Bibcode
Galliano, Frederic; Barlow, Mike; Bendo, George; Boselli, Alessandro; Buat, Veronique; Chanial, Pierre; Clements, David; Davies, Jon; Eales, Steve; Gomez, Haley; Isaak, Kate; Madden, Suzanne; Page, Mathew; Perez Fournon, Ismael; Sauvage, Marc; Spinoglio, Luigi; Vaccari, Mattia; Wilson, Christine
Bibliographical reference
Spitzer Proposal ID #50550
Advertised on:
3
2008
Citations
0
Refereed citations
0
Description
The local galaxy Science Advisory Group (SAG 2) in the Herschel/SPIRE
consortium, has constructed a Guaranteed Time Key Program using the PACS
and SPIRE insruments to obtain 60 to 550 micron photometry of a
statistically significant sample of 51 dwarf galaxies in our local
universe chosen to cover an impressivly broad range of physical
conditions. Here we propose the necessary complementary IRAC, MIPS and
IRS Spitzer observations which together with the Herschel GT database
will provide a rich database to the community to perform the dust and
gas analyses in unprecedented detail in low metallicity galaxies ranging
between 1/50 to 1 solar metallicity. Due to their chemical youth, and to
the extreme conditions they experience, low metallicity environments
constitute a keystone to understand dust evolution. The primary goal of
this combined Herschel and Spitzer project is to study in details the
physical processes at play within the ISM of these galaxies. We will
take advantage of the powerful combination of Spitzer, Herschel and
ancillary data to decompose the SED into the emission coming from the
main phases of the ISM. Such a decomposition will provide reliable
estimate of the abundances of the principal dust species, as a fonction
of metallicity and physical conditions. These results will be exploited
to compare the various evolutionary processes affecting the dust content
of galaxies. All these outstanding scientific advances will be the true
legacy value that this project brings to the community.