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Galaxy formation and evolution 2010 - 2015

Lead Research Organisation: University of Cambridge
Department Name: Institute of Astronomy

Abstract

TThis programmatic five-year rolling grant application addresses one of the most important problems in extragalactic astronomy, the formation and evolution of galaxies. The task is one of the key goals in the current STFC Road Map and is a defining objective of virtually every national decadal survey world-wide. A full understanding of galaxy formation and evolution requires multiple lines of attack. Observations of the resolved stellar populations in the Milky Way and its Local Group companions provide a detailed fossil record of the dynamical assemblies of the galaxies, the formation of stars, and the buildup of heavy elements over a wide range of mass scales and initial conditions. At the other end of the scale, observations of distant galaxies spanning lookback times of up to 12 Gyr provide direct measurements of the evolution of galaxy populations and the buildup of stars and metals with cosmic time. Finally, measurements of the large-scale star formation and abundance properties of nearby galaxies form a vital astrophysical bridge between the studies of nearby resolved stellar populations and the distant high-redshift investigations, by allowing us to characterise the evolutionary properties of the Hubble sequence and the complex ``gastrophysical'' processes that regulate the accretion of gas and the formation of stars in galaxies. In this rolling grant application we propose a series of investigations that will advance our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution on all three fronts.

Publications

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Smail I (2014) THE SCUBA-2 COSMOLOGY LEGACY SURVEY: ULTRALUMINOUS STAR-FORMING GALAXIES IN A z = 1.6 CLUSTER in The Astrophysical Journal

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Jorgenson R (2014) SPATIALLY RESOLVED EMISSION OF A HIGH-REDSHIFT DLA GALAXY WITH THE KECK/OSIRIS IFU in The Astrophysical Journal

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Romano-Díaz E (2011) GALAXY FORMATION IN HEAVILY OVERDENSE REGIONS AT z ~ 10: THE PREVALENCE OF DISKS IN MASSIVE HALOS in The Astrophysical Journal

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Mackey A (2010) EVIDENCE FOR AN ACCRETION ORIGIN FOR THE OUTER HALO GLOBULAR CLUSTER SYSTEM OF M31 in The Astrophysical Journal

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Bouwens R (2012) UV-CONTINUUM SLOPES AT z ~ 4-7 FROM THE HUDF09+ERS+CANDELS OBSERVATIONS: DISCOVERY OF A WELL-DEFINED UV COLOR-MAGNITUDE RELATIONSHIP FOR z ? 4 STAR-FORMING GALAXIES in The Astrophysical Journal

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Frebel A (2013) THE 300 km s -1 STELLAR STREAM NEAR SEGUE 1: INSIGHTS FROM HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY OF ITS BRIGHTEST STAR in The Astrophysical Journal

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Blum J (2010) SUZAKU OBSERVATIONS OF THE BLACK HOLE H1743-322 IN OUTBURST in The Astrophysical Journal

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Weiß A (2013) ALMA REDSHIFTS OF MILLIMETER-SELECTED GALAXIES FROM THE SPT SURVEY: THE REDSHIFT DISTRIBUTION OF DUSTY STAR-FORMING GALAXIES in The Astrophysical Journal

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Szomoru D (2011) MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES FROM ULTRA-DEEP HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE WIDE FIELD CAMERA 3 IMAGING: THE HUBBLE SEQUENCE AT z ~ 2 in The Astrophysical Journal

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King A (2013) REGULATION OF BLACK HOLE WINDS AND JETS ACROSS THE MASS SCALE in The Astrophysical Journal