William Baker

Chemical evolution of galaxies

Resolved and global scaling relations

Metallicities

Photometry

Morphology

Research

Chemical evolution of galaxies

Global and resolved scaling relations (i.e. SK, SFMS, MGMS)

Gas-Phase metallicities (MZR and FMR)

Photometry

Morphology

SED fitting

Part of the ALMaQUEST collaboration

Part of the JWST NIRCam GTO team (part of JADES collaboration)

Part of the MOONS collaboration

Publications

Key publications:

The black hole mass metallicity relation and insights into galaxy quenching, Baker, William M., Maiolino, Roberto, et al., submitted to Nature Communications, 2023, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.00670.pdf
Inside-out growth in the early universe: a core in a vigorously star-forming disc, Baker, William M., Tacchella, Sandro, et al., submitted to Nature Astronomy, 2023, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.02472.pdf
Stellar mass, not dynamical mass nor gravitational potential, drives the mass-metallicity relationship, Baker, William M. Maiolino, Roberto, MNRAS, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad802
The Molecular-Gas Main Sequence and Schmidt-Kennicutt relation are fundamental, the Star-Forming Main Sequence is a (useful) byproduct, Baker, William M., Maiolino, Roberto, Belfiore, Francesco, Bluck, Asa F. L., Curti, Mirko, Wylezalek, Dominika, Bertemes, Caroline, Bothwell, Matt, Lin, Lihwai, Thorp, Mallory, Pan, Hsi-An, MNRAS, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3413
The metallicity's fundamental dependence on both local and global quantities, Baker, William M., Maiolino, Roberto, Belfiore, Francesco, Curti, Mirko, Bluck, Asa F. L., Lin, Lihwai, Ellison, Sara L., Thorp, Mallory, Pan, Hsi-An, MNRAS, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3594
The ALMaQUEST survey IX: the nature of the resolved star forming main sequence, Baker, William M., Maiolino, Roberto, Bluck, Asa F. L., Lin, Lihwai, Ellison, Sara L., Belfiore, Francesco, Pan, Hsi-An, Thorp, Mallory, 2022, MNRAS, 510, 3622-3628, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3672