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
{Marino}, R.~A. And {Rosales-Ortega}, F.~F. And {S{\'a}nchez}, S.~F. And {Gil De Paz}, A. And {V{\'{\i}}lchez}, J. And {Miralles-Caballero}, D. And {Kehrig}, C. And {P{\'e}rez-Montero}, E. And {Stanishev}, V. And {Iglesias-P{\'a}ramo}, J. And {D{\'{\i}}az}, A.~I. And {Castillo-Morales}, A. And {Kennicutt}, R. And {L{\'o}pez-S{\'a}nchez}, A.~R. And {Galbany}, L. And {Garc{\'{\i}}a-Benito}, R. And {Mast}, D. And {Mendez-Abreu}, J. And {Monreal-Ibero}, A. And {Husemann}, B. And {Walcher}, C.~J. An
(2013)
The O3N2 and N2 abundance indicators revisited: improved calibrations based on CALIFA and T$_{e}$-based literature data
in \aap
{Huynh}, M.~T. And {Norris}, R.~P. And {Coppin}, K.~E.~K. And {Emonts}, B.~H.~C. And {Ivison}, R.~J. And {Seymour}, N. And {Smail}, I. And {Smol{\v C}i{\'c}}, V. And {Swinbank}, A.~M. And {Brandt}, W.~N. And {Chapman}, S.~C. And {Dannerbauer}, H. And {De Breuck}, C. And {Greve}, T.~R. And {Hodge}, J.~A. And {Karim}, A. And {Knudsen}, K.~K. And {Menten}, K.~M. And {van Der Werf}, P.~P. And {Walter}, F. And {Weiss}, A.
(2013)
Physical conditions of the gas in an ALMA [C II]-identified submillimetre galaxy at z = 4.44
in \mnras
Kennicutt R
(2012)
Star Formation in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies
in Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Fabian A
(2012)
Observational Evidence of Active Galactic Nuclei Feedback
in Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Van Den Berg M
(2023)
The osteometric identification of castrated reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) and the significance of castration in tracing human-animal relationships in the North.
in Archaeological and anthropological sciences
Haehnelt M
(2010)
Probing dark matter, galaxies and the expansion history of the Universe with Ly a in absorption and emission
in Astronomische Nachrichten
Walton D
(2011)
A large catalogue of ultraluminous X-ray source candidates in nearby galaxies
in Astronomische Nachrichten
De Laverny P
(2012)
The AMBRE project: A new synthetic grid of high-resolution FGKM stellar spectra
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Antoja T
(2014)
Constraints on the Galactic bar from the Hercules stream as traced with RAVE across the Galaxy
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Filgas R
(2011)
The two-component jet of GRB 080413B
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Hebb L
(2010)
MML 53: a new low-mass, pre-main sequence eclipsing binary in the Upper Centaurus-Lupus region discovered by SuperWASP
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ciesla L
(2012)
Submillimetre photometry of 323 nearby galaxies from the Herschel Reference Survey
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Lemasle B
(2012)
VLT/FLAMES spectroscopy of red giant branch stars in the Carina dwarf spheroidal galaxy
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Afonso P
(2011)
GRB 050502B optical afterglow: a jet-break at high redshift
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Clément B
(2012)
Evolution of the observed Ly a luminosity function from z = 6.5 to z = 7.7: evidence for the epoch of reionization?
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Pinto C
(2012)
A phenomenological model for the X-ray spectrum of nova V2491 Cygni
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
RĂ©my-Ruyer A
(2013)
Revealing the cold dust in low-metallicity environments I. Photometry analysis of the Dwarf Galaxy Survey with Herschel ?
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Magdis G
(2013)
Mid- to far-infrared properties of star-forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Zacchei A
(2011)
Planck early results. V. The Low Frequency Instrument data processing
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Bergemann M
(2014)
The Gaia -ESO Survey: radial metallicity gradients and age-metallicity relation of stars in the Milky Way disk
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Pinto C
(2012)
Multiwavelength campaign on Mrk 509 IX. The Galactic foreground
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Tafelmeyer M
(2010)
Extremely metal-poor stars in classical dwarf spheroidal galaxies: Fornax, Sculptor, and Sextans
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mislis D
(2012)
Estimating transiting exoplanet masses from precise optical photometry
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
KrĂĽhler T
(2011)
The SEDs and host galaxies of the dustiest GRB afterglows
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Rossi A
(2011)
The Swift/ Fermi GRB 080928 from 1 eV to 150 keV
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Cormier D
(2014)
The molecular gas reservoir of 6 low-metallicity galaxies from the Herschel Dwarf Galaxy Survey A ground-based follow-up survey of CO(1-0), CO(2-1), and CO(3-2)
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Zwitter T
(2010)
Distance determination for RAVE stars using stellar models II. Most likely values assuming a standard stellar evolution scenario*
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Marinucci A
(2010)
The X-ray spectral signatures from the complex circumnuclear regions in the Compton thick AGN NGC 424
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Conrad C
(2014)
A RAVE investigation on Galactic open clusters I. Radial velocities and metallicities?
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Botticella M
(2012)
A comparison between star formation rate diagnostics and rate of core collapse supernovae within 11 Mpc
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Hughes T
(2014)
A resolved analysis of cold dust and gas in the nearby edge-on spiral NGC 891
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Harrison D
(2011)
A deconvolution map-making method for experiments with circular scanning strategies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Smiljanic R
(2014)
The Gaia -ESO Survey: The analysis of high-resolution UVES spectra of FGK-type stars
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Boeche C
(2013)
The relation between chemical abundances and kinematics of the Galactic disc with RAVE
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
KrĂĽhler T
(2011)
Photometric redshifts for gamma-ray burst afterglows from GROND and Swift /UVOT
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Melin J
(2012)
A comparison of algorithms for the construction of SZ cluster catalogues
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Saito R
(2012)
VVV DR1: The first data release of the Milky Way bulge and southern plane from the near-infrared ESO public survey VISTA variables in the Vía Láctea
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Lebzelter T
(2012)
Comparative modelling of the spectra of cool giants
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Cantat-Gaudin T
(2014)
The Gaia -ESO Survey: Stellar content and elemental abundances in the massive cluster NGC 6705
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Nicuesa Guelbenzu A
(2011)
GRB 090426: Discovery of a jet break in a short burst afterglow
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Sánchez S
(2012)
Integral field spectroscopy of a sample of nearby galaxies II. Properties of the H ii regions??????
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Raymond S
(2012)
Debris disks as signposts of terrestrial planet formation II. Dependence of exoplanet architectures on giant planet and disk properties
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Pasetto S
(2012)
Thin disk kinematics from RAVE and the solar motion
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
De Boer T
(2012)
The star formation and chemical evolution history of the sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Galametz M
(2011)
Probing the dust properties of galaxies up to submillimetre wavelengths II. Dust-to-gas mass ratio trends with metallicity and the submm excess in dwarf galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Nardini M
(2011)
On the nature of the extremely fast optical rebrightening of the afterglow of GRB 081029
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Tafelmeyer M
(2011)
Extremely metal-poor stars in classical dwarf spheroidal galaxies: Fornax, Sculptor, and Sextans ( Corrigendum )
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Pâris I
(2012)
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar catalog: ninth data release
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Raymond S
(2011)
Debris disks as signposts of terrestrial planet formation
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Magrini L
(2014)
The Gaia -ESO Survey: Abundance ratios in the inner-disk open clusters Trumpler 20, NGC 4815, NGC 6705
in Astronomy & Astrophysics