The Origin of Galaxies and Clusters

The first galaxies and clusters are largely hidden by interstellar dust from optical telescopes and are most easily found in submillimetre surveys, which detect the radiation from the dust. The Herschel ATLAS survey, which was led from Cardiff, and used the Herschel Space Observatory to carry out the largest ever submillimetre survey, detected a large number of young galaxies at z>4, only 1.6 years after the Big Bang. We now propose to go to even earlier times. Using a new camera, MUSCAT, built by the Astronomy Instrumentation Group for the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) in Mexico, the largest millimetre telescope in the world, we will be carrying out this winter the first ever search for dust-enshrouded galaxies in the redshift range 4
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