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
Rowe S
(2022)
The MUSCAT Readout Electronics Backend: Design and Pre-deployment Performance
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Anderson A
(2019)
Performance of Al-Mn Transition-Edge Sensor Bolometers in SPT-3G
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Sugai H
(2020)
Updated Design of the CMB Polarization Experiment Satellite LiteBIRD
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Rowe S
(2022)
The MUSCAT Readout Electronics Backend: Design and Pre-deployment Performance
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Fasano A
(2019)
The KISS Experiment
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Piat M
(2020)
QUBIC: Using NbSi TESs with a Bolometric Interferometer to Characterize the Polarization of the CMB
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Ade P
(2020)
The Experiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM)
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
St Germaine T
(2020)
Optical Characterization of the Keck Array and BICEP3 CMB Polarimeters from 2016 to 2019
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Fasano A.
(2019)
The KISS Experiment
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Cukierman A
(2019)
Microwave Multiplexing on the Keck Array
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Karkare K
(2020)
Full-Array Noise Performance of Deployment-Grade SuperSpec mm-Wave On-Chip Spectrometers
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Sugai H.
(2020)
Updated Design of the CMB Polarization Experiment Satellite LiteBIRD
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Anderson A. J.
(2019)
Performance of Al-Mn Transition-Edge Sensor Bolometers in SPT-3G
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Marnieros S.
(2020)
TES Bolometer Arrays for the QUBIC B-Mode CMB Experiment
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Soliman A
(2020)
Optical Design and Characterization of 40-GHz Detector and Module for the BICEP Array
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Robson G
(2022)
The Simulation and Design of an On-Chip Superconducting Millimetre Filter-Bank Spectrometer
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Karkare K
(2020)
Full-Array Noise Performance of Deployment-Grade SuperSpec mm-Wave On-Chip Spectrometers
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Lamagna L
(2020)
Progress Report on the Large-Scale Polarization Explorer
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
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
Cukierman A.
(2019)
Microwave Multiplexing on the Keck Array
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Schillaci A
(2020)
Design and Performance of the First BICEP Array Receiver
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Pisano Giampaolo
(2020)
Development of Flat Silicon-Based Mesh Lens Arrays for Millimeter and Sub-millimeter Wave Astronomy
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Zhang C
(2020)
Characterizing the Sensitivity of 40 GHz TES Bolometers for BICEP Array
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Hornsby A
(2020)
Reducing the Susceptibility of Lumped-Element KIDs to Two-Level System Effects
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Bender A. N.
(2019)
On-Sky Performance of the SPT-3G Frequency-Domain Multiplexed Readout
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Paiella A
(2020)
In-Flight Performance of the LEKIDs of the OLIMPO Experiment
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Sugai H
(2020)
Updated Design of the CMB Polarization Experiment Satellite LiteBIRD
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Sugai H.
(2020)
Updated Design of the CMB Polarization Experiment Satellite LiteBIRD
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Karkare K
(2020)
Full-Array Noise Performance of Deployment-Grade SuperSpec mm-Wave On-Chip Spectrometers
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Marnieros S
(2020)
TES Bolometer Arrays for the QUBIC B-Mode CMB Experiment
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Meinke J
(2020)
Planar Self-similar Antennas for Broadband Millimeter-Wave Measurements
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Ade P. A. R.
(2020)
The Experiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM)
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Marnieros S.
(2020)
TES Bolometer Arrays for the QUBIC B-Mode CMB Experiment
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Nightingale J
(2023)
PyAutoGalaxy: Open-Source Multiwavelength Galaxy Structure & Morphology
in Journal of Open Source Software
Nightingale J
(2021)
PyAutoLens: Open-Source Strong Gravitational Lensing
in Journal of Open Source Software
Nightingale J
(2021)
PyAutoLens: Open-Source Strong Gravitational Lensing
in Journal of Open Source Software
Chinone Y
(2020)
Results of gravitational lensing and primordial gravitational waves from the POLARBEAR experiment
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Peretto N.
(2022)
Meeting contribution: The earliest stages of star cluster formation
in Journal of the British Astronomical Association
Seth Anil C.
(2021)
Revealing Low Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei (ReveaLLAGN)
in JWST Proposal. Cycle 1
Ward B
(2022)
Herschel-ATLAS Data Release III: near-infrared counterparts in the South Galactic Pole field - another 100 000 submillimetre galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lu A
(2024)
WISDOM project XX. - Strong shear tearing molecular clouds apart in NGC 524
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Traficante A
(2020)
Multiscale dynamics in star-forming regions: the interplay between gravity and turbulence
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Chawner H
(2020)
A Galactic dust devil: far-infrared observations of the Tornado supernova remnant candidate
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bakx T
(2020)
IRAM 30-m-EMIR redshift search of z = 3-4 lensed dusty starbursts selected from the HerBS sample
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Chawner H
(2020)
A complete catalogue of dusty supernova remnants in the Galactic plane
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lamperti I
(2019)
JINGLE V: Dust properties of nearby galaxies derived from hierarchical Bayesian SED fitting
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Priestley F
(2020)
Dust masses and grain size distributions of a sample of Galactic pulsar wind nebulae
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Chawner H
(2020)
A complete catalogue of dusty supernova remnants in the Galactic plane
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zhang H
(2025)
WISDOM Project - XXII. A 5 per cent precision CO-dynamical supermassive black hole mass measurement in the galaxy NGC 383
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Eden D
(2020)
CHIMPS2: survey description and 12CO emission in the Galactic Centre
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
| 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 |