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.
Organisations
Publications
Gair J
(2010)
Exploring intermediate and massive black-hole binaries with the Einstein Telescope
in General Relativity and Gravitation
Hurley J
(2010)
Formation of binary millisecond pulsars by accretion-induced collapse of white dwarfs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ponti G
(2010)
Relativistic disc reflection in the extreme NLS1 IRAS13224-3809 Relativistic reflection in IRAS13224-3809
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Treu T
(2010)
THE INITIAL MASS FUNCTION OF EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES
in The Astrophysical Journal
Sheehan C
(2010)
Forming the first planetary systems: debris around Galactic thick disc stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Martin R
(2010)
Supernova kicks and misaligned microquasars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Werk J
(2010)
OUTLYING H II REGIONS IN H I-SELECTED GALAXIES
in The Astronomical Journal
Collins M
(2010)
A Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopic survey of the faint M31 satellites And IX, And XI, And XII and And XIII?† The faint dSphs of M31
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Potter A
(2010)
Magnetic field evolution of white dwarfs in strongly interacting binary star systems
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hebb L
(2010)
MML 53: a new low-mass, pre-main sequence eclipsing binary in the Upper Centaurus-Lupus region discovered by SuperWASP
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Haehnelt M
(2010)
Probing dark matter, galaxies and the expansion history of the Universe with Ly a in absorption and emission
in Astronomische Nachrichten
Rosales-Ortega F
(2010)
PINGS: the PPAK IFS Nearby Galaxies Survey
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Suyu S
(2010)
DISSECTING THE GRAVITATIONAL LENS B1608+656. II. PRECISION MEASUREMENTS OF THE HUBBLE CONSTANT, SPATIAL CURVATURE, AND THE DARK ENERGY EQUATION OF STATE
in The Astrophysical Journal
Reddy N
(2010)
DUST OBSCURATION AND METALLICITY AT HIGH REDSHIFT: NEW INFERENCES FROM UV, Ha, AND 8 µm OBSERVATIONS OF z ~ 2 STAR-FORMING GALAXIES
in The Astrophysical Journal
Norris J
(2010)
CHEMICAL ENRICHMENT IN THE FAINTEST GALAXIES: THE CARBON AND IRON ABUNDANCE SPREADS IN THE BOÖTES I DWARF SPHEROIDAL GALAXY AND THE SEGUE 1 SYSTEM
in The Astrophysical Journal
Ercolano B
(2011)
The clearing of discs around late-type T Tauri stars: constraints from the infrared two-colour plane Disc clearing in M stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Russell H
(2011)
A merger mystery: no extended radio emission in the merging cluster Abell 2146 The merging cluster Abell 2146
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Luo B
(2011)
REVEALING A POPULATION OF HEAVILY OBSCURED ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI AT z ˜ 0.5-1 IN THE CHANDRA DEEP FIELD-SOUTH
in The Astrophysical Journal
Zimmerman N
(2011)
A Data-Cube Extraction Pipeline for a Coronagraphic Integral Field Spectrograph
in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Warren S
(2011)
THE FORMATION OF KILOPARSEC-SCALE H I HOLES IN DWARF GALAXIES
in The Astrophysical Journal
Babak S
(2011)
Fundamental physics and cosmology with LISA
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
An J
(2011)
Modified virial formulae and the theory of mass estimators Tracer mass estimators
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Kennicutt Robert
(2011)
Allan Rex Sandage (
1926-
2010) OBITUARY
in OBSERVATORY
Sesana A
(2011)
Reconstructing the massive black hole cosmic history through gravitational waves
in Physical Review D
González-Solares E
(2011)
Wide-field optical imaging on ELAIS N1, ELAIS N2, First Look Survey and Lockman Hole: observations and source catalogues Wide-field optical imaging
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society