Project description
Tracing the evolution of our galaxy through circumgalactic gas
Understanding our galaxy’s formation and evolution can advance research across a range of scientific fields. The circumgalactic medium (CGM), the gas surrounding galaxies, is thought to play a key role in galactic development. However, limited tools and data have constrained our understanding of its composition and function. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the SCARAB project will investigate the CGM to gain a clearer picture of its extent, chemical enrichment, and distribution around galaxies. It will also explore how gas flows through the CGM using a novel dataset from the 4MOST/ByCycle survey and establish observational links to galaxies that host this gas.
Objective
My goal as a MSCA fellow is to obtain a clear picture of the extent, distribution, and enrichment of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) gas around galaxies, refine our understanding of how gas flows through it, and establish observational connections to the galaxies that host it in order to shed light on long-standing questions about the CGM's integral role in galaxy evolution. This research, based on an unprecedented new dataset from the 4MOST/ByCycle survey that increases available halo absorber sightlines by three orders of magnitude, has the potential to change our view of how galaxies work and will generate a legacy data set that astronomers will use long into the future. Working with Celine Peroux at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Germany, I will contribute my expertise in quasar absorption-line spectroscopy and the Milky Way CGM, and benefit by extending my existing knowledge about the CGM to higher redshifts while developing data science skills through management and statistical analysis of large data sets.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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85748 Garching
Germany
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