Current list of MAVIS White Papers and topics
Last updated 2018/04/30.
To allow collaboration and coordination, this page provides a list of proposed topics for MAVIS White Papers received so far, along with the lead author, and list of co-authors. To avoid ‘spambot’ issues, we don’t provide email addresses here. However, if you want to get in touch with other authors, details can be obtained from project-scientist@mavis-ao.org upon request, or found via institutional staff directories. We will keep the list updated.
We encourage collaboration and coordination of topics between the white papers. However, authors should not feel obliged to collaborate, and we hope to gather a diverse range of distinct and focused contributions. It is not a problem if there is overlap and common areas of interest between the white papers.
This is a non-competitive process – all contributions are valued, and will be carefully considered when building the final MAVIS science case. All authors will have the option to have their white paper made public via the MAVIS website, and contribute to the MAVIS science case document.
| Lead Author Name | Institute | Topic of interest / ideas for White Paper | Co-authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trevor Mendel | ANU | Measuring ISM properties at a range of redshifts. Explore the different science cases that would be possible with high spatial resolution broadband vs. narrowband imaging and/or spectroscopy. | Lisa Kewley, Brent Groves, Emily Wisnioski, and Nell Byler. |
| Simon Ellis | AAO | Morphological evolution of galaxies in clusters. Bulge-disk decomposition | |
| Luca Casagrande | ANU | Optical photometry for resolved stars in nearby galaxies | |
| Marco Gullieuszik | INAF-Padova | Star-forming clumps | Bianca M. Poggianti, Alessia Moretti, Benedetta Vulcani, Daniela Bettoni |
| Marco Gullieuszik | INAF-Padova | Mass growth and size evolution of early type galaxies | Bianca M. Poggianti, Alessia Moretti, Benedetta Vulcani, Daniela Bettoni, Elisa Portaluri, Renato Falomo |
| Marco Gullieuszik | INAF-Padova | Ram-pressure stripping in intermediate-z clusters | Bianca M. Poggianti, Alessia Moretti, Benedetta Vulcani, Daniela Bettoni |
| Benedetta Vulcani | INAF-Padova | Morphological evolution of galaxies | Marco Gullieuszik, Bianca M. Poggianti, Alessia Moretti, Daniela Bettoni |
| Sperello di Serego Alighieri | INAF-Arcetri | Direct detection of UV-upturn hot, old stars in nearby ETGs and bulges. | Laura Greggio (Padova) |
| Deanne Fisher | Swinburne | z~1-2 galaxies and also low-z analogues | Karl Glazebrook |
| Ken Freeman | ANU | Imaging and spectroscopy of ultra-faint galaxies | Helmut Jerjen |
| Stuart Ryder | AAO | Core-collapse supernovae with MAVIS | |
| Elisa Portaluri | INAF-Padova | Quantifying the capabilities of MAVIS for selected science cases, in particular characterization of the UV properties of active and inactive galaxies up to redshift 1 | R. Falomo, R. Ragazzoni, S. Paiano, V. Viotto, D. Greggio, D. Magrin, J. Farinato, D. Fantinel, M. Uslenghi, M. Gullieuszik |
| Elena Pancino | INAF-Arcetri | Dynamics of resolved stellar clusters in the local group, using astrometry “calibrated” by Gaia and HST | Davide Massari, Andrea Bellini, Mattia Libralato, Nicoletta Sanna, Germano Sacco, Guido Agapito |
| Elena Pancino | INAF-Arcetri | Chemistry and dynamics of (resolved and integrated) stellar clusters in the local group and beyond, with R~20000 AO assisted spectroscopy | Nicoletta Sanna, Laura Magrini, Davide Massari, Tino Oliva, Andrea Tozzi |
| Nicoletta Sanna | INAF-Arcetri | Age, multiple populations, and stellar activity in resolved stellar clusters and stellar populations in the local group with narrow-band filters between 370-450 nm | Elena Pancino, Andrea Bellini, Germano Sacco, Laura Magrini, Guido Agapito, Tino Oliva, Andrea Tozzi |
| Laura Magrini | INAF-Arcetri | The radial abundance distributions and their time evolution in nearby galaxies from photometric and spectroscopic observations of star clusters | Sofia Randich, Elena Pancino, Nicoletta Sanna |
| Germano Sacco | INAF-Arcetri | Star and planet formation at low metallicities in the Magellanic Clouds | Elena Franciosini, Veronica Roccatagliata, Davide Fedele |
| Edvige Corbelli | INAF-Arcetri | Young Stellar Clusters as probes of galaxy evolution in a cluster environment | Marco Grossi & Laura Magrini |
| Tayyaba Zafar | AAO | Hunting absorption galaxies in emission | Celine Peroux |
| Lorenzo Morelli | INAF-Padova | The MAVIS perspective of nuclear stellar disks | Portaluri E. (INAF-OAPD), Pizzella A. (UNIPD/INAF), Buson L. (INAF-OAPD), Corsini E.M. (UNIPD/INAF), Costantin L. (UNIPD), Cuomo V. (UNIPD), Dalla Bonta_ E. (UNIPD/INAF), Pagotto I. (UNIPD), Rubino M. (UNIPD) |
| Francesca Bacciotti | INAF-Arcetri | Jets from young stars at high angular resolution: the launching mechanism as a solution to the angular momentum problem. | Podio, Linda (1); Codella, Claudio (1); Nisini, Brunella (2); Antoniucci, Simone (2); Giannini, Teresa (2) - (1) I.N.A.F. - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri; (2) I.N.A.F. - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma |
| Richard de Grijs | Macquarie | Star clusters | Chengyuan Li (Macquarie) |
| Anna Ferre-Mateu | Swinburne | Super massive black holes in compact galaxies | Richard McDermid (Macquarie) |
| Filippo Mannucci | INAF-Arcetri | The science case for a MAVIS deep field | G. Cresci, M. Perna |
| Dan Maoz | Tel Aviv University | Binarity of WD and the SN Ia rate | Filippo Mannucci |
| Dan Maoz | Tel Aviv University | High redshift CC and Ia SNe | Filippo Mannucci |
| Filippo Mannucci | INAF-Arcetri | UV morphology of galaxies up to z=~6: clumps and morphological parameters | M. Perna, G. Cresci |
| Filippo Mannucci | INAF-Arcetri | Resolved stellar populations in distant galaxies | M. Perna, G. Cresci |
| Giovanni Cresci | INAF-Arcetri | Resolving the properties of AGN feedback | M. Perna, F. Mannucci |
| Giovanni Cresci | INAF-Arcetri | Searching for Intermediate Mass BHs in Local dwarf spheroidal galaxies | S. Salvadori & A. Marconi (Uni. Florence) |
| Stefano Zibetti | INAF-Arcetri | Resolving the most compact massive galaxies across the cosmic time | A. Gallazzi (Arcetri) |
| Stefano Zibetti | INAF-Arcetri | The physical properties and the origin of classical bulges and pseudo-bulges in the local Universe | A. Gallazzi (Arcetri) |
| Simone Antoniucci | INAF-Roma | Mass accretion in low-metallicity environments of the outer Galaxy | J.M. Alcalá(2), B. Nisini(1), K. Biazzo(3), T. Giannini(1), L. Podio(4), F. Bacciotti(4); (1) INAF - OA Roma, (2) INAF - OA Capodimonte, (3) INAF - OA Catania, (4) INAF - OA Arcetri |
| Simone Antoniucci | INAF-Roma | Frequency of accreting sub-stellar companions of low-mass stars | J.M. Alcalá(2), B. Nisini(1), K. Biazzo(3), T. Giannini(1), L. Podio(4), F. Bacciotti(4); (1) INAF - OA Roma, (2) INAF - OA Capodimonte, (3) INAF - OA Catania, (4) INAF - OA Arcetri |
| Ellena Dalla Bonta | INAF-Padova | Dynamical measurements of supermassive black holes and nuclear star clusters with MAVIS | E. Portaluri, E. M. Corsini, I. Pagotto, L. Buson, L. Costantin, V. Cuomo, L. Morelli, A. Pizzella, and M. Rubino |
| Luca Cortese | ICRAR/UWA | The evolution of photometric and kinematic bulges and the link (if any) between pseudo and classical bulges | Barbara Catinella (ICRAR/UWA) |
| Luca Cortese | ICRAR/UWA | The growth of the outer disks and extended UV disks | Barbara Catinella (ICRAR/UWA) |
| Barbara Catinella | ICRAR/UWA | The physics of gas stripping in different environments | Luca Cortese (ICRAR/UWA) |
| Richard de Grijs | Macquarie | Multiple stellar populations in globular clusters, nature or nurture? | Chengyuan Li (Macquarie) |
| Richard de Grijs | Macquarie | Investigating the role of stellar rotations across young massive cluster colour-magnitude diagrams | Chengyuan Li (Macquarie) |
| Mirka Dessauges-Zavadsky | Geneva | Probing Stellar Clumps in Distant Star-forming Galaxies from 1<z<4 Edvige Corbelli, | Leslie Hunt (if not coPI), Laura Magrini, and Filippo Mannucci (Arcetri), and if possible also D. Schaerer (Geneve), L. Mayer (Zurich), A. Adamo (Stockholm), J. Richard (Lyon, our lensing expert) |
| Colin Jacobs | Swinburne | Modelling strong lenses to detect perturbations by small DM subhaloes | Karl Glazebrook (Swinburne) |
| Gayandhi De Silva | AAO/Usyd | Probing Open clusters of the Inner and Outer disk of the Galaxy | Valentina D’Orazi |
| Fabrizio Massi | INAF-Arcetri | Testing the Universality of the Initial Mass Function with Photometry of Open Clusters in the Magellanic Clouds | L. Magrini, G. G. Sacco, and N. Sanna (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri) |
| Monica Tosi | INAF-Bologna | Resolved stellar populations and star formation histories in dwarf galaxies beyond the Local Group | L. Hunt, S. Salvadori, F. Annibali, M. Bellazzini, M. Cignoni, G. Fiorentino, F. Mannucci, M. Monelli, M. Perna, D. Romano, E. Tolstoy |
| Piero Rosati | University of Ferrara | Exploiting strong lensing clusters with MAVIS | Eros Vanzella (INAF-BO), Paolo Tozzi (INAF-FI), Claudio Grillo (University of Milan), Amata Mercurio (INAF-BO), Massimo Meneghetti (INAF-BO), Gabriel B. Caminha (Kapteyn Institute, Groningen), Francesco Calura (INAF-BO), Filippo Mannucci (INAF-FI) |
| Ruben Sanchez-Janssen | UK-ATC | Young Massive Clusters in Metal-Poor Starburst Dwarf Galaxies | Ricardo Amorin (Cambridge), Jorge Sanchez Almeida (IAC) |
| Celine Peroux | LAM | Spatially Resolved Gas Clouds | |
| Andrea Grazian | INAF-Rome | Investigating the nature of Dark Matter through galaxy dynamics at z ∼ 1 − 2 with MAVIS | Nicola Menci |