CAREER: Galaxy Evolution Over Half of Cosmic History

Coil博士将开展三个互补的研究项目，以解决星系演化中几个关键的突出问题。 她的目标是揭示宇宙历史后半期星系和活动星系核戏剧性演化背后的物理过程，特别关注星系中恒星质量的积累，环境对活动星系核吸积的作用，以及外流星系风的普遍性和重要性。她的工作将主要使用来自PRISm多目标调查（PRIMUS）的数据，这是迄今为止最大的暗星系光谱红移调查，她是其中的一员。她和她的团队将领导项目，以测量星系恒星质量函数的演变，活动星系核的聚集特性，并研究在遥远的星系外流星系风的物理特性。这一提议的更广泛的影响范围从增加学生入学率在一般天体物理学调查课程在加州大学圣地亚哥分校增加妇女在物理学的代表性和超越。Coil博士创建了一种多层次的方法，针对学术管道中几个层次的女性，重点是中学和研究生以及博士后研究人员。 她将扩大她最近在UCSD创建的物理学女性小组，以使用指导来支持和增强物理系现有研究生和博士后女性的经验，并招募更多女性参加该计划。 她还将通过实际物理演示，让女研究生参与针对中学女生的外联活动。 这项建议还将在上述研究活动中培训和指导研究生和一名博士后学者。

Dr. Coil will carry out three complementary research projects to tackle several key outstanding questions in galaxy evolution. Her goal is to uncover the physical processes behind the dramatic evolution observed in galaxies and AGN in the latter half of cosmic history, focusing specifically on the build-up of stellar mass in galaxies, the role of environment on AGN accretion, and the prevalence and importance of outflowing galactic winds. Her work will primarily use data from the PRIsm MUlti-object Survey (PRIMUS), the largest faint galaxy spectroscopic redshift survey taken to date, of which she is a co-I. She and her team will lead projects to measure the evolution in the galaxy stellar mass function, the clustering properties of AGN, and study the physical properties of outflowing galactic winds in distant galaxies.The broader impacts of this proposal range from increasing student enrollment in the general astrophysics survey course at UCSD to increasing the representation of women in physics at UCSD and beyond. Dr. Coil has created a multi-tiered approach targeting women at several levels in the academic pipeline, focusing on middle school and graduate students, as well as postdoctoral researchers. She will expand the Women in Physics group she recently created at UCSD to use mentoring to both support and enhance the experiences of current graduate student and postdoctoral women in the physics department, as well as to recruit more women to the program. She will also engage female graduate students in outreach aimed at middle school girls, through the use of hands-on physics demos. This proposal will also train and mentor graduate students and a postdoctoral scholar in the research activities described above.