How Location Governs Longevity in the Lifecycle of Typical Galaxies

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The Universe is dying. All across the cosmos for the last 10 billion years galaxies have been continuously killed, and we still don't know why. Today the Universe is littered with dead galaxies, and their distribution is correlated with location (environment). This suggests that location is one of the prime suspects in this galactic whodunit. However, previous observations and techniques have restricted us to only measuring galaxy environments in the nearby Universe, inhibiting our ability to identify when, where and why they are killed. This project aims to use my new state-of-the-art Australian survey and innovative analysis techniques to measure the smoking gun factors that kill galaxies in the distant Universe for the very first time.