High Redshift Research at Oxford

Welcome to the High Redshift Research Group Website

Our work addresses the key issues related to star formation and the mass assembly history of galaxies in the redshift interval 1 < z < 6. The connection between the various populations of high redshift sources and will ultimately locate and characterize the earliest populations beyond z ∼ 7 and assess their role in reionizing the Universe. For this research we frequently use: the AO-fed Oxford SWIFT integral field spectrograph and the FMOS multi-object infrared spectrograph and are hoping in the future to incorporate MUSE and KMOS, which are frontier integral field instruments being developed for the ESO VLT as well as the James Webb Space Telescope.

The members of this group are internationally-acknowledged leaders in discovering and studying star-forming galaxies at high redshift with HST, Spitzer and ground-based spectroscopic confirmation with Keck, VLT and Gemini. We have also pioneered multi-object and integral-field Spectroscopy in the near-IR.

Members:

Andy Bunker

Lance Miller

Steve Rawlings

Isobel Hook

Nirajan Thatte

Dimitra Rigopolou

Ian Lewis

Matthias Tecza

Sarah Miller

Garret Cotter

Ian Heywood

Ed MacCauly

Joe Silk

Adrianne Slyz

Julien Devriendt

Susan Kassin

Sugata Kaviraj

Chris Lintott

Christian Wolf

Tim Goodsall

Cristina Fernandes

Emma Curtis-Lake

Michele Cappellari

Aprajita Verma