Dr. Anne-Marie Weijmans

- Position:
-
Reader
- Research Theme:
- Astronomy
- Institution:
- St. Andrews
- Email address:
- amw23@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Telephone number:
- +44 (0)1334 462823
- Address:
- School of Physics & Astronomy, Physical Science Building, North Haugh, St Andrews, KY16 9SS, United Kingdom
Research interests
My research concentrates on the structure and evolution of galaxies, and I use integral-field spectroscopy to study these systems. My main research topic is the study of dark and stellar haloes in early-type galaxies, where I use integral-field spectrographs as 'photon-buckets' to collect enough lights in the faint outskirts of galaxies to measure stellar absorption kinematics and line indices. Other topics that I work on include shapes and morphologies of nearby galaxies. I am also active as the data release coordinator of SDSS-IV, the Lead Observer of the MaNGA (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO) survey, and the project manager of Shine.
Teaching
I am currently teaching the condensed first-year course 'Introduction to Astronomy and Astrophysics' (AS1101) and coordinating the MSc course 'Astrophysical Research Skills' (AS5500). I am the director of taught post-graduate studies in the School of Physics and Astronomy.
Research outputs
- Galactic shape and age go hand in hand DOI, Nature Astronomy (2018)
- SDSS-IV MaNGA DOI, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2018)
- SDSS-IV MaNGA, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2018)
- SDSS-IV MaNGA: the different quenching histories of fast and slow rotators DOI, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473, 2 , p. 2679-2687 (2018)
- The 13th data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DOI, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 233, 2 (2017)
- The fourteenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Astrophysical Journal (2017)
- SDSS-IV MaNGA DOI, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2017)
- Integral-field kinematics and stellar populations of early-type galaxies out to three half-light radii DOI, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471, 4 , p. 4005-4026 (2017)
- SDSS-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy, ArXiv e-prints (2017)
- The SDSS-IV MaNGA sample DOI, Astronomical Journal, 154, 3 (2017)