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
ZIPFEL J
(2011)
Bounce Rock-A shergottite-like basalt encountered at Meridiani Planum, Mars
in Meteoritics & Planetary Science
Tout C
(2011)
A common envelope binary star origin of long gamma-ray bursts LGRBs from common envelope evolution
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Maddox N
(2012)
The large area KX quasar catalogue - I. Analysis of the photometric redshift selection and the complete quasar catalogue The large area KX quasar catalogue
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Kordopatis G
(2013)
In the thick of it: metal-poor disc stars in RAVE
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hall A
(2012)
Probing the neutrino mass hierarchy with cosmic microwave background weak lensing Neutrino mass hierarchy
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Battaglia G
(2012)
A wide-area view of the Phoenix dwarf galaxy from Very Large Telescope/FORS imaging? Survey of the Phoenix transition type
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Eldridge J
(2011)
Runaway stars as progenitors of supernovae and gamma-ray bursts Runaway stars as progenitors of SNe and GRBs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
An J
(2012)
Mass estimators in the Gaia era Mass estimators in the Gaia era
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Watkins L
(2013)
A census of orbital properties of the M31 satellites
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Maschberger T
(2011)
Global mass segregation in hydrodynamical simulations of star formation Global mass segregation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Agnello A
(2014)
Dynamical models of elliptical galaxies - II. M87 and its globular clusters
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Becker G
(2011)
Detection of extended He ii reionization in the temperature evolution of the intergalactic medium? IGM temperatures over 2 < z < 5
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ural U
(2010)
Kinematic subpopulations in dwarf spheroidal galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Kennedy G
(2011)
Searching for Saturn's dust swarm: limits on the size distribution of irregular satellites from km to micron sizes Seeking Saturn's swarm
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Jarvis M
(2013)
The VISTA Deep Extragalactic Observations (VIDEO) survey?
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
Zoghbi A
(2012)
Relativistic iron K X-ray reverberation in NGC 4151 Iron K reverberation in NGC 4151
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Becker G
(2013)
A refined measurement of the mean transmitted flux in the Lya forest over 2 < z < 5 using composite quasar spectra
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gauza B
(2012)
A new L dwarf member of the moderately metal poor triple system HD 221356 A new L dwarf member of the HD 221356 system
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Efstathiou G
(2010)
Large-angle correlations in the cosmic microwave background Large-angle correlations of the CMB
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Stark D
(2013)
The CASSOWARY spectroscopy survey: a new sample of gravitationally lensed galaxies in SDSS
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Canning R
(2010)
Star formation in the outer filaments of NGC 1275 Star formation in NGC 1275
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Verbeek K
(2012)
A first catalogue of automatically selected ultraviolet-excess sources from the UVEX survey A first catalogue of UVEX UV-excess sources
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lodato G
(2011)
Resolution requirements for smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of self-gravitating accretion discs Resolving fragmentation in SPH simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Chapman S
(2013)
Dynamics in the satellite system of Triangulum: is And XXII a dwarf satellite of M33?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society