A Programme of Technology, Astrophysics and Cosmology in Cardiff 2019-22
Lead Research Organisation:
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
Department Name: School of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
We propose a programme of Astrophysics, Cosmology and Technology development for Astrophysics and Cosmology, to investigate star and planet formation in our own and other galaxies, how galaxies form and evolve and the signals from the very early Universe embedded in the polarisation properties of the Cosmic Microwave background. This programme will combine observational data from world-class ground and space-based observatories, as well as theoretical modelling and simulations of the processes that result in the Universe we observe around us. We will also continue to develop the world's most sensitive detectors for very long infrared wavelengths, along with associated optical components utilising 'metamaterials' the class of materials designed and manufactured by human beings to have the properties best suited to their task, rather than relying on naturally occurring minerals and plastics. Both of these areas of technology development potentially have wide applications outside of Astronomy, in areas such as security scanners and bio-medical imaging for example.
Planned Impact
The technology programme proposed here will have extensive impact outside of astronomy. Firstly in other academic subject areas such as Earth-observing where the technology is used to look downwards or sideways through the atmosphere rather than upwards, but also in bio-medical imaging, where the Far-infrared wavelength range has many spectral features, and is currently being used in collaboration with the School of Optometry in Cardiff to assess corneal damage, for example. Secondly we also plan to exploit the technology commercially, through the spinout company QMCI (www.terahertz.co.uk) which operates from within the School, with broad applications from fast plasma diagnostic systems in use in Fusion experiments, through laboratory spectroscopy across a wide range of chemistry and materials applications, and the new spinout Sequestym, for security cameras. We also plan a very strong Outreach programme across both the technology developments and the observational and theoretical astrophysics and cosmology programme, following on from the skills developed during the very successful Herschel/Planck outreach programme, with web-based and standard media information releases, but also tied in with Open days, school visits, and going out into schools and colleges to give presentations and host workshops
Organisations
Publications
Drabek-Maunder E
(2017)
Ground-based detection of a cloud of methanol from Enceladus: when is a biomarker not a biomarker?
in International Journal of Astrobiology
Drabek-Maunder E
(2017)
Ground-based detection of a cloud of methanol from Enceladus: when is a biomarker not a biomarker?
in International Journal of Astrobiology
Paiella A
(2019)
Erratum: Kinetic inductance detectors for the OLIMPO experiment: design and pre-flight characterization
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Bender A
(2019)
On-Sky Performance of the SPT-3G Frequency-Domain Multiplexed Readout
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Lamperti I
(2019)
JINGLE V: Dust properties of nearby galaxies derived from hierarchical Bayesian SED fitting
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Abazajian K
(2019)
CMB-S4 Decadal Survey APC White Paper
Hazumi M
(2019)
LiteBIRD: A Satellite for the Studies of B-Mode Polarization and Inflation from Cosmic Background Radiation Detection
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Duckworth Christopher
(2019)
Decoupling the rotation of stars and gas -- II: the link between black hole activity and MaNGA kinematics in TNG
in arXiv e-prints
Greaves John
(2019)
Using the Six Astrometric Parameters from Gaia DR2 I: Confirming Common Proper Motion Pairs in the Washington Double Star Catalog
in Journal of Double Star Observations
Ma J
(2019)
Spitzer Catalog of Herschel-selected Ultrared Dusty Star-forming Galaxies
in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Priestley F. D.
(2019)
Revisiting the Crab Nebula's dust and synchrotron radiation from the infrared to radio domain
in Supernova Remnants: An Odyssey in Space after Stellar Death II
Dharmawardena T
(2019)
The nearby evolved stars survey - I. JCMT/SCUBA-2 submillimetre detection of the detached shell of U Antliae
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Kwon J.
(2019)
VizieR Online Data Catalog: First-look analysis of {rho} Oph-A at 850um (Kwon+, 2018)
in VizieR Online Data Catalog
Thater S
(2019)
Six new supermassive black hole mass determinations from adaptive-optics assisted SINFONI observations
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Whitworth A
(2019)
The dust in M31
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Howard A
(2019)
L1495 revisited: a ppmap view of a star-forming filament
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Perotto L.
(2019)
Calibration and Performance of the NIKA2 camera at the IRAM 30-meter Telescope
in arXiv e-prints
Dionatos O
(2019)
Consistent dust and gas models for protoplanetary disks IV. A panchromatic view of protoplanetary disks
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Fissel L
(2019)
Relative Alignment between the Magnetic Field and Molecular Gas Structure in the Vela C Giant Molecular Cloud Using Low- and High-density Tracers
in The Astrophysical Journal
Henshaw J
(2019)
'The Brick' is not a brick : a comprehensive study of the structure and dynamics of the central molecular zone cloud G0.253+0.016
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hoormann J
(2019)
C iv black hole mass measurements with the Australian Dark Energy Survey (OzDES)
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Liu J
(2019)
The JCMT BISTRO Survey: The Magnetic Field in the Starless Core ? Ophiuchus C
in The Astrophysical Journal
Tang Y
(2019)
Gravity, Magnetic Field, and Turbulence: Relative Importance and Impact on Fragmentation in the Infrared Dark Cloud G34.43+00.24
in The Astrophysical Journal
Fasano A.
(2019)
The KISS Experiment
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Wu W
(2019)
A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing Potential and Power Spectrum from 500 deg 2 of SPTpol Temperature and Polarization Data
in The Astrophysical Journal
Watkins E
(2019)
Feedback from OB stars on their parent cloud: gas exhaustion rather than gas ejection
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Perotto L.
(2019)
Calibration and Performance of the NIKA2 camera at the IRAM 30-meter Telescope
in arXiv e-prints
Paiella A
(2019)
Kinetic inductance detectors for the OLIMPO experiment: design and pre-flight characterization
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Didier J
(2019)
Intensity-coupled Polarization in Instruments with a Continuously Rotating Half-wave Plate
in The Astrophysical Journal
Zabel N
(2019)
The MASSIVE survey - XI. What drives the molecular gas properties of early-type galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Yang C
(2019)
The molecular gas properties in the gravitationally lensed merger HATLAS J142935.3-002836
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Delabrouille J
(2019)
Microwave Spectro-Polarimetry of Matter and Radiation across Space and Time
The Simons Observatory Collaboration
(2019)
The Simons Observatory: Astro2020 Decadal Project Whitepaper
Ruffa I
(2019)
The AGN fuelling/feedback cycle in nearby radio galaxies I. ALMA observations and early results
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Liu J
(2019)
The JCMT BISTRO Survey: The Magnetic Field in the Starless Core ? Ophiuchus C
in The Astrophysical Journal
Wang J
(2019)
JCMT BISTRO Survey: Magnetic Fields within the Hub-filament Structure in IC 5146
in The Astrophysical Journal
Mangilli A
(2019)
Inflight performance of the PILOT balloon-borne experiment
in Experimental Astronomy
Andr
(2019)
Probing the cold magnetized Universe with SPICA-POL (B-BOP)
in arXiv e-prints
Bevan A
(2019)
A decade of ejecta dust formation in the Type IIn SN 2005ip
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Liu J
(2019)
The JCMT BISTRO Survey: The Magnetic Field in the Starless Core ? Ophiuchus C
in The Astrophysical Journal
Masi S
(2019)
Kinetic Inductance Detectors for the OLIMPO experiment: in-flight operation and performance
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Eden D
(2019)
SCOPE: SCUBA-2 Continuum Observations of Pre-protostellar Evolution - survey description and compact source catalogue
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Woitke P
(2019)
Consistent Dust and Gas Models for Protoplanetary Disks. III. Models for Selected Objects from the FP7 DIANA Project*
in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Davis T
(2019)
Gas accretion as fuel for residual star formation in Galaxy Zoo elliptical galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Yang C.
(2019)
VizieR Online Data Catalog: G09v1.97 CO and H2O datacubes (Yang+, 2019)
in VizieR Online Data Catalog
Amvrosiadis A
(2019)
Herschel-ATLAS : the spatial clustering of low- and high-redshift submillimetre galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Davis T
(2019)
The MASSIVE survey - XI. What drives the molecular gas properties of early-type galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Coudé S
(2019)
The JCMT BISTRO Survey: The Magnetic Field of the Barnard 1 Star-forming Region
in The Astrophysical Journal
The Simons Observatory Collaboration
(2019)
The Simons Observatory: Astro2020 Decadal Project Whitepaper
Coudé S
(2019)
The JCMT BISTRO Survey: The Magnetic Field of the Barnard 1 Star-forming Region
in The Astrophysical Journal
| Title | CO in the ALMA Radio-source Catalogue (ARC) |
| Description | VizieR online Data Catalogue associated with article published in journal Astronomy & Astrophysics with title 'CO in the ALMA Radio-source Catalogue (ARC): The molecular gas content of radio galaxies as a function of redshift.' (bibcode: 2022A&A...668A..67A) |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/668/A67 |
| Title | SDC G335.579-0.292 ALMA images and datacubes |
| Description | VizieR online Data Catalogue associated with article published in journal Astronomy & Astrophysics with title 'Continuity of accretion from clumps to Class 0 high-mass protostars in SDC335.' (bibcode: 2021A&A...645A.142A) |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/645/A142 |
| Title | Sunyaev-Zel'dovich galaxy clusters surveyed by ACT |
| Description | VizieR online Data Catalogue associated with article published in journal Astronomical Journal (AAS) with title 'The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: a catalog of >4000 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich galaxy clusters.' (bibcode: 2021ApJS..253....3H) |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/253/3 |