- Seminars and Workshops
- Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Location
R1203 of the Astronomy-Mathematics Building, National Taiwan University
- Speaker Name
Tony Wong [Univerisity of Illinois]
- State
Definitive
- Url
A Large-Scale View of Star Formation in Galaxies from the EDGE-CALIFA
The Extragalactic Database for Galaxy Evolution (EDGE) is an ongoing effort to join resolved CO imaging with optical IFU spectroscopy to advance our understanding of star formation in galaxies. In this talk I will review some scientific highlights of the project, primarily based on CO observations with CARMA & APEX and IFU observations from CALIFA. I will also discuss the design of the database and how interested researchers can access it. Future extensions of EDGE will enable us to more sensitively probe the depletion of gas reservoirs and the limits of star formation regulation, which remain key unsolved problems in the study of galaxy evolution.