Studying the cold interstellar medium of galaxies
JINGLE is a new JCMT Large Programme designed to systematically study the cold ISM of galaxies in the local Universe. Over three years and with 780 hours of observing time, JINGLE will provide integrated 850μm continuum measurements with SCUBA-2 for a representative sample of 193 Herschel-selected galaxies, as well as integrated CO(2-1) line fluxes with RxA for a subset of 75 of these galaxies.
The observations will allow for the robust characterisation of the dust properties, as well as the measurement of total molecular gas masses for the RxA subsample. The galaxies are selected in fields targeted by MaNGA optical integral-field spectroscopic observations, which are also fields with Herschel/SPIRE photometry from the H-ATLAS survey and coverage from upcoming, new, blind interferometric HI surveys.
