Galaxy clashes: Making stars in the Universe's biggest collisions

2020/37/B/ST9/00466

Keywords

Descriptors

  • ST9_009: Powstawanie i ewolucja galaktyk

Panel

ST9 – Astronomy and space science: astrophysics, astrochemistry, astrobiology, solar system, planetary systems, stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy, space science, instrumentation

Host institution

Narodowe Centrum Badań Jądrowych

Voivodeship: mazowieckie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution)

dr William James Pearson

Number of co-investigators in the project: 1

Call

OPUS 19 – announced on 2020-03-16

Amount awarded
183 600 PLN
Project start date
2021-01-19
Project end date
2024-01-18
Project duration
36 months (the same as in the proposal)
Project status
Project settled

Project description

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Note — project descriptions were prepared by the authors of the applications themselves and placed in the system in an unchanged form.

Information in the final report

Publication in academic press/journals (15)

  1. Galaxy merger challenge: A comparison study between machine learning-based detection methods

    Authors:
    B. Margalef-Bentabol, L. Wang, A. La Marca, C. Blanco-Prieto, D. Chudy, H. Domínguez-Sánchez, A. D. Goulding, A. Guzmán-Ortega, M. Huertas-Company, G. Martin, W.J. Pearson, V. Rodriguez-Gomez, M. Walmsley, R.W. Bickley, C. Bottrell, C. Conselice, D. O'Ryan
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (year: 2024, volume: 687, pages: A25), Publisher: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/202348239 – link to the publication
  2. Do galaxy mergers prefer under-dense environments?

    Authors:
    U. Sureshkumar, A. Durkalec, A. Pollo, W. J. Pearson, D. J. Farrow, A. Narayanan, J. Loveday, E. N. Taylor, L. E. Suelves
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (year: 2024, volume: 686, pages: A40), Publisher: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/202347705 – link to the publication
  3. A comparative study of the fundamental metallicity relation: the impact of methodology on its observed evolution

    Authors:
    F. Pistis, A. Pollo, M. Figueira, D. Vergani, M. Hamed, K. Małek, A. Durkalec, D. Donevski, S. Salim, A. Iovino, W. J. Pearson, M. Romano, M. Scodeggio
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (year: 2024, volume: 683, pages: A203), Publisher: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/202346943 – link to the publication
  4. Attenuation proxy hidden in surface brightness-colour diagrams. A new strategy for the LSST era

    Authors:
    K. Małek, Junais, A. Pollo, M. Boquien, V. Buat, S. Salim, S. Brough, R. Demarco, A. W. Graham, M. Hamed, J. R. Mullaney, M. Romano, C. Sifón, M. Aravena, J. A. Benavides, I. Busà, D. Donevski, O. Dorey, H. M. Hernandez-Toledo, A. Nanni, W. J. Pearson, F. Pistis, R. Ragusa, G. Riccio, J. Román
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (year: 2024, volume: 684, pages: A30), Publisher: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/202348432 – link to the publication
  5. Determining the time before or after a galaxy merger event

    Authors:
    W. J. Pearson, V. Rodriguez-Gomez, S. Kruk, and B. Margalef-Bentabol
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (year: 2024, volume: 687, pages: A45), Publisher: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/202449532 – link to the publication
  6. Variation of optical and infrared properties of galaxies with their surface brightness

    Authors:
    Junais, K. Małek, S. Boissier, W. J. Pearson, A. Pollo, A. Boselli, M. Boquien, D. Donevski, T. Goto, M. Hamed, S. J. Kim, J. Koda, H. Matsuhara, G. Riccio, M. Romano
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (year: 2023, volume: 676, pages: 41), Publisher: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/202346528 – link to the publication
  7. Effects of galaxy environment on merger fraction

    Authors:
    W. J. Pearson, D. J. D. Santos, T. Goto, T.-C. Huang, S. J. Kim, H. Matsuhara, A. Pollo, S. C.-C. Ho, H. S. Hwang, K. Małek, T. Nakagawa, M. Romano, S. Serjeant, L. Suelves, H. Shim, G. J. White
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (year: 2024, volume: 686, pages: A94), Publisher: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/202349034 – link to the publication
  8. Active galactic nuclei catalog from the AKARI NEP-Wide field

    Authors:
    Poliszczuk, Artem; Pollo, Agnieszka; Małek, Katarzyna; Durkalec, Anna; Pearson, William J.; Goto, Tomotsugu; Kim, Seong Jin; Malkan, Matthew; Oi, Nagisa; Ho, Simon C. -C.; Shim, Hyunjin; Pearson, Chris; Hwang, Ho Seong; Toba, Yoshiki; Kim, Eunbin
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (year: 2021, volume: 651, pages: 17), Publisher: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/202040219 – link to the publication
  9. Hidden depths in the local Universe: The Stellar Stream Legacy Survey

    Authors:
    David Martínez-Delgado, Andrew P. Cooper, Javier Román, Annalisa Pillepich, Denis Erkal, Sarah Pearson, John Moustakas, Chervin F. P. Laporte, Seppo Laine, Mohammad Akhlaghi, Dustin Lang, Dmitry Makarov, Alejandro S. Borlaff, Giuseppe Donatiello, William J. Pearson, Juan Miró-Carretero , Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Helena Domínguez, Santi Roca-Fàbrega, Carlos S. Frenk, Judy Schmidt, María A. Gómez-Flechoso, Rafael Guzman, Noam I. Libeskind, Arjun Dey, Benjamin A. Weaver, David Schlegel , Adam D. Myers, Frank G. Valdes
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (year: 2023, volume: 671, pages: A141), Publisher: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/202245011 – link to the publication
  10. Influence of star-forming galaxy selection on the galaxy main sequence

    Authors:
    W.J. Pearson, F. Pistis, M. Figueira, K. Małek, T. Moutard, D. Vergani, A. Pollo
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (year: 2023, volume: 679, pages: 35), Publisher: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/202346396 – link to the publication
  11. Probabilistic and progressive de-blended far-infrared and sub-millimetre point source catalogues I. Methodology and first application in the COSMOS field

    Authors:
    Lingyu Wang, Antonio La Marca, Fangyou Gao, William J. Pearson, Berta Margalef-Bentabol, Matthieu Béthermin, Longji Bing, James Donnellan, Peter D. Hurley, Seb J. Oliver, Catherine L. Hale, Matt J. Jarvis, Mattia Vaccari, Imogen H. Whittam
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (year: 2024, volume: 688, pages: A20), Publisher: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/202349055 – link to the publication
  12. North Ecliptic Pole merging galaxy catalogue

    Authors:
    Pearson, W. J. ; Suelves, L. E. ; Ho, S. C. -C. ; Oi, N. ; Brough, S. ; Holwerda, B. W. ; Hopkins, A. M. ; Huang, T. -C. ; Hwang, H. S. ; Kelvin, L. S. ; Kim, S. J. ; López-Sánchez, Á. R. ; Małek, K. ; Pearson, C. ; Poliszczuk, A. ; Pollo, A. ; Rodriguez-Gomez, V. ; Shim, H. ; Toba, Y. ; Wang, L.
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (year: 2022, volume: 661, pages: A52), Publisher: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/202141013 – link to the publication
  13. Optically detected galaxy cluster candidates in the AKARI North Ecliptic Pole field based on photometric redshift from the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam

    Authors:
    Ting-Chi Huang, Hideo Matsuhara, Tomotsugu Goto, Daryl Joe D. Santos, Simon C.-C. Ho, Seong Jin Kim, Tetsuya Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Ikeda, Nagisa Oi, Matthew A. Malkan, William J. Pearson, Agnieszka Pollo, Stephen Serjeant, Hyunjin Shim, Takamitsu Miyaji, Ho Seong Hwang, Anna Durkalec, Artem Poliszczuk, Thomas R. Greve, Chris Pearson, Yoshiki Toba, Dongseob Lee, Helen K. Kim, Sune Toft, Woong-Seob Jeong and Umi Enokidani
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (year: 2021, volume: 506, pages: 6063-6080), Publisher: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stab2128 – link to the publication
  14. Metallicity-PAH Relation of MIR-selected Star-forming Galaxies in AKARI North Ecliptic Pole-wide Survey

    Authors:
    Hyunjin Shim, Ho Seong Hwang, Woong-Seob Jeong, Yoshiki Toba, Minjin Kim, Dohyeong Kim, Hyunmi Song, Tetsuya Hashimoto, Takago Nakagawa, Ambra Nanni, William J. Pearson, and Toshinobu Takagi
    Academic press:
    The Astronomical Journal (year: 2023, volume: 165, pages: 14), Publisher: American Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-3881/aca09c – link to the publication
  15. Merger identification through photometric bands, colours, and their errors

    Authors:
    L. E. Suelves, W. J. Pearson and A. Pollo
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (year: 2023, volume: 669, pages: 15), Publisher: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/202244509 – link to the publication

Articles in post-conference publications (2)

  1. Understanding real galaxy mergers through simulations and deep learning

    Authors:
    William J. Pearson
    Conference:
    XL Polish Astronomical Society Meeting (year: 2022, volume: XL Polish Astronomical Society Meeting, pages: 76), Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Astronomiczne
    Date:
    conference 13-09-2021 to 17-09-2021
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    link to the publication
  2. Pitfalls of AI classification of rare objects: Galaxy Mergers

    Authors:
    W. J. Pearson, L.E. Suelves, S.C.-C. Ho, N.Oi, NEP Team, and GAMA Team
    Conference:
    FROM DARK MATTER TO MACHINE LEARNING: A COLLECTION OF EAS 2022 PROCEEDINGS FROM THE S3 AND S11 SYMPOSIA (year: 2023, volume: Machine Learning: a giant leap towards space discovery in the era of peta and exabyte scale surveys, pages: 4), Publisher: SAlt
    Date:
    conference 27-06-2022 to 01-07-2022
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.48550/arXiv.2302.11288 – link to the publication

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