Orateur
Description
TolTEC a large-format (~7000 detector) imaging polarimeter will conduct two legacy extragalactic surveys at 1.1, 1.4 and 2.0mm at the 50m Large Millimeter Telescope. The Ultra-Deep Survey of Star-forming Galaxies (~0.8 sq.deg., r.m.s. ~0.025mJy at 1.1mm) is a confusion-limited survey which ties the entire Luminous Infrared Galaxy population from redshifts 2 to 10 directly to their optical counterparts and addresses the question of how do massive galaxies build up metals and stellar mass over cosmic time. The Large Scale Structure Survey (~40-60 sq. deg., r.m.s.~0.25 mJy at 1.1mm) probes the relationships between the spatial distribution of star forming galaxies and large scale structure and provides a detailed view of clusters and their substructure via the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect. We show the predictions derived from cosmologically motivated simulations for these surveys and the accessibility of the community to them, as well as the commissioning data acquired to prove their feasibility. We will also briefly show the design of the Galactic surveys we will perform with the camera.
