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Cavendish Astrophysics

 
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 discBaker, 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
Other publications: 

See further publications at https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0215-1104.

Teaching and Supervisions

Teaching: 

Part II Relativity Supervisions - Michaelmas 2020 (three groups)

Part II Relativity Supervisions  - Michaelmas 2021 (two groups)

Part III Formation of Structure in the Universe Supervisions -  Lent 2022 

Part III Formation of Structure in the Universe Supervisions -  Lent 2023

PhD Student

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