November 2025

04/11/25 (Tuesday)
12:00, Auditorium Telescopium (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Lunch Talk
Talk — A census of star-formation and gas mass tracers in two z ~ 4 lensed dusty star-forming galaxies
David Vizgan (University of Illinois)

Abstract

We present new and archival ALMA observations of two strongly lensed dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) selected from the South Pole Telescope Survey, SPT0418-47 (z = 4.225) and SPT2147-50 (z = 3.760). We study the [CII], CO(7-6), [CI](2-1), and, in SPT0418-47, p-H2O emission, which along with the underlying dust continuum are routinely used as tracers of gas mass and/or star-formation rate (SFR). We perform a pixel-by-pixel analysis of both sources in the image plane to study the resolved Kennicutt-Schmidt relation, finding generally good agreement between the slopes of the SFR vs. gas mass surface densities using the different tracers. Using lens modeling methods, we find the the dust emission is more compact than the line emission in both sources, with CO(7-6) and [CI](2-1) similar in extent and [CII] the most extended, reminiscent of recent findings of extended [CII] spatial distributions in galaxies at similar cosmic epochs. We develop the [CI](2-1)/CO(7-6) flux density ratio as an observable proxy for the gas depletion timescale, which can be applied to large samples of DSFGs, in lieu of more detailed inferences of the this timescale which require multi-wavelength observations. Furthermore, the extended [CII] emission in both sources, compared to the total continuum and line emission, suggests that [CII], used in recent years as a molecular gas mass and SFR tracer in high-redshift galaxies, may not always be a suitable tracer of these physical quantities.

11/11/25 (Tuesday)
12:00, Auditorium Telescopium (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Lunch Talk
Talk — to be announced
Laura Scholz Diaz (INAF – Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Florence)
18/11/25 (Tuesday)
12:00, Auditorium Telescopium (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Lunch Talk
Talk — to be announced
Pradosh Barun Das (Macquarie University, Australia)
25/11/25 (Tuesday)
12:00, Auditorium Telescopium (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Lunch Talk
Talk — to be announced
Timothy Davis (Cardiff University)

December 2025

02/12/25 (Tuesday)
12:00, Auditorium Telescopium (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Lunch Talk
Talk — to be announced
Eleonora Caruso (University of Amsterdam)
09/12/25 (Tuesday)
12:00, Auditorium Telescopium (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Lunch Talk
Talk — to be announced
Roxana Popescu (University of Massachusetts)
16/12/25 (Tuesday)
12:00, Auditorium Telescopium (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Lunch Talk
Talk — to be announced
Izzy Garland (HEA Brno)
23/12/25 (Tuesday)
12:00, Auditorium Telescopium (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Lunch Talk
Talk — to be announced
Kalliopi Dasyra (University of Athens)