AEGIS (astronomy)

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]

AEGIS

Alternative names	All-Wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey

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

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.