Astrophysics at Oxford 2022 -2025
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Oxford
Department Name: Oxford Physics
Abstract
Astrophysics at Oxford spans three sub-departments and represents one of the largest research groups in the country with more than 125 researchers across all career stages. This consolidated grant proposal is for support across all of our areas of experimental and theoretical astrophysics.
We have a strong and diverse research portfolio. We are internationally recognised for our observational and theoretical work on cosmology, galaxy evolution, compact objects, astrophysical fluids and exoplanets. We furthermore develop world leading radio, sub-mm, optical and infrared instrumentation, providing new phase space that is ripe for scientific exploitation. We have invested in major international projects, which will deliver unprecedented datasets in the coming decade, including the European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), and the Vera Rubin Observatory. We are also home to Zooniverse, the world's largest citizen science platform.
With this consolidated grant proposal and the research it delivers, we aim to advance the frontiers of astrophysics in all of our research areas. A large part of this effort is focussed on maximising the harvest of the large projects we have invested in for over a decade, and the tools and techniques we develop for delivering this science will be of benefit to the entire national and global astrophysics community. Amongst our science goals we seek to better understand the very earliest phases of the universe via studies of the cosmic microwave background, to probe the secrets of galaxy formation on the scale of both individual galaxies and their overall cosmic population, to test models for the production, internal physics and propagation of relativistic jets from black holes, and to observe and understand the atmospheres of extrasolar planets, that may one day be found to be the home of extraterrestrial life.
We are committed to open, reproducible science, and to public engagement which relays our discoveries and insights back to those who pay for it. To this end we endeavour to make all our scientific methods transparent, and - where possible - to make our data products publicly available. Early career researchers trained at Oxford, funded by this project, will transfer their knowledge to other sectors of our national economy. Our flagship public engagement and outreach projects include Zooniverse as well as local projects as part of STFC's Wonder initiative, and these all build off the core research which is funded by this grant.
We have a strong and diverse research portfolio. We are internationally recognised for our observational and theoretical work on cosmology, galaxy evolution, compact objects, astrophysical fluids and exoplanets. We furthermore develop world leading radio, sub-mm, optical and infrared instrumentation, providing new phase space that is ripe for scientific exploitation. We have invested in major international projects, which will deliver unprecedented datasets in the coming decade, including the European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), and the Vera Rubin Observatory. We are also home to Zooniverse, the world's largest citizen science platform.
With this consolidated grant proposal and the research it delivers, we aim to advance the frontiers of astrophysics in all of our research areas. A large part of this effort is focussed on maximising the harvest of the large projects we have invested in for over a decade, and the tools and techniques we develop for delivering this science will be of benefit to the entire national and global astrophysics community. Amongst our science goals we seek to better understand the very earliest phases of the universe via studies of the cosmic microwave background, to probe the secrets of galaxy formation on the scale of both individual galaxies and their overall cosmic population, to test models for the production, internal physics and propagation of relativistic jets from black holes, and to observe and understand the atmospheres of extrasolar planets, that may one day be found to be the home of extraterrestrial life.
We are committed to open, reproducible science, and to public engagement which relays our discoveries and insights back to those who pay for it. To this end we endeavour to make all our scientific methods transparent, and - where possible - to make our data products publicly available. Early career researchers trained at Oxford, funded by this project, will transfer their knowledge to other sectors of our national economy. Our flagship public engagement and outreach projects include Zooniverse as well as local projects as part of STFC's Wonder initiative, and these all build off the core research which is funded by this grant.
Publications
Young L
(2022)
Erratum: "The Evolution of NGC 7465 as Revealed by Its Molecular Gas Properties" (2021, ApJ, 909, 98)
in The Astrophysical Journal
Wolz K.
(2023)
The Simons Observatory: pipeline comparison and validation for large-scale B-modes
in arXiv e-prints
Su Y
(2022)
The ALMaQUEST Survey. VIII. What Causes the Discrepancy in the Velocity between the CO and Ha Rotation Curves in Galaxies?
in The Astrophysical Journal
Schekochihin A
(2022)
MHD turbulence: a biased review
in Journal of Plasma Physics
Ruiz-Zapatero Jaime
(2023)
Analytical marginalisation over photometric redshift uncertainties in cosmic shear analyses
in arXiv e-prints
Ruiz-Zapatero J
(2022)
Impact of the Universe's expansion rate on constraints on modified growth of structure
in Physical Review D
Rodríguez Montero F
(2022)
Momentum deposition of supernovae with cosmic rays
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ramírez-Pérez C
(2022)
CoLoRe: fast cosmological realisations over large volumes with multiple tracers
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Ramos Almeida C
(2023)
Absence of nuclear polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emission from a compact starburst: The case of the type-2 quasar Mrk 477
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Prat J.
(2022)
The catalog-to-cosmology framework for weak lensing and galaxy clustering for LSST
in arXiv e-prints
Parisi J
(2022)
Three-dimensional inhomogeneity of electron-temperature-gradient turbulence in the edge of tokamak plasmas
in Nuclear Fusion
Oliveira Franco Felipe
(2022)
First measurement of projected phase correlations and large-scale structure constraints
in arXiv e-prints
Miniati F
(2022)
Learning transport processes with machine intelligence.
in Scientific reports
Meinecke J
(2022)
Strong suppression of heat conduction in a laboratory replica of galaxy-cluster turbulent plasmas.
in Science advances
Martin-Alvarez S
(2022)
Towards convergence of turbulent dynamo amplification in cosmological simulations of galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lu A
(2022)
WISDOM project - XI. Star formation efficiency in the bulge of the AGN-host Galaxy NGC 3169 with SITELLE and ALMA
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Li S
(2023)
KiDS-Legacy calibration: Unifying shear and redshift calibration with the SKiLLS multi-band image simulations
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Leonard C
(2023)
The N5K Challenge: Non-Limber Integration for LSST Cosmology
in The Open Journal of Astrophysics
Lamperti I
(2022)
Physics of ULIRGs with MUSE and ALMA: The PUMA project IV. No tight relation between cold molecular outflow rates and AGN luminosities
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Kerkeni B
(2022)
Probing computational methodologies in predicting mid-infrared spectra for large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Kawazura Y
(2022)
Energy partition between Alfvénic and compressive fluctuations in magnetorotational turbulence with near-azimuthal mean magnetic field
in Journal of Plasma Physics
Katz H
(2022)
The nature of high [O iii ]88 µ m/[C ii ]158 µm galaxies in the epoch of reionization: Low carbon abundance and a top-heavy IMF?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Katz H
(2022)
Mg ii in the JWST era: a probe of Lyman continuum escape?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Jego B
(2023)
Constraining the physics of star formation from CIB-cosmic shear cross-correlations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ivanov P
(2022)
Dimits transition in three-dimensional ion-temperature-gradient turbulence
in Journal of Plasma Physics
Hogan L
(2022)
Unveiling the main sequence to starburst transition region with a sample of intermediate redshift luminous infrared galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hadzhiyska Boryana
(2023)
Cosmology with 6 parameters in the Stage-IV era: efficient marginalisation over nuisance parameters
in arXiv e-prints
Grisdale K
(2022)
On the viability of determining galaxy properties from observations - I. Star formation rates and kinematics
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
García-García C
(2023)
Combining cosmic shear data with correlated photo-z uncertainties: constraints from DESY1 and HSC-DR1
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
García-García C
(2023)
Combining cosmic shear data with correlated photo-z uncertainties: constraints from DESY1 and HSC-DR1
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
García-Bernete I
(2022)
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Seyfert and star-forming galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
García-Bernete I
(2022)
A high angular resolution view of the PAH emission in Seyfert galaxies using JWST/MRS data
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
García-Bernete I
(2022)
Torus and polar dust dependence on active galactic nucleus properties
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
García-Bernete I
(2022)
A technique to select the most obscured galaxy nuclei
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Farrah D
(2022)
Molecular Gas Heating, Star Formation Rate Relations, and AGN Feedback in Infrared-Luminous Galaxy Mergers
in Universe
Ewart R
(2022)
Collisionless relaxation of a Lynden-Bell plasma
in Journal of Plasma Physics
Efstathiou A
(2022)
A new look at local ultraluminous infrared galaxies: the atlas and radiative transfer models of their complex physics
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Donnan F
(2023)
A detailed look at the most obscured galactic nuclei in the mid-infrared
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Donnan F
(2023)
The obscured nucleus and shocked environment of VV 114E revealed by JWST /MIRI spectroscopy
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Desmond H
(2023)
On the functional form of the radial acceleration relation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Christen N
(2022)
Bistable turbulence in strongly magnetised plasmas with a sheared mean flow
in Journal of Plasma Physics
Bott A
(2022)
Insensitivity of a turbulent laser-plasma dynamo to initial conditions
in Matter and Radiation at Extremes
Bellocchi E
(2022)
Compact molecular gas emission in local LIRGs among low- and high- z galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Behjatian A
(2022)
Nonmonotonic Pair Potentials in the Interaction of Like-Charged Objects in Solution
in Langmuir
Bamber J
(2023)
Black hole merger simulations in wave dark matter environments
in Physical Review D
Azzoni Susanna
(2022)
A hybrid map-$C_\ell$ component separation method for primordial CMB $B$-mode searches
in arXiv e-prints
Aurrekoetxea J
(2022)
Where is the ringdown: Reconstructing quasinormal modes from dispersive waves
in Physical Review D
Adkins T
(2022)
Electromagnetic instabilities and plasma turbulence driven by electron-temperature gradient
in Journal of Plasma Physics