AEGIS

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Extended Groth Strip taken with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys.[1]

AEGIS, or the All-Wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey, is a multi-wavelength astronomical survey of a patch of the sky with low extinction and zodiacal scattering. The purpose of the survey is to study the physical processes and evolution of galaxies at redshift z ~ 1. As of February 2011 more than 80 research papers have been published based on data from the survey.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Observatories
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Observatories

AEGIS makes use of multiple terrestrial and space based observatories to conduct the survey. These observatories make overlapping scans of the survey area.[3] The primary telescopes are:[4]

* Very Large Array
* Spitzer Space Telescope
* Palomar Observatory
* Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
* Keck Observatory
* Hubble Space Telescope
* GALEX
* Chandra X-ray Observatory (AEGIS-X)[5]

## See also

* Extended Groth Strip - a visible image taken by Hubble of the region.

## References

1. ↑ "A Snapshot of Galactic Evolution". ESA/Hubble. 10 October 2011. http://spacetelescope.org/images/potw1141a/. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
2. ↑ AEGIS Papers retrieved February 10, 2011
3. ↑ EGS Coverage
4. ↑ "Official Project Site". http://aegis.ucolick.org/.
5. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110811231439/http://astro.imperial.ac.uk/research/aegis/

## External links

* Official Project Site
* Hubblesite News Release

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