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
Barnes L
(2010)
Faint extended Lya emission due to star formation at the centre of high column density QSO absorption systems Extended Lya emission from DLAs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rauch M
(2011)
Faint resonantly scattered Lya emission from the absorption troughs of damped Lya systems at z ? 3
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Beirão P
(2010)
Far-infrared line imaging of the starburst ring in NGC 1097 with the Herschel /PACS spectrometer
in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Million E
(2010)
Feedback under the microscope - I. Thermodynamic structure and AGN-driven shocks in M87 AGN feedback in M87
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Werner N
(2010)
Feedback under the microscope - II. Heating, gas uplift and mixing in the nearest cluster core AGN heating and gas uplift in M87
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Dubois Y
(2012)
Feeding compact bulges and supermassive black holes with low angular momentum cosmic gas at high redshift Feeding supermassive BHs with cosmic gas
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rauch M
(2011)
Filamentary infall of cold gas and escape of Lya and hydrogen ionizing radiation from an interacting high-redshift galaxy? Infall of gas and escape of radiation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Canning R
(2014)
Filamentary star formation in NGC 1275
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Abadie J
(2012)
First low-latency LIGO+Virgo search for binary inspirals and their electromagnetic counterparts
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Pierini D
(2012)
First simultaneous optical/near-infrared imaging of an X-ray selected, high-redshift cluster of galaxies with GROND The galaxy population of XMMU J0338.7 + 0030 at z = 1.1?
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Lodieu N
(2012)
First T dwarfs in the VISTA Hemisphere Survey
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Recio-Blanco A
(2012)
Fluorine abundances in dwarf stars of the solar neighbourhood
Recio-Blanco A
(2012)
Fluorine abundances in dwarf stars of the solar neighbourhood
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Gair J
(2011)
Forced motion near black holes
in Physical Review D
Hurley J
(2010)
Formation of binary millisecond pulsars by accretion-induced collapse of white dwarfs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Sheehan C
(2010)
Forming the first planetary systems: debris around Galactic thick disc stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Nefs S
(2012)
Four ultra-short-period eclipsing M-dwarf binaries in the WFCAM Transit Survey Eclipsing M-dwarf binaries in WTS
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bernardeau F
(2010)
Full-sky lensing shear at second order
in Physical Review D
Babak S
(2011)
Fundamental physics and cosmology with LISA
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Walker S
(2012)
Further X-ray observations of the galaxy cluster PKS 0745-191 to the virial radius and beyond PKS 0745-191 at the virial radius
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Damiani F
(2014)
Gaia -ESO Survey: Empirical classification of VLT/Giraffe stellar spectra in the wavelength range 6440-6810 Å in the ? Velorum cluster, and calibration of spectral indices
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Friel E
(2014)
Gaia -ESO Survey: Properties of the intermediate age open cluster NGC 4815
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Belokurov V
(2013)
Galactic Archaeology: The dwarfs that survived and perished
in New Astronomy Reviews
Binney J
(2014)
Galactic kinematics and dynamics from Radial Velocity Experiment stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Barnes L
(2011)
Galactic winds and extended Lya emission from the host galaxies of high column density quasi-stellar object absorption systems Galactic winds and extended Lya emission
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Walker S
(2012)
Galaxy cluster outskirts: a universal entropy profile for relaxed clusters? A universal entropy profile?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Romano-Díaz E
(2011)
GALAXY FORMATION IN HEAVILY OVERDENSE REGIONS AT z ~ 10: THE PREVALENCE OF DISKS IN MASSIVE HALOS
in The Astrophysical Journal
Trenti M
(2012)
GAMMA-RAY BURST HOST GALAXY SURVEYS AT REDSHIFT z ? 4: PROBES OF STAR FORMATION RATE AND COSMIC REIONIZATION
in The Astrophysical Journal
Bresolin F
(2012)
GAS METALLICITIES IN THE EXTENDED DISKS OF NGC 1512 AND NGC 3621. CHEMICAL SIGNATURES OF METAL MIXING OR ENRICHED GAS ACCRETION?
in The Astrophysical Journal
Rémy-Ruyer A
(2014)
Gas-to-dust mass ratios in local galaxies over a 2 dex metallicity range
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Maschberger T
(2011)
Global mass segregation in hydrodynamical simulations of star formation Global mass segregation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Greenhagen BT
(2010)
Global silicate mineralogy of the Moon from the Diviner lunar radiometer.
in Science (New York, N.Y.)
Nandra K
(2011)
GRAVITAS: general relativistic astrophysics via timing and spectroscopy
in Experimental Astronomy
Vegetti S
(2012)
Gravitational detection of a low-mass dark satellite galaxy at cosmological distance.
in Nature
Sijacki D
(2011)
Gravitational recoils of supermassive black holes in hydrodynamical simulations of gas-rich galaxies Recoils of black holes in gas-rich galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Berry C
(2010)
Gravitational wave energy spectrum of a parabolic encounter
in Physical Review D
Berti E
(2011)
Graviton mass bounds from space-based gravitational-wave observations of massive black hole populations
in Physical Review D
Afonso P
(2011)
GRB 050502B optical afterglow: a jet-break at high redshift
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Clemens C
(2011)
GRB 071028B, a burst behind large amounts of dust in an unabsorbed galaxy
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Nicuesa Guelbenzu A
(2011)
GRB 090426: Discovery of a jet break in a short burst afterglow
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Stanton JF
(2012)
Ground and low-lying excited states of propadienylidene (H2C=C=C:) obtained by negative ion photoelectron spectroscopy.
in The Journal of chemical physics
Mofiz U
(2011)
Growing electrostatic modes in the isothermal pair plasma of the pulsar magnetosphere
in Astrophysics and Space Science
Blagorodnova N
(2014)
gs-tec: the Gaia spectrophotometry transient events classifier
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Loh E
(2012)
H2 temperatures in the Crab Nebula H2 temperatures in the Crab Nebula
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hermanowicz M
(2013)
Ha to FUV ratios in resolved star-forming region populations of nearby spiral galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Williams A
(2014)
Hamiltonians of spherical Galaxies in action-angle coordinates
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Williams A
(2014)
Hamiltonians of spherical Galaxies in action-angle coordinates
Banerji M
(2012)
Heavily reddened quasars at z ~ 2 in the UKIDSS Large Area Survey: a transitional phase in AGN evolution Heavily reddened quasars at z ~ 2 in UKIDSS LAS
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Alaghband-Zadeh S
(2016)
Heavily reddened z ~ 2 Type 1 quasars - II. H a star formation constraints from SINFONI IFU observations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Dowell C
(2013)
HerMES: CANDIDATE HIGH-REDSHIFT GALAXIES DISCOVERED WITH HERSCHEL /SPIRE,
in The Astrophysical Journal