Stellar populations in galaxies with the large galaxy survey SDSS-IV/MaNGA

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The candidate will work on the project Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA), which is part ofthe fourth generation Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) conducted on the Sloan 2.5m Telescope inNew Mexico. MaNGA is an optical fiber-based multi-object IFU that will target 10,000 galaxies over a6 year campaign operating until summer 2020. MaNGA will allow the internal kinematics and spatiallyresolved properties of stellar populations and gas inside galaxies to be studied as a function of localenvironment and halo mass for the very first time. In this particular project we will study how stellarpopulation properties of galaxies, i.e. their formation ages and metal abundances, vary spatially in galaxies as a function of galaxy environment and dark matter halo mass. This work follows on workwe have published with previous and current PhD students in Goddard et al (2017) and Parikh et al(2018). The project will involve python programming and include work with galaxy spectra, big data,and our supercomputer. The scientific analysis will provide key insight into the physical processes thatgovern the formation and evolution of galaxies and structure in the Universe.