Project Overview
MAHALO-Subaru (Mapping H-Alpha and Lines of Oxygen with Subaru) survey is an extensive program on the Subaru Telescope at the summit of Maunakea in Hawaii. The primary goal of this project is to investigate how star-forming activities in galaxies are propagated as a function of time, mass, and environment by probing line-emitting galaxies over the target regions with systematic narrow-band imaging. This survey is mostly targeting massive galaxy cluster and proto-cluster candidates at high redshifts, which makes the survey very original as compared to the other high-z survey programs.
Project paper and acknowledgements
Kodama, T. et al. (2013) briefly summarize our program.
The survey is financially supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for the Scientific Research (Nos. 21340045 and 24244015) by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
We wish to recognize and acknowledge the very significant cultural role and reverence that the summit of Maunakea has always had within the indigenous Hawaiian community. We are most fortunate to have the opportunity to conduct observations from this mountain.