Molecular Gas in (very) Distant Galaxies Fabian Walter (MPIA) F. Bertoldi, C. Carilli, P. Cox, K. Menten,…

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high redshift zoo: high redshift zoo: - Lyman Break galaxies - Lyman  galaxies - Submm (‘SCUBA’) galaxies - EROs - DRG - BzK galaxies - faint blue galaxies - Radio galaxies - QSO host galaxies mm/submm observations: - detection/imaging of dust emission -> L FIR - detection/imaging of molecular lines -> molecular gas (‘SF reservoir’) -> dynamical masses High Redshift Galaxies science drivers: science drivers: - mass assembly / galaxy formation - unified picture of galaxy evolution - history of SFRD (‘Madau plot’) / stellar mass assembly - evolution(?) of M BH -  relation -> major science drivers for all (sub)mm instruments