Research in Observational Astronomy

AGN and compact-source accretion

• AGN and the growth of galaxies
• The brightest high mass X-ray binaries and the Eddington threshold
• Accreting white dwarfs as accretion disk laboratories
• Radio surveys as a key to understanding AGN feedback

Galaxy formation and evolution

• Probing galaxy halos with strong absorption line systems
• The KMOS Galaxy Evolution Survey (KGES)
• Ultraluminous dust-obscured galaxies
• The first four billion years
• Star formation and galaxy evolution in the nearby, resolved Universe

Galaxy groups, clusters, and large-scale structure

• AGN feedback in clusters
• Cluster starbursts
• Uncovering ensembles of Milky-Way analogues with PAUS

Milky way and local galaxies

• The Milky Way mass to 10% precision
• The Stellar Initial Mass Function in Giant Elliptical Galaxies
• Construction and Exploitation of new FP-based peculiar velocity surveys

Cosmology and dark matter

• Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
• Cherenkov Telescope Array Studies of Dark Matter and AGN
• Dark matter particle colliders
• Imaging Surveys for Cosmology