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Lensing of space time around a black hole. At Oxford we study black holes observationally and theoretically on all size and time scales - it is some of our core work.

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Dr Rebecca Bowler

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  • Astronomy and astrophysics

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  • Astrophysics

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  • Beecroft Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
  • Galaxy formation and evolution
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Euclid

Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 697 (2025) ARTN A5

Authors:

Fj Castander, P Fosalba, J Stadel, D Potter, J Carretero, P Tallada-Crespí, L Pozzetti, M Bolzonella, Ga Mamon, L Blot, K Hoffmann, M Huertas-Company, P Monaco, Ej Gonzalez, G De Lucia, C Scarlata, M-A Breton, L Linke, C Viglione, S-S Li, Z Zhai, Z Baghkhani, K Pardede, C Neissner, R Teyssier, M Crocce, I Tutusaus, L Miller, G Congedo, A Biviano, M Hirschmann, A Pezzotta, H Aussel, H Hoekstra, T Kitching, Wj Percival, L Guzzo, Y Mellier, Pa Oesch, Raa Bowler, S Bruton, V Allevato, V Gonzalez-Perez, M Manera, S Avila, A Kovács, N Aghanim, B Altieri, A Amara, L Amendola

Abstract:

We present the Flagship galaxy mock, a simulated catalogue of billions of galaxies designed to support the scientific exploitation of the Euclid mission. Euclid is a medium-class mission of the European Space Agency optimised to determine the properties of dark matter and dark energy on the largest scales of the Universe. It probes structure formation over more than 10 billion years primarily from the combination of weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering data. The breadth of Euclid’s data will also foster a wide variety of scientific analyses. The Flagship simulation was developed to provide a realistic approximation to the galaxies that will be observed by Euclid and used in its scientific exploitation. We ran a state-of-the-art N-body simulation with four trillion particles, producing a lightcone on the fly. From the dark matter particles, we produced a catalogue of 16 billion haloes in one octant of the sky in the lightcone up to redshift z = 3. We then populated these haloes with mock galaxies using a halo occupation distribution and abundance-matching approach, calibrating the free parameters of the galaxy mock against observed correlations and other basic galaxy properties. Modelled galaxy properties include luminosity and flux in several bands, redshifts, positions and velocities, spectral energy distributions, shapes and sizes, stellar masses, star formation rates, metallicities, emission line fluxes, and lensing properties. We selected a final sample of 3.4 billion galaxies with a magnitude cut of HE < 26, where we are complete. We have performed a comprehensive set of validation tests to check the similarity to observational data and theoretical models. In particular, our catalogue is able to closely reproduce the main characteristics of the weak lensing and galaxy clustering samples to be used in the mission main cosmological analysis. Moreover, given its depth and completeness, this new galaxy mock also provides the community with a powerful tool for developing a wide range of scientific analyses beyond the Euclid mission.
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JWST PRIMER: a lack of outshining in four normal z = 4 − 6 galaxies from the ALMA-CRISTAL Survey

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 539:3 (2025) 2685-2706

Authors:

NEP Lines, RAA Bowler, NJ Adams, R Fisher, RG Varadaraj, Y Nakazato, M Aravena, RJ Assef, JE Birkin, D Ceverino, E da Cunha, F Cullen, I De Looze, CT Donnan, JS Dunlop, A Ferrara, NA Grogin, R Herrera-Camus, R Ikeda, AM Koekemoer, M Killi, J Li, DJ McLeod, RJ McLure

Abstract:

We present a spatially resolved analysis of four star-forming galaxies at using data from the JWST Public Release Imaging for Extragalactic Research (PRIMER) and ALMA-[C II] Resolved ISm in STar-forming galaxies with ALma (CRISTAL) surveys to probe the stellar and interstellar medium properties on the sub- scale. In the JWST NIRCam imaging we find that the galaxies are composed of multiple clumps (between 2 and ∼8) separated by , with comparable morphologies and sizes in the rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) and optical. Using BAGPIPES to perform pixel-by-pixel spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting to the JWST data, we show that the star formation rate (SFR) () and stellar mass ( ) derived from the resolved analysis are in close () agreement with those obtained by fitting the integrated photometry. In contrast to studies of lower mass sources, we thus find a reduced impact of outshining of the older (more massive) stellar populations in these normal galaxies. Our JWST analysis recovers bluer rest-frame UV slopes () and younger ages () than archival values. We find that the dust continuum from ALMA-CRISTAL seen in two of these galaxies correlates, as expected, with regions of redder rest-frame UV slopes and the SED-derived , as well as the peak in the stellar mass map. We compute the resolved –relation, showing that the IRX is consistent with the local starburst attenuation curve and further demonstrating the presence of an inhomogeneous dust distribution within the galaxies. A comparison of the CRISTAL sources to those from the FirstLight zoom-in simulation of galaxies with the same and SFR reveals similar age and colour gradients, suggesting that major mergers may be important in the formation of clumpy galaxies at this epoch.
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REBELS-IFU: dust attenuation curves of 12 massive galaxies at z ≃ 7

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 539:1 (2025) 109-126

Authors:

R Fisher, RAA Bowler, M Stefanon, LE Rowland, HSB Algera, M Aravena, R Bouwens, P Dayal, A Ferrara, Y Fudamoto, C Gulis, JA Hodge, H Inami, K Ormerod, A Pallottini, SG Phillips, NS Sartorio, S Schouws, R Smit, L Sommovigo, DP Stark, PP van der Werf
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The PANORAMIC Survey: Pure Parallel Wide Area Legacy Imaging with JWST/NIRCam

The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 979:2 (2025) 140

Authors:

Christina C Williams, Pascal A Oesch, Andrea Weibel, Gabriel Brammer, Aidan P Cloonan, Katherine E Whitaker, Laia Barrufet, Rachel Bezanson, Rebecca AA Bowler, Pratika Dayal, Marijn Franx, Jenny E Greene, Anne Hutter, Zhiyuan Ji, Ivo Labbé, Sinclaire M Manning, Michael V Maseda, Mengyuan Xiao
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Euclid preparation. LVII. Observational expectations for redshift z<7 active galactic nuclei in the Euclid Wide and Deep surveys

Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences (2024)

Authors:

M Selwood, S Fotopoulou, MN Bremer, L Bisigello, H Landt, E Banados, G Zamorani, F Shankar, D Stern, E Lusso, L Spinoglio, V Allevato, F Ricci, A Feltre, F Mannucci, M Salvato, RA Bowler, M Mignoli, D Vergani, F La Franca, A Amara, S Andreon, N Auricchio, M Baldi, S Bardelli, R Bender, C Bodendorf, D Bonino, E Branchini, M Brescia, J Brinchmann, S Camera, V Capobianco, C Carbone, J Carretero, S Casas, M Castellano, S Cavuoti, A Cimatti, G Congedo, CJ Conselice, L Conversi, Y Copin, F Courbin, HM Courtois, M Cropper, A Da Silva, H Degaudenzi, AM Di Giorgio, J Dinis, F Dubath, X Dupac, S Dusini, M Farina, S Farrens, S Ferriol, M Frailis, E Franceschi, S Galeotta, B Gillis, C Giocoli, A Grazian, F Grupp, L Guzzo, SVH Haugan, H Hoekstra, MS Holliman, W Holmes, I Hook, F Hormuth, A Hornstrup, P Hudelot, K Jahnke, E Keihänen, S Kermiche, A Kiessling, B Kubik, M Kummel, M Kunz, H Kurki-Suonio, R Laureijs, S Ligori, PB Lilje, V Lindholm, I Lloro, D Maino, E Maiorano, O Mansutti, O Marggraf, K Markovic, N Martinet, F Marulli, R Massey, E Medinaceli, S Mei, M Melchior, Y Mellier, M Meneghetti, E Merlin, G Meylan, M Moresco, L Moscardini, E Munari, S-M Niemi, JW Nightingale, C Padilla, S Paltani, F Pasian, K Pedersen, WJ Percival, V Pettorino, G Polenta, M Poncet, LA Popa, L Pozzetti, F Raison, R Rebolo, A Renzi, J Rhodes, G Riccio, Hans-Walter Rix, E Romelli, M Roncarelli, E Rossetti, R Saglia, D Sapone, B Sartoris, R Scaramella, M Schirmer, P Schneider, T Schrabback, A Secroun, G Seidel, S Serrano, C Sirignano, G Sirri, L Stanco, C Surace, P Tallada-Crespi, D Tavagnacco, AN Taylor, HI Teplitz, I Tereno, R Toledo-Moreo, F Torradeflot, I Tutusaus, L Valenziano, T Vassallo, A Veropalumbo, Y Wang, J Weller, E Zucca, A Biviano, M Bolzonella, E Bozzo, C Burigana, C Colodro-Conde, G De Lucia, D Di Ferdinando, JA Escartin Vigo, R Farinelli, K George, J Gracia-Carpio, M Martinelli, N Mauri, C Neissner, Z Sakr, V Scottez, M Tenti, M Viel, M Wiesmann, Y Akrami, S Anselmi, C Baccigalupi, M Ballardini, M Bethermin, A Blanchard, L Blot, S Borgani, S Bruton, R Cabanac, A Calabro, G Canas-Herrera, A Cappi, CS Carvalho, G Castignani, T Castro, KC Chambers, S Contarini, T Contini, AR Cooray, O Cucciati, S Davini, B De Caro, G Desprez, A Diaz-Sanchez, S Di Domizio, H Dole, S Escoffier, AG Ferrari, I Ferrero, F Finelli, A Fontana, F Fornari, L Gabarra, K Ganga, J Garcia-Bellido, V Gautard, E Gaztanaga, F Giacomini, G Gozaliasl, A Hall, H Hildebrandt, J Hjorth, JE Kajava, V Kansal, D Karagiannis, C Kirkpatrick, L Legrand, G Libet, A Loureiro, J Macias-Perez, G Maggio, M Magliocchetti, R Maoli, CJAP Martins, S Matthew, L Maurin, RB Metcalf, P Monaco, C Moretti, G Morgante, S Nadathur, L Nicastro, Nicholas A Walton, L Patrizii, A Pezzotta, M Pontinen, V Popa, C Porciani, D Potter, I Risso, P-F Rocci, M Sahlen, AG Sanchez, A Schneider, E Sefusatti, M Sereno, P Simon, A Spurio Mancini, J Steinwagner, G Testera, R Teyssier, S Toft, S Tosi, A Troja, M Tucci, C Valieri, J Valiviita, G Verza, JR Weaver, IA Zinchenko
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