Extremely Large Program with MeerKAT got accepted! The MeerKAT Legacy Local Universe Survey (LLUS)

In January, we received the exciting news that our MeerKAT Local Universe Legacy Survey (PI: D. J. Pisano), was accepted as an Extremely Large Program. Over the next two years, our team will build a landmark view of 188 nearby galaxies in the southern sky by mapping their atomic hydrogen gas, the raw material from which future stars form. By combining new MeerKAT observations with data from other major surveys, this project will let us explore how galaxies grow, how gas moves through their disks, how dark matter shapes their rotation, and how star formation is regulated across very different galactic environments. I am especially excited about using these data to follow the journey of atomic gas through galaxies and to ask how that flow of gas shapes where, and how efficiently, new stars form.