The Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey (CGS)
The Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey (CGS)
This site is still under construction, but we’ve posted a brief description of the project and a gallery of images.
The CGS team is:
•Luis C. Ho (PI; KIAA and Carnegie Observatories)
•Aaron J. Barth (UC Irvine)
•Song Huang (Nanjing University, Carnegie Observatories)
•Zhao-Yu Li (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory)
•Chien Y. Peng (GMTO, Carnegie Observatories)
Welcome to the CGS project site.
The CGS project is obtaining high-quality optical and near-infrared images of several hundred of the brightest galaxies in the southern hemisphere sky, at Las Campanas Observatory, for investigations of the structural properties of galaxies.