Glen Petitpas SMA-Hilo

SMA Observations of Galaxies Near and Far

I present recent extragalactic results from the Submillimeter Array.
I will discuss a wide variety of topics, ranging from nearby to high
redshift galaxies. Starting locally, I will discuss the SMA CO Nearby
Extragalactic Survey (SCONES). The goal of this project is to study
nearby galaxies in CO J=2-1, 13CO J=2-1, CO J=3-2 as well
as 1300 and 870 micron continuum. By combining these SMA results
with existing BIMA, OVRO, PdB data, we can systematically characterize
the warm ISM in these galaxies at high resolution. Moving out in redshift,
we come to the SMA U/LIRG survey. I will present briefly the results from
our 29 night Key Project to study the warm gas in Ultraluminous Infrared
Galaxies. Finally, I will show some new results for SMA observations
of high redshift submillimeter galaxies.