The AKARI Deep Field South: Pushing to High Redshift

TL;DR

The paper reviews recent findings from the AKARI Deep Field South, highlighting its potential for advancing high-redshift galaxy studies through multi-wavelength observations and upcoming survey data.

Contribution

It summarizes recent results from the ADF-S, emphasizing its significance and future potential with new instruments and wavelength coverage for high-redshift galaxy research.

Findings

Identification of strongly lensed distant galaxies

Studies of cold dust in nearby galaxies

Use of colour selection for high-redshift candidates

Abstract

The AKARI Deep Field South (ADF-S) is a large extragalactic survey field that is covered by multiple instruments, from optical to far-IR and radio. I summarise recent results in this and related fields prompted by the release of the Herschel far-IR/submm images, including studies of cold dust in nearby galaxies, the identification of strongly lensed distant galaxies, and the use of colour selection to find candidate very high redshift sources. I conclude that the potential for significant new results from the ADF-S is very great. The addition of new wavelength bands in the future, eg. from Euclid, SKA, ALMA and elsewhere, will boost the importance of this field still further.