ATLASGAL is the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy, an observing programme with the LABOCA bolometer array at APEX, located at 5100 m altitude on Chajnantor, Chile. This survey mapped over 420 square degrees at 870 microns of the inner Galaxy, with a uniform sensitivity of a few solar masses at 1 kpc distance. This project is a collaboration between the Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG: Max Planck Institute für Radioastronomie, MPIfR Bonn, and Max Planck Institute für Astronomie, MPIA Heidelberg), the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the Universidad de Chile.
Dr Urquhart is a leading member of this research team and has led the source extraction and science exploitation of this survey data. The data and publications can be found here.
This work has results in ~30 papers from the survey team and the data have been used in more than 100 publications.
See the following press releases to see some highlights:
ATLASGAL Survey of Milky Way Completed (24 Feb 2016)
Hidden Nurseries in the Milky Way (11 Apr 2014)
Astronomer’s New Guide to the Galaxy: Largest Map of Cold Dust Revealed (1 July 2009)