The H-ATLAS team released a catalogue of 80 candidate lensed galaxies. These sources offer the opportunity of studying the morphology and dynamic of z ∼ 2 galaxies with unprecedented details.
The H-ATLAS team has recently published a catalogue of 80 candidate gravitationally lensed galaxies extracted from the full survey. This is the link to the publication, led by Dr. Mattia Negrello: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017MNRAS.465.3558N
Herschel-ATLAS new data release available to the public: 120239 sources encompassing the history of the Universe.
The Herschel-ATLAS Data Release 1 (DR1) is one of the largest public release of data from the Herschel Observatory so far and will be a powerful data-set for studies of galaxy evolution. It covers the three equatorial fields surveyed by the GAMA spectroscopic survey. The three fields are 161 sq deg combined, and are located around 09h, 12h and 14h in RA.
Don't miss the next episode of Bang Goes the Theory, where the presenters showcase Herschel ATLAS results and chat to some of our H-ATLAS scientists.
Herschel ATLAS scientists will appear on episode 5 of BBC's Bang Goes the Theory to talk about their exciting results using the Herschel Space Observatory. The team get a chance to showcase their discovery of a new, efficient way to find "cosmic zoom lenses" which allow us to peer into distant galaxies invisible to telescopes like the Hubble Space Telescope. The show will feature an online interview with Dr Mattia Negrello of the Open University (and lead research
Herschel spies a spiral galaxy just like our nearest neighbour Andromeda from afar in the Herschel-ATLAS data.
The Herschel ATLAS is a large survey ideally suited for finding rare objects and distant galaxies but sometimes, we see more normal spiral galaxies in the nearby Universe.
Watch Professor Rob Ivison from the Royal Observatory Edinburgh talk about his research on distant galaxies with the Herschel Space Observatory (here). Rob is one of the executive and founding members of the Herschel ATLAS consortium.
Astronomers using the European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory have discovered a new way of finding cosmic zoom lenses, which allow astronomers to peer at galaxies in the distant Universe.
We present the first public release of the Herschel-ATLAS data.
The Science Demonstration Phase (SDP) data from Herschel-ATLAS has been released to the astronomical community. This represents the largest public release of Herschel data so far and will be a powerful data-set for studies of galaxy evolution. Maps of 16 square degrees of sky in five bands (100, 160, 250, 350 and 500 microns) will be available for download along with the catalogues generated by the H-ATLAS team.
Submillimetre astronomy has come a long way over the last 10 years.
In 1998, astronomers used the SCUBA camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii to take the deepest image of the sky using a submillimetre camera. Looking at the same patch of sky as the famous Hubble Deep Field image (see picture below), astronomers spent 20 full nights looking at this area and they added all the data together to get the equivalent SCUBA deep field.
Herschel has made it to day 500 of operations. Where did all that time go? Check out all the latest results from Herschel and see the great science astronomers all across the globe are carrying out.
