Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik

- Infrared/Submillimeter Astronomy -

SHINING: Survey with Herschel of the ISM in Nearby Infrared Galaxies

SHINING

SHINING, the Survey with Herschel of the ISM in Nearby INfrared Galaxies, is a Herschel guaranteed time key programme of the PACS consortium. Its aim is to study star formation and activity in infrared bright galaxies (starbursts, AGN, (U)LIRGs, and low metallicity galaxies) at local and intermediate redshifts. The programme consists mostly of a large and coherent spectroscopic and photometric survey with PACS, but also includes some SPIRE photometry.

SHINING is coordinated (in terms of objects and positions) with two SPIRE key programmes on nearby infrared bright galaxies and on low metallicity galaxies and the HIFI key programme HEXGAL on the ISM in nearby galactic nuclei.