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.
Organisations
Publications
Ercolano B
(2010)
Metallicity, planet formation and disc lifetimes
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Eldridge J
(2011)
Runaway stars as progenitors of supernovae and gamma-ray bursts Runaway stars as progenitors of SNe and GRBs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Wilkins D
(2012)
Understanding X-ray reflection emissivity profiles in AGN: locating the X-ray source X-ray reflection emissivity profiles in AGN
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Churcher L
(2011)
Resolved imaging of the HD 191089 debris disc Resolved imaging of the HD 191089 debris disc
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Agnello A
(2014)
Dynamical models of elliptical galaxies - II. M87 and its globular clusters
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Veras D
(2011)
The great escape: how exoplanets and smaller bodies desert dying stars The great escape
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Potter A
(2010)
Magnetic field evolution of white dwarfs in strongly interacting binary star systems
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Evans N
(2014)
Extremely flat haloes and the shape of the galaxy
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Walker S
(2012)
X-ray observations of the galaxy cluster Abell 2029 to the virial radius A2029 at the virial radius
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Cook D
(2014)
Spitzer Local Volume Legacy (LVL) SEDs and physical properties
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zoghbi A
(2011)
Understanding reverberation lags in 1H0707-495 Reverberation in 1H0707-495
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zoghbi A
(2012)
Relativistic iron K X-ray reverberation in NGC 4151 Iron K reverberation in NGC 4151
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Huxor A
(2011)
Exploring the properties of the M31 halo globular cluster system The M31 halo globular cluster system
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
An J
(2011)
Modified virial formulae and the theory of mass estimators Tracer mass estimators
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Dubois Y
(2012)
Feeding compact bulges and supermassive black holes with low angular momentum cosmic gas at high redshift Feeding supermassive BHs with cosmic gas
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Clements D
(2014)
Herschel Multitiered Extragalactic Survey: clusters of dusty galaxies uncovered by Herschel? and Planckâ€
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Jarvis M
(2013)
The VISTA Deep Extragalactic Observations (VIDEO) survey?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hamer S
(2012)
The relation between line emission and brightest cluster galaxies in three exceptional clusters: evidence for gas cooling from the intracluster medium Offset optical line emission in cluster cores
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Walton D
(2012)
Searching for massive outflows in Holmberg IX X-1 and NGC 1313 X-1: the iron K band Searching for winds in ULXs: the Fe K band
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Watkins L
(2010)
The masses of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies The masses of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bonsor A
(2010)
Post-main-sequence evolution of A star debris discs Post-main-sequence evolution of debris discs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Binney J
(2014)
New distances to RAVE stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Kruijssen J
(2012)
The dynamical state of stellar structure in star-forming regions Dynamical state of star-forming regions
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Johnstone R
(2012)
Hydrogen two-photon continuum emission from the Horseshoe filament in NGC 1275 Two-photon emission in NGC 1275
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Brewer B
(2014)
The SWELLS survey - VI. Hierarchical inference of the initial mass functions of bulges and discs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society