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
Vignali C
(2010)
Discovery of Compton-thick quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Alexander D
(2010)
Searching for evidence of energetic feedback in distant galaxies: a galaxy wide outflow in a z ˜ 2 ultraluminous infrared galaxy
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Coppin K
(2010)
Detection of molecular gas in a distant submillimetre galaxy at z= 4.76 with Australia Telescope Compact Array CO(2-1) in an SMG at z = 4.76
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Luo B
(2010)
IDENTIFICATIONS AND PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFTS OF THE 2 Ms CHANDRA DEEP FIELD-SOUTH SOURCES
in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Messias H
(2010)
A MULTI-WAVELENGTH APPROACH TO THE PROPERTIES OF EXTREMELY RED GALAXY POPULATIONS. I. CONTRIBUTION TO THE STAR FORMATION RATE DENSITY AND ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEUS CONTENT
in The Astrophysical Journal
Shone A
(2010)
The association between gas and galaxies - III. The cross-correlation of galaxies and Lya absorbers at
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ivison R
(2010)
BLAST: the far-infrared/radio correlation in distant galaxies Bolometric FIR/radio correlation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rawle T
(2010)
Deep Herschel view of obscured star formation in the Bullet cluster
in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Lehmer B
(2010)
A CHANDRA PERSPECTIVE ON GALAXY-WIDE X-RAY BINARY EMISSION AND ITS CORRELATION WITH STAR FORMATION RATE AND STELLAR MASS: NEW RESULTS FROM LUMINOUS INFRARED GALAXIES
in The Astrophysical Journal
Smith G
(2010)
LoCuSS: Probing galaxy transformation physics with Herschel
in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Ivison R
(2010)
Gas, dust and stars in the SCUBA galaxy, SMM J0136: the EVLA reveals a colossal galactic nursery
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Danielson A
(2010)
The properties of the interstellar medium within a star-forming galaxy at z= 2.3 The ISM in a z= 2.3 star-forming galaxy
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Xue Y
(2010)
COLOR-MAGNITUDE RELATIONS OF ACTIVE AND NON-ACTIVE GALAXIES IN THE CHANDRA DEEP FIELDS: HIGH-REDSHIFT CONSTRAINTS AND STELLAR-MASS SELECTION EFFECTS
in The Astrophysical Journal
Lutz D
(2010)
THE LABOCA SURVEY OF THE EXTENDED CHANDRA DEEP FIELD SOUTH: TWO MODES OF STAR FORMATION IN ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEUS HOSTS?
in The Astrophysical Journal
Russell H
(2010)
Chandra observation of two shock fronts in the merging galaxy cluster Abell 2146 The merging cluster Abell 2146
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Greve T
(2010)
A LABOCA SURVEY OF THE EXTENDED CHANDRA DEEP FIELD SOUTH-SUBMILLIMETER PROPERTIES OF NEAR-INFRARED SELECTED GALAXIES
in The Astrophysical Journal
Aharonian F
(2010)
Erratum to "Observations of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy by the HESS experiment and search for a dark matter signal" [Astropart. Phys. 29(1) (2008) 55-62]
in Astroparticle Physics
Rawle T
(2010)
Stellar population gradients in early-type cluster galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Sawangwit U
(2010)
Beam profile sensitivity of the WMAP CMB power spectrum WMAP beam sensitivity
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Raimundo S
(2010)
Radiation pressure, absorption and AGN feedback in the Chandra Deep Fields Absorption in the Chandra Deep Fields
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Merluzzi P
(2010)
ACCESS: NIR luminosity function and stellar mass function of galaxies in the Shapley supercluster environment
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gilbank D
(2010)
The local star formation rate density: assessing calibrations using [O ii], H and UV luminosities Stripe 82 SFRDs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bielby R
(2010)
Photometric selection of emission-line galaxies, clustering analysis and a search for the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Pope E
(2010)
Mass transport by buoyant bubbles in galaxy clusters Mass transport by buoyant bubbles
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hammer D
(2010)
THE HST /ACS COMA CLUSTER SURVEY. II. DATA DESCRIPTION AND SOURCE CATALOGS
in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Swinbank A
(2010)
A Hubble Space Telescope NICMOS and ACS morphological study of z ~ 2 submillimetre galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Edge A
(2010)
Herschel photometry of brightest cluster galaxies in cooling flow clusters
in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Yoshikawa T
(2010)
MOIRCS DEEP SURVEY. VI. NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY OF K -SELECTED STAR-FORMING GALAXIES AT z ~ 2
in The Astrophysical Journal
Shao L
(2010)
Star formation in AGN hosts in GOODS-N
in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Aharonian F
(2010)
Discovery of VHE ? -rays from the BL Lacertae object PKS 0548-322
in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Acero F
(2010)
First detection of VHE ? -rays from SN 1006 by HESS
in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Garn T
(2010)
Obscured star formation at z = 0.84 with HiZELS: the relationship between star formation rate and Ha or ultraviolet dust extinction
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Weijmans A
(2010)
Dissecting the Lyman a emission halo of LAB1
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Sawangwit U
(2010)
Cross-correlating WMAP 5 with 1.5 million LRGs: a new test for the ISW effect
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Coppin K
(2010)
MID-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY OF CANDIDATE ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI-DOMINATED SUBMILLIMETER GALAXIES
in The Astrophysical Journal
Goulding A
(2010)
Towards a complete census of active galactic nuclei in nearby galaxies: the incidence of growing black holes The incidence of growing black holes
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Richard J
(2010)
Abell 370 revisited: refurbished Hubble imaging of the first strong lensing cluster
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Dariush A
(2010)
The mass assembly of galaxy groups and the evolution of the magnitude gap
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Muxlow T
(2010)
Discovery of an unusual new radio source in the star-forming galaxy M82: faint supernova, supermassive black hole or an extragalactic microquasar?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Sobral D
(2010)
The clustering and evolution of Ha emitters at z ~ 1 from HiZELS
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Crighton N
(2010)
Galaxies at a redshift of ~0.5 around three closely spaced quasar sightlines
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Atrio-Barandela F
(2010)
THE ERROR BUDGET OF THE DARK FLOW MEASUREMENT
in The Astrophysical Journal
Lu T
(2010)
Large-scale structure and dynamics of the most X-ray luminous galaxy cluster known - RX J1347-1145
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gilbank D
(2011)
Erratum: The local star formation rate density: assessing calibrations using [O ii], Ha and UV luminosities Erratum
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Benson A
(2011)
Accretion shocks and cold filaments in galaxy formation Accretion shocks and cold filaments
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Peng E
(2011)
THE HST /ACS COMA CLUSTER SURVEY. IV. INTERGALACTIC GLOBULAR CLUSTERS AND THE MASSIVE GLOBULAR CLUSTER SYSTEM AT THE CORE OF THE COMA GALAXY CLUSTER
in The Astrophysical Journal
Price J
(2011)
The stellar populations of bright coma cluster galaxies Stellar populations of bright Coma galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Abramowski A
(2011)
H.E.S.S. constraints on dark matter annihilations towards the sculptor and carina dwarf galaxies
in Astroparticle Physics
Kim J
(2011)
Clustering properties of high-redshift red galaxies in SA22 from the UKIDSS Deep eXtragalactic Survey Clustering of EROs and DRGs in UKIDSS DXS SA22
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Sobral D
(2011)
The dependence of star formation activity on environment and stellar mass at z~ 1 from the HiZELS-Ha survey? Star formation, environment & mass at z~1
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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 |