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Wide-field-surveys of the Local Group and Nearby Galaxies

Parallel Science Sessions - 
Local Group & Nearby Galaxies

In the past few decades, wide-field surveys have been a powerful means of placing constraints on the formation and evolution of nearby/Local Group galaxies, including our own Milky Way. These efforts have led to the discovery of new dwarf satellites, characterization of stellar substructures in halos of large galaxies, and their spectroscopic follow-up observations, that are together used to reconstruct dynamical and star formation histories in these galaxies and have provided one of the most stringent tests for the nature of dark matter. The 8.2 m Subaru telescope, especially with the two prime focus instruments, HyperSuprimeCam (HSC) and Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS), presents a strong combination of light gathering power and wide field of view and is thus expected to significantly contribute to this field of study.

In this parallel session, we will summarize the successes and achievements of wide-field surveys of the Local Group and nearby galaxies conducted by various world-leading facilities in the past few decades. As one of the programs in the Subaru 20th anniversary conference, we also aim to facilitate a discussion of the prospect of using HSC and PFS on Subaru.
b/g image: M81 through Hyper Suprime-Cam, prime-focus camera (S Okamoto et al. 2015)

SOC: Chair - Miho N. Ishigaki (Tohoku U.), Alvio Renzini (Astronomical Observatory of Padova), Daisuke Kawata (U. College London), Evan Kirby (Caltech), Gang Zhao (NAOC), Kohei Hayashi (U. of Tokyo), Jin Koda (Stony Brook U.), Noriyuki Matsunaga (U. of Tokyo), Raja Guhathakurta (UCSC), Rosemary F. G. Wyse (JHU), Sakurako Okamoto (Subaru), Wako Aoki (NAOJ), Yutaka Komiyama (NAOJ)

DAY3 (TUE)

(I) Michael Rich (UCLA)
"New Surveys in the Galactic Bulge" (PDF)

Noriyuki Matsunaga (U. of Tokyo)
"Near-infrared windows of precise and detailed chemical measurements for galactic archaeology" (PDF)

Daisuke Suzuki (ISAS / JAXA)
"Extinction study toward the Inner Milky Way with Subaru HSC" (PDF)

Wenbo Wu (National Astronomical Observatories, CAS)
"Mass segregation -- a new indicator of binary, IMBH, stellar-mass black hole" (PDF)

Haining Li (National Astronomical Observatories, CAS)
"LAMOST/Subaru exploration on the early evolution and formation of the Milky Way" (PDF)

Wako Aoki (NAOJ)
"Mass estimates for early generation stars from detailed abundance patterns of Carbon- Enhanced Metal-Poor stars" (PDF)

Tadafumi Matsuno (NAOJ/SOKENDAI)
"Combining spectroscopy and asteroseismology for halo stars" (PDF)

Miho N. Ishigaki (Tohoku U.)
"Interpreting spectroscopic survey data for metal-poor stars with supernova yield models" (PDF)

Takanobu Kirihara (Chiba U.)
"Effect of interstellar objects on metallicity of low-mass first stars formed in a cosmological model" (PDF)

(I) Kim Venn (U. of Victoria)
"Spectroscopic Surveys of Stars in Dwarf Galaxies" (PDF)

Evan Kirby (Caltech)
"Sub-Chandrasekhar Type Ia Supernovae in Dwarf Galaxies" (PDF)

Kohei Hayashi (U. of Tokyo)
"Diversity of the dark matter distributions in the Galactic dwarf satellites" (PDF)

(I) Masashi Chiba (Tohoku U.)
"New Insights into the Stellar and Dark Halos in the Milky Way and Andromeda as Revealed from Subaru" (PDF)

Rosemary Wyse (JHU)
"The Old are Rich: Metallicity Distributions of Old Stars in the Milky Way and M31" (PDF)

DAY5 (THU)

Yutaka Komiyama (NAOJ)
"Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Wide-Field Imaging Survey of the Local Group Galaxies: Andromeda and the Seven Dwarfs" (PDF)

(I) Karoline Gilbert (STScI)
"The Power of Wide Field Surveys for Revealing the Past, Present and Future of the Andromeda System" (PDF)

Ivanna Escala (Caltech)
"Iron and Alpha Element Abundances in the Outer Disk, Giant Southern Stream, and Inner Halo of Andromeda" (PDF)

Jennifer Wojno (JHU)
"The Chemical Evolution of Andromeda's Satellites from Coadded Spectra" (PDF)

Masayuki Tanaka (NAOJ)
"The Missing Satellite Problem Outside Of The Local Group" (PDF)

(I) Eric Peng (Peking U.)
"Wide-field imaging and spectroscopy of the nearest galaxy cluster" (PDF)

Jin Koda (Stony Brook U.)
"Star Formation and the IMF in the Outskirts of Nearby Galaxies" (PDF)

(I) Laura Ferrarese (National Research Council of Canada)
"Super-massive black holes in nearby galaxies" (PDF)

Aaron Romanowsky (San Jose State U. / UC)
"Chemodynamics and dark matter in galaxies beyond the Local Group" (PDF)

Zehao Zhong (National Astronomical Observatories, CAS)
"The mass-to-light ratios and dark matter fractions of the dwarf ETGs from IFU galaxy surveys" (PDF)

Raja GuhaThakurta (UCSC)
"Keck Spectroscopy of the Resolved Stellar Populations of Local Group/Local Volume Galaxies" (PDF)

(I) Brent Tully (UH-IfA)
"Galaxy Distances and Peculiar Velocities" (PDF)

Nobuo Arimoto (NAOJ)
"An HSC View of M81 Group of Galaxies
" (PDF)

Shany Danieli (Yale U.)
"The Nature of Low Mass Galaxies Beyond the Local Group with the Dragonfly Telephoto Array" (PDF)

Scott Carlsten (Princeton U.)
"Studying Nearby Satellite Galaxy Systems with Wide-field Surveys and Surface Brightness Fluctuations" (PDF)

KEYNOTE (FRI)

(I) Vasily Belokurov (Institute of Astronomy)
"The Milky Way halo revolution" (PDF)

POSTERS

Kumiko Morihana (Nagoya U.)
"Identification of faint X-ray sources composing Galactic Ridge X-ray Emission by Subaru/MOIRCS" (PDF)

Kana Morokuma (U. of Tokyo)
"Multi-phase ISM properties of a nearby radio galaxy NGC1316" (PDF)

Rie Miura, E. (NOAO)
"Embedded Massive Young Stellar Objects in the Giant Molecular Clouds of M33" (PDF)

Ichi Tanaka (Subaru Telescope)
"A Hidden Past of NGC 720 as Revealed from the Deep HSC Imaging" (PDF)

Address

Subaru Telescope
650 N Aohoku Pl
Hilo, HI, 96720 United States

Organizers

Dr. Sakurako Okamoto
Dr. Rhythm Shimakawa
at Subaru Telescope

Contact

LOC Email Address
subaru20anniv_loc <AT> naoj.org