Exploring the low-surface-brightness universe with next-generation instruments

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Credit

ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by M. Montes (IAC) and J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay)

Start Date

Fri, 13/12/2024 - 10:30

End Date

Fri, 13/12/2024 - 15:35

The low-surface-brightness Universe is host to a wide range of poorly understood objects and phenomena covering a range of scales including the diffuse light around groups and clusters of galaxies, tidal debris from galaxy mergers and interactions, and individual faint, low-mass galaxies. Each of these serves as a laboratory for understanding of a wide range of physical processes as well as providing insight into the hierarchical assembly of mass in the Universe.

Thanks to the exceptional sensitivity of many new instruments such as Rubin, Euclid and JWST, we are beginning to access a wealth of unprecedentedly deep, high-fidelity datasets, enabling exploration of extremely faint regimes on previously unprobed scales. Since this low-surface-brightness regime will dominate the discovery space in astronomy going forward, the potential of these new instruments is immense. We are now approaching a pivotal stage, where challenges inherent in deep-wide observations will soon require solutions to fully utilise their potential for diverse scientific investigations. These solutions will require a wide range of approaches, including new data-analysis techniques, machine-learning approaches, and theoretical models and simulations.

This discussion will focus on bringing together scientists active in instrumentation, observational techniques, and theoretical and observational science to explore the potential of new observations to allow us to better understand the LSB Universe and the Universe as a whole – including new science opportunities, from the study of low-mass satellites, stellar streams and tidal features to intracluster light, along with the data challenges entailed in exploiting these new datasets.

Programme: https://tinyurl.com/exploringLSB

Abstract submission: https://forms.gle/oUh7ycFrngnQ4UpA8 (opens 16th September, deadline 3rd November)

Registration for the meeting will open 11th November 2024.

Organisers:

Garreth Martin (Nottingham)

Callum Bellhouse (Nottingham)

Jesse Golden-Marx (Nottingham)

Venue Address

The Geological Society,Burlington House,LONDON

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Exploring the low-surface-brightness universe with next-generation instruments

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