YCAA Seminar: “Investigating the link between quenching and bulge growth with artificial intelligence”, Marc Huertas-Company - Observatoire de Paris

Event time: 
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 2:30pm
Hours of operation: 

coffee/tea and cookies will be served in the lounge of Steinbach Hall (52 Hillhouse) starting at 2 PM.

Location: 
Watson Center (WTS), A-51 See map
60 Sachem Street
New Haven 06511
Event description: 

The life of a galaxy is a tight balance between processes that trigger the formation of stars and others that tend to reduce or stop the star-formation activity. Understanding how this balance works and therefore how mass is assembled, is a fundamental question that needs to be tackled to advance in our understanding of galaxy evolution. In this talk I will discuss the relation between morphological / structure transformations of massive galaxies and their star-formation activity. I will focus particularly on the physical mechanisms that provoke the growth of a central over density of stars in the galaxy (bulge) and how this relates to the quenching of star-formation. We use advanced machine intelligence techniques to follow the evolution of global and resolved morphologies of galaxies from z~3 and track down how morphological transformations are reflected in the integrated and resolved star-formation activity. The same techniques are also used to analyze mock images of high resolution hydrodynamic cosmological simulations.