Extragalactic Astronomy at Durham 2008-2013
Lead Research Organisation:
Durham University
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
Over recent years observational astronomers at Durham have been at the forefront of many major advances in the study of galaxies and cosmology. We have a publication and citation record which we believe speaks for itself (see proposal introduction). Durham astronomers currently lead major international projects that exploit many of the the world's foremost ground and space observatories. We will capitalize on our proven track record in AGN studies, precision spectrophotometric analysis of stellar populations in nearby galaxies, multiwavelength studies of galaxy populations at high redshift and panoramic QSO and galaxy surveys, to answer open questions which lie at the core of modern astrophysics. In this proposal we present the case for support of a coherent and comprehensive programme that builds on our strengths and seizes new opportunities. Our programme addresses key questions in the STFC Roadmap, such as ``What are the laws of physics in extreme conditions?'', ``How do galaxies, stars and planets form and evolve?'' and ``What is the Universe made of and how does it evolve?''. This proposal is constructed around the four core themes of our research: Theme A: AGN: outflows from black holes their growth and environment Theme B: Galaxy evolution and archaeology and closely related to this; Theme C: feedback and the formation of galaxies Theme D: Survey cosmology, using galaxies and clusters as probes of large scale structure and evolution There is a well established deep rooted synergy between our work and the research of the ICC group, and the instrumentation group (CfAI).
Publications
Geach J
(2008)
HiZELS: a high-redshift survey of Ha emitters - I. The cosmic star formation rate and clustering at z = 2.23 ?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Clements D
(2008)
The SCUBA Half-Degree Extragalactic Survey (SHADES) - VIII. The nature of faint submillimetre galaxies in SHADES, SWIRE and SXDF surveys
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
McCarthy I
(2008)
Ram pressure stripping the hot gaseous haloes of galaxies in groups and clusters
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Aharonian F
(2008)
HESS upper limits for Kepler's supernova remnant
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Coppin K
(2008)
Testing the evolutionary link between submillimetre galaxies and quasars: CO observations of QSOs at z ~ 2
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Aharonian F
(2008)
Exploring a SNR/molecular cloud association within HESS J1745-303
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Middelberg E
(2008)
ERRATUM: "DEEP AUSTRALIA TELESCOPE LARGE AREA SURVEY RADIO OBSERVATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN LARGE AREA ISO SURVEY S1/ SPITZER WIDE-AREA INFRARED EXTRAGALACTIC FIELD" (2008, AJ, 135, 1276)
in The Astronomical Journal
Norris M
(2008)
Gemini/GMOS spectroscopy of the spheroid and globular cluster system of NGC 3923 The GC system and spheroid of NGC 3923
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Aharonian F
(2008)
Discovery of very-high-energy ? -ray emission from the vicinity of PSR J1913+1011 with HESS
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Pope Alexandra
(2008)
Mid-infrared spectral diagnosis of submillimeter galaxies
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Tian Lirong
(2008)
Origins of coronal energy and helicity in NOAA 10030
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Landt Hermine
(2008)
The near-infrared broad emission line region of active galactic nuclei. I. The observations
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES
Ivison R
(2008)
Interferometric imaging of the high-redshift radio galaxy, 4C 60.07: an SMA, Spitzer and VLA study reveals a binary AGN/starburst
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Coppin K
(2008)
The SCUBA HAlf Degree Extragalactic Survey - VI. 350-µm mapping of submillimetre galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mullaney J
(2008)
Optical emission-line properties of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies and comparison active galactic nuclei Emission line properties of NLS1 AGN
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zheng C
(2008)
FIRST-YEAR SPECTROSCOPY FOR THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY-II SUPERNOVA SURVEY
in The Astronomical Journal
Rauch Michael
(2008)
A population of faint extended line emitters and the host galaxies of optically thick QSO absorption systems
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Aharonian F.
(2008)
Search for gamma rays from dark matter annihilations around intermediate mass black holes with the HESS experiment
in PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Middelberg E
(2008)
DEEP AUSTRALIA TELESCOPE LARGE AREA SURVEY RADIO OBSERVATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN LARGE AREA ISO SURVEY S1/ SPITZER WIDE-AREA INFRARED EXTRAGALCTIC FIELD
in The Astronomical Journal
Wilman D. J.
(2008)
Unveiling the important role of groups in the evolution of massive galaxies: Insights from an infrared passive sequence at intermediate redshift
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Bower R
(2008)
The flip side of galaxy formation: a combined model of galaxy formation and cluster heating
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Liu Rui
(2008)
The effect of magnetic reconnection and writhing in a partial filament eruption
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Aharonian F
(2008)
Very high energy gamma-ray observations of the galaxy clusters Abell 496 and Abell 85 with HESS
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Swinbank A
(2008)
The properties of submm galaxies in hierarchical models
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
McCarthy I
(2008)
Towards a holistic view of the heating and cooling of the intracluster medium
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Font A
(2008)
The colours of satellite galaxies in groups and clusters The colours of satellite galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Croston J
(2008)
Galaxy-cluster gas-density distributions of the representative XMM-Newton cluster structure survey (REXCESS)
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Luo B.
(2008)
THE CHANDRA DEEP FIELD-SOUTH SURVEY: 2 Ms SOURCE CATALOGS
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES
Smith R
(2008)
A large population of recently quenched red-sequence dwarf galaxies in the outskirts of the Coma cluster
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Appourchaux T
(2008)
POLAR investigation of the Sun-POLARIS
in Experimental Astronomy
Gierlinski M
(2008)
A periodicity of approximately 1 hour in X-ray emission from the active galaxy RE J1034+396.
in Nature
Ibar E
(2008)
Exploring the infrared/radio correlation at high redshift
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Alexander D
(2008)
WEIGHING THE BLACK HOLES IN z ˜ 2 SUBMILLIMETER-EMITTING GALAXIES HOSTING ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI
in The Astronomical Journal
Hau G
(2008)
Is NGC 3108 transforming itself from an early- to late-type galaxy - an astronomical hermaphrodite?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Aharonian F
(2008)
Limits on an energy dependence of the speed of light from a flare of the active galaxy PKS 2155-304.
in Physical review letters
Aharonian F
(2008)
Energy spectrum of cosmic-ray electrons at TeV energies.
in Physical review letters
Frieman J
(2008)
THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY-II SUPERNOVA SURVEY: TECHNICAL SUMMARY
in The Astronomical Journal
Carter David
(2008)
The Hubble Space Telescope advanced camera for surveys coma cluster survey. I. Survey objectives and design
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES
Aharonian F
(2008)
Simultaneous HESS and Chandra observations of Sagitarius A$^{\star}$ during an X-ray flare
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Tacconi L. J.
(2008)
Submillimeter galaxies at z similar to 2: Evidence for major mergers and constraints on lifetimes, IMF, and CO-H-2 conversion factor
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Aharonian F
(2008)
Discovery of very high energy gamma-ray emission coincident with molecular clouds in the W 28 (G6.4-0.1) field
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Wake D
(2008)
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: evolution of the clustering of luminous red galaxies since z = 0.6
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Almeida C
(2008)
Luminous red galaxies in hierarchical cosmologies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Fine S
(2008)
Constraining the quasar population with the broad-line width distribution
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Alonso-Herrero Almudena
(2008)
The host galaxies and black holes of typical z similar to 0.5-1.4 AGNs
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Lira P
(2008)
An infrared study of the double nucleus in NGC 3256
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Okamoto T
(2008)
The impact of radio feedback from active galactic nuclei in cosmological simulations: formation of disc galaxies AGN feedback in cosmological simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Aharonian F
(2008)
Observations of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy by the HESS experiment and search for a dark matter signal
in Astroparticle Physics
Alexander D. M.
(2008)
RELIABLE IDENTIFICATION OF COMPTON-THICK QUASARS AT z approximate to 2: SPITZER MID-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY OF HDF-oMD49
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Pope Alexandra
(2008)
THE NATURE OF FAINT SPITZER-SELECTED DUST-OBSCURED GALAXIES
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
| Description | The programme funded by this grant produce a number of observational insights into fundamental features of galaxies, black holes and large-scale structure. To give just one example, using the newly-completed Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) we undertook the first survey of extreme starburst galaxies in the distant Universe, demonstrating that these galaxies are very likely to be the progenitors of the most massive galaxies seen today in the local Universe, but seen in an early and very active phase of formation. |
| Exploitation Route | Further academic research or through the development of new facilities (e.g. ELT and SKA) or observational programmes. |
| Sectors | Education |
| URL | http://www.astro.dur.ac.uk/Cosmology |
| Description | 6dFGS survey |
| Organisation | Australian Astronomical Observatory |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Data analysis and construction of the FP catalogue, i.e. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014MNRAS.443.1231C |
| Collaborator Contribution | Many other science contributions, e.g. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014MNRAS.444.3926J http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014MNRAS.445.2677S http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016MNRAS.455..386S |
| Impact | now focused on mostly exclusively on 6dF++, i.e. TAIPAN http://www.taipan-survey.org/ Map the southern cosmography with ~110 k redshifts. First detailed map of the southern hemisphere peculiar velocities. |
| Description | 6dFGS survey |
| Organisation | Australian National University (ANU) |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Data analysis and construction of the FP catalogue, i.e. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014MNRAS.443.1231C |
| Collaborator Contribution | Many other science contributions, e.g. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014MNRAS.444.3926J http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014MNRAS.445.2677S http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016MNRAS.455..386S |
| Impact | now focused on mostly exclusively on 6dF++, i.e. TAIPAN http://www.taipan-survey.org/ Map the southern cosmography with ~110 k redshifts. First detailed map of the southern hemisphere peculiar velocities. |
| Description | Wide field astronomical surveys |
| Organisation | University of Hawaii |
| Department | Institute for Astronomy |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Durham an offical partnet in the Pan-STARRS consortium, which operate a telescope in Hawaii. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They provide the telscope and operations support. |
| Impact | The principle output is research papers published in refereed journals. |
| Start Year | 2007 |
| Description | Seminars and invited talks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Paper Presentation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | All of the co-applicants on this grants have given numberous seminars and invited talks at universities and international meetings and conferences. These activities help to enhance the wider knowledge of our research, and foster new collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008,2009,2010,2011,2012 |