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
Rigby A
(2021)
GASTON: Galactic Star Formation with NIKA2 - evidence for the mass growth of star-forming clumps
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Seth Anil C.
(2021)
Revealing Low Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei (ReveaLLAGN)
in JWST Proposal. Cycle 1
Eswaraiah C
(2021)
The JCMT BISTRO Survey: Revealing the Diverse Magnetic Field Morphologies in Taurus Dense Cores with Sensitive Submillimeter Polarimetry
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Rohde P
(2021)
The impact of episodic outflow feedback on stellar multiplicity and the star formation efficiency
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
Butler K
(2021)
Resolved Neutral Outflow from a Lensed Dusty Star-forming Galaxy at z = 2.09
in The Astrophysical Journal
Ngoc N
(2021)
Observations of Magnetic Fields Surrounding LkHa 101 Taken by the BISTRO Survey with JCMT-POL-2
in The Astrophysical Journal
Priestley F
(2021)
Revisiting the dust destruction efficiency of supernovae
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
Ade P
(2021)
A demonstration of improved constraints on primordial gravitational waves with delensing
in Physical Review D
Xie J
(2021)
Studying infall in infrared dark clouds with multiple HCO + transitions
in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics
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
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
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
North E
(2021)
WISDOM project - VIII. Multiscale feedback cycles in the brightest cluster galaxy NGC 0708
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Young L
(2021)
The Evolution of NGC 7465 as Revealed by Its Molecular Gas Properties
in The Astrophysical Journal
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
Ade P
(2021)
BICEP / K e c k XII: Constraints on axionlike polarization oscillations in the cosmic microwave background
in Physical Review D
Naess S
(2021)
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A search for Planet 9
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
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
Hilton M
(2021)
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Catalog of >4000 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Galaxy Clusters
in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Chen T. -W.
(2021)
SN 2018bsz: significant dust formation in a nearby superluminous supernova
in arXiv e-prints
Naess S
(2021)
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Detection of Millimeter-wave Transient Sources
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abitbol M
(2021)
The Simons Observatory: gain, bandpass and polarization-angle calibration requirements for B-mode searches
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Cai Y
(2021)
Intermediate-luminosity red transients: Spectrophotometric properties and connection to electron-capture supernova explosions
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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
Whitworth A
(2021)
A systematic bias in fitting the surface-density profiles of interstellar filaments
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Nightingale J
(2021)
PyAutoLens: Open-Source Strong Gravitational Lensing
in Journal of Open Source Software
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
Schaan E
(2021)
Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Combined kinematic and thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich measurements from BOSS CMASS and LOWZ halos
in Physical Review D
Loni A
(2021)
A blind ATCA HI survey of the Fornax galaxy cluster Properties of the HI detections
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Lyo A
(2021)
The JCMT BISTRO Survey: An 850/450 µm Polarization Study of NGC 2071IR in Orion B
in The Astrophysical Journal
Querejeta M
(2021)
ALMA resolves giant molecular clouds in a tidal dwarf galaxy
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Darwish O
(2021)
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: a CMB lensing mass map over 2100 square degrees of sky and its cross-correlation with BOSS-CMASS galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
Dawson J
(2021)
A self-supervised, physics-aware, Bayesian neural network architecture for modelling galaxy emission-line kinematics
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mallaby-Kay M
(2021)
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Summary of DR4 and DR5 Data Products and Data Access
in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Han D
(2021)
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: delensed power spectra and parameters
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Barna B
(2021)
SN 2019muj - a well-observed Type Iax supernova that bridges the luminosity gap of the class
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society