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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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Prof. Matt Jarvis

Professor of Astrophysics

Research theme

  • Astronomy and astrophysics

Sub department

  • Astrophysics

Research groups

  • Cosmology
  • Galaxy formation and evolution
  • Hintze Centre for Astrophysical Surveys
  • MeerKAT
  • Rubin-LSST
  • The Square Kilometre Array (SKA)
Matt.Jarvis@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 (2)83654
Denys Wilkinson Building, room 703
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The galaxy–halo connection in the VIDEO survey at 0.5 < z < 1.7

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 459:3 (2016) 2618-2631

Authors:

PETER Hatfield, Lindsay, Matthew Jarvis, B Häußler, M Vaccari, Aprajita Verma

Abstract:

We present a series of results from a clustering analysis of the first data release of the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) Deep Extragalactic Observations (VIDEO) survey. VIDEO is the only survey currently capable of probing the bulk of stellar mass in galaxies at redshifts corresponding to the peak of star formation on degree scales. Galaxy clustering is measured with the two-point correlation function, which is calculated using a non-parametric kernel-based density estimator. We use our measurements to investigate the connection between the galaxies and the host dark matter halo using a halo occupation distribution methodology, deriving bias, satellite fractions, and typical host halo masses for stellar masses between 10 9.35 and 10 10.85 M ⊙ , at redshifts 0.5 < z < 1.7. Our results show typical halo mass increasing with stellar mass (with moderate scatter) and bias increasing with stellar mass and redshift consistent with previous studies. We find that the satellite fraction increased towards low redshifts, from ~5 per cent at z ~ 1.5 to ~20 per cent at z ~ 0.6. We combine our results to derive the stellar mass-to-halo mass ratio for both satellites and centrals over a range of halo masses and find the peak corresponding to the halo mass with maximum star formation efficiency to be ~2 × 10 12 M ⊙ , finding no evidence for evolution.
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KROSS: Mapping the Ha emission across the star-formation sequence at z~1

Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 456:4 (2016) 4533-4541

Authors:

Georgios E Magdis, Martin Bureau, JP Stott, A Tiley, AM Swinbank, R Bower, AJ Bunker, Matthew Jarvis, H Johnson, R Sharples

Abstract:

We present first results from the KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS), an ongoing large kinematical survey of a thousand, z~1 star forming galaxies, with VLT KMOS. Out of the targeted galaxies (~500 so far), we detect and spatially resolve Ha emission in ~90% and 77% of the sample respectively. Based on the integrated Ha flux measurements and the spatially resolved maps we derive a median star formation rate (SFR) of ~7.0 Msun/yr and a median physical size of = 5.1kpc. We combine the inferred SFRs and effective radii measurements to derive the star formation surface densities ({\Sigma}SFR) and present a "resolved" version of the star formation main sequence (MS) that appears to hold at sub-galactic scales, with similar slope and scatter as the one inferred from galaxy integrated properties. Our data also yield a trend between {\Sigma}SFR and {\Delta}(sSFR) (distance from the MS) suggesting that galaxies with higher sSFR are characterised by denser star formation activity. Similarly, we find evidence for an anti-correlation between the gas phase metallicity (Z) and the {\Delta}(sSFR), suggesting a 0.2dex variation in the metal content of galaxies within the MS and significantly lower metallicities for galaxies above it. The origin of the observed trends between {\Sigma}SFR - {\Sigma}(sSFR) and Z - {\Delta}(sSFR) could be driven by an interplay between variations of the gas fraction or the star formation efficiency of the galaxies along and off the MS. To address this, follow-up observations of the our sample that will allow gas mass estimates are necessary.
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LOFAR FACET CALIBRATION

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series American Astronomical Society 223:1 (2016) 2

Authors:

RJ van Weeren, WL Williams, MJ Hardcastle, TW Shimwell, DA Rafferty, J Sabater, G Heald, SS Sridhar, TJ Dijkema, G Brunetti, M Brüggen, F Andrade-Santos, GA Ogrean, HJA Röttgering, WA Dawson, WR Forman, F de Gasperin, C Jones, GK Miley, L Rudnick, CL Sarazin, A Bonafede, PN Best, L Bîrzan, R Cassano, KT Chyży, JH Croston, T Ensslin, C Ferrari, M Hoeft, C Horellou, MJ Jarvis, RP Kraft, M Mevius, HT Intema, SS Murray, E Orrú, R Pizzo, A Simionescu, A Stroe, S van der Tol, GJ White
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LOFAR, VLA, AND CHANDRA OBSERVATIONS OF THE TOOTHBRUSH GALAXY CLUSTER

The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 818:2 (2016) 204

Authors:

RJ van Weeren, G Brunetti, M Brüggen, F Andrade-Santos, GA Ogrean, WL Williams, HJA Röttgering, WA Dawson, WR Forman, F de Gasperin, MJ Hardcastle, C Jones, GK Miley, DA Rafferty, L Rudnick, J Sabater, CL Sarazin, TW Shimwell, A Bonafede, PN Best, L Bîrzan, R Cassano, KT Chyży, JH Croston, TJ Dijkema, T Enßlin, C Ferrari, G Heald, M Hoeft, C Horellou, MJ Jarvis, RP Kraft, M Mevius, HT Intema, SS Murray, E Orrú, R Pizzo, SS Sridhar, A Simionescu, A Stroe, S van der Tol, GJ White
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The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS): dynamical properties, gas and dark matter fractions of typical z ∼ 1 star-forming galaxies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 457:2 (2016) 1888-1904

Authors:

John Stott, AM Swinbank, HL Johnson, A Tiley, G Magdis, R Bower, AJ Bunker, Martin Bureau, CM Harrison, Matthew Jarvis, R Sharples, I Smail, D Sobral, P Best, M Cirasuolo

Abstract:

The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS) is an ESO-guaranteed time survey of 795 typical star-forming galaxies in the redshift range z = 0.8-1.0 with the KMOS instrument on the Very Large Telescope. In this paper, we present resolved kinematics and star formation rates for 584 z ~ 1 galaxies. This constitutes the largest near-infrared Integral Field Unit survey of galaxies at z ~ 1 to date. We demonstrate the success of our selection criteria with 90 per cent of our targets found to be Hα emitters, of which 81 per cent are spatially resolved. The fraction of the resolved KROSS sample with dynamics dominated by ordered rotation is found to be 83 ± 5 per cent. However, when compared with local samples these are turbulent discs with high gas to baryonic mass fractions, ~35 per cent, and the majority are consistent with being marginally unstable (Toomre Q~1). There is no strong correlation between galaxy averaged velocity dispersion and the total star formation rate, suggesting that feedback from star formation is not the origin of the elevated turbulence. We postulate that it is the ubiquity of high (likely molecular) gas fractions and the associated gravitational instabilities that drive the elevated star formation rates in these typical z ~ 1 galaxies, leading to the 10-fold enhanced star formation rate density. Finally, by comparing the gas masses obtained from inverting the star formation law with the dynamical and stellar masses, we infer an average dark matter to total mass fraction within 2.2re (9.5 kpc) of 65 ± 12 per cent, in agreement with the results from hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy formation.
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