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
Cooke R
(2014)
PRECISION MEASURES OF THE PRIMORDIAL ABUNDANCE OF DEUTERIUM
in The Astrophysical Journal
Budzynski J
(2014)
The similarity of the stellar mass fractions of galaxy groups and clusters
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Boeche C
(2014)
Chemical gradients in the Milky Way from the RAVE data II. Giant stars
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mast D
(2014)
The effects of spatial resolution on integral field spectrograph surveys at different redshifts - The CALIFA perspective
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Koposov S
(2014)
Discovery of a cold stellar stream in the ATLAS DR1 data
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Ishibashi W
(2014)
Radio-mode feedback in local AGNs: dependence on the central black hole parameters
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Swinbank A
(2014)
An ALMA survey of sub-millimetre Galaxies in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South: the far-infrared properties of SMGs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Conrad C
(2014)
A RAVE investigation on Galactic open clusters I. Radial velocities and metallicities?
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Simpson C
(2014)
No excess of bright galaxies around the redshift 7.1 quasar ULAS J1120+0641
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Friel E
(2014)
Gaia -ESO Survey: Properties of the intermediate age open cluster NGC 4815
in Astronomy & Astrophysics