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
Shimajiri Y
(2020)
The accretion history of high-mass stars: an ArTéMiS pilot study of infrared dark clouds
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gupta N
(2019)
Fractional polarization of extragalactic sources in the 500 deg2 SPTpol survey
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Cheng T
(2019)
SCUBA-2 observations of candidate starbursting protoclusters selected by Planck and Herschel-SPIRE
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Peretto N
(2023)
Star cluster progenitors are dynamically decoupled from their parent molecular clouds
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lu A
(2022)
WISDOM project - XI. Star formation efficiency in the bulge of the AGN-host Galaxy NGC 3169 with SITELLE and ALMA
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Inserra C
(2021)
The first Hubble diagram and cosmological constraints using superluminous supernovae
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bakx Tom J. L. C.
(2020)
A search for the lenses in the Herschel Bright Sources (HerBS) Sample
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Priestley F
(2023)
Line emission from filaments in molecular clouds
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Sarzi M
(2019)
WISDOM project - IV. A molecular gas dynamical measurement of the supermassive black hole mass in NGC 524
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Priestley F
(2021)
Revisiting the dust destruction efficiency of supernovae
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Dunne L
(2020)
Overdensity of SMGs in fields containing z ~ 0.3 galaxies: magnification bias and the implications for studies of galaxy evolution
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Eden D
(2021)
Characteristic scale of star formation - I. Clump formation efficiency on local scales
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
North E
(2019)
WISDOM project - V. Resolving molecular gas in Keplerian rotation around the supermassive black hole in NGC 0383
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Priestley F
(2020)
Synthetic line and continuum observations of simulated turbulent clouds: the apparent widths of filaments
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Wünsch R
(2021)
Tree-based solvers for adaptive mesh refinement code flash - II: radiation transport module TreeRay
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Anderson M
(2021)
An ALMA study of hub-filament systems - I. On the clump mass concentration within the most massive cores
in Monthly Notices of the Royal 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
Li X
(2020)
The MALATANG survey: dense gas and star formation from high-transition HCN and HCO+ maps of NGC 253
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
North E
(2021)
WISDOM project - VIII. Multiscale feedback cycles in the brightest cluster galaxy NGC 0708
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Smith M
(2021)
WISDOM project - VII. Molecular gas measurement of the supermassive black hole mass in the elliptical galaxy NGC 7052
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Schuller F
(2021)
The SEDIGISM survey: First Data Release and overview of the Galactic structure
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Onori F
(2022)
The nuclear transient AT 2017gge: a tidal disruption event in a dusty and gas-rich environment and the awakening of a dormant SMBH
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Choi W
(2023)
WISDOM Project - XV. Giant molecular clouds in the central region of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5806
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Perley D
(2021)
Real-time discovery of AT2020xnd: a fast, luminous ultraviolet transient with minimal radioactive ejecta
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Smith M
(2019)
JINGLE, a JCMT legacy survey of dust and gas for galaxy evolution studies: II. SCUBA-2 850 µm data reduction and dust flux density catalogues
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Athikkat-Eknath G
(2022)
Investigating variations in the dust emissivity index in the Andromeda Galaxy
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Wells M
(2022)
ATLASGAL - star forming efficiencies and the Galactic star formation rate
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Urquhart J
(2021)
SEDIGISM-ATLASGAL: dense gas fraction and star formation efficiency across the Galactic disc
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Whitworth A
(2021)
Ionizing feedback from an O star formed in a filament
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Howard A
(2019)
L1495 revisited: a ppmap view of a star-forming filament
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ruffa I
(2019)
The AGN fuelling/feedback cycle in nearby radio galaxies - II. Kinematics of the molecular gas
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Eden D
(2019)
SCOPE: SCUBA-2 Continuum Observations of Pre-protostellar Evolution - survey description and compact source catalogue
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bonato M
(2019)
ALMA photometry of extragalactic radio sources
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Davis T
(2020)
Revealing the intermediate-mass black hole at the heart of the dwarf galaxy NGC 404 with sub-parsec resolution ALMA observations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Wesson R
(2019)
The dust content of the Crab Nebula
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
Zabel N
(2019)
The ALMA Fornax Cluster Survey I: stirring and stripping of the molecular gas in cluster galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ruffa I
(2020)
The AGN fuelling/feedback cycle in nearby radio galaxies - III. 3D relative orientations of radio jets and CO discs and their interaction
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zabel N
(2021)
AlFoCS + F3D - II. Unexpectedly low gas-to-dust ratios in the Fornax galaxy cluster
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Priestley F
(2023)
NEATH - II. N2H+ as a tracer of imminent star formation in quiescent high-density gas
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Van der Werf P
(2020)
IRAM 30-m-EMIR redshift search of z = 3-4 lensed dusty starbursts selected from the HerBS sample
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Faustino Vieira H
(2023)
A high-resolution extinction mapping technique for face-on disc galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Dawson J
(2019)
Using machine learning to study the kinematics of cold gas in galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
Whitworth A
(2021)
A systematic bias in fitting the surface-density profiles of interstellar filaments
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Clark P
(2019)
Tracing the formation of molecular clouds via [C ii], [C i], and CO emission
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Izquierdo A
(2021)
The Cloud Factory II: gravoturbulent kinematics of resolved molecular clouds in a galactic potential
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Duarte-Cabral A
(2021)
The SEDIGISM survey: molecular clouds in the inner Galaxy
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Tress R
(2020)
Simulations of the Milky Way's central molecular zone - I. Gas dynamics
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society