EPOCHS III: Unbiased UV continuum slopes at 6.5<z<13 from combined PEARLS GTO and public JWST NIRCam imaging
Anatomy of an ionized bubble: NIRCam grism spectroscopy of the $z=6.6$ double-peaked Lyman-$\alpha$ emitter COLA1 and its environment
AGN Selection and Demographics: A New Age with JWST/MIRI
New AGN diagnostic diagrams based on the [OIII]$\lambda 4363$ auroral line
Fri 26 Apr 11:30: The Via Project: Mapping the invisible Galactic halo
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Ana Bonaca (Carnegie)
- Friday 26 April 2024, 11:30-12:30
- Venue: Ryle seminar room + online.
- Series: Galaxies Discussion Group; organiser: Sandro Tacchella.
Mon 22 Apr 13:00: The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Year 1 Results: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and implications for cosmology
DESI represents the culmination of multi-years efforts and advanced spectroscopic techniques. Placed at Mayall 4-meter Telescope, DESI harnesses the power of 5,000 robotic fiber positioners, coupled with state-of-the-art spectrographs, to capture the spectral signatures of millions of galaxies and quasars with unprecedented precision. DESI success is also based on the collaborative spirit of its community, more than 400 scientists over 72 institutions. This data release corresponds to the first year of observations; it holds immense scientific promise across a multitude of fronts: from constraining cosmological parameters, mapping the expansion history of the Universe, to the properties of dark energy and the properties of neutrinos. So far only Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) information has been fully analysed and made public. I will summarise the main findings and the implications for cosmology.
- Speaker: Licia Verde (University of Barcelona)
- Monday 22 April 2024, 13:00-14:00
- Venue: CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].
- Series: Cosmology Lunch; organiser: Fiona McCarthy.
Fri 26 Apr 11:30: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Ana Bonaca (Carnegie)
- Friday 26 April 2024, 11:30-12:30
- Venue: Ryle seminar room + online.
- Series: Galaxies Discussion Group; organiser: Sandro Tacchella.
Fri 10 May 11:30: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Rajsekhar Mohapatra (Princeton)
- Friday 10 May 2024, 11:30-12:30
- Venue: Ryle seminar room + online.
- Series: Galaxies Discussion Group; organiser: Sandro Tacchella.
Mon 13 May 09:45: Which universes does the no-boundary wave function favour?
Please notice the unusual schedule (9:45am) and location (MR9) due to previous overlaps with the Dirac lunch and Dirac lecture.
- Speaker: Jean-Luc Lehners (MPI for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam)
- Monday 13 May 2024, 09:45-10:45
- Venue: CMS, Pav. B, MR9 (B0.09) .
- Series: Cosmology Lunch; organiser: Thomas Colas.
Mon 13 May 09:45: Which universes does the no-boundary wave function favour?
Please notice the unusual schedule due to previous overlaps with the Dirac lunch and Dirac lecture.
- Speaker: Jean-Luc Lehners (MPI for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam)
- Monday 13 May 2024, 09:45-10:45
- Venue: CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].
- Series: Cosmology Lunch; organiser: Thomas Colas.
Mapping the anisotropic Galactic stellar halo with Blue Horizontal Branch stars
Growing a nuclear star cluster from star formation and cluster mergers: The JWST NIRSpec view of NGC 4654
Peter Higgs - the man who changed our view of the Universe
Could JWST solve cosmology’s big mystery? Physicists debate Universe-expansion data
Nature, Published online: 15 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01115-3
New results could help to end a long standing disagreement over the rate of cosmic expansion. But scientists say more measurements are needed.Tue 22 Oct 11:15: Studies of the reionization-era intergalactic and circumgalactic media using cosmological simulations
TBC
- Speaker: Dr. Caitlin Doughty (University of Leiden/MPA Garching)
- Tuesday 22 October 2024, 11:15-12:00
- Venue: Coffee area, Battcock Centre.
- Series: Hills Coffee Talks; organiser: Charles Walker.
Tue 11 Jun 11:15: The ionising properties of galaxies at the Epoch of Reionisation with JWST
TBC
- Speaker: Dr. Charlotte Simmonds (Kavli Institute for Technology, University of Cambridge)
- Tuesday 11 June 2024, 11:15-12:00
- Venue: Coffee area, Battcock Centre.
- Series: Hills Coffee Talks; organiser: Charles Walker.
Tue 28 May 11:15: The Black Hole Mass Metallicity Relation and Insights into Galaxy Quenching
TBC
- Speaker: William Baker (University of Cambridge)
- Tuesday 28 May 2024, 11:15-12:00
- Venue: Coffee area, Battcock Centre.
- Series: Hills Coffee Talks; organiser: Charles Walker.
Tue 14 May 11:15: Liquid Crystal based adaptive optics
TBC
- Speaker: Oana Niculescu (University of Cambridge)
- Tuesday 14 May 2024, 11:15-12:00
- Venue: Coffee area, Battcock Centre.
- Series: Hills Coffee Talks; organiser: Charles Walker.
Tue 07 May 11:15: Interferometric measurements of the 21-cm signal with SKA
The Cosmic Dawn marks the first star formations and preceded the Epoch-of-Reionization, when the Universe underwent a fundamental transformation propelled by the radiation from these first stars and galaxies. Interferometric 21-cm experiments aim to probe redshifted neutral hydrogen signals from these periods, constraining the conditions of the early Universe. The SKA -LOW instrument of the Square Kilometre Array telescope is envisaged to be the largest and most sensitive radio telescope at m and cm wavelengths. In this talk we present a data analysis pipeline that was used in the SKA Science Data Challenge 3a: Epoch of Reionisation (SKA SDC3a) to process the novel data products expected from the SKA . To determine whether a successful 21-cm detection is possible with the envisaged SKA , we implement predictive foreground and Bayesian Gaussian Process Regression models alongside a foreground avoidance strategy to isolate the 21-cm signal from that of the astrophysical radio frequency (RF) foregrounds.
- Speaker: Yuchen Liu and Oscar O'Hara (Cavendish Astrophysics)
- Tuesday 07 May 2024, 11:15-12:00
- Venue: Coffee area, Battcock Centre.
- Series: Hills Coffee Talks; organiser: Charles Walker.
Tue 30 Apr 11:15: Radio observations of extra-galactic transients with the AMI-LA telescope
TBC
- Speaker: Dr. Lauren Rhodes (University of Oxford)
- Tuesday 30 April 2024, 11:15-12:00
- Venue: Coffee area, Battcock Centre.
- Series: Hills Coffee Talks; organiser: Charles Walker.