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
Blagorodnova N
(2014)
gs-tec: the Gaia spectrophotometry transient events classifier
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
James B
(2014)
INVESTIGATING NEARBY STAR-FORMING GALAXIES IN THE ULTRAVIOLET WITH HST /COS SPECTROSCOPY. I. SPECTRAL ANALYSIS AND INTERSTELLAR ABUNDANCE DETERMINATIONS
in The Astrophysical Journal
Peñarrubia J
(2014)
A dynamical model of the local cosmic expansion
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
Kirkpatrick A
(2014)
UNTANGLING THE NATURE OF SPATIAL VARIATIONS OF COLD DUST PROPERTIES IN STAR FORMING GALAXIES
in The Astrophysical Journal
Bowden A
(2014)
ON ASYMMETRIC DISTRIBUTIONS OF SATELLITE GALAXIES
in The Astrophysical Journal
Clements D
(2014)
Herschel Multitiered Extragalactic Survey: clusters of dusty galaxies uncovered by Herschel? and Planck†
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Simion I
(2014)
Strong RR Lyrae excess in the Hercules-Aquila Cloud
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Evans N
(2014)
Extremely flat haloes and the shape of the galaxy
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Minchev I
(2014)
A NEW STELLAR CHEMO-KINEMATIC RELATION REVEALS THE MERGER HISTORY OF THE MILKY WAY DISK
in The Astrophysical Journal