The MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration (MIGHTEE) Survey
Matt J. Jarvis, A.R. Taylor, I. Agudo, James R. Allison, R. P. Deane,, B. Frank, N. Gupta, I. Heywood, N. Maddox, K. McAlpine, Mario G. Santos, A., M. M. Scaife, M. Vaccari, J. T. L. Zwart, E. Adams, D. J. Bacon, A. J. Baker,, Bruce. A. Bassett, P. N. Best, R. Beswick, S. Blyth

TL;DR
The MIGHTEE survey uses MeerKAT to study extragalactic fields across multiple wavelengths, aiming to understand galaxy evolution, neutral hydrogen history, and cosmic magnetic fields, serving as a precursor to SKA cosmology studies.
Contribution
This paper introduces the MIGHTEE survey, a comprehensive radio survey of four deep extragalactic fields, providing valuable data for galaxy evolution and cosmology research.
Findings
Survey will cover 20 square degrees at μJy sensitivity.
Provides multi-wavelength data including radio continuum, spectral line, and polarisation.
Serves as a pilot for SKA cosmology experiments.
Abstract
The MIGHTEE large survey project will survey four of the most well-studied extragalactic deep fields, totalling 20 square degrees to Jy sensitivity at Giga-Hertz frequencies, as well as an ultra-deep image of a single ~1 square degree MeerKAT pointing. The observations will provide radio continuum, spectral line and polarisation information. As such, MIGHTEE, along with the excellent multi-wavelength data already available in these deep fields, will allow a range of science to be achieved. Specifically, MIGHTEE is designed to significantly enhance our understanding of, (i) the evolution of AGN and star-formation activity over cosmic time, as a function of stellar mass and environment, free of dust obscuration; (ii) the evolution of neutral hydrogen in the Universe and how this neutral gas eventually turns into stars after moving through the molecular phase, and how efficiently this…
Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.
Taxonomy
TopicsRadio Astronomy Observations and Technology · Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena · Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
