AAO Colloquium.

Friday January 2nd 2010 - 3:30pm AAO Conference Room

Tracing High Redshift Star Formation in deep Radio and Infrared Surveys

Dr. Nick Seymour

UCL, UK

Abstract:
Tracing High Redshift Star Formation in deep Radio and Infrared Surveys " The radio and far-IR regimes are the most direct tracers of star formation as the luminosity of star forming galaxies (SFGs) at these wavelengths is directly related to their star formation rate. While radio surveys are now reaching levels where they detect more SFGs than AGN, capabilities in the far-IR have just taken a huge leap forward with the launch of Herschel. I will discuss what current radio and far-IR surveys tell us about the history of star formation. I will also present new results on the types of galaxies dominating star formation across 0