@article{7d759a645ef64ce4bfca9c35aae63927,
title = "The MeerKAT international GHz tiered extragalactic exploration (MIGHTEE) survey",
abstract = "The MIGHTEE large survey project will survey four of the most well-studied extragalactic deep fields, totalling 20 square degrees to µJy sensitivity at Giga-Hertz frequencies, as well as an ultra-deep image of a single ∼1 deg2 MeerKAT pointing. The observations will provide radio continuum, spectral line and polarisation information. As such, MIGHTEE, along with the excellent multi-wavelength data already available in these deep fields, will allow a range of science to be achieved. Specifically, MIGHTEE is designed to significantly enhance our understanding of, (i) the evolution of AGN and star-formation activity over cosmic time, as a function of stellar mass and environment, free of dust obscuration; (ii) the evolution of neutral hydrogen in the Universe and how this neutral gas eventually turns into stars after moving through the molecular phase, and how efficiently this can fuel AGN activity; (iii) the properties of cosmic magnetic fields and how they evolve in clusters, filaments and galaxies. MIGHTEE will reach similar depth to the planned SKA all-sky survey, and thus will provide a pilot to the cosmology experiments that will be carried out by the SKA over a much larger survey volume.",
author = "Jarvis, {Matt J.} and Taylor, {A. R.} and I. Agudo and Allison, {James R.} and Deane, {R. P.} and B. Frank and N. Gupta and I. Heywood and N. Maddox and K. McAlpine and Santos, {Mario G.} and Scaife, {A. M.M.} and M. Vaccari and Zwart, {J. T.L.} and E. Adams and Bacon, {D. J.} and Baker, {A. J.} and Bassett, {Bruce A.} and Best, {P. N.} and R. Beswick and S. Blyth and Brown, {Michael L.} and M. Br{\"u}ggen and M. Cluver and S. Colafranceso and G. Cotter and C. Cress and R. Dav{\'e} and C. Ferrari and Hardcastle, {M. J.} and C. Hale and I. Harrison and Hatfield, {P. W.} and Kl{\"o}ckner, {H. R.} and S. Kolwa and E. Malefahlo and T. Marubini and T. Mauch and K. Moodley and R. Morganti and R. Norris and Peters, {J. A.} and I. Prandoni and M. Prescott and S. Oliver and N. Oozeer and R{\"o}ttgering, {H. J.A.} and N. Seymour and C. Simpson and O. Smirnov and Smith, {D. J.B.} and K. Spekkens and J. Stil and C. Tasse and {van der Heyden}, K. and Whittam, {I. H.} and WIlliams, {W. L.}",
note = "Funding Information: 1Astrophysics, University of Oxford, Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of the Western Cape, Robert Sobukwe Road, Bellville 7535, South Africa 3Department of Astronomy, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa 4Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy, University of Cape Town, South Africa 5Instituto de Astrof{\'i}sica de Andaluc{\'i}a (CSIC), Apartado 3004, E-18080 Granada, Spain 6CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, PO Box 76, Epping NSW 1710, Australia 7Department of Physics & Electronics, Rhodes University, PO Box 94, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa 8Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, India 9ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, Postbus 2, 7990AA, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands 10Square Kilometre Array South Africa, Pinelands 7405, Cape Town, South Africa 11Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK 12INAF - Istituto di Radioastronomia, via Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy 13Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Dennis Sciama Building, Portsmouth PO1 3FX, UK 14Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 136 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019, USA 15 African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 6-8 Melrose Road, Muizenberg 7945, South Africa 16Department of Maths and Applied Maths, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 17South African Astronomical Observatory, Observatory, Cape Town, 7925, South Africa 18SUPA, Institute for Astronomy, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK 19Hamburger Sternwarte, Universit{\"a}t Hamburg, Gojenbergsweg 112, D-21029 Hamburg, Germany 20School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, 2050 Johannesburg, South Africa 21CHPC, CSIR, 15 Lower Hope Rd, Rosebank, 7700, South Africa 22Laboratoire Lagrange, Universit{\'e} C{\^o}te d{\textquoteright}Azur, Observatoire de la C{\^o}te d{\textquoteright}Azur, CNRS, Blvd de l{\textquoteright}Observatoire, CS 34229, F-06304 Nice cedex 4, France 23Centre for Astrophysics Research, School of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield AL10 9AB, UK 24Max-Planck-Institut f{\"u}r Radioastronomie Auf dem H{\"u}gel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany 25European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748, Garching, Germany 26Astrophysics & Cosmology Research Unit, School of Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041, South Africa 27Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South, NSW 1797, Australia 28Astronomy Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK 29 Centre for Space Research, North-West University, Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa 30Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9513, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands 31International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Curtin University, Perth, Australia 32Gemini Observatory, Northern Operations Center, 670 North A{\^a}A˘Ÿohoku Place, Hilo, HI 96720-2700, USA 33Department of Physics, Royal Military College of Canada, PO Box 17000, Station Forces, Kingston, ON K7K 7B4, Canada 34Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Canada 0000-0003-2623-2064 35GEPI, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, Universite Paris Diderot, 5 place Jules Janssen, F-92190 Meudon, France Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Copyright owned by the author(s).; 2016 MeerKAT Science: On the Pathway to the SKA, MeerKAT 2016 ; Conference date: 25-05-2016 Through 27-05-2016",
year = "2016",
language = "English (US)",
journal = "Proceedings of Science",
issn = "1824-8039",
publisher = "Sissa Medialab Srl",
}