Membership:

Dominik Riechers (Chair; SAC)

Amy Barger

Bjorn Emonts

Chris Carilli

Chris Hales

Caitlin Casey (SAC)

Roberto Decarli

Desika Narayanan

Elisabete da Cunha

Eric Murphy (ngVLA)

Jackie Hodge

Katey Alatalo

Kotaro Kohno (SAC)

Mark Sargent

Rob Ivison

Fabian Walter (SAC)

Kristina Nyland

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Science Subgroups:

1) Cold Gas (Lead: Decarli; Members: Alatalo, Carilli, Casey, Emonts, Hodge, Kohno, Narayanan, Riechers, Sargent, Walter, add your name)

Science Use Cases:

i) Measuring the amount of molecular gas in galaxies at high redshift
ii) ngVLA as a redshift machine
iii) Characterizing the star-forming medium in high-z galaxies via multi-line investigations with the ngVLA

2) Dynamics (Lead: Casey; Members: Carilli, Emonts, Hodge, Kohno, Narayanan, Riechers, add your name)

3) Continuum (Lead: Barger; Members: Kohno, Murphy, Sargent, add your name)

4) AGN/SMBH (Lead: Nyland; Members: Alatalo, Morabito, Lacy; add your name)

Science Use Cases:

i) Relationship between radio mode feedback & SF quenching

ii) AGN identification to high-z in deep fields

iii) Cosmic evolution of radio quasars

iv) BH growth in the early universe

v) Role of quasars in re-ionizing the Universe

5) Polarimetry/Cosmic Magnetism (Lead: Hales; Members: add your name)

Science Use Cases:

i) Mapping magnetic fields in molecular environments to z~0.5 using CO(1-0) polarimetry

ii) Measuring 3D magnetic fields in local dusty galaxies

iii) Investigating black hole accretion with extreme rotation measures

iv) Probing magnetized gas near and far with rotation measure grids

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Telecon Notes: https://safe.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/NGVLA/GalaxyAssembly/Telecons

White Paper Related Materials: https://safe.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/NGVLA/GalaxyAssembly/White

Other Materials: https://safe.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/NGVLA/GalaxyAssembly/Other

-- EricMurphy - 2017-02-21