Stockholm university

Research group The Galaxy group

At the Department of Astronomy, we use observations from optical to radio wavelengths combined with modelling to understand how galaxies were formed and evolve.

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This is a true-colour image of the major part of NGC 1365, combined from three exposures with the FORS1 multi-mode instrument at VLT UT1, in the B (blue), V (green) and R (red) optical bands. Credit: ESO

Group description

Our focus is on kinematics, star formation histories, and interstellar medium of starforming galaxies and blue compact galaxies, as well as the Lyman-alpha emission and Lyman continuum escape from these galaxies. We probe star formation processes at sub-kiloparsec scales, including how they relate to galactic scale physical properties and contribute to regulate the recycling of material necessary to sustain the formation of new stars.

Using supercomputers we model the effects of the first galaxies on the intergalactic medium, the so-called reionization of the universe. 

The researchers at the department are collaborating with the physics departments at Stockholm University and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) within the Oskar Klein Centre.

 

Group members

Group managers

Göran Östlin

Professor

Department of Astronomy
Göran Östlin

Members

Angela Adamo

Assistant Professor

Department of Astronomy
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Adrianus Bik

Senior Researcher

Department of Astronomy
Arjan Bik

Giacomo Bortolini

PhD student

Department of Astronomy
Giacomo Bortolini. PhD candidate

Nushkia Chamba

Guest researcher

Department of Astronomy

Suhyeon Choe

PhD student

Department of Astronomy

Aline Chu

Postdoc

Department of Astronomy

Timmy Ejdetjärn

PhD student

Department of Astronomy

Jenny Frediani

PhD student

Department of Astronomy
Ph.D. student at Stockholm University

Matthew Hayes

Assistant Professor

Department of Astronomy
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Per Olof Lindblad

Professor emeritus

Department of Astronomy

Jens Melinder

Senior Researcher

Department of Astronomy

Matteo Maria Messa

Guest researcher

Department of Astronomy
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Magnus Näslund

Assistant Professor

Department of Astronomy

Alex Pedrini

PhD student

Department of Astronomy
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Thøger Emil Juul Rivera-Thorsen

Researcher

Department of Astronomy

Axel Runnholm

Postdoc

Department of Astronomy
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Alberto Saldana-Lopez

Postdoc

Department of Astronomy

Helena Faustino Vieira

Postdoc

Department of Astronomy

Alice Robinson Young

PhD student

Department of Astronomy
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Göran Östlin

Professor

Department of Astronomy
Göran Östlin

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