ESO DOI Service

• Tortora, Crescenzo [INAF–Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory, Naples, Italy]
• Ragusa, Rossella [INAF–Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory, Naples, Italy]
• Gatto, Massimiliano [INAF–Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory, Naples, Italy]
• Spavone, Marilena [INAF–Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory, Naples, Italy]
• Hunt, Leslie [INAF–Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Florence, Italy]
• Ripepi, Vincenzo [INAF–Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory, Naples, Italy]
• Dall’Ora, Massimo [INAF–Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory, Naples, Italy]
• Abdurro’uf [Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA]
• Annibali, Francesca [INAF–Bologna Astrophysics and Space Science Observatory, Italy]
• Baes, Maarten [Astronomical Observatory, Ghent University, Belgium]
• Belfiore, Francesco Michel Concetto [INAF–Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Florence, Italy]
• Bellucco, Nicola [Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padua, Italy]
• Bolzonella, Micol [INAF–Bologna Astrophysics and Space Science Observatory, Italy]
• Cantiello, Michele [INAF–Abruzzo Astronomical Observatory, Teramo, Italy]
• Dimauro, Paola [INAF–Rome Astronomical Observatory, Italy]
• Kluge, Mathias [Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany]
• Lelli, Federico [INAF–Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Florence, Italy]
• Napolitano, Nicola R. [Department of Physics, Federico II University, Naples, Italy]
• Nucita, Achille [Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of Salento, Italy]
• Radovich, Mario [INAF–Padua Astronomical Observatory, Italy]
• Scaramella, Roberto [INAF–Rome Astronomical Observatory, Italy]
• Schinnerer, Eva [Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany]
• Testa, Vincenzo [INAF–Rome Astronomical Observatory, Italy]
• Unni, Aiswarya [INAF–Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory, Naples, Italy]

The VLT Survey Telescope Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural Hierarchy (VST-SMASH) aims to detect tidal features and remnants around very nearby galaxies, a unique and essential diagnostic of the hierarchical nature of galaxy formation. Leveraging optimal sky conditions at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, combined with the VST’s multi-band optical filters, VST-SMASH aims to be the definitive survey of stellar streams and tidal remnants in the Local Volume, targeting a low surface-brightness limit of μ ~ 30 mag arcsec^–2 in the g and r bands, and μ ~ 28 mag arcsec^–2 in the i band, in a volume-limited sample of local galaxies within 11 Mpc and the Euclid footprint.