Exploring the universe: from the galaxies formation to Earth-like planets with the Giant Magellan Telescope

• Grant number: 11/51680-6
• Support Opportunities: Special Projects
• Duration: December 01, 2014 - November 30, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Astronomy
• Principal Investigator: Laerte Sodré Junior
• Grantee: Laerte Sodré Junior
• Host Institution: Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas (IAG). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Pesquisadores principais:( Atuais ): Augusto Damineli Neto ; Claudia Lucia Mendes de Oliveira ; Flavio Caldas da Cruz
• Pesquisadores principais:( Anteriores ): Laerte Sodré Junior
• Associated grant(s): 18/02444-7 - The Dawn of Galaxy Formation., AV.BR
• Associated scholarship(s): 23/07836-9 - Search for Galaxy Clusters in Stripe 82 with S-PLUS and SDSS data., BP.IC; 23/08558-2 - Optomechanical Project Applied to Ground-Based Astronomy Instrumentation, BP.PD; 23/05003-0 - Detection of anomalous objects in S-PLUS, BP.DD; + associated scholarships 23/02762-7 - Systems Engineering applied to the new generation of astronomical instrumentation, BP.TT; 22/15583-0 - Software Development in Adaptive Optics., BP.TT; 22/10833-9 - Search and characterization of satellite galaxies and stellar streams, BP.IC; 22/07572-9 - Information technology applied to programming and electrical design for the GMACS preliminary design, BP.TT; 22/02446-5 - Contributing with optics and optomechanics skills for the planning of MANIFEST subsystems in CoD and beyond., BP.PD; 22/02140-3 - Software Development in Adaptive Optics, BP.TT; 21/13919-9 - Support for software development, electronics, documentation, logistics and acquisitions for astronomical instrumentation projects, BP.TT; 22/00192-6 - Image-quality check, data calibration and training on database handling, BP.TT; 22/00270-7 - Systems Engineering applied to the new generation of astronomical instrumentation, BP.TT; 21/13613-7 - Support for software development, electronics, documentation, logistics and acquisitions for astronomical instrumentation projects, BP.TT; 20/14483-7 - Electronics support for astronomical instrumentation projects, BP.TT; 20/14496-1 - Electronics support for astronomical instrumentation projects, BP.TT; 20/14285-0 - Systems engineering applied to the new generation of astronomical instrumentation, BP.TT; 20/05100-7 - Software Engineering applied to the new generation of astronomical instrumentation, BP.TT; 19/22634-8 - Software engineering applied to the new generation of astronomical instrumentation, BP.TT; 18/20977-2 - Identification of giant stars for mapping our Galaxy in the S-PLUS survey, BP.PD; 19/01312-2 - Stellar populations of galaxies in the Hydra cluster: an IFU-like approach, BP.DD; 18/20743-1 - GMT primary mirror control under actuator influence function uncertainties, BE.PQ; 18/20500-1 - Software tools, modeling and implementation, BP.TT; 18/19398-8 - Support for astronomical instrumentation software, BP.TT; 18/20924-6 - Software Engineering applied to the new generation of astronomical instrumentation, BP.TT; 18/16772-6 - Simulations of galaxy clusters collisions, BP.IC; 18/21661-9 - Cataloguing Variable Sources and IFU-like Science with Multiband Surveys., BP.PD; 17/24644-5 - Development of software in adaptive optics, BP.TT; 17/18191-8 - High-mass star formation: the mass of the central sources and the physics of the accretion process, BP.PD; 17/18849-3 - A search for galaxy clusters and quasars using S-PLUS and WIZE and development of general tools for S-PLUS, BE.PQ; 17/17702-9 - Adaptive optics in the context of GMT, BP.PD; 17/18733-5 - Nuclear emission-line properties of nearby galaxies: a complete sample survey, BP.PD; 16/21664-2 - The Southern-Physics of the local universe survey: calibration, cataloguing and scientific exploitation, BP.PD; 16/12331-0 - Galaxy evolution in different environments using spatially resolved kinematics and stellar populations, BP.PD; 16/16844-1 - Systems Engineering for GMACS: GMT AT-13 Project , BP.PD; 14/11806-9 - Challenges for the new generation of wide-field photometric redshift surveys like J-PAS, BP.PD; 13/26591-5 - Optimization of galaxy power spectrum estimation on large scales, BP.PD; 13/04582-4 - Tracing the origin of lenticular galaxies using information from kinematics and stellar populations, BP.PD; 12/21350-7 - Nuclear and circumnuclear low ionization emission in massive galaxies., BP.PD; 12/09716-6 - Accurate distances to young clusters through massive eclipsing binaries, BP.PD; 12/20364-4 - Beyond dust survival: the inner regions of protoplanetary disks, BP.PD; 12/13381-0 - EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES ON CLUSTERS AND GROUPS OF GALAXIES, BP.PD; 12/02268-8 - Galactic nuclei in the local universe: supermassive black holes and stellar archeology of galaxies of high and low masses, BP.PD - associated scholarships
• FAPESP publication: https://media.fapesp.br/bv/uploads/pdfs/astronomia_8dgZQbx_15_16.pdf

Abstract

Astronomy in the 21st century continues to be a vibrant science; the more so as each decade passes. With the new generation of telescopes that is being currently planned, it will be possible to look for habitable Earth-like planets; to the inner regions of circumstellar disks, revealing the mechanisms that drive planetary and stellar formation; to resolve dense stellar populations in the Milky Way and in other galaxies, determining their chemical and dynamical evolution; to study the formation of the cosmic web of galaxies and clusters at their birth; to detect the first objects that illuminated and re-ionized the Universe after the dark ages; to track the growth of supermassive black holes and their impact on the evolution of galaxies; to understand the nature of dark matter and dark energy, which represent such a large fraction of the known universe; as well as addressing many other critical issues which are only hinted at by our present day knowledge. Instruments that allow these studies demand advanced technologies with unavoidably high costs: the ELT generation of Extremely Large Telescopes. The proposal presented here details a plan for the State of São Paulo to participate at a 5% level in the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) consortium. The 25m diameter ELT mirror will open up new horizons in almost all astronomical subjects of interest today. It will access a volume of the universe 30 times larger than the present day generation of very large, 8-10m class, telescopes, giving it 3-4 times higher fidelity in the quality of its images. A 5% (40 million USD over 10 years) share in the GMT project will bring unique opportunities of scientific discoveries for Brazilian scientists, attracting bright new talents to the field, resulting in a leap in the breadth and depth of our communities participation in this truly global endeavor thereby stimulating our industries in innovation through joint international ventures. This will represent the emergence of Brazilian science as a global player on the world stage. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

PINEDA, JUAN C. B.; HAYWARD, CHRISTOPHER C.; SPRINGEL, VOLKER; DE OLIVEIRA, CLAUDIA MENDES. Rotation curve fitting and its fatal attraction to cores in realistically simulated galaxy observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 466, n. 1, p. 63-87, APR 2017. (12/21375-0, 14/07684-5, 11/51680-6, 11/21678-0)

MENEZES, R. B.; STEINER, J. E.. The emission-line regions in the nucleus of NGC 1313 probed with GMOS-IFU: a supergiant/hypergiant candidate and a kinematically cold nucleus. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 466, n. 1, p. 749-761, APR 2017. (12/02268-8, 11/51680-6)

BARBOSA, C. E.; SPINIELLO, C.; ARNABOLDI, M.; COCCATO, L.; HILKER, M.; RICHTLER, T.. What does (not) drive the variation of the low-mass end of the stellar initial mass function of early-type galaxies. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 645, JAN 8 2021. (18/24389-8, 16/12331-0, 11/51680-6, 09/54006-4)

DA SILVA, PATRICIA; MENEZES, R. B.; DIAZ, Y.; LOPEZ-NAVAS, ELENA; STEINER, J. E.. The nuclear environment of NGC 2442: a Compton-thick low-luminosity AGN. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 505, n. 1, p. 223-235, JUL 2021. (11/51680-6, 20/13315-3)

MAHY, L.; SANA, H.; ABDUL-MASIH, M.; ALMEIDA, L. A.; LANGER, N.; SHENAR, T.; DE KOTER, A.; DE MINK, S. E.; DE WIT, S.; GRIN, N. J.; et al. The Tarantula Massive Binary Monitoring III. Atmosphere analysis of double-lined spectroscopic systemsx22c6;. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 634, FEB 19 2020. (11/51680-6, 12/09716-6, 13/18245-0)

MAHY, L.; ALMEIDA, L. A.; SANA, H.; CLARK, J. S.; DE KOTER, A.; DE MINK, S. E.; EVANS, C. J.; GRIN, N. J.; LANGER, N.; MOFFAT, A. F. J.; et al. The Tarantula Massive Binary Monitoring IV. Double-lined photometric binaries. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 634, FEB 19 2020. (11/51680-6, 12/09716-6, 13/18245-0)

DA SILVA, PATRICIA; MENEZES, R. B.; STEINER, J. E.. The nuclear region of NGC 613-I. Multiwavelength analysis. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 492, n. 4, p. 5121-5140, MAR 2020. (11/51680-6)

MENEZES, R. B.; STEINER, J. E.. Double Nuclei in NGC 908 and NGC 1187. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, v. 868, n. 1, NOV 20 2018. (11/51680-6)

MOLINO, A.; COSTA-DUARTE, M. V.; MENDES DE OLIVEIRA, C.; CENARRO, A. J.; LIMA NETO, G. B.; CYPRIANO, E. S.; SODRE, JR., L.; COELHO, P.; CHOW-MARTINEZ, M.; MONTEIRO-OLIVEIRA, R.; et al. J-PLUS: On the identification of new cluster members in the double galaxy cluster A2589 and A2593 using PDFs. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 622, FEB 21 2019. (09/54202-8, 14/11806-9, 12/00800-4, 09/54006-4, 11/51680-6, 14/13723-3, 14/18632-6, 16/05254-9)

MENEZES, R. B.; DA SILVA, PATRICIA; STEINER, J. E.. The molecular H-2 and stellar discs in the nuclear region of NGC 4258. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 473, n. 2, p. 2198-2211, JAN 2018. (11/51680-6)

RICCI, V, T.; STEINER, J. E.. Measuring the mass of the supermassive black bole of the lenticular galaxy NGC 4546. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 495, n. 3, p. 2620-2629, JUL 2020. (11/51680-6)

NAVARETE, FELIPE; GALLI, PHILLIP A. B.; DAMINELI, AUGUSTO. Gaia-DR2 distance to the W3 Complex in the Perseus Arm. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 487, n. 2, p. 2771-2784, AUG 2019. (17/18191-8, 11/51680-6)

DA SILVA, PATRICIA; STEINER, J. E.; MENEZES, R. B.. NGC 6744: A Nearby Milky Way Twin with a Very Low-luminosity AGN. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, v. 861, n. 2, JUL 10 2018. (11/51680-6)

MENDES DE OLIVEIRA, C.; RIBEIRO, T.; SCHOENELL, W.; KANAAN, A.; OVERZIER, R. A.; MOLINO, A.; SAMPEDRO, L.; COELHO, P.; BARBOSA, C. E.; CORTESI, A.; et al. The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS): improved SEDs, morphologies, and redshifts with 12 optical filters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 489, n. 1, p. 241-267, OCT 2019. (16/12331-0, 18/21661-9, 09/54202-8, 14/11806-9, 18/02444-7, 16/23567-4, 16/21532-9, 11/51680-6, 17/23766-0, 17/01461-2, 14/07684-5, 16/21664-2, 14/13723-3, 16/17119-9, 14/18632-6)

DAMINELI, A.; ALMEIDA, L. A.; BLUM, R. D.; DAMINELI, D. S. C.; NAVARETE, F.; RUBINHO, M. S.; TEODORO, M.. Extinction law in the range 0.4-4.8 mu m and the 8620 angstrom DIB towards the stellar cluster Westerlund 1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 463, n. 3, p. 2653-2666, DEC 2016. (13/11680-2, 12/09716-6, 13/18245-0, 11/51680-6)

BARBOSA, C. E.; SPINIELLO, C.; ARNABOLDI, M.; COCCATO, L.; HILKER, M.; RICHTLER, T.. A preserved high-z compact progenitor in the heart of NGC 3311 revealed with MUSE 2D stellar population analysis. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 649, MAY 20 2021. (09/54006-4, 16/12331-0, 18/24389-8, 11/51680-6)

ALMEIDA, L. A.; DE ALMEIDA, L.; DAMINELI, A.; RODRIGUES, V, C.; CASTRO, M.; LOPES, C. E. FERREIRA; JABLONSKI, F.; DO NASCIMENTO JR, J-D; PEREIRA, M. G.. Orbital Period Variation of KIC 10544976: Applegate Mechanism versus Light Travel Time Effect. ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, v. 157, n. 4, APR 2019. (12/09716-6, 13/26258-4, 13/18245-0, 11/51680-6)

MENEZES, R. B.; RICCI, T. V.; STEINER, J. E.; DA SILVA, PATRICIA; FERRARI, FABRICIO; BORGES, B. W.. A treatment procedure for GMOS/IFU data cubes: application to NGC 2835. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 483, n. 3, p. 3700-3717, MAR 2019. (11/51680-6)

DAMINELI, A.; FERNANDEZ-LAJUS, E.; ALMEIDA, L. A.; CORCORAN, M. F.; DAMINELI, D. S. C.; GULL, T. R.; HAMAGUCHI, K.; HILLIER, D. J.; JABLONSKI, F. J.; MADURA, T. I.; et al. Distinguishing circumstellar from stellar photometric variability in Eta Carinae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 484, n. 1, p. 1325-1346, MAR 2019. (12/09716-6, 17/18191-8, 13/18245-0, 11/51680-6)

RICHARDSON, NOEL D.; MADURA, THOMAS I.; ST-JEAN, LUCAS; MOFFAT, ANTHONY F. J.; GULL, THEODORE R.; RUSSELL, CHRISTOPHER M. P.; DAMINELI, AUGUSTO; TEODORO, MAIRAN; CORCORAN, MICHAEL F.; WALTER, FREDERICK M.; et al. To v(infinity) and beyond! The He I absorption variability across the 2014.6 periastron passage of eta Carinae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 461, n. 3, p. 2540-2558, SEP 21 2016. (11/51680-6)

TEODORO, M.; DAMINELI, A.; HEATHCOTE, B.; RICHARDSON, N. D.; MOFFAT, A. F. J.; ST-JEAN, L.; RUSSELL, C.; GULL, T. R.; MADURA, T. I.; POLLARD, K.; et al. He II lambda 4686 EMISSION FROM THE MASSIVE BINARY SYSTEM IN eta CAR: CONSTRAINTS TO THE ORBITAL ELEMENTS AND THE NATURE OF THE PERIODIC MINIMA. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, v. 819, n. 2, MAR 10 2016. (11/51680-6)

DA SILVA, PATRICIA; STEINER, J. E.; MENEZES, R. B.. NGC 1566: analysis of the nuclear region from optical and near-infrared Integral Field Unit spectroscopy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 470, n. 4, p. 3850-3876, OCT 2017. (11/51680-6)

RICCI, T. V.; STEINER, J. E.; MENEZES, R. B.. IFU spectroscopy of 10 early-type galactic nuclei - III. Properties of the circumnuclear gas emission. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 451, n. 4, p. 3728-3758, AUG 21 2015. (12/21350-7, 11/51680-6, 08/06988-0)

MAY, D.; STEINER, J. E.. A two-stage outflow in NGC 1068. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 469, n. 1, p. 994-1025, JUL 2017. (11/19824-8, 11/51680-6)

ALMEIDA, L. A.; DAMINELI, A.; RODRIGUES, C. V.; PEREIRA, M. G.; JABLONSKI, F.. HS 2231+2441: an HW Vir system composed of a low-mass white dwarf and a brown dwarf. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 472, n. 3, p. 3093-3100, DEC 2017. (12/09716-6, 13/26258-4, 13/18245-0, 11/51680-6)

MENEZES, R. B.; STEINER, J. E.. THE MOLECULAR H-2 EMISSION AND THE STELLAR KINEMATICS IN THE NUCLEAR REGION OF THE SOMBRERO GALAXY. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, v. 808, n. 1, JUL 20 2015. (11/51680-6, 12/02268-8)

MAY, D.; STEINER, J. E.; RICCI, T. V.; MENEZES, R. B.; ANDRADE, I. S.. Digging process in NGC 6951: the molecular disc bumped by the jet. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 457, n. 1, p. 949-970, MAR 21 2016. (12/02268-8, 11/20223-9, 11/51680-6, 08/06988-0, 11/19824-8)

MENEZES, R. B.; STEINER, J. E.; DA SILVA, PATRICIA. THE OFF-CENTERED SEYFERT-LIKE COMPACT EMISSION IN THE NUCLEAR REGION OF NGC 3621. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, v. 817, n. 2, FEB 1 2016. (11/51680-6, 12/02268-8)

MAY, D.; STEINER, J. E.; MENEZES, R. B.; WILLIAMS, D. R. A.; WANG, J.. The nuclear architecture of NGC 4151: on the path toward a universal outflow mechanism in light of NGC 1068. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 496, n. 2, p. 1488-1516, AUG 2020. (11/51680-6, 11/19824-8)

DA SILVA, PATRICIA; MENEZES, R. B.; STEINER, J. E.; FRAGA, LUCIANO. The nuclear region of NGC 613-II. Kinematics and stellar archaeology. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 496, n. 1, p. 943-958, JUL 2020. (11/51680-6)

MOLINO, A.; COSTA-DUARTE, V, M.; SAMPEDRO, L.; HERPICH, F. R.; SODRE JR, L.; MENDES DE OLIVEIRA, C.; SCHOENELL, W.; BARBOSA, C. E.; QUEIROZ, C.; LIMA, E. V. R.; et al. Assessing the photometric redshift precision of the S-PLUS survey: the Stripe-82 as a test-case. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 499, n. 3, p. 3884-3908, DEC 2020. (14/18632-6, 16/21664-2, 13/18245-0, 17/50277-0, 11/51680-6, 09/54202-8, 16/17119-9, 19/11910-4, 12/09716-6, 14/07684-5)

MELLO, ALEXANDRE J. T. S.; BOUCHEZ, ANTONIN H.; SZENTGYORGYI, ANDREW; VAN DAM, MARCOS A.; LUPINARI, HENRIQUE. Application of adaptive optics for illumination stability in precision radial velocity measurements in astronomical spectroscopy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 481, n. 3, p. 3804-3809, DEC 2018. (11/51680-6)

RICCI, T. V.; STEINER, J. E.. Detection of a double-peaked H alpha component from the accretion disc of NGC 4958. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 486, n. 1, p. 1138-1145, JUN 2019. (09/54006-4, 11/51680-6)

ABDUL-MASIH, MICHAEL; SANA, HUGUES; SUNDQVIST, JON; MAHY, LAURENT; MENON, ATHIRA; ALMEIDA, LEONARDO A.; DE KOTER, ALEX; DE MINK, SELMA E.; JUSTHAM, STEPHEN; LANGER, NORBERT; et al. Clues on the Origin and Evolution of Massive Contact Binaries: Atmosphere Analysis of VFTS 352. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, v. 880, n. 2, AUG 1 2019. (12/09716-6, 11/51680-6, 13/18245-0)

HILKER, M.; RICHTLER, T.; BARBOSA, C. E.; ARNABOLDI, M.; COCCATO, L.; DE OLIVEIRA, C. MENDES. The Hydra I cluster core II. Kinematic complexity in a rising velocity dispersion profile around the cD galaxy NGC3311. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 619, NOV 13 2018. (12/22676-3, 16/12331-0, 11/51680-6, 11/21325-0)

BARBOSA, C. E.; ZARITSKY, D.; DONNERSTEIN, R.; ZHANG, H.; DEY, A.; DE OLIVEIRA, C. MENDES; SAMPEDRO, L.; MOLINO, A.; COSTA-DUARTE, M. V.; COELHO, P.; et al. One Hundred SMUDGes in S-PLUS: Ultra-diffuse Galaxies Flourish in the Field. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES, v. 247, n. 2, APR 2020. (18/21661-9, 11/51680-6, 18/24389-8, 19/23141-5, 18/05392-8, 19/11910-4, 09/54006-4, 16/12331-0, 16/17119-9, 09/54202-8, 16/21664-2)

RICCI, T. V.; STEINER, J. E.; MAY, D.; GARCIA-RISSMANN, A.; MENEZES, R. B.. Optical and near-infrared IFU spectroscopy of the nuclear region of the AGN-starburst galaxy NGC 7582. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 473, n. 4, p. 5334-5351, FEB 2018. (11/51680-6)

RICCI, T. V.; STEINER, J. E.; MENEZES, R. B.. IFU spectroscopy of 10 early-type galactic nuclei - IV. Properties of the circumnuclear stellar kinematics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 463, n. 4, p. 3860-3875, DEC 2016. (12/21350-7, 11/51680-6, 08/06988-0)

DAMINELI, A.; NAVARETE, F.; HILLIER, D. J.; MOFFAT, A. F. J.; CORCORAN, M. F.; GULL, T. R.; RICHARDSON, N. D.; WEIGELT, G.; MORRIS, P. W.; STEVENS, I. Spectroscopic signatures of the vanishing natural coronagraph of Eta Carinae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 505, n. 1, p. 963-978, JUL 2021. (11/51680-6, 19/02029-2, 17/18191-8)