Abstract
The Large Southern Array (LSA) will open up new ways of tackling many of the most important problems of the astrophysics of the 21st century. It is shown that high resolution, high sensitivity observations in the millimetre waveband open up new ways of tackling the problems of the origin of stars and of the origin and evolution of galaxies, in particular, the rate at which their stellar populations were formed as a function of cosmic epoch. The large negative K-corrections for star-forming galaxies at large redshifts plus the effects of evolutionary changes with cosmic epoch suggest that the counts of objects at redshifts z ≳ 1 should be very steep and the LSA should easily reach flux densities at which this steep count can be observed. If the counts are as steep as expected, strong gravitational lensing is likely to be important for sources on the steep region of the source counts.
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Longair, M.S. (1996). Millimetre Astronomy in the 21st Century. In: Shaver, P.A. (eds) Science with Large Millimetre Arrays. ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69999-6_1
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