Astronomy Night with Dr. Brian Lemaux (Gemini-N/NOIRLab), Dr. Lu Shen (Texas A&M University), Dr. Roy Gal (Institute for Astronomy, UH), 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 located on Maunakea to target several suspected large structures of matter under formation when the universe was about 20% of its current age. The presence of these structures was first hinted at by the Lyα Tomography IMACS Survey (LATIS), which detected large reservoirs of cool Hydrogen gas that indicated several massive structures that had not previously been seen. Mysteriously, however, these structures appear to not have many galaxies.
The team will be searching for missing galaxies in these structures, estimating the number of stars these galaxies form, and trying to understand how galaxies are transformed as they assemble into massive structures in the early Universe.
Join us as we explore the nature of these mysterious structures!
