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Vivienne Wild

Prof

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8956-7024

  • KY16 9SS

    United Kingdom

Personal profile

Research overview

My research is focussed on galaxy formation and evolution. In particular I am interested in the role of galaxy mergers and starbursts in building "red and dead" elliptical galaxies, using absorption line systems to unveil the link between galaxies and their gaseous halos, and the impact of  on galaxy evolution.

My work combines observational data from several international galaxy surveys with a large suites of simulations, to study both the spectral and morphological evolution of galaxies following a starburst or merger phase. We aim to understand the physical processes responsible for changing galaxies from the irregular balls of gas observed at high redshift, into the bimodal population of star-forming spirals and quiescent ellipticals seen around us today.

For more information, including research data and code for download, see my personal webpages: http://www-star.st-andrews.ac.uk/~vw8/index.html 

Teaching activity

I co-ordinate and teach the 3rd/4th year Extragalactic Astronomy course which I developed specially for St Andrews undergraduate students in astrophysics. The objectives of this module are to help students: (1) to learn about the observations that enable us to understand galaxy evolution and observational cosmology, (2) to learn to apply a range of physical principles learnt outside this lecture course to the understanding of galaxies, and (3) to be able to apply the material learnt in the lectures to current research activities in extragalactic astrophysics. The course includes "guest seminars" from PhD students and post-docs doing cutting edge research in the field, with constructive feedback provided by the students to guide their learning, and help the guest speakers improve their lecturing style. Assessment includes an exploration of the SDSS galaxy survey database using python programming and SQL. 

 

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  • A multiwavelength evaluation of AGN in the post-starburst phase

    Luo, Y., Rowlands, K., Alatalo, K., Lanz, L., Heckman, T., Sazonova, E., Patil, P., Almaini, O., D'Onofrio, V. R., French, K. D., Otter, J., Petric, A. O., Roy, N., Skarbinski, M., Spilker, J. S., Verrico, M. E. & Wild, V., 20 Mar 2026, In: Astrophysical Journal. 1000, 1, 17 p., 24.

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  • Embers I: low-redshift post-starburst galaxies are frequently depleted in molecular gas relative to star-forming progenitors

    Rasmussen, B. F., Jiménez-Donaire, M. J., Ellison, S. L., Wild, V., Rowlands, K., Huang, Q., Wang, J., Yang, D., Wilkinson, S., Ledger, B., Brown, T., Leung, H.-H. & Byrne-Mamahit, S., 1 May 2026, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 548, 1, 27 p., stag485.

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  • Linking enhanced star formation and quenching to faint tidal features in galaxies

    Gordon, A. J., Ferguson, A. M. N., Mann, R. G. & Wild, V., 1 Feb 2026, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 545, 4, 15 p., staf2223.

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  • No hidden monsters: probing recently quenched galaxies for obscured AGN with JWST-PRIMER MIRI and NIRCam

    Hewitt, G., Almaini, O., Maltby, D., Chapman, E., de Lisle, T., Patil, P., Rowlands, K., Skarbinski, M., Taylor, E., Wild, V., Carnall, A. C., Dunlop, J. S., Grogin, N., Koekemoer, A. M., McLeod, D. J. & Pérez-González, P. G., 1 Aug 2026, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 550, 2, 14 p., stag1180.

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  • Post-starburst galaxies with active galactic nucleus: properties and evolutionary sequences

    Huang, J., Chen, Y., Shi, Y., Li, C., Cheng, Z., Leung, H.-H., Wild, V., Gu, Q., Cheng, Q. & Yu, Y., 20 Jul 2026, In: Astrophysical Journal. 1006, 1, 19 p., 73.

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  • Comparison of stellar populations in simulated and real post-starburst galaxies in MaNGA (dataset)

    Zheng, Y. (Creator), Wild, V. (Supervisor), Lahén, N. (Contributor), Johansson, P. H. (Contributor), Law, D. (Contributor), Weaver , J. R. (Contributor) & Martinez, N. J. (Contributor), University of St Andrews, 2020

    DOI: 10.17630/ff244265-6540-494e-af3e-0969fdc5ff24

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  • Underpinning data of the paper "RQGs in the Simba simulation and observations"

    Zheng, Y. (Creator), Wild, V. (Supervisor), Dave, R. (Creator) & Rodriguez Montero, F. (Creator), University of St Andrews, 17 Nov 2021

    DOI: 10.17630/3d5bbf39-fe0a-4997-987c-d2407f791118

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  • VizieR Online Data Catalog: CALIFA DR2 (Garcia-Benito+, 2015)

    Garcia-Benito, R. (Creator), Zibetti, S. (Creator), Sanchez, S. F. (Creator), Husemann, B. (Creator), de Amorim, A. L. (Creator), Castillo-Morales, A. (Creator), Cid Fernandes, R. (Creator), Ellis, S. C. (Creator), Falcon-Barroso, J. (Creator), Galbany, L. (Creator), Gil de Paz, A. (Creator), Gonzalez Delgado, R. M. (Creator), Lacerda, E. A. D. (Creator), Lopez-Fernandez, R. (Creator), de Lorenzo-Caceres, A. (Creator), Lyubenova, M. (Creator), Marino, R. A. (Creator), Mast, D. (Creator), Mendoza, M. A. (Creator), Perez, E. (Creator), Vale Asari, N. (Creator), Aguerri, J. A. L. (Creator), Ascasibar, Y. (Creator), Bekeraite, S. (Creator), Bland-Hawthorn, J. (Creator), Barrera-Ballesteros, J. K. (Creator), Bomans, D. J. (Creator), Cano-Diaz, M. (Creator), Catalan-Torrecilla, C. (Creator), Cortijo, C. (Creator), Delgado-Inglada, G. (Creator), Demleitner, M. (Creator), Dettmar, R.-J. (Creator), Diaz, A. I. (Creator), Florido, E. (Creator), Gallazzi, A. (Creator), Garcia-Lorenzo, B. (Creator), Gomes, J. M. (Creator), Holmes, L. (Creator), Iglesias-Paramo, J. (Creator), Jahnke, K. (Creator), Kalinova, V. (Creator), Kehrig, C. (Creator), Kennicutt, R. C. J. (Creator), Lopez-Sanchez, A. R. (Creator), Marquez, I. (Creator), Masegosa, J. (Creator), Meidt, S. E. (Creator), Mendez Abreu, J. (Creator), Molla, M. (Creator), Monreal-Ibero, A. (Creator), Morisset, C. (Creator), Del Olmo, A. (Creator), Papaderos, P. (Creator), Perez, I. (Creator), Quirrenbach, A. (Creator), Rosales-Ortega, F. F. (Creator), Roth, M. M. (Creator), Ruiz-Lara, T. (Creator), Sanchez-Blazquez, P. (Creator), Sanchez-Menguiano, L. (Creator), Singh, R. (Creator), Spekkens, K. (Creator), Stanishev, V. (Creator), Torres-Papaqui, J. P. (Creator), van de Ven, G. (Creator), Vilchez, J. M. (Creator), Walcher, C. J. (Creator), Wild, V. (Creator), Wisotzki, L. (Creator), Ziegler, B. (Creator), Alves, J. (Creator), Barrado, D. (Creator), Quintana, J. M. (Creator) & Aceituno, J. (Creator), VizieR On-line Data Catalog, Jun 2015

    http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015yCat..35760135G

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  • VizieR Online Data Catalog: 2D decomposition of CALIFA galaxies (Mendez-Abreu+, 2017)

    Mendez Abreu, J. (Creator), Ruiz-Lara, T. (Creator), Sanchez-Menguiano, L. (Creator), De Lorenzo-Caceres Rodriguez, A. (Creator), Costantin, L. (Creator), Catalan-Torrecilla, C. (Creator), Florido, E. (Creator), Aguerri, J. A. L. (Creator), Bland-Hawthorn, J. (Creator), Corsini, E. M. (Creator), Dettmar, R. J. (Creator), Galbany, L. (Creator), Garcia-Benito, R. (Creator), Marino, R. A. (Creator), Marquez, I. (Creator), Ortega-Minakata, R. A. (Creator), Papaderos, P. (Creator), Sanchez, S. F. (Creator), Sanchez-Blazquez, P. (Creator), Spekkens, K. (Creator), van de Ven, G. (Creator), Wild, V. (Creator) & Ziegler, B. (Creator), VizieR On-line Data Catalog, 2016

    http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016yCat..35980032M

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  • VizieR Online Data Catalog: Stellar kinematics in CALIFA survey (Falcon-Barroso+, 2017)

    Falcón-Barroso, J. (Creator), Lyubenova, M. (Creator), van de Ven, G. (Creator), Mendez Abreu, J. (Creator), Aguerri, J. A. L. (Creator), García-Lorenzo, B. (Creator), Bekeraite, S. (Creator), Sánchez, S. F. (Creator), Husemann, B. (Creator), García-Benito, R. (Creator), Mast, D. (Creator), Walcher, C. J. (Creator), Zibetti, S. (Creator), Barrera-Ballesteros, J. K. (Creator), Galbany, L. (Creator), Sánchez-Blázquez, P. (Creator), Singh, R. (Creator), van den Bosch, R. C. E. (Creator), Wild, V. (Creator), Zhu, L. (Creator), Bland-Hawthorn, J. (Creator), Cid Fernandes, R. (Creator), De Lorenzo-Caceres Rodriguez, A. (Creator), Gallazzi, A. (Creator), González Delgado, R. M. (Creator), Marino, R. A. (Creator), Márquez, I. (Creator), Pérez, E. (Creator), Pérez, I. (Creator), Roth, M. M. (Creator), Rosales-Ortega, F. F. (Creator), Ruíz-Lara, T. (Creator), Wisotzki, L. (Creator) & Ziegler, B. (Creator), VizieR On-line Data Catalog, 2017

    http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017yCat..35970048F and one more link, http://vizier.cfa.harvard.edu/viz-bin/VizieR-3?-source=J/A%2bA/597/A48/tableb1&-out.max=50&-out.form=HTML%20Table&-oc.form=sexa (show fewer)

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