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
Venemans B
(2012)
DETECTION OF ATOMIC CARBON [C II] 158 µm AND DUST EMISSION FROM A z = 7.1 QUASAR HOST GALAXY
in The Astrophysical Journal
Veljanoski J
(2013)
Newly discovered globular clusters in NGC 147 and NGC 185 from PAndAS
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Veljanoski J
(2013)
KINEMATICS OF OUTER HALO GLOBULAR CLUSTERS IN M31
in The Astrophysical Journal
Veljanoski J
(2014)
The outer halo globular cluster system of M31 - II. Kinematics
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Vegetti S
(2012)
Gravitational detection of a low-mass dark satellite galaxy at cosmological distance.
in Nature
Vegetti S
(2014)
Inference of the cold dark matter substructure mass function at z = 0.2 using strong gravitational lenses
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Vasudevan R
(2010)
The power output of local obscured and unobscured AGN: crossing the absorption barrier with Swift / BAT and IRAS
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Van Wassenhove S
(2010)
Massive black holes lurking in Milky Way satellites Black holes in dwarfs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Van Leeuwen F
(2013)
The HIPPARCOS parallax for Polaris
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Van Leeuwen F
(2009)
Hipparcos, the New Reduction
in Space Science Reviews