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Dr Becky Smethurst

Junior Research Fellow

Research theme

  • Astronomy and astrophysics

Sub department

  • Astrophysics

Research groups

  • Beecroft Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
  • Galaxy formation and evolution
  • Hintze Centre for Astrophysical Surveys
rebecca.smethurst@physics.ox.ac.uk
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I am a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, University of Oxford. My research is focussed on low-redshift galaxy evolution studies; particularly the mechanisms responsible for the quenching of star formation. I am currently working with SDSS-IV MaNGA data to determine whether negative AGN feedback is occurring on a population-wide scale. Complimentary to this, I am also interested in the growth and powering of AGN in galaxies with merger-free evolutionary histories.

Research interests

Astrophysics
Supermassive Black Holes
Galaxy evolution
Black Hole Growth

Selected publications

Secularly powered outflows from AGN: the dominance of non-merger driven supermassive black hole growth

Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 489:3 (2019) 4014-4031
RJ Smethurst, BD Simmons, Christopher Lintott, J Shanahan

Supermassive black holes in disk-dominated galaxies outgrow their bulges and co-evolve with their host galaxies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 470:2 (2017) 1559-1569
BD Simmons, RJ Smethurst, Christopher Lintott

SNITCH: seeking a simple, informative star formation history inference tool

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 484:3 (2019) 3590-3603
Rebecca J Smethurst, M Merrifield, Christopher Lintott, KL Masters, BD Simmons, A Fraser-Mckelvie, T Peterken, M Boquien, RA Riffel, N Drory

Galaxy zoo: Probabilistic morphology through Bayesian CNNs and active learning

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 491:2 (2019) 1554-1574
Mike Walmsley, Lewis Smith, Chris Lintott, Yarin Gal, Steven Bamford, Hugh Dickinson, Lucy Fortson, Sandor Kruk, Karen Masters, Claudia Scarlata, Brooke Simmons, Rebecca Smethurst, Darryl Wright
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