IoA PATT grant 2009-11

Lead Research Organisation: University of Cambridge
Department Name: Institute of Astronomy

Abstract

This proposal requests funds to cover travel and subsistence expenses associated with observing time on international telescopes allocated by the PATT Committee during the two academic years 2009-10 and 2010-11. The aquisition of observational data form these facilities represents one of the key inputs responsible for the scientific productivity of the Institute of Astronomy. The scientific goals of the programme fall under the following main headings: (a) Quasars, AGN and quasar absorption lines; (b) X-ray astronomy; (c) Stellar astronomy; (d) The galaxy and the local universe; (e) Dark matter and galaxy clustering; (f) The high-redshift universe.

Publications

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McQuinn K (2010) THE NATURE OF STARBURSTS. I. THE STAR FORMATION HISTORIES OF EIGHTEEN NEARBY STARBURST DWARF GALAXIES in The Astrophysical Journal

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McQuinn K (2010) THE NATURE OF STARBURSTS. II. THE DURATION OF STARBURSTS IN DWARF GALAXIES in The Astrophysical Journal

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Minniti D (2010) VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV): The public ESO near-IR variability survey of the Milky Way in New Astronomy

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Minniti D. (2011) The VVV Survey of the Milky Way: first year results in Boletin de la Asociacion Argentina de Astronomia La Plata Argentina

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Mortlock D (2009) Discovery of a redshift 6.13 quasar in the UKIRT infrared deep sky survey in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Mortlock DJ (2011) A luminous quasar at a redshift of z = 7.085. in Nature

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Nestor D (2011) Large-scale outflows from z? 0.7 starburst galaxies identified via ultrastrong Mg ii quasar absorption lines Galactic wind hosts at z? 0.7 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Neuhäuser R (2011) The Young Exoplanet Transit Initiative (YETI) in Astronomische Nachrichten

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Niederste-Ostholt M (2010) RE-ASSEMBLING THE SAGITTARIUS DWARF GALAXY in The Astrophysical Journal

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Niederste-Ostholt M (2010) The tidal tails of the ultrafaint globular cluster Palomar 1 Tidal tails of Palomar 1 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters