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
Traficante A
(2020)
Multiscale dynamics in star-forming regions: the interplay between gravity and turbulence
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Cheng T
(2020)
SCUBA-2 overdensities associated with candidate protoclusters selected from Planck data
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bakx T
(2020)
A search for the lenses in the Herschel Bright Sources (HerBS) sample
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Phillipps S
(2019)
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Timescales for galaxies crossing the green valley
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
Greenslade J
(2019)
A SCUBA-2 selected Herschel-SPIRE dropout and the nature of this population
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Davis T
(2022)
WISDOM Project - X. The morphology of the molecular ISM in galaxy centres and its dependence on galaxy structure
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Priestley F
(2023)
Non-Equilibrium Abundances Treated Holistically (NEATH): the molecular composition of star-forming clouds
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Priestley F
(2020)
Constraining early-time dust formation in core-collapse supernovae
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
Priestley F
(2022)
The origin of a universal filament width in molecular clouds
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Glass D
(2022)
Cool interstellar medium as an evolutionary tracer in ALMA-observed local dusty early-type galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Liu L
(2022)
WISDOM Project - XII. Clump properties and turbulence regulated by clump-clump collisions in the dwarf galaxy NGC 404
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Henshaw J
(2019)
'The Brick' is not a brick : a comprehensive study of the structure and dynamics of the central molecular zone cloud G0.253+0.016
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bevan A
(2019)
A decade of ejecta dust formation in the Type IIn SN 2005ip
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
Urquhart S
(2022)
The bright extragalactic ALMA redshift survey (BEARS) I: redshifts of bright gravitationally lensed galaxies from the Herschel ATLAS
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Eales S
(2020)
Do bulges stop stars forming?
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
Priestley F
(2022)
Properties of shocked dust grains in supernova remnants
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Jones G
(2023)
On the density regime probed by HCN emission
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Shirley R
(2021)
HELP: the Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Priestley F
(2019)
Erratum: Modelling the ArH+ emission from the Crab Nebula
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Medler K
(2022)
SN 2020acat: an energetic fast rising Type IIb supernova
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Yang C
(2019)
The molecular gas properties in the gravitationally lensed merger HATLAS J142935.3-002836
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Traficante A
(2023)
The SQUALO project (Star formation in QUiescent And Luminous Objects) I: clump-fed accretion mechanism in high-mass star-forming objects
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Whitworth A
(2019)
The dust in M31
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
Niculescu-Duvaz M
(2023)
Quantifying the dust in SN 2012aw and iPTF14hls with ORBYTS
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Elford J
(2024)
WISDOM Project - XVI. The link between circumnuclear molecular gas reservoirs and active galactic nucleus fuelling
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hopwood R
(2020)
The Herschel SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer Spectral Feature Finder I. The Spectral Feature Finder and Catalogue
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Kirchschlager F
(2024)
From total destruction to complete survival: dust processing at different evolutionary stages in the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ruffa I
(2023)
WISDOM project - XIV. SMBH mass in the early-type galaxies NGC 0612, NGC 1574, and NGC 4261 from CO dynamical modelling
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ruffa I
(2022)
The AGN fuelling/feedback cycle in nearby radio galaxies - IV. Molecular gas conditions and jet-ISM interaction in NGC 3100
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Marsh K
(2019)
RCW 120: a possible case of hit and run, elucidated by multitemperature dust mapping
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Dunne L
(2020)
ALMA unveils wider environment of distant red protocluster core
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Chastenet J
(2022)
SOFIA/HAWC+ observations of the Crab Nebula: dust properties from polarized emission
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rho J
(2023)
Far-infrared polarization of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A with SOFIA HAWC +
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Giulietti M
(2022)
The far-infrared/radio correlation for a sample of strongly lensed dusty star-forming galaxies detected by Herschel
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lamperti I
(2019)
JINGLE V: Dust properties of nearby galaxies derived from hierarchical Bayesian SED fitting
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lelli F
(2022)
WISDOM Project - XIII. Feeding molecular gas to the supermassive black hole in the starburst AGN-host galaxy Fairall 49
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hogarth L
(2023)
Kinematics of molecular gas in star-forming galaxies with large-scale ionized outflows
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Sormani M
(2020)
Simulations of the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone - II. Star formation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Faustino Vieira H
(2024)
Molecular clouds in M51 from high-resolution extinction mapping
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Westbrook B
(2019)
Weak-lensing mass calibration of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect using APEX-SZ galaxy clusters
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Sansom A
(2019)
ALMA observations of massive molecular gas reservoirs in dusty early-type galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Urquhart J
(2022)
ATLASGAL - evolutionary trends in high-mass star formation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Smith M
(2021)
WISDOM project - VI. Exploring the relation between supermassive black hole mass and galaxy rotation with molecular gas
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Pettitt A
(2019)
Young stars as tracers of a barred-spiral Milky Way
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society