Funding for our work on galaxy formation, the IGM and reionization is provided by a grant from the SFB. The SFB 956 combines the unique expertise of the participating astrophysics groups in Cologne and Bonn towards three main goals: On the science side, the unique upcoming opportunities with the opening of the complete submm/far-infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum and the interferometric access to highest angular resolution from radio to infrared wavelengths will be used to investigate and understand the basic processes and their dependence on the physical and chemical environment in interstellar space, by which interstellar clouds aggregate and finally collapse to form new stars. These conditions for star formation are on one hand significantly influenced by the energetic feedback from recently formed stars and by the chemical composition of the interstellar medium as a result of the elements synthesized in previous stellar generations. On the other hand, the conditions are a result of external dynamical impact such as the merging of galaxies, leading to star bursts, or the interaction of interstellar matter with jets and central winds in Active Galactic Nuclei.



The SFB 956 brings together expertise from the Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Universität Bonn, the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, and the Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln.

More information about SFB 956 can be found here

Publications

1. Observational properties of simulated galaxies in overdense and average regions at redshifts z ≃ 6–12, Yajima, H., Shlosman, I., Romano-Díaz, E., Nagamine, Kentaro, 2015
2. AGN-driven helium reionization and the incidence of extended He III regions at redshift z > 3, Compostella, M., Cantalupo, S., Porciani, C., 2014
3. Atomic carbon as a powerful tracer of molecular gas in the high-redshift Universe: perspectives for ALMA, Tomassetti, M., Porciani, C., Romano-Diaz, E., Ludlow, A.D., Papadopoulos, P., 2014
4. Simulating the H2 content of high-redshift galaxies, Tomassetti, M., Porciani, C., Romano-Diaz, E., Ludlow, A.D., 2014
5. The imprint of inhomogeneous He II reionization on the H I and He II Lyα forest, Compostella, M., Cantalupo, S., Porciani, C., 2013
6. Detection of Dark Galaxies and Circum-galactic Filaments Fluorescently Illuminated by the z = 2.4 Quasar HE0109-3518, Cantalupo, S., Haehnelt, M.G., Lilly, S.J., 2012
7. Estimating gas accretion in disc galaxies using the Kennicutt-Schmidt law, Fraternali, F., Tomassetti, M., 2012
8. Overdensities of Y-dropout Galaxies from the Brightest-of-Reionizing Galaxies Survey: A Candidate Protocluster at Redshift z ≈ 8, Trenti, M., Bradley, L.D., Stiavelli, M., Shull, J.M., Oesch, P., Bouwens, R.J., Munoz, J.A., Romano-Diaz, E., Treu, T., Shlosman, I., Carollo, C.M., 2012
9. RADAMESH: cosmological radiative transfer for Adaptive Mesh Refinement, Cantalupo, S., Porciani, C., 2011