The GOYA Project has five main goals:
1- Characterize the star-forming galaxies at the
epoch of maximum SFR activity (1<z<5.5)
- SFR tracers: Hα, [OII]
- Metallicity: [OIII+OII]/Hβ, [NII]/Hα
- Extinction: Hα/Hβ
- Kinematics & Virial Mass: velocity widths
2- Characterize the E/S0 population at the
epoch of formation of the red sequence (1<z<2):
- Ages/metallicities: 4000-break, Hβ, Mg2, Fe
- Kinematics & Virial Masses: σ
- Scaling Laws:
empirical relations between structural,
kinematics, stellar population parameters
3- Parametrize the growth of SMBH in AGN
at the epoch of maximum QSO activity (1<z<4):
- SMBH mass: Hα and Hβ velocity widths
4- Discover and study primeval galaxies at z>8:
- Detection of Lyα and HeII 1640 in the NIR
5- Constrain cosmological parameters:
- ΩM and ΩΛ: L(Hβ)-sigma distance indicator
- Fine structure constant: [OIII]5007 & [OIII]4959
last updated on March 2008 by jorG
© J. Pérez-Gallego & R. Guzmán