Carlos López San Juan
CEFCA

Abstract
The new-generation, large area photometric and spectroscopic surveys will revolutionise our understanding about galaxy formation and evolution. One of the most ambitious of such surveys is the Javalambre - Physics of the accelerating universe Astrophysical Survey (J-PAS), that will map ~ 8500deg² of the northern sky with 56 narrow-band (~140A) optical filters. J-PAS is half-way the 5-6 broadband photometric surveys (SDSS, DES, LSST) and the spectroscopic surveys (BOSS, eBOSS, Euclid), providing low-resolution (R ~ 50) spectra for every observed pixel with r < 23 (AB) and reaching a photometric redshift precision of ~1000 km/s, similar to slit-less spectroscopy. In the first part of the seminar, I will present a summary and the current status of J-PAS. In the second part, I will focus in the challenges and technical innovations needed to extract the most of multi-filter surveys, such as ALHAMBRA and J-PAS, focusing in the unbiased and robust estimation of the luminosity function from magnitude and redshift probability distribution functions (PDFs).

2015 October 20, 15:00

IA/U.Lisboa
Observatório Astronómico de Lisboa (Seminar room)
Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-018 Lisboa