{"id":15246,"date":"2017-11-29T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15246"},"modified":"2017-11-28T13:02:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T18:02:32","slug":"eso-the-very-large-telescope-looks-deeper-into-the-hubble-ultra-deep-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15246","title":{"rendered":"ESO: The Very Large Telescope looks deeper into the Hubble Ultra Deep Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESO<\/a> (European Southern Observatory) report:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso1738\/?lang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MUSE Probes Uncharted Depths of Hubble Ultra Deep Field<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Deepest ever spectroscopic survey completed<\/em><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_15247\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15247\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/images\/eso1738a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15247\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=15247\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/eso1738a1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,1295\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;ESO\/MUSE HUDF collaboration&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;This colour image shows the Hubble Ultra Deep Field region, a tiny but much-studied region in the constellation of Fornax, as observed with the MUSE instrument on ESO\\u2019s Very Large Telescope. But this picture only gives a very partial view of the riches of the MUSE data, which also provide a spectrum for each pixel in the picture. This data set has allowed astronomers not only to measure distances for far more of these galaxies than before \\u2014 a total of 1600 \\u2014 but also to find out much more about each of them. Surprisingly 72 new galaxies were found that had eluded deep imaging with the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1511956800&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;The Hubble Ultra Deep Field seen with MUSE&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The Hubble Ultra Deep Field seen with MUSE\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;This colour image shows the Hubble Ultra Deep Field region, a tiny but much-studied region in the constellation of Fornax, as observed with the MUSE instrument on ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope. But this picture only gives a very partial view of the riches of the MUSE data, which also provide a spectrum for each pixel in the picture. This data set has allowed astronomers not only to measure distances for far more of these galaxies than before \u2014 a total of 1600 \u2014 but also to find out much more about each of them. Surprisingly 72 new galaxies were found that had eluded deep imaging with the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/eso1738a1-1012x1024.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-15247\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/eso1738a1-1012x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/eso1738a1-1012x1024.jpg 1012w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/eso1738a1-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/eso1738a1-768x777.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/eso1738a1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>This colour image shows the Hubble Ultra Deep Field region, a tiny but much-studied region in the constellation of Fornax, as observed with the MUSE instrument on ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope. But this picture only gives a very partial view of the riches of the MUSE data, which also provide a spectrum for each pixel in the picture. This data set has allowed astronomers not only to measure distances for far more of these galaxies than before \u2014 a total of 1600 \u2014 but also to find out much more about each of them. Surprisingly 72 new galaxies were found that had eluded deep imaging with the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/images\/eso1738a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hi-res images<\/a>]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>Astronomers using the MUSE instrument on ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope in Chile have conducted the deepest spectroscopic survey ever. They focused on the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, measuring distances and properties of 1600 very faint galaxies including 72 galaxies that have never been detected before, even by Hubble itself. This groundbreaking dataset has already resulted in 10 science papers that are being published in a special issue of Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics. This wealth of new information is giving astronomers insight into star formation in the early Universe, and allows them to study the motions and other properties of early galaxies \u2014 made possible by MUSE\u2019s unique spectroscopic capabilities.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5jIyoYZ2Lr4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The MUSE HUDF Survey team, led by Roland Bacon of the Centre de recherche astrophysique de Lyon (CNRS\/Universit\u00e9 Claude Bernard Lyon 1\/ENS de Lyon), France, used\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/teles-instr\/paranal-observatory\/vlt\/vlt-instr\/muse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MUSE<\/a>\u00a0(Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer) to observe the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacetelescope.org\/news\/heic0406\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heic0406<\/a>), a much-studied patch of the southern constellation of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fornax\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fornax<\/a>\u00a0(The Furnace). This resulted in the deepest spectroscopic observations ever made; precise spectroscopic information was measured for 1600 galaxies, ten times as many galaxies as has been painstakingly obtained in this field over the last decade by ground-based telescopes.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_15248\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15248\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/images\/eso1738b\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15248\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=15248\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/eso1738b1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"700,653\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;NASA, ESA, R. Ellis (Caltech), a&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;This image shows the Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2012, an improved version of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image featuring additional observation time. The new data have revealed for the first time a population of distant galaxies at redshifts between 9 and 12, including the most distant object observed to date. These galaxies will require confirmation using spectroscopy by the forthcoming NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope before they are considered to be fully confirmed.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1511956800&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;The Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2012&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2012\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;This image shows the Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2012, an improved version of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image featuring additional observation time. The new data have revealed for the first time a population of distant galaxies at redshifts between 9 and 12, including the most distant object observed to date. These galaxies will require confirmation using spectroscopy by the forthcoming NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope before they are considered to be fully confirmed.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/eso1738b1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-15248\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/eso1738b1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/eso1738b1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/eso1738b1-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>This image shows the Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2012, an improved version of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image featuring additional observation time. The new data have revealed for the first time a population of distant galaxies at redshifts between 9 and 12, including the most distant object observed to date. These galaxies will require confirmation using spectroscopy by the forthcoming NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope before they are considered to be fully confirmed. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/images\/eso1738b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Higher res images<\/a>.]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>The original HUDF images were pioneering deep-field observations with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacetelescope.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope<\/a>\u00a0published in 2004. They probed more deeply than ever before and revealed a menagerie of galaxies dating back to less than a billion years after the Big Bang. The area was subsequently observed many times by Hubble and other telescopes, resulting in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacetelescope.org\/images\/heic1219b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deepest view<\/a>\u00a0of the Universe to date\u00a0<a href=\"#1\">[1]<\/a>. Now, despite the depth of the Hubble observations, MUSE has \u2014 among many other results \u2014 revealed 72 galaxies never seen before in this very tiny area of the sky.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/motd8uqn3sc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Roland Bacon takes up the story:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cMUSE can do something that Hubble can\u2019t \u2014 it splits up the light from every point in the image into its component colours to create a spectrum. This allows us to measure the distance, colours and other properties of all the galaxies we can see \u2014 including some that are invisible to Hubble itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The MUSE data provides a new view of dim, very distant galaxies, seen near the beginning of the Universe about 13 billion years ago. It has detected galaxies 100 times fainter than in previous surveys, adding to an already richly observed field and deepening our understanding of galaxies across the ages.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zv4DwDaei_Y?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The survey unearthed 72 candidate galaxies known as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lyman-alpha_line\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lyman-alpha<\/a>\u00a0emitters that shine only in Lyman-alpha light\u00a0<a href=\"#2\">[2]<\/a>. Current understanding of star formation cannot fully explain these galaxies, which just seem to shine brightly in this one colour. Because MUSE disperses the light into its component colours these objects become apparent, but they remain invisible in deep direct images such as those from Hubble.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cMUSE has the unique ability to extract information about some of the earliest galaxies in the Universe \u2014 even in a part of the sky that is already very well studied,\u201d explains Jarle Brinchmann, lead author of one of the papers describing results from this survey, from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences at CAUP in Porto, Portugal. \u201cWe learn things about these galaxies that is only possible with spectroscopy, such as chemical content and internal motions \u2014 not galaxy by galaxy but all at once for all the galaxies!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Another major finding of this study was the systematic detection of luminous hydrogen halos around galaxies in the early Universe, giving astronomers a new and promising way to study how material flows in and out of early galaxies.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZVxlJvs0Ggs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Many other potential applications of this dataset are explored in the series of papers, and they include studying the role of faint galaxies during\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reionization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cosmic reionisation<\/a>\u00a0(starting just 380 000 years after the Big Bang), galaxy merger rates when the Universe was young, galactic winds,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_formation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">star formation<\/a>\u00a0as well as mapping the motions of stars in the early Universe.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cRemarkably, these data were all taken without the use of MUSE\u2019s recent Adaptive Optics Facility upgrade. The activation of the AOF after a decade of intensive work by ESO\u2019s astronomers and engineers promises yet more revolutionary data in the future,\u201d concludes Roland Bacon\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso1738\/?lang#3\">[3]<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes<\/strong><br \/>\n&gt;<a name=\"1\"><\/a>[1] The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is one of the most extensively studied areas of space. To date, 13 instruments on eight telescopes, including the ESO-partnered ALMA (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso1633\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eso1633<\/a>), have observed the field from X-ray to radio wavelengths.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"2\"><\/a>[2] The negatively-charged electrons that orbit the positively-charged nucleus in an atom have quantised energy levels. That is, they can only exist in specific energy states, and they can only transition between them by gaining or losing precise amounts of energy. Lyman-alpha radiation is produced when electrons in hydrogen atoms drop from the second-lowest to the lowest energy level. The precise amount of energy lost is released as light with a particular wavelength in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum, which astronomers can detect with space telescopes or on Earth in the case of redshifted objects. For this data, at redshift of z ~ 3\u20136.6, the Lyman-alpha light is seen as visible or near-infrared light.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"3\"><\/a>[3] The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso1724\/\">Adaptive Optics Facility<\/a>\u00a0with MUSE has already revealed previously unseen rings around the planetary nebula IC 4406 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso1724\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eso1724<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest ESO (European Southern Observatory) report: MUSE Probes Uncharted Depths of Hubble Ultra Deep Field Deepest ever spectroscopic survey completed Astronomers using the MUSE instrument on ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope in Chile have conducted the deepest spectroscopic survey ever. They focused on the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, measuring distances and properties of 1600 very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15246\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ESO: The Very Large Telescope looks deeper into the Hubble Ultra Deep Field<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3XU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13232,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13232","url_meta":{"origin":15246,"position":0},"title":"ESO: ALMA sees fast star formation in very early high-mass galaxies","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a new\u00a0report from the European Southern Observatory (ESO): ALMA Explores the Hubble Ultra Deep Field International teams of astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to explore the distant corner of the Universe first revealed in the iconic images of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF). 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