Cardiff PATT Rolling Grant

Lead Research Organisation: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
Department Name: School of Physics and Astronomy

Abstract

The astronomers at Cardiff University are involved in many innovative world-class research programmes. These involve the use of both STFC and international ground-based telescope facilities. These include JCMT, UKIRT, (e)MERLIN, INT, GMRT, VLA, Arecibo and Kitt Peak. We have been active in observations across the electro-magnetic spectrum from the visible to the radio. In particular we have participated in several large-scale surveys, including the radio AGES survey, the infra-red UKIDSS survey, and the JCMT HARP Gould Belt Survey. Over the next 2 years we anticipate the advent of the new SCUBA2 camera on JCMT. Several of our members of staff are heavily involved in many of the different legacy surveys using SCUBA2. Therefore our telescope usage will inevitably increase over the period of the next rolling grant, as we are called upon to fulfill our part of the telescope staffing for the surveys. We note that we have not used our entire quota for the last rolling grant period. Therefore, in the light of our expected increase in telescope usage, we request level funding for the next 2 years.

Publications

10 25 50
 
Description Many observations were made at many telescopes.
Exploitation Route Publications resulted from all observing runs.
Sectors Education

 
Description All observations were published in international journals and disseminated through public lectures.
First Year Of Impact 2004
Sector Education
Impact Types Cultural

 
Description JCMT Gould Belt Survey 
Organisation Joint Astronomy Centre
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution We reduced and analysed data from the JCMT SCUBA2 Gould Belt Survey
Collaborator Contribution JCMT provided the data.
Impact See all outputs related to JCMT data.