Professor Tamara Davis
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Tamara Davis

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Background

Professor Tamara Davis is an astrophysicist who studies the elusive “dark energy” that’s accelerating the universe. She completed her PhD in 2004 at the University of New South Wales on theoretical cosmology and black holes, then worked on supernova cosmology in two postdoctoral fellowships, the first at the Australian National University (collaborating with Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory) and the second at the University of Copenhagen. In 2008 she moved to Queensland to join the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey team working on mapping the galaxies in the Universe. She led the Dark Theme within the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics, is now leading the OzDES survey -- working with the international Dark Energy Survey, and working with working with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument project. As of 2024 she is Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery.

Her accolades include the Astronomical Society of Australia's Louise Webster Medal for early career research impact, the L'Oréal Women in Science Fellowship for Australia, the Australian Institute of Physics Women in Physics Lectureship, the Australian Academy of Science’s Nancy Millis Medal for outstanding female leadership in science, an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship, the Astronomical Society of Australia's Ellery Lectureship, and a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).

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Professor Tamara Davis is:
Not available for supervision
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Fields of research

Physical Sciences

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales

Research interests

  • Cosmology, Dark Energy, and Dark Matter

    Using supernovae, gravitational waves, and the large-scale structure of the Universe to learn about fundamental physics. On a quest to map all the galaxies in the observable Universe.

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266 works between 2001 and 2025
All (266) Journal Article (259) Book Chapter (2) Conference Publication (5)

41 - 60 of 266 works

2024

Journal Article

Examining the self-interaction of dark matter through central cluster galaxy offsets

Cross, D., Thoron, G., Jeltema, T. E., Swart, A., Hollowood, D. L., Adhikari, S., Bocquet, S., Eiger, O., Everett, S., Jobel, J., Laubner, D., McDaniel, A., Aguena, M., Alves, O., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Cawthon, R., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E.S., Davis, T. M., Desai, S., Doel, P., Ferrero, I. ... Wiseman, P. (2024). Examining the self-interaction of dark matter through central cluster galaxy offsets. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 529 (1), 52-58. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stae442

Examining the self-interaction of dark matter through central cluster galaxy offsets

2024

Journal Article

Cosmology from cross-correlation of ACT-DR4 CMB lensing and DES-Y3 cosmic shear

Shaikh, S., Harrison, I., van Engelen, A., Marques, G. A., Abbott, T. M.C., Aguena, M., Alves, O., Amon, A., An, R., Bacon, D., Battaglia, N., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Bertin, E., Blazek, J., Bond, J. R., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Calabrese, E., Rosell, A. Carnero, Carretero, J., Cawthon, R., Chang, C., Chen, R., Choi, A., Choi, S. K., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E.S., Darwish, O. ... Zuntz, J. (2024). Cosmology from cross-correlation of ACT-DR4 CMB lensing and DES-Y3 cosmic shear. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 528 (2), 2112-2135. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stad3987

Cosmology from cross-correlation of ACT-DR4 CMB lensing and DES-Y3 cosmic shear

2024

Journal Article

Changing-look active galactic nuclei from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. I. Sample from the early data

Guo, Wei-Jian, Zou, Hu, Fawcett, Victoria A., Canning, Rebecca, Juneau, Stephanie, Davis, Tamara M., Alexander, David M., Jiang, Linhua, Aguilar, Jessica Nicole, Ahlen, Steven, Brooks, David, Claybaugh, Todd, de la Macorra, Axel, Doel, Peter, Fanning, Kevin, Forero-Romero, Jaime E., Gontcho A Gontcho, Satya, Honscheid, Klaus, Kisner, Theodore, Kremin, Anthony, Landriau, Martin, Meisner, Aaron, Miquel, Ramon, Moustakas, John, Nie, Jundan, Pan, Zhiwei, Poppett, Claire, Prada, Francisco, Rezaie, Mehdi ... Zhou, Zhimin (2024). Changing-look active galactic nuclei from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. I. Sample from the early data. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 270 (2) 26. doi: 10.3847/1538-4365/ad118a

Changing-look active galactic nuclei from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. I. Sample from the early data

2024

Journal Article

Validation of the scientific program for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

DESI Collaboration, Adame, A. G., Aguilar, J., Ahlen, S., Alam, S., Aldering, G., Alexander, D. M., Alfarsy, R., Allende Prieto, C., Alvarez, M., Alves, O., Anand, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Armengaud, E., Asorey, J., Avila, S., Aviles, A., Bailey, S., Balaguera-Antolínez, A., Ballester, O., Baltay, C., Bault, A., Bautista, J., Behera, J., Beltran, S. F., BenZvi, S., Beraldo e Silva, L., Bermejo-Climent, J. R., Berti, A. ... Zu, Y. (2024). Validation of the scientific program for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. The Astronomical Journal, 167 (2) 62. doi: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad0b08

Validation of the scientific program for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

2024

Journal Article

Designing an optimal kilonova search using DECam for gravitational-wave events

Bom, C. R., Annis, J., Garcia, A., Palmese, A., Sherman, N., Soares-Santos, M., Santana-Silva, L., Morgan, R., Bechtol, K., Davis, T., Diehl, H. T., Allam, S. S., Bachmann, T. G., Fraga, B. M.O., García-Bellido, J., Gill, M. S.S., Herner, K., Kilpatrick, C. D., Makler, M., Olivares E., F., Pereira, M. E.S., Pineda, J., Santos, A., Tucker, D. L., Wiesner, M. P., Aguena, M., Alves, O., Bacon, D., Bernardinelli, P. H. ... Weaverdyck, N. (2024). Designing an optimal kilonova search using DECam for gravitational-wave events. Astrophysical Journal, 960 (2) 122. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad0462

Designing an optimal kilonova search using DECam for gravitational-wave events

2024

Journal Article

A search for faint resolved galaxies beyond the Milky Way in DES Year 6: a new faint, diffuse dwarf satellite of NGC 55

McNanna, M., Bechtol, K., Mau, S., Nadler, E. O., Medoff, J., Drlica-Wagner, A., Cerny, W., Crnojevic, D., Mutlu-Pakdil, B., Vivas, A. K., Pace, A. B., Carlin, J. L., Collins, M. L. M., Ferguson, P. S., Martinez-Delgado, D., Martinez-Vazquez, C. E., Noel, N. E. D., Riley, A. H., Sand, D. J., Smercina, A., Tollerud, E., Wechsler, R. H., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Alves, O., Bacon, D., Bom, C. R., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L. ... Wiseman, P. (2024). A search for faint resolved galaxies beyond the Milky Way in DES Year 6: a new faint, diffuse dwarf satellite of NGC 55. Astrophysical Journal, 961 (1) 126. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad07d0

A search for faint resolved galaxies beyond the Milky Way in DES Year 6: a new faint, diffuse dwarf satellite of NGC 55

2024

Journal Article

Detection of the significant impact of source clustering on higher order statistics with DES Year 3 weak gravitational lensing data

Gatti, M., Jeffrey, N., Whiteway, L., Ajani, V., Kacprzak, T., Zürcher, D., Chang, C., Jain, B., Blazek, J., Krause, E., Alarcon, A., Amon, A., Bechtol, K., Becker, M., Bernstein, G., Campos, A., Chen, R., Choi, A., Davis, C., Derose, J., Diehl, H. T., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Eckert, K., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Ferte, A., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. ... Wiseman, P. (2024). Detection of the significant impact of source clustering on higher order statistics with DES Year 3 weak gravitational lensing data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 527 (1), L115-L121. doi: 10.1093/mnrasl/slad143

Detection of the significant impact of source clustering on higher order statistics with DES Year 3 weak gravitational lensing data

2024

Journal Article

An effective description of Laniakea: impact on cosmology and the local determination of the Hubble constant

Giani, Leonardo, Howlett, Cullan, Said, Khaled, Davis, Tamara and Vagnozzi, Sunny (2024). An effective description of Laniakea: impact on cosmology and the local determination of the Hubble constant. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2024 (1) 071. doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2024/01/071

An effective description of Laniakea: impact on cosmology and the local determination of the Hubble constant

2024

Journal Article

Cosmological shocks around galaxy clusters: a coherent investigation with DES, SPT, and ACT

Anbajagane, D., Chang, C., Baxter, E. J., Charney, S., Lokken, M., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Alves, O., Amon, A., An, R., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bacon, D., Battaglia, N., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Benson, B. A., Bernstein, G. M., Bleem, L., Bocquet, S., Bond, J. R., Brooks, D., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Chen, R., Choi, A., Costanzi, M., Crawford, T. M., Crocce, M., da Costa, L. N. ... Yanny, B. (2024). Cosmological shocks around galaxy clusters: a coherent investigation with DES, SPT, and ACT. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527 (3), 9378-9404. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stad3726

Cosmological shocks around galaxy clusters: a coherent investigation with DES, SPT, and ACT

2024

Journal Article

Main belt asteroids taxonomical information from dark energy survey data

Carruba, V, Camargo, J I B, Aljbaae, S, Ferreira, F S, Lin, E, Figueiredo-Peixoto, V, Banda-Huarca, M V, Pieres, A, Boufleur, R C, da Costa, L N, Abbott, T M C, Aguena, M, Allam, Sahar S, Alves, O, Bernardinelli, P H, Bertin, E, Brooks, D, Carnero Rosell, A, Carretero, J, Pereira, M E S, Davis, T M, De Vicente, J, Desai, S, Doel, P, Ferrero, I, Friedel, D, Frieman, J, García-Bellido, J, Gatti, M ... (DES Collaboration) (2024). Main belt asteroids taxonomical information from dark energy survey data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527 (3), 6495-6505. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stad3466

Main belt asteroids taxonomical information from dark energy survey data

2024

Book Chapter

Impact of Peculiar Velocities on Measurements of H0

D’Arcy Kenworthy, W. and Davis, Tamara M. (2024). Impact of Peculiar Velocities on Measurements of H0. Springer Series in Astrophysics and Cosmology. (pp. 341-362) Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-99-0177-7_18

Impact of Peculiar Velocities on Measurements of H0

2023

Journal Article

Evaluating bulk flow estimators for CosmicFlows–4 measurements

Whitford, Abbé M., Howlett, Cullan and Davis, Tamara M. (2023). Evaluating bulk flow estimators for CosmicFlows–4 measurements. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 526 (2), 3051-3071. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stad2764

Evaluating bulk flow estimators for CosmicFlows–4 measurements

2023

Journal Article

Beyond the 3rd moment: a practical study of using lensing convergence CDFs for cosmology with DES Y3

Anbajagane, D., Chang, C., Banerjee, A., Abel, T., Gatti, M., Ajani, V., Alarcon, A., Amon, A., Baxter, E. J., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bernstein, G. M., Campos, A., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Chen, R., Choi, A., Davis, C., DeRose, J., Diehl, H. T., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Ferté, A., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A. ... Wiseman, P. (2023). Beyond the 3rd moment: a practical study of using lensing convergence CDFs for cosmology with DES Y3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 526 (4), 5530-5554. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stad3118

Beyond the 3rd moment: a practical study of using lensing convergence CDFs for cosmology with DES Y3

2023

Journal Article

A sample of dust attenuation laws for Dark Energy Survey supernova host galaxies

Duarte, J., González-Gaitán, S., Mourão, A., Paulino-Afonso, A., Guilherme-Garcia, P., Águas, J., Galbany, L., Kelsey, L., Scolnic, D., Sullivan, M., Brout, D., Palmese, A., Wiseman, P., Aguena, M., Alves, O., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., Costanzi, M., Pereira, M. E.S., Davis, T. M., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T. ... Weaverdyck, N. (2023). A sample of dust attenuation laws for Dark Energy Survey supernova host galaxies. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 680 A56, 1-28. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346534

A sample of dust attenuation laws for Dark Energy Survey supernova host galaxies

2023

Journal Article

Rates and properties of type Ia supernovae in galaxy clusters within the dark energy survey

Toy, M, Wiseman, P, Sullivan, M, Frohmaier, C, Graur, O, Palmese, A, Popovic, B, Davis, T M, Galbany, L, Kelsey, L, Lidman, C, Scolnic, D, Allam, S, Desai, S, Abbott, T M C, Aguena, M, Alves, O, Annis, J, Bacon, D, Bertin, E, Brooks, D, Burke, D L, Rosell, A Carnero, Kind, M Carrasco, Carretero, J, Castander, F J, Conselice, C, da Costa, L N, Pereira, M E S ... DES Collaboration (2023). Rates and properties of type Ia supernovae in galaxy clusters within the dark energy survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 526 (4), 5292-5305. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stad2982

Rates and properties of type Ia supernovae in galaxy clusters within the dark energy survey

2023

Journal Article

The intrinsic alignment of red galaxies in DES Y1 redMaPPer galaxy clusters

Zhou, C., Tong, A., Troxel, M. A., Blazek, J., Lin, C., Bacon, D., Bleem, L., Chang, C., Costanzi, M., DeRose, J., Dietrich, J. P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Hoyle, B., Jarvis, M., MacCrann, N., Mawdsley, B., McClintock, T., Melchior, P., Prat, J., Pujol, A., Rozo, E., Rykoff, E. S., Samuroff, S., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Rosell, A. Carnero, Yanny, B. ... Wiseman, P. (2023). The intrinsic alignment of red galaxies in DES Y1 redMaPPer galaxy clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 526 (1), 323-336. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stad2712

The intrinsic alignment of red galaxies in DES Y1 redMaPPer galaxy clusters

2023

Journal Article

Photometry of outer solar system objects from the dark energy survey. I. Photometric methods, light-curve distributions, and trans-neptunian binaries

Bernardinelli, Pedro H., Bernstein, Gary M., Jindal, Nicholas, Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Alves, O., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., Davis, T. M., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Everett, S., Ferrero, I., Friedel, D., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Herner, K. ... (The DES Collaboration) (2023). Photometry of outer solar system objects from the dark energy survey. I. Photometric methods, light-curve distributions, and trans-neptunian binaries. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 269 (1) 18, 1-17. doi: 10.3847/1538-4365/acf6bf

Photometry of outer solar system objects from the dark energy survey. I. Photometric methods, light-curve distributions, and trans-neptunian binaries

2023

Journal Article

Can Einstein (rings) surf Gravitational Waves?

Giani, Leonardo, Howlett, Cullan and Davis, Tamara M. (2023). Can Einstein (rings) surf Gravitational Waves?. The Open Journal of Astrophysics, 6. doi: 10.21105/astro.2302.10472

Can Einstein (rings) surf Gravitational Waves?

2023

Journal Article

Target selection for the DESI peculiar velocity survey

Saulder, Christoph, Howlett, Cullan, Douglass, Kelly A, Said, Khaled, BenZvi, Segev, Ahlen, Steven, Aldering, Greg, Bailey, Stephen, Brooks, David, Davis, Tamara M, de la Macorra, Axel, Dey, Arjun, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Forero-Romero, Jaime E, Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A, Honscheid, Klaus, Kim, Alex G, Kisner, Theodore, Kremin, Anthony, Landriau, Martin, Levi, Michael E, Lucey, John, Meisner, Aaron M, Miquel, Ramon, Moustakas, John, Myers, Adam D, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Percival, Will, Poppett, Claire ... Zou, Hu (2023). Target selection for the DESI peculiar velocity survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 525 (1), 1106-1125. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stad2200

Target selection for the DESI peculiar velocity survey

2023

Journal Article

Probing the consistency of cosmological contours for supernova cosmology

Armstrong, P., Qu, H., Brout, D., Davis, T. M., Kessler, R., Kim, A. G., Lidman, C., Sako, M. and Tucker, B. E. (2023). Probing the consistency of cosmological contours for supernova cosmology. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 40 e038, 1-9. doi: 10.1017/pasa.2023.40

Probing the consistency of cosmological contours for supernova cosmology

Current funding

  • 2025 - 2028
    Cosmic Cartography to Counter Cosmic Conundrums
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2027
    Australian Partnership in the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (ARC LIEF administered by UNSW)
    University of New South Wales
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2031
    ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (ARC Centre of Excellence administered by Swinburne University)
    Swinburne University of Technology
    Open grant
  • 2022 - 2025
    A Space Odyssey: Exploring the Universe with Gravitational-Wave Sirens
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2021 - 2025
    Big Questions Institute Fellowship
    Big Questions Institute Pty Ltd
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2019 - 2024
    Illuminating the Dark Universe
    ARC Australian Laureate Fellowships
    Open grant
  • 2018 - 2021
    Doubling the power of the TAIPAN survey facility (ARC LIEF grant administered by The Australian National University)
    Australian National University
    Open grant
  • 2017
    Ian Potter Conference Grant: Dark Energy Survey Collaboration Meeting 2017
    Ian Potter Foundation
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2019
    Weighing Black Holes with The Australian Dark Energy Survey
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2019
    Details of the Dark Side
    Vice-Chancellor's Research and Teaching Fellowship
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2016
    The Australian European Southern Observatory Positioner (AESOP) (ARC LIEF Project administered by The University of Western Australia)
    University of Western Australia
    Open grant
  • 2014 - 2017
    Mapping the Dark Matter with Early Type Galaxies (ARC Linkage Project administered by Swinburne University of Technology)
    Swinburne University of Technology
    Open grant
  • 2014 - 2015
    Mapping the Universe with the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (PanSTARRS) (ARC LIEF Grant administered by The University of Sydney)
    ARC LIEF Collaborating/Partner Organisation Contributions
    Open grant
  • 2013 - 2017
    ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO) (ARC COE administered by the University of Sydney)
    University of Sydney
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2013
    ResTeach 2011 0.05 FTE School of Mathematics and Physics
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2013
    Fundamental physics in distant galaxies (ARC Discovery Project administered by Swinburne University)
    Swinburne University of Technology
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2012
    Investigating Growth of Structure in the Universe using ASKAP and SkyMapper
    UWA-UQ Bilateral Research Collaboration Award
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2014
    Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Dark Flow: Galaxy motion reveals fundamental physics
    ARC Future Fellowships
    Open grant
  • 2008 - 2010
    Cosmological testing of fundamental physics
    UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
    Open grant

Availability

Professor Tamara Davis is:
Not available for supervision

Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Measuring Neutrino Mass with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Cullan Howlett

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Weighing supermassive black holes with the Dark Energy Survey

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Benjamin Pope

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Cosmology with the Dark Energy Survey

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Cullan Howlett

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Gravitational wave cosmology

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Cullan Howlett

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Machine learning cosmology

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Rossana Ruggeri

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Galaxy motions with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Khaled Said Soliman

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Observing Naked-Eye Stars and their Planets with TESS

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Benjamin Pope

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Modelling exotic cosmological models in the era of next generation galaxy surveys

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Cullan Howlett

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Using the motions of galaxies to probe fundamental physics

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Cullan Howlett

Completed supervision

Enquiries

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  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Cosmology
  • Dark energy
  • Dark Matter
  • Exploding stars
  • Physics
  • Quantum gravity
  • Stars - astrophysics
  • Supernovae (exploding stars)
  • Universe
  • Vacuum energy

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