Research

My work is centred on galaxy evolution and galaxies within clusters. In particular, I work on so-called "jellyfish galaxies" which are spectacular examples of galaxies undergoing Ram-Pressure stripping, a process in which the gas of an infalling galaxy is stripped away into extended tails and filaments. As part of the GASP collaboration I am using IFU observations from MUSE at the VLT to gain a better understanding of the processes involved in transforming these galaxies.

Jellyfish Galaxies in 3D

The multiwavelength observations from MUSE at the VLT contain a huge amount of data which must be distilled into a form which is easier to understand and present; one way of doing this is to produce a 3D model from the datacube. Below you can see an interactive example which reveals the 3D distribution of the Hydrogen alpha gas in a Jellyfish galaxy in x, y and velocity space.

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