Galaxy formation and evolution 2010 - 2015
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department Name: Institute of Astronomy
Abstract
TThis programmatic five-year rolling grant application addresses one of the most important problems in extragalactic astronomy, the formation and evolution of galaxies. The task is one of the key goals in the current STFC Road Map and is a defining objective of virtually every national decadal survey world-wide. 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.
Publications
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Search for a dark matter candidate produced in association with a single top quark in pp collisions at v[s]=1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Search for anomalous production of multiple leptons in association with W and Z bosons at CDF
in Physical Review D
Aaltonen T
(2012)
Search for dark matter in events with one jet and missing transverse energy in pp¯ collisions at vs=1.96 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aasi J
(2013)
Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown in LIGO-Virgo data from 2009-2010
in Physical Review D
Aasi J
(2013)
Einstein@Home all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S5 data
in Physical Review D
Aasi J
(2012)
The characterization of Virgo data and its impact on gravitational-wave searches
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Abadie J
(2012)
First low-latency LIGO+Virgo search for binary inspirals and their electromagnetic counterparts
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Abadie J
(2012)
Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes
in Physical Review D
Abadie J
(2012)
SEARCH FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES ASSOCIATED WITH GAMMA-RAY BURSTS DURING LIGO SCIENCE RUN 6 AND VIRGO SCIENCE RUNS 2 AND 3
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abadie J
(2012)
Upper limits on a stochastic gravitational-wave background using LIGO and Virgo interferometers at 600-1000 Hz
in Physical Review D