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
Priestley F
(2022)
Properties of shocked dust grains in supernova remnants
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Rohde P
(2022)
Protostellar outflows: a window to the past
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Artis E
(2022)
PSZ2 G091: A massive double cluster at z ~ 0.822 observed by the NIKA2 camera
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Nightingale J
(2023)
PyAutoGalaxy: Open-Source Multiwavelength Galaxy Structure & Morphology
in Journal of Open Source Software
Nightingale J
(2021)
PyAutoLens: Open-Source Strong Gravitational Lensing
in Journal of Open Source Software
Bonavera L
(2019)
QSOs sigposting cluster size halos as gravitational lenses: halo mass, projected mass density profile and concentration at z ~0.7
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Niculescu-Duvaz M
(2023)
Quantifying the dust in SN 2012aw and iPTF14hls with ORBYTS
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Gratier P
(2020)
Quantitative inference of the H 2 column densities from 3 mm molecular emission: case study towards Orion B
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mennella A
(2019)
QUBIC: Exploring the Primordial Universe with the Q&U Bolometric Interferometer
in Universe
Battistelli E
(2020)
QUBIC: The Q & U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Battistelli E. S.
(2020)
QUBIC: the Q & U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology
in arXiv e-prints
Piat M.
(2019)
QUBIC: using NbSi TESs with a bolometric interferometer to characterize the polarisation of the CMB
in arXiv e-prints
Piat M
(2020)
QUBIC: Using NbSi TESs with a Bolometric Interferometer to Characterize the Polarization of the CMB
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
De Zotti Gianfranco
(2019)
Radio sources in next-generation CMB surveys
in Bulletin of the American 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
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
Lorenz C
(2021)
Reconstruction of the neutrino mass as a function of redshift
in Physical Review D
Lorenz C
(2021)
Reconstruction of the neutrino mass as a function of redshift
Hornsby A
(2020)
Reducing the Susceptibility of Lumped-Element KIDs to Two-Level System Effects
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Shitvov A
(2020)
Reflective Toraldo pupil for high-resolution millimeter-wave astronomy.
in Applied optics
Fissel L
(2019)
Relative Alignment between the Magnetic Field and Molecular Gas Structure in the Vela C Giant Molecular Cloud Using Low- and High-density Tracers
in The Astrophysical Journal
Otter J
(2022)
Resolved Molecular Gas Observations of MaNGA Post-starbursts Reveal a Tumultuous Past
in The Astrophysical Journal
Otter Justin
(2022)
Resolved Molecular Gas Observations of MaNGA Post-starbursts Reveal a Tumultuous Past
in American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts
Butler K
(2021)
Resolved Neutral Outflow from a Lensed Dusty Star-forming Galaxy at z = 2.09
in The Astrophysical Journal
Chinone Y
(2020)
Results of gravitational lensing and primordial gravitational waves from the POLARBEAR experiment
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Smith C
(2019)
Revealing dust-obscured star formation in CLJ1449+0856, a cluster at z = 2
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 Chakali
(2021)
Revealing the diverse magnetic field morphologies in Taurus dense cores with sensitive sub-millimeter polarimetry
in arXiv e-prints
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
Priestley F. D.
(2019)
Revisiting the Crab Nebula's dust and synchrotron radiation from the infrared to radio domain
in Supernova Remnants: An Odyssey in Space after Stellar Death II
Priestley F
(2021)
Revisiting the dust destruction efficiency of supernovae
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Clarke S
(2022)
RJ-plots: An improved method to classify structures objectively
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Toba Y
(2020)
S2COSMOS: Evolution of gas mass with redshift using dust emission
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
Cheng T
(2019)
SCUBA-2 observations of candidate starbursting protoclusters selected by Planck and Herschel-SPIRE
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
Trombetti T
(2021)
Search for candidate strongly lensed dusty galaxies in the Planck satellite catalogues
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Bianchini F
(2020)
Searching for anisotropic cosmic birefringence with polarization data from SPTpol
in Physical Review D
Bing L
(2022)
Searching for high-z DSFGs with NIKA2 and NOEMA
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Urquhart J
(2021)
SEDIGISM-ATLASGAL: dense gas fraction and star formation efficiency across the Galactic disc
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Namikawa T
(2022)
Simons Observatory: Constraining inflationary gravitational waves with multitracer B -mode delensing
in Physical Review D
Bisigello L
(2021)
Simulating infrared spectro-photometric surveys with a S pritz
in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
Bisigello L
(2021)
Simulating the infrared sky with a SPRITZ
in Astronomy & Astrophysics