Sarah Brough

Me :)

Contact details

Email:

Available here, there's even an old photo

Phone:

+61 (0)3 9214 5244

Fax:

+61 (0)3 9214 8797

Address:

Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
Swinburne University
Mail number H39
PO Box 218
Hawthorn
VIC 3122
Australia

CV: here

Publications:ADS link

Research Projects

Brightest Cluster Galaxy in cluster Abell 2029

• Merging history of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) and their black holes
  with Kim-Vy Tran and Anja von der Linden.

  Using the VIMOS IFU on the VLT to examine BCGs selected from Sloan (von der Linden et al. 2007) with visually determined multiple nuclei, with double-peaked emission lines (possibly due to binary black holes) and with no discernable features (the control sample) to examine the final stages of merging in these massive galaxies that are predicted to have undergone significant numbers of recent mergers.

• Galaxy evolution from 0.3 < z < 1.3 using the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey
  with Chris Blake, Warrick Couch, Karl Glazebrook and the WiggleZ team.

  Using the AAOmega multi-fibre spectrograph on the AAT to measure the baryon acoustic oscillations and calculate the ratio of the dark energy pressure and density [w(z)] at z~0.8, i.e. the expansion rate of the distant universe, using a sample of ~200,000 emission-line galaxies over 1000 square degrees. At the moment I am determining the environmental density of these galaxies.

  

  Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT)

  WiggleZ public website

  WiggleZ private wiki

• Radial stellar populations of brightest cluster galaxies
  with Rob Proctor.

  In Brough et al. (2007) I found for a sample of 6 BCGs that these galaxies seem to have more diverse origins than we have previously thought, with those galaxies in the densest environments not seeming to have undergone any merrgers since z~2. This is not consistent with current semi-analytic models. This result requires more data to confirm whether this conclusion is correct.

• Mass assembly history of brightest cluster galaxies
  with Chris Collins

• Finding clusters at z~0.7 using Large Red Galaxies (LRGs) with photometric redshifts , with Chris Blake and Warrick Couch.

• Multi-wavelength study of the evolution of galaxies in groups
  with Virginia Kilborn, Trevor Mendel and Duncan Forbes.

Photographs