GECKOS Survey

The GECKOS survey: turning galaxy evolution on its side with deep observations of edge-on galaxies 🦎 A VLT/MUSE large project commencing observations in Oct 22

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Paper day! Our first-ever paper: conference proceedings from IAUS 377 🥳🦎

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PI Jesse van de Sande spreading the word about GECKOS at IAU Symposium 377 this week 🦎

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GECKOS : Turning Galaxy Evolution on its Side with Deep Observations of Edge-On Galaxies

by Jesse Van De Sande

#IAUS377 #Day5 @GeckosSurvey

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Core team member Michael Hayden advertising the GECKOS survey to an audience of Galactic astronomers today. Here he is convincing them that an apples to apples comparison between the Milky Way and external galaxies is within reach!

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@dr_guangtou We can offer you a 50% discount on your boxy-peanut premium for the year?

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@SpaceGeck Actually, when you look closely, ~half of our target galaxies contain boxy-peanut bulges! 😍 One of our key science goals is to disentangle the effect of boxy-peanut bulges/bars on radial migration within galaxies.

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A family portrait 📸. Images of the 35 edge-on galaxies that will be observed with the GECKOS survey. Which one is your favourite?

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It's us! 🦎 Can't wait to do some excellent science with VLT! 🔭

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Success! Jesse van de Sande (@sifa_astro), Barbara Catinella & Luca Cortese @astroquokka (@ICRAR/@UWAresearch) will be taking a deep dive into the cosmos with time awarded on @ESO's powerful #VLT/MUSE instrument. See more: https://t.co/imNJa4biB4
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📷ESO/Y. Beletsky

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What is GECKOS? A VLT/MUSE large program to investigate 35 nearby edge-on galaxies, out to large radius, deep (S/N>40 at μ = 23.5 mag/arcsec^2), and high spatial resolution (<200 pc). We want to understand how disk galaxies like our own Milky Way may have evolved over time.

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GECKOS update: all observations for semester P110 have been entered into ESO's P2 system ready to be scheduled for observing! The semester starts Oct 1, so fingers crossed for clear skies and good data!

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Be bold. Be different. Be GECKOS.