Scott Croom
Scott Croom | |
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| Born | Scott Martin Croom |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Observational astronomy |
| Institutions | University of Sydney |
| Thesis | Cosmology and large-scale structure from quasar redshift surveys (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | Tom Shanks |
| Website | www |
Scott Martin Croom is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Sydney.[1]
Croom completed his PhD at Durham University in 1997. Following a postdoc at Imperial College London, he moved to Australia in 2000 to work at the Anglo-Australian Observatory, and joined the University of Sydney in 2006.[1]
He describes his main research interests as cosmology and galaxy formation and evolution.[1] He was the project leader of the team of astronomers that developed the Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral Field Spectrograph (SAMI), for which they received the inaugural Peter McGregor Prize from the Astronomical Society of Australia in 2016.[2][3][a]
In 2024, he was first author of a study that revealed age as the 'driving force' in determining how stars move within galaxies.[4][5][6]
Notes
- ^ The development, through the use of a 'hexabundle' optical element that contains many optical fibres 'precisely aligned and fused', allows light to be collected from many locations across the face of a galaxy at once. The light entering the optical fibres is then fed to the spectrograph, which can measure a 'huge range of physical properties' such as the motion and chemistry of the gas and stars within galaxies.[3]
References
- ^ a b c "Professor Scott Croom". University of Sydney. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
- ^ "Peter Mcgregor Prize". Astronomical Society of Australia. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
- ^ a b "Game-changer for astronomical instrumentation". University of Sydney. 19 July 2016. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
- ^ "Study reports that age is the driving force in changing how stars move within galaxies". Phys.Org. 2 April 2024. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
- ^ "Galaxies become more chaotic as they get older". University of Sydney. 4 April 2024. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
- ^ Croom, Scott; et al. (April 2024). "The SAMI Galaxy Survey: galaxy spin is more strongly correlated with stellar population age than mass or environment". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529 (4): 3446–3468. arXiv:2402.06877. doi:10.1093/mnras/stae458.
External links
- Scott Croom publications indexed by Google Scholar