies
  • Consequences of Interactions between galaxies at high-z

Success Criteria

• We have a pipeline which

  • queries Illustris galaxies
  • downloads particle information that belong to the galaxies

  • projects the galaxies in any orientation

    • also determines which