Mauro Giavalisco
Space Telescope Science Institute

GOODS news on Galaxy Evolution 

ABSTRACT

Understanding galaxy evolution is one of the grand themes of astronomy.
Paralleling theoretical and computational refinements, especially in
modeling star formation in nascent galaxies and its subsequent
evolution, observations are becoming increasingly more "global" in their
attempt to understand the many aspects of galaxy formation and
evolution. I will describe new results from the Great Observatories
Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), the first truly panchromatic exploration of
galaxy evolution at high redshifts. By combining deep Chandra, HST,
Spitzer images and ground--based spectroscopy in a coordinated fashion,
GOODS is looking at the evolution of star--formation activity, stellar
population content, morphology and clustering properties of galaxies
from approximately the end of the re-ionization era ($z\sim 7$) to
when the formation of Hubble sequence was completed ($z\sim 0.5$). I
will discuss the implications of the results achieved so far and review
future directions where further progress is likely to come. These
include the upcoming Cosmic Exploration Survey (COSMOS), which is
studying the link between the evolution of large--scale structure and
that of the galaxies.