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
Priestley F
(2023)
Line emission from filaments in molecular clouds
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
Whitworth A
(2021)
A systematic bias in fitting the surface-density profiles of interstellar filaments
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
Priestley F
(2021)
Revisiting the dust destruction efficiency of supernovae
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ruffa I
(2020)
The AGN fuelling/feedback cycle in nearby radio galaxies - III. 3D relative orientations of radio jets and CO discs and their interaction
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Li Z
(2020)
The HASHTAG project I. A survey of CO(3-2) emission from the star forming disc of M31
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
Priestley F
(2021)
The efficiency of grain growth in the diffuse interstellar medium
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Eales S
(2020)
Do bulges stop stars forming?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Jones G
(2023)
On the density regime probed by HCN emission
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Eden D
(2021)
Characteristic scale of star formation - I. Clump formation efficiency on local scales
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
Rohde P
(2021)
The impact of episodic outflow feedback on stellar multiplicity and the star formation efficiency
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Dye S
(2022)
A high-resolution investigation of the multiphase ISM in a galaxy during the first two billion years
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
Urquhart J
(2021)
SEDIGISM-ATLASGAL: dense gas fraction and star formation efficiency across the Galactic disc
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Toba Y
(2020)
S2COSMOS: Evolution of gas mass with redshift using dust emission
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zabel N
(2021)
AlFoCS + F3D - II. Unexpectedly low gas-to-dust ratios in the Fornax galaxy cluster
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Faustino Vieira H
(2024)
Molecular clouds in M51 from high-resolution extinction mapping
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Elford J
(2024)
WISDOM Project - XVI. The link between circumnuclear molecular gas reservoirs and active galactic nucleus fuelling
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Li Z
(2020)
The HASHTAG project I. A survey of CO(3-2) emission from the star forming disc of M31
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Peretto N
(2023)
Star cluster progenitors are dynamically decoupled from their parent molecular clouds
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
Smith M
(2021)
WISDOM project - VI. Exploring the relation between supermassive black hole mass and galaxy rotation with molecular gas
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Dunne L
(2020)
Overdensity of SMGs in fields containing z ~ 0.3 galaxies: magnification bias and the implications for studies of galaxy evolution
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
Ruffa I
(2022)
The AGN fuelling/feedback cycle in nearby radio galaxies - IV. Molecular gas conditions and jet-ISM interaction in NGC 3100
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Davis T
(2022)
WISDOM Project - X. The morphology of the molecular ISM in galaxy centres and its dependence on galaxy structure
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Simpson J
(2020)
An ALMA survey of the brightest sub-millimetre sources in the SCUBA-2-COSMOS field
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bevan A
(2019)
A decade of ejecta dust formation in the Type IIn SN 2005ip
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Duarte-Cabral A
(2021)
The SEDIGISM survey: molecular clouds in the inner Galaxy
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Clarke S
(2022)
RJ-plots: An improved method to classify structures objectively
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
Kirchschlager F
(2024)
From total destruction to complete survival: dust processing at different evolutionary stages in the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Priestley F. D.
(2020)
The apparent anti-correlation between the mass opacity of interstellar dust and the surface-density of interstellar gas
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Priestley F
(2020)
Synthetic line and continuum observations of simulated turbulent clouds: the apparent widths of filaments
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rigby A
(2024)
The dynamic centres of infrared-dark clouds and the formation of cores
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Faustino Vieira H
(2023)
A high-resolution extinction mapping technique for face-on disc galaxies
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
Priestley F
(2022)
The initial magnetic criticality of pre-stellar cores
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Olofsson G
(2020)
Atacama Compact Array observations of the pulsar-wind nebula of SNR 0540-69.3
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Urquhart S
(2022)
The bright extragalactic ALMA redshift survey (BEARS) I: redshifts of bright gravitationally lensed galaxies from the Herschel ATLAS
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
Niculescu-Duvaz M
(2022)
Dust masses for a large sample of core-collapse supernovae from optical emission line asymmetries: dust formation on 30-year time-scales
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Schisano E
(2020)
The Hi-GAL catalogue of dusty filamentary structures in the Galactic plane
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Schisano E
(2020)
The Hi-GAL catalogue of dusty filamentary structures in the Galactic plane
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 |