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
Page M
(2014)
X-rays from the redshift 7.1 quasar ULAS J1120+0641
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Kostrzewa-Rutkowska Z
(2014)
The evolution of late-type galaxies from CASSOWARY lensing systems
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Banerji M
(2014)
ULASJ1234+0907: the reddest type 1 quasar at z = 2.5 revealed in the X-ray and far-infrared?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Cook D
(2014)
Spitzer Local Volume Legacy (LVL) SEDs and physical properties
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
Belokurov V
(2014)
ATLAS lifts the Cup: discovery of a new Milky Way satellite in Crater
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Veras D
(2014)
The great escape - III. Placing post-main-sequence evolution of planetary and binary systems in a Galactic context
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Agnello A
(2014)
Dynamical models of elliptical galaxies - I. Simple methods
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Munari U
(2014)
APASS LANDOLT-SLOAN BVgri PHOTOMETRY OF RAVE STARS. I. DATA, EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURES, AND REDDENINGS
in The Astronomical Journal
Nierenberg A
(2014)
Detection of substructure with adaptive optics integral field spectroscopy of the gravitational lens B1422+231
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society