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
(2023)
NEATH - II. N2H+ as a tracer of imminent star formation in quiescent high-density gas
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
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
Priestley F
(2022)
The origin of a universal filament width in molecular clouds
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
Priestley F
(2019)
Erratum: Modelling the ArH+ emission from the Crab Nebula
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
Priestley F
(2020)
The apparent anticorrelation between the mass opacity of interstellar dust and the surface density of interstellar gas
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Priestley F
(2021)
The efficiency of grain growth in the diffuse interstellar medium
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Priestley F
(2022)
The initial magnetic criticality of pre-stellar cores
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Priestley F
(2021)
Molecular line signatures of cloud-cloud collisions
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Priestley F. D.
(2020)
The apparent anti-correlation between the mass opacity of interstellar dust and the surface-density of interstellar gas
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
Prole L
(2024)
Population III star formation: multiple gas phases prevent the use of an equation of state at high densities
in The Open Journal of Astrophysics
Prole L
(2022)
Primordial magnetic fields in Population III star formation: a magnetized resolution study
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Prole L
(2023)
From dark matter halos to pre-stellar cores: high resolution follow-up of cosmological Lyman-Werner simulations
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Prole Lewis R.
(2023)
Heavy Black Hole Seed Formation in High-z Atomic Cooling Halos
in arXiv e-prints
Pursiainen M
(2022)
SN 2018bsz: A Type I superluminous supernova with aspherical circumstellar material
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Pursiainen M.
(2023)
Polarimetry of Hydrogen-Poor Superluminous Supernovae
in arXiv e-prints
Querejeta M
(2021)
ALMA resolves giant molecular clouds in a tidal dwarf galaxy
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Raghunathan S
(2019)
Detection of CMB-Cluster Lensing using Polarization Data from SPTpol.
in Physical review letters
Raghunathan S
(2019)
Mass Calibration of Optically Selected DES Clusters Using a Measurement of CMB-cluster Lensing with SPTpol Data
in The Astrophysical Journal
Raj M
(2019)
The Fornax Deep Survey with the VST VII. Evolution and structure of late type galaxies inside the virial radius of the Fornax cluster
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Reichardt C
(2021)
An Improved Measurement of the Secondary Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies from the SPT-SZ + SPTpol Surveys
in The Astrophysical Journal
Reichardt C. L.
(2020)
An Improved Measurement of the Secondary Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies from the SPT-SZ + SPTpol Surveys
in arXiv e-prints
Reissl S
(2020)
Synthetic observations of spiral arm tracers of a simulated Milky Way analog
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Rho J
(2023)
Far-infrared polarization of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A with SOFIA HAWC +
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ricci M
(2020)
The XXL Survey XLIV. Sunyaev-Zel'dovich mapping of a low-mass cluster at z ~ 1: a multi-wavelength approach
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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
Rigby A
(2019)
CHIMPS: physical properties of molecular clumps across the inner Galaxy
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Rigby A
(2022)
Galactic Star Formation with NIKA2 (GASTON): Evidence of mass accretion onto dense clumps
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Rigby A. J.
(2019)
VizieR Online Data Catalog: Physical properties of CHIMPS clumps (Rigby+, 2019)
in VizieR Online Data Catalog
Ritacco A
(2020)
Observing with NIKA2Pol from the IRAM 30m telescope : Early results on the commissioning phase
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Ritacco A
(2022)
Crab nebula at 260 GHz with the NIKA2 polarimeter: Implications for the polarization angle calibration of future CMB experiments
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Ritacco A
(2022)
NIKA 150 GHz polarization observations of the Crab nebula and its spectral energy distribution ( Corrigendum )
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ritacco A
(2020)
The NIKA polarimeter on science targets: Crab nebula observations at 150 GHz and dual-band polarization images of Orion Molecular Cloud OMC-1
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Roberts I
(2023)
VERTICO VI: Cold-gas asymmetries in Virgo cluster galaxies
Roberts I
(2023)
VERTICO VI. Cold-gas asymmetries in Virgo cluster galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Robertson N
(2021)
Strong detection of the CMB lensing and galaxy weak lensing cross-correlation from ACT-DR4, Planck Legacy, and KiDS-1000
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Robson G
(2022)
The Simulation and Design of an On-Chip Superconducting Millimetre Filter-Bank Spectrometer
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Rodighiero G
(2019)
Active Galactic Nuclei in Dusty Starbursts at z = 2: Feedback Still to Kick in
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
Rohde P
(2019)
Evolution of Hubble wedges in episodic protostellar outflows
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
Romano M
(2020)
A panchromatic spatially resolved analysis of nearby galaxies - II. The main sequence - gas relation at sub-kpc scale in grand-design spirals
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Roussel H
(2020)
NIKA2 mapping and cross-instrument SED extraction of extended sources with Scanamorphos
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Rowe S
(2022)
The MUSCAT Readout Electronics Backend: Design and Pre-deployment Performance
in Journal of Low Temperature Physics