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DATA FUSION: The Euclid space telescope will launch on 2023 and the Vera Rubin Large Survey of Space and Time will commence late 2024. Two students are needed to work with these new facilities and their data and to fuse them in with our existing database. With Euclid we will take advantage of the high, Hubble Space Telescope-like, resolution to study the emergence of galaxy structures over the past 8 billion years. How have galaxy bulges and discs evolved (mass-size relations, mass distributions, frequencies, star-formation rates etc), how does this compare to very nearby and very distant data (from JWST). Can we determine the dominant physical processes that give rise to each structure and weave together their origin story. With LSST we look to use the data for distance estimates for our 100 million galaxy catalogue, as well as search for hidden galaxy populations, intra-halo light and other sources of light not yet accounted for. Combined we plan to build spectral energy distribution measurements for the 1.8 million galaxies we will observe with 4MOST, to study their energy production from X-ray through optical and near-infrared to mm and radio wavelengths and over all time.

UWA Scholarship

Simon Driver

The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is a program of independent, supervised research that is assessed solely on the basis of a thesis, sometimes including a creative work component, that is examined externally. The work presented for a PhD must be a substantial and original contribution to scholarship, demonstrating mastery of the subject of interest as well as an advance in that field of knowledge. 

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