The Messenger 113
September 2003

The CORALS Survey - A Review and Progress Report on The Search for Dust Obscured Quasar Absorption Line Sy stems

Sara L. Ellison[1,2], Max Pettini[3], Chris W. Churchill[4], Isobel M. Hook[5], Sebastian Lopez[6], Samantha A. Rix[3], Peter Shaver[1], Jasper V. Wall[7], Lin Yan[8]

[1] European Southern Observatory;
[2] P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile;
[3] Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK;
[4] Penn. State University, State College, USA;
[5] Gemini Observatory, Oxford, UK;
[6] Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile;
[7] Dept. of Astrophysics, University of Oxford, UK;
[8] SIRTF Science Center, Pasadena, California, USA

Abstract Distant, luminous quasars can be used to study intervening gas-rich galaxies - a poten tially powerful tool for tracing galaxy evolution over most of the age of the universe . Here we describe the CORALS quasar survey which aims to quantify whether dust in suc h galaxies could hide a significant fraction of background quasars from view and bias our view of early galaxy formation.

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The Messenger 113September 2003

The CORALS Survey - A Review and Progress Report on The Search for Dust Obscured Quasar Absorption Line Sy stems

Sara L. Ellison[1,2], Max Pettini[3], Chris W. Churchill[4], Isobel M. Hook[5], Sebastian Lopez[6], Samantha A. Rix[3], Peter Shaver[1], Jasper V. Wall[7], Lin Yan[8]

The Messenger 113
September 2003