Professor Robert Sharp
Researcher's projects
ARC-DP 2013/15
The morphological evolution of galaxies over cosmic time
This project addresses the fundamental question of how galaxies formed in the early Universe, and took on their present-day structures. We are obtaining unprecedented high-angular-resolution images of galaxies in clusters over the crucial redshift interval, 1<z<2, when the morphological structures of galaxies were being defined. We are useing the revolutionary new wide-field adaptive-optics system on the 8m-diameter Gemini South telescope in Guaranteed Time awarded to our Australian team for building the GSAOI camera. These will be the highest resolution near-infrared images of galaxy clusters. They are essential to trace the bulk of the stellar mass at the same angular resolution as the Hubble Space Telescope traces recent star formation.
Publications
- Foster, C, Hopkins, A M, Gunawardhana, M, et al., 2012, 'Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the mass-metallicity relationship' Astronomy & Astrophysics, 547, A79
- Li, I H, Yee, H K C, Blake, C, et al., 2012, 'The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Galaxy Evolution at 0.25 , The Astrophysical Journal, 747, 91L
- Mao, M Y, Sharp, R, Norris, R P, et al., 2012, 'The Australia Telescope Large Area Survey: spectroscopic catalogue and radio luminosity functions', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Sociaty, 426, 3334-3348
- van Kampen, E., Smith, D J B, Maddox, S, et al., 2012, 'Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA: spatial clustering of low-redshift submm galaxies', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 426, 3455-3463
