Metal Things
The
Metal-THINGS
Survey
Exploring galaxy evolution in the local Universe
Metal-THINGS is an international collaboration led by Dr. Maritza Lara-Lopez, and thought as a follow-up of the THINGS (The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey) project, complementing the wealth of already existing data with integral field optical spectroscopy. An holistic analysis of multifrequency data that enables to study the gas, dust, and stellar content, will allow to draw a complete picture of how internal and external mechanisms can influence and affect galaxy evolution in nearby objects.
MORE ABOUT
Metal-THINGS
Started in 2018, this project used the VIRUS-P instrument at the Mc Donald observatory (Texas, USA) to take spatially resolved optical spectra of the sample of nearby galaxies observed within the frame of the SINGS(Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxy Survey) and THINGS (The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey) sample.
DATA
Metal-THINGS is based on previous surveys undertaken at radio and IR wavelengths. Because of this, a rich database is publicly available to complement this newly-taken optical data.
Metal: optical IFU
VIRUS-P@Harlan Smith
Metal: optical IFU
MUSE@VLT
SINGS: IR data
Spitzer
KINGFISH: FIR-submm data
Herschel
THINGS: HI data
LOFAR-VLA
UV
GALEX
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WRITE US: metal.things.survey@gmail.com