Galaxy formation and evolution
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department Name: Institute of Astronomy
Abstract
This programmatic five-year rolling grant application addresses one of the most important problems in extragalactic astronomy, the formation and evolution of galaxies, one of the ``big questions'' in the current PPARC Road Map, and is a defining objective of virtually every national decadal survey of astronomy. 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
Zych B
(2009)
Dust depletion, chemical uniformity and environment of Ca ii H&K quasar absorbers
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zych B
(2007)
The host galaxies of strong Ca II quasar absorption systems at z < 0.5
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zwitter T
(2008)
THE RADIAL VELOCITY EXPERIMENT (RAVE): SECOND DATA RELEASE
in The Astronomical Journal
Zwaan M
(2008)
ARE THE KINEMATICS OF DLAs IN AGREEMENT WITH THEIR ARISING IN THE GAS DISKS OF GALAXIES?
in The Astronomical Journal
Zucker D
(2007)
Andromeda X, a New Dwarf Spheroidal Satellite of M31: Photometry
in The Astrophysical Journal
York B
(2007)
Discovery of 21-cm absorption in a zabs = 2.289 damped Lyman system towards TXS 0311+430: the first low spin temperature absorber at z > 1
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Yanny B
(2009)
SEGUE: A SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY OF 240,000 STARS WITH g = 14-20
in The Astronomical Journal
Xue X
(2008)
The Milky Way's Circular Velocity Curve to 60 kpc and an Estimate of the Dark Matter Halo Mass from the Kinematics of ~2400 SDSS Blue Horizontal-Branch Stars
in The Astrophysical Journal
Wyrzykowski L
(2009)
The OGLE view of microlensing towards the Magellanic Clouds - I. A trickle of events in the OGLE-II LMC data
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Werner M
(2008)
On multiple Einstein rings
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Werk J. K.
(2008)
Isolated OB associations in stripped HI gas clouds
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Weiß A
(2009)
THE LARGE APEX BOLOMETER CAMERA SURVEY OF THE EXTENDED CHANDRA DEEP FIELD SOUTH
in The Astrophysical Journal
Watson M. G.
(2009)
The XMM-Newton serendipitous survey V. The Second XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue
in ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Watkins L
(2009)
Substructure revealed by RR Lyraes in SDSS Stripe 82
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Warren S
(2007)
A very cool brown dwarf in UKIDSS DR1
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Walker M
(2008)
Systemic Proper Motions of Milky Way Satellites from Stellar Redshifts: The Carina, Fornax, Sculptor, and Sextans Dwarf Spheroidals
in The Astrophysical Journal
Walker M
(2009)
CLEAN KINEMATIC SAMPLES IN DWARF SPHEROIDALS: AN ALGORITHM FOR EVALUATING MEMBERSHIP AND ESTIMATING DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERS WHEN CONTAMINATION IS PRESENT
in The Astronomical Journal
Walker M
(2009)
STELLAR VELOCITIES IN THE CARINA, FORNAX, SCULPTOR, AND SEXTANS dSph GALAXIES: DATA FROM THE MAGELLAN/MMFS SURVEY
in The Astronomical Journal
Walker M
(2009)
A UNIVERSAL MASS PROFILE FOR DWARF SPHEROIDAL GALAXIES?
in The Astrophysical Journal
Walker M
(2009)
LEO V: SPECTROSCOPY OF A DISTANT AND DISTURBED SATELLITE
in The Astrophysical Journal
Vidrih S
(2007)
New ultracool and halo white dwarf candidates in SDSS Stripe 82
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Verrier P
(2007)
Planetary stability zones in hierarchical triple star systems
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Verrier P
(2009)
High-inclination planets and asteroids in multistellar systems
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Verrier P
(2008)
HD 98800: a most unusual debris disc
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Veltz L.
(2008)
Galactic kinematics with RAVE data -: I.: The distribution of stars towards the Galactic poles
in ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Ural U
(2010)
Kinematic subpopulations in dwarf spheroidal galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Trujillo I
(2009)
UNVEILING THE NATURE OF M94's (NGC4736) OUTER REGION: A PANCHROMATIC PERSPECTIVE
in The Astrophysical Journal
Takagi T
(2007)
The SCUBA HAlf Degree Extragalactic Survey (SHADES) - V. Submillimetre properties of near-infrared-selected galaxies in the Subaru/XMM-Newton deep field Submm properties of NIR-selected galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Tacconi L
(2008)
Submillimeter Galaxies at z ~ 2: Evidence for Major Mergers and Constraints on Lifetimes, IMF, and CO-H 2 Conversion Factor
in The Astrophysical Journal
Swinbank A
(2008)
The properties of submm galaxies in hierarchical models
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Strigari LE
(2008)
A common mass scale for satellite galaxies of the Milky Way.
in Nature
Smolcic V
(2007)
Improved Photometry of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Crowded-Field Images: Structure and Dark Matter Content in the Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy Leo I
in The Astronomical Journal
Smith M
(2007)
Blending in gravitational microlensing experiments: source confusion and related systematics
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Smith M
(2009)
Kinematics of SDSS subdwarfs: structure and substructure of the Milky Way halo
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Smith M
(2009)
THE TILT OF THE HALO VELOCITY ELLIPSOID AND THE SHAPE OF THE MILKY WAY HALO
in The Astrophysical Journal
Smith M
(2007)
The RAVE survey: constraining the local Galactic escape speed
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Siebert A
(2008)
Estimation of the tilt of the stellar velocity ellipsoid from RAVE and implications for mass models
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Shin E
(2008)
Lensing by binary galaxies modelled as isothermal spheres
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Shin E
(2008)
The effect of satellite galaxies on gravitational lensing flux ratios
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Serjeant S
(2008)
The SCUBA Half Degree Extragalactic Survey (SHADES) - IX. The environment, mass and redshift dependence of star formation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Sen B
(2009)
Streaming motion in Leo I
in The Annals of Applied Statistics
Seabroke G
(2007)
Revisiting the relations: Galactic thin disc age-velocity dispersion relation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Seabroke G
(2008)
Is the sky falling? Searching for stellar streams in the local Milky Way disc in the CORAVEL and RAVE surveys
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ryan-Weber E
(2008)
The Local Group dwarf Leo T: H i on the brink of star formation H i in Leo T
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ryan-Weber E
(2009)
A downturn in intergalactic C iv as redshift 6 is approached
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rix S
(2007)
The Sightline to Q2343-BX415: Clues to Galaxy Formation in a Quasar Environment
in The Astrophysical Journal
Richardson J
(2008)
THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF SUBSTRUCTURE IN THE OUTSKIRTS OF M31. I. SURVEYING THE STELLAR CONTENT WITH THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE ADVANCED CAMERA FOR SURVEYS
in The Astronomical Journal
Richardson J
(2009)
An HST /ACS view of the inhomogeneous outer halo of M31
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Reddy Naveen A.
(2008)
Multiwavelength constraints on the cosmic star formation history from spectroscopy:: The rest-frame ultraviolet, H
a, and infrared luminosity functions at redshifts 1.9 ? z ? 3.4
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES