From the first galaxies to the Milky-Way
Lead Research Organisation:
Durham University
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
Most of the stars in massive galaxies we see in the local Universe formed 8-10 billion years ago, a time when the average star-formation rate within galaxies was a factor ~10x higher than seen today. This era has therefore been heralded as the "pinnacle" of galaxy formation and represents a time when the properties of local galaxies were defined. Contemporary models suggest that most of the star formation occurring within early galaxies result from major mergers of gas rich system, although the latest theories have instead suggested that most of the star-formation in early systems results from gas accretion from the cosmic web. The goal of this program is therefore to measure the physical processes occurring within the ISM of high-redshift galaxies in order test these competing theories by spatially resolving the internal star-formation and dynamics in a well selected, statistical sample of high-redshift galaxies.
Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
Ray Sharples (Primary Supervisor) | |
Steven Gillman (Student) |
Publications
Tiley Alfred L.
(2018)
The Shapes of the Rotation Curves of Star-forming Galaxies Over the Last $\approx$10 Gyr
in arXiv e-prints
Sweet S
(2019)
Angular momentum of z ~ 1.5 galaxies and their local analogues with adaptive optics
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mulroy S
(2017)
Galaxy cluster luminosities and colours, and their dependence on cluster mass and merger state
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Jauzac M
(2019)
The core of the massive cluster merger MACS J0417.5-1154 as seen by VLT/MUSE
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gillman S
(2020)
From peculiar morphologies to Hubble-type spirals: the relation between galaxy dynamics and morphology in star-forming galaxies at z ~ 1.5
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gillman S
(2019)
The dynamics and distribution of angular momentum in HiZELS star-forming galaxies at z = 0.8-3.3
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Studentship Projects
Project Reference | Relationship | Related To | Start | End | Student Name |
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ST/N50404X/1 | 01/10/2015 | 31/03/2021 | |||
1743134 | Studentship | ST/N50404X/1 | 01/10/2016 | 31/03/2020 | Steven Gillman |