The MAGPI Survey -- science goals, design, observing strategy, early results and theoretical framework

Foster, C., Mendel, J. T., Lagos, C. D. P., Wisnioski, E., Yuan, T., D'Eugenio, F., Barone, T. M., Harborne, K. E., Vaughan, S. P., Schulze, F., Remus, R. -S., Gupta, A., Collacchioni, F., Khim, D. J., Taylor, P., Bassett, R., Croom, S. M., McDermid, R. M., Poci, A., Battisti, A. J., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Bellstedt, S., Colless, M., Davies, L. J. M., Derkenne, C., Driver, S., Ferré-Mateu, A., Fisher, D. B., Gjergo, E., Johnston, E. J., Khalid, A., Kobayashi, C., Oh, S., Peng, Y., Robotham, A. S. G., Sharda, P., Sweet, S. M., Taylor, E. N., Tran, K. -V. H., Trayford, J. W., Sande, J. van de, Yi, S. K. and Zanisi, L. (2021) The MAGPI Survey -- science goals, design, observing strategy, early results and theoretical framework. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 38: e031. ISSN 1323-3580

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We present an overview of the Middle Ages Galaxy Properties with Integral Field Spectroscopy (MAGPI) survey, a Large Program on ESO/VLT. MAGPI is designed to study the physical drivers of galaxy transformation at a lookback time of 3-4 Gyr, during which the dynamical, morphological, and chemical properties of galaxies are predicted to evolve significantly. The survey uses new medium-deep adaptive optics aided MUSE observations of fields selected from the GAMA survey, providing a wealth of publicly available ancillary multi-wavelength data. With these data, MAGPI will map the kinematic and chemical properties of stars and ionised gas for a sample of 60 massive (> 7 x 10^10 M_Sun) central galaxies at 0.25 < z

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Additional information	© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Astronomical Society of Australia. This is the accepted manuscript version of an article which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2021.25
Keywords	astro-ph.ga
Date Deposited	15 May 2025 14:41
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