A Programme of Technology, Astrophysics and Cosmology in Cardiff 2019-22
Lead Research Organisation:
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
Department Name: School of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
We propose a programme of Astrophysics, Cosmology and Technology development for Astrophysics and Cosmology, to investigate star and planet formation in our own and other galaxies, how galaxies form and evolve and the signals from the very early Universe embedded in the polarisation properties of the Cosmic Microwave background. This programme will combine observational data from world-class ground and space-based observatories, as well as theoretical modelling and simulations of the processes that result in the Universe we observe around us. We will also continue to develop the world's most sensitive detectors for very long infrared wavelengths, along with associated optical components utilising 'metamaterials' the class of materials designed and manufactured by human beings to have the properties best suited to their task, rather than relying on naturally occurring minerals and plastics. Both of these areas of technology development potentially have wide applications outside of Astronomy, in areas such as security scanners and bio-medical imaging for example.
Planned Impact
The technology programme proposed here will have extensive impact outside of astronomy. Firstly in other academic subject areas such as Earth-observing where the technology is used to look downwards or sideways through the atmosphere rather than upwards, but also in bio-medical imaging, where the Far-infrared wavelength range has many spectral features, and is currently being used in collaboration with the School of Optometry in Cardiff to assess corneal damage, for example. Secondly we also plan to exploit the technology commercially, through the spinout company QMCI (www.terahertz.co.uk) which operates from within the School, with broad applications from fast plasma diagnostic systems in use in Fusion experiments, through laboratory spectroscopy across a wide range of chemistry and materials applications, and the new spinout Sequestym, for security cameras. We also plan a very strong Outreach programme across both the technology developments and the observational and theoretical astrophysics and cosmology programme, following on from the skills developed during the very successful Herschel/Planck outreach programme, with web-based and standard media information releases, but also tied in with Open days, school visits, and going out into schools and colleges to give presentations and host workshops
Organisations
Publications
Pisano Giampaolo
(2020)
Development of Flat Silicon-Based Mesh Lens Arrays for Millimeter and Sub-millimeter Wave Astronomy
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Priestley F
(2023)
Differences in chemical evolution between isolated and embedded prestellar cores
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Suri S
(2021)
Disk fragmentation in high-mass star formation High-resolution observations towards AFGL 2591-VLA 3
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Eales S
(2020)
Do bulges stop stars forming?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Priestley F
(2023)
Do simulated molecular clouds look like real ones?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Young L
(2022)
Down but Not Out: Properties of the Molecular Gas in the Stripped Virgo Cluster Early-type Galaxy NGC 4526
in The Astrophysical Journal
Dunne L
(2021)
Dust continuum, CO, and [C i ] 1 - 0 lines: self-consistent H2 mass estimates and the possibility of globally CO-'dark' galaxies at z = 0.35
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ejlali G
(2022)
Dust Emission in Galaxies at Millimeter Wavelengths: Cooling of star forming regions in NGC6946
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Bevan A.
(2019)
Dust formation in Type IIn SNe
in Supernova Remnants: An Odyssey in Space after Stellar Death II
Matsuura Mikako
(2019)
Dust in supernovae: - Do supernovae produce the first dust in the Universe? Are supernovae the key dust producers of galaxies?
in Astro2020: Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics
Priestley F
(2020)
Dust masses and grain size distributions of a sample of Galactic pulsar wind nebulae
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Niculescu-Duvaz M
(2022)
Dust masses for a large sample of core-collapse supernovae from optical emission line asymmetries: dust formation on 30-year time-scales
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Arzoumanian D
(2021)
Dust polarized emission observations of NGC 6334 BISTRO reveals the details of the complex but organized magnetic field structure of the high-mass star-forming hub-filament network
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Matrà L
(2020)
Dust Populations in the Iconic Vega Planetary System Resolved by ALMA
in The Astrophysical Journal
Kirchschlager F
(2019)
Dust survival rates in clumps passing through the Cas A reverse shock - I. Results for a range of clump densities
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Chawner H.
(2019)
Dusty SNRs in our Galactic Plane
in Supernova Remnants: An Odyssey in Space after Stellar Death II
Beuther H
(2020)
Dynamical cloud formation traced by atomic and molecular gas
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
De Zotti Gianfranco
(2019)
Early evolution of galaxies and of large-scale structure from CMB experiments
in Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
Montaña A
(2021)
Early science with the Large Millimeter Telescope: a 1.1 mm AzTEC survey of red- Herschel dusty star-forming galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Young L
(2022)
Erratum: "The Evolution of NGC 7465 as Revealed by Its Molecular Gas Properties" (2021, ApJ, 909, 98)
in The Astrophysical Journal
Zabel N
(2023)
Erratum: "VERTICO II: How H i-identified Environmental Mechanisms Affect the Molecular Gas in Cluster Galaxies" (2022, ApJ, 933, 10)
in The Astrophysical Journal
Paiella A
(2019)
Erratum: Kinetic inductance detectors for the OLIMPO experiment: design and pre-flight characterization
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Priestley F
(2019)
Erratum: Modelling the ArH+ emission from the Crab Nebula
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Yang C
(2020)
Erratum: The Herschel Bright Sources (HerBS): sample definition and SCUBA-2 observations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society