Abstract

VANDELS: getting ready for JWST with ultradeep spectroscopy

Laura Pentericci (INAF-OAR)

VANDELS collaboration

VANDELS is an ESO public spectroscopic survey that will obtain unprecedented ultra-deep spectra (up to 80 hours integration with VIMOS@VLT) of >2000 star forming galaxies at redshift between 2.5 and 6.5 in the CANDELS UDS and CDFS fields. It will be completed just before the launch of JWST. The VANDELS spectra allow us for the first time to perform a detailed study of the absorption line physics in individual galaxies, determining in particular accurate *stellar* metallicities and outflows properties and ultimately star formation rates, dust content and total masses. I will show how the combination of these ultra-deep rest-frame UV spectra with JWST-NIRSPEC spectroscopy will provide an unprecedented view of galaxies physical properties, underpinning high redshift galaxy evolution during the peak epoch of assembly.

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