Prof Vivienne Wild

Professor

Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 1680
Email: vw8@st-andrews.ac.uk

Teaching

I co-ordinate and teach the 3rd/4th year Extragalactic Astronomy course which I developed specially for St Andrews undergraduate students in astrophysics. The objectives of this module are to help students: (1) to learn about the observations that enable us to understand galaxy evolution and observational cosmology, (2) to learn to apply a range of physical principles learnt outside this lecture course to the understanding of galaxies, and (3) to be able to apply the material learnt in the lectures to current research activities in extragalactic astrophysics. The course includes "guest seminars" from PhD students and post-docs doing cutting edge research in the field, with constructive feedback provided by the students to guide their learning, and help the guest speakers improve their lecturing style. Assessment includes an exploration of the SDSS galaxy survey database using python programming and SQL.

Research areas

My research is focussed on galaxy formation and evolution. In particular I am interested in the role of galaxy mergers and starbursts in building "red and dead" elliptical galaxies, using absorption line systems to unveil the link between galaxies and their gaseous halos, and the impact of on galaxy evolution.

My work combines observational data from several international galaxy surveys with a large suites of simulations, to study both the spectral and morphological evolution of galaxies following a starburst or merger phase. We aim to understand the physical processes responsible for changing galaxies from the irregular balls of gas observed at high redshift, into the bimodal population of star-forming spirals and quiescent ellipticals seen around us today.

PhD supervision

Ho-Hin Leung
Zoe Harvey
Ewan Bottomley
Sahyadri Krishna

Selected publications

Open access

A surprising abundance of massive quiescent galaxies at 3 < z < 5 in the first data from JWST CEERS
Carnall, A. C., McLeod, D. J., McLure, R. J., Dunlop, J. S., Begley, R., Cullen, F., Donnan, C. T., Hamadouche, M. L., Jewell, S. M., Jones, E. W., Pollock, C. L. & Wild, V., 2 Feb 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 12 p., stad369.
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Gas metallicity distributions in SDSS-IV MaNGA galaxies: what drives gradients and local trends?
Boardman, N. F., Wild, V., Heckman, T., Sánchez, S. F., Riffel, R., Riffel, R. A. & Zasowski, G., Apr 2023, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520, 3, p. 4301–4314 15 p., stad277.
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Galaxy mergers can rapidly shut down star formation
Ellison, S. L., Wilkinson, S., Woo, J., Leung, H-H., Wild, V., Bickley, R. W., Patton, D. R., Quai, S. & Gwyn, S., 23 Sep 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Advance article, p. L92-L96 5 p.
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Rapidly quenched galaxies in the Simba cosmological simulation and observations
Zheng, Y., Dave, R., Wild, V. & Rodríguez Montero, F., Jun 2022, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 513, 1, p. 27–41
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Resolved molecular gas observations of MaNGA post-starbursts reveal a tumultuous past
Otter, J. A., Rowlands, K., Alatalo, K., Leung, H-H., Wild, V., Luo, Y., Petric, A. O., Sazonova, E., Stark, D. V., Heckman, T., Davis, T. A., Ellison, S., French, K. D., Baker, W., Bluck, A. F. L., Lanz, L., Lin, L., Liu, C., López Cobá, C., Masters, K. L., Nair, P., Pan, H., Riffel, R. A., Scudder, J. M., Smercina, A., van de Voort, F. & Weaver, J. R., 14 Dec 2022, In: Astrophysical Journal. 941, 1, 27 p., 93.
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The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: complete release of MaNGA, MaStar and APOGEE-2 data
Abdurro’uf, Accetta, K., Aerts, C., Silva Aguirre, V., Ahumada, R., Ajgaonkar, N., Filiz Ak, N., Alam, S., Allende Prieto, C., Almeida, A., Anders, F., Anderson, S. F., Andrews, B. H., Anguiano, B., Aquino-Ortíz, E., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Argudo-Fernández, M., Ata, M., Aubert, M., Avila-reese, V., Badenes, C., Barbá, R. H., Barger, K., Barrera-Ballesteros, J. K., Beaton, R. L., Beers, T. C., Belfiore, F., Bender, C. F., Bernardi, M., Bershady, M. A., Beutler, F., Bidin, C. M., Bird, J. C., Bizyaev, D., Blanc, G. A., Blanton, M. R., Boardman, N. F., Bolton, A. S., Boquien, M., Borissova, J., Bovy, J., Brandt, W. N., Brown, J., Brownstein, J. R., Brusa, M., Buchner, J., Bundy, K., Burchett, J. N., Bureau, M., Burgasser, A., Cabang, T. K., Campbell, S., Cappellari, M., Carlberg, J. K., Wanderley, F. C., Carrera, R., Cash, J., Chen, Y., Chen, W-H., Cherinka, B., Chiappini, C., Choi, P. D., Chojnowski, S. D., Chung, H., Clerc, N., Cohen, R. E., Comerford, J. M., Comparat, J., Da Costa, L., Covey, K., Crane, J. D., Cruz-Gonzalez, I., Culhane, C., Cunha, K., Dai, Y. S., Damke, G., Darling, J., Davidson Jr., J. W., Davies, R., Dawson, K., De Lee, N., Diamond-Stanic, A. M., Cano-Díaz, M., Sánchez, H. D., Donor, J., Duckworth, C., Dwelly, T., Eisenstein, D. J., Elsworth, Y. P., Emsellem, E., Eracleous, M., Escoffier, S., Fan, X., Farr, E., Feng, S., Fernández-Trincado, J. G., Feuillet, D., Filipp, A., Fillingham, S. P., Frinchaboy, P. M., Fromenteau, S., Galbany, L., García, R. A., García-Hernández, D. A., Ge, J., Geisler, D., Gelfand, J., Géron, T., Gibson, B. J., Goddy, J., Godoy-Rivera, D., Grabowski, K., Green, P. J., Greener, M., Grier, C. J., Griffith, E., Guo, H., Guy, J., Hadjara, M., Harding, P., Hasselquist, S., Hayes, C. R., Hearty, F., Hernández, J., Hill, L., Hogg, D. W., Holtzman, J. A., Horta, D., Hsieh, B., Hsu, C-H., Hsu, Y-H., Huber, D., Huertas-Company, M., Hutchinson, B., Hwang, H. S., Ibarra-Medel, H. J., Chitham, J. I., Ilha, G. S., Imig, J., Jaekle, W., Jayasinghe, T., Ji, X., Johnson, J. A., Jones, A., Jönsson, H., Katkov, I., Khalatyan, D. A., Kinemuchi, K., Kisku, S., Knapen, J. H., Kneib, J-P., Kollmeier, J. A., Kong, M., Kounkel, M., Kreckel, K., Krishnarao, D., Lacerna, I., Lane, R. R., Langgin, R., Lavender, R., Law, D. R., Lazarz, D., Leung, H. W., Leung, H-H., Lewis, H. M., Li, C., Li, R., Lian, J., Liang, F-H., Lin, L., Lin, Y-T., Lin, S., Lintott, C., Long, D., Longa-Peña, P., López-Cobá, C., Lu, S., Lundgren, B. F., Luo, Y., Mackereth, J. T., De La Macorra, A., Mahadevan, S., Majewski, S. R., Manchado, A., Mandeville, T., Maraston, C., Margalef-Bentabol, B., Masseron, T., Masters, K. L., Mathur, S., Mcdermid, R. M., Mckay, M., Merloni, A., Merrifield, M., Meszaros, S., Miglio, A., Di Mille, F., Minniti, D., Minsley, R., Monachesi, A., Moon, J., Mosser, B., Mulchaey, J., Muna, D., Muñoz, R. R., Myers, A. D., Myers, N., Nadathur, S., Nair, P., Nandra, K., Neumann, J., Newman, J. A., Nidever, D. L., Nikakhtar, F., Nitschelm, C., O’connell, J. E., Garma-Oehmichen, L., Luan Souza De Oliveira, G., Olney, R., Oravetz, D., Ortigoza-Urdaneta, M., Osorio, Y., Otter, J., Pace, Z. J., Padilla, N., Pan, K., Pan, H-A., Parikh, T., Parker, J., Peirani, S., Peña Ramírez, K., Penny, S., Percival, W. J., Perez-Fournon, I., Pinsonneault, M., Poidevin, F., Poovelil, V. J., Price-Whelan, A. M., Bárbara De Andrade Queiroz, A., Raddick, M. J., Ray, A., Rembold, S. B., Riddle, N., Riffel, R. A., Riffel, R., Rix, H-W., Robin, A. C., Rodríguez-Puebla, A., Roman-Lopes, A., Román-Zúñiga, C., Rose, B., Ross, A. J., Rossi, G., Rubin, K. H. R., Salvato, M., Sánchez, S. F., Sánchez-Gallego, J. R., Sanderson, R., Santana Rojas, F. A., Sarceno, E., Sarmiento, R., Sayres, C., Sazonova, E., Schaefer, A. L., Schiavon, R., Schlegel, D. J., Schneider, D. P., Schultheis, M., Schwope, A., Serenelli, A., Serna, J., Shao, Z., Shapiro, G., Sharma, A., Shen, Y., Shetrone, M., Shu, Y., Simon, J. D., Skrutskie, M. F., Smethurst, R., Smith, V., Sobeck, J., Spoo, T., Sprague, D., Stark, D. V., Stassun, K. G., Steinmetz, M., Stello, D., Stone-Martinez, A., Storchi-Bergmann, T., Stringfellow, G. S., Stutz, A., Su, Y-C., Taghizadeh-Popp, M., Talbot, M. S., Tayar, J., Telles, E., Teske, J., Thakar, A., Theissen, C., Tkachenko, A., Thomas, D., Tojeiro, R., Hernandez Toledo, H., Troup, N. W., Trump, J. R., Trussler, J., Turner, J., Tuttle, S., Unda-Sanzana, E., Vázquez-Mata, J. A., Valentini, M., Valenzuela, O., Vargas-González, J., Vargas-Magaña, M., Alfaro, P. V., Villanova, S., Vincenzo, F., Wake, D., Warfield, J. T., Washington, J. D., Weaver, B. A., Weijmans, A-M., Weinberg, D. H., Weiss, A., Westfall, K. B., Wild, V., Wilde, M. C., Wilson, J. C., Wilson, R. F., Wilson, M., Wolf, J., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Yan, R., Zamora, O., Zasowski, G., Zhang, K., Zhao, C., Zheng, Z., Zheng, Z. & Zhu, K., Apr 2022, In: Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 259, 2, 39 p., 35.
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The merger fraction of post-starburst galaxies in UNIONS
Wilkinson, S., Ellison, S. L., Bottrell, C., Bickley, R. W., Gwyn, S., Cuillandre, J-C. & Wild, V., 1 Nov 2022, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 516, 3, p. 4354-4372 19 p.
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The relationship between gender and academic performance in undergraduate physics students: the role of physics identity, perceived recognition, and self-efficacy
Bottomley, E., Kohnle, A., Mavor, K., Miles, P. J. & Wild, V., 26 Dec 2022, In: European Journal of Physics. 44, 2, 18 p., 025701.
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From starburst to quiescence: post-starburst galaxies and their large-scale clustering over cosmic time
Wilkinson, A., Almaini, O., Wild, V., Maltby, D., Hartley, W. G., Simpson, C. & Rowlands, K., Jul 2021, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 504, 3, p. 4533–4550
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Gender effects in perceived recognition as a physicist and physics identity
Bottomley, E., Mavor, K. I., Miles, P. J., Kohnle, A. & Wild, V., 10 Oct 2021, p. 51-56. 5 p.
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