The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey is currently a 144 square-degree multi-wavelength survey including optical spectra being collected at the AAT. I will present some of my work to date with the GAMA survey, characterising the lowest star-forming systems in the sample - the little blue fuzzies. I will then outline how GAMA is ideally placed to answer questions remaining about the evolution of Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) - massive red monsters. I will also present the first stellar kinematics of BCGs from an IFU analysis undertaken with the VLT. Finally I will introduce one of the first follow-up proposals for GAMA: AAT/SPIRAL and ANU2.3m/WiFeS IFU observations to determine the spatially-resolved effects of galaxy environment - and beyond!
October 24, 2011
11:00 am
Array Operations Center Auditorium
All NRAO employees are invited to attend via video, available in Charlottesville Room 230, Green Bank Room 137 and Tucson N525.
Local Host: Nuria Lorente