Overview
Background
Dr Sarah Sweet's research interests are in astrophysics, in the field of galaxy evolution. She received her PhD from the University of Queensland in 2014. Dr Sweet then worked at the Australian National University and at Swinburne University of Technology, before returning to UQ as a Lecturer in Astrophysics in 2020. She was awarded an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship in 2022 and became a Senior Lecturer in 2023.
Availability
- Dr Sarah Sweet is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Business (Management), The University of Queensland
- Bachelor of Science, The University of Queensland
- Bachelor (Honours) of Science, The University of Queensland
- Graduate Certificate in Research Commercialisation, The University of Queensland
- Doctor of Philosophy of Astrophysics, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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Spatially-resolved galaxy evolution
I'm interested in the formation and evolution of galaxies, ranging from dwarf to giant galaxies within the local to high-redshift Universe. I investigate the internal (mass, angular momentum) and environmental factors responsible for galaxy diversity in properties such as morphology, chemical content and dark matter content, mapping their evolution over cosmic time.
Works
Search Professor Sarah Sweet’s works on UQ eSpace
2021
Journal Article
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: a statistical approach to an optimal classification of stellar kinematics in galaxy surveys
van de Sande, Jesse, Vaughan, Sam P, Cortese, Luca, Scott, Nicholas, Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Croom, Scott M, Lagos, Claudia D P, Brough, Sarah, Bryant, Julia J, Devriendt, Julien, Dubois, Yohan, D’Eugenio, Francesco, Foster, Caroline, Fraser-McKelvie, Amelia, Harborne, Katherine E, Lawrence, Jon S, Oh, Sree, Owers, Matt S, Poci, Adriano, Remus, Rhea-Silvia, Richards, Samuel N, Schulze, Felix, Sweet, Sarah M, Varidel, Mathew R and Welker, Charlotte (2021). The SAMI Galaxy Survey: a statistical approach to an optimal classification of stellar kinematics in galaxy surveys. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 505 (2), 3078-3106. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stab1490
2021
Journal Article
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: stellar population and structural trends across the Fundamental Plane
D’Eugenio, Francesco, Colless, Matthew, Scott, Nicholas, van der Wel, Arjen, Davies, Roger L., van de Sande, Jesse, Sweet, Sarah M., Oh, Sree, Groves, Brent, Sharp, Rob, Owers, Matt S., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Croom, Scott M., Brough, Sarah, Bryant, Julia J., Goodwin, Michael, Lawrence, Jon S., Lorente, Nuria P. F. and Richards, Samuel N. (2021). The SAMI Galaxy Survey: stellar population and structural trends across the Fundamental Plane. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 504 (4), 5098-5130. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stab1146
2021
Journal Article
A SAMI and MaNGA view on the stellar kinematics of galaxies on the star-forming main sequence
Fraser-McKelvie, A., Cortese, L., van de Sande, J., Bryant, J. J., Catinella, B., Colless, M., Croom, S. M., Groves, B., Medling, A. M., Scott, N., Sweet, S. M., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Goodwin, M., Lawrence, J., Lorente, N., Owers, M. S. and Richards, S. N. (2021). A SAMI and MaNGA view on the stellar kinematics of galaxies on the star-forming main sequence. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 503 (4), 4992-5005. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stab573
2021
Journal Article
The SAMI galaxy survey: bulge and disk stellar population properties in cluster galaxies
Barsanti, S., Owers, M. S., McDermid, R. M., Bekki, K., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Brough, S., Bryant, J. J., Cortese, L., Croom, S. M., Foster, C., Lawrence, J. S., López-Sánchez, R., Oh, S., Robotham, A. S.G., Scott, N., Sweet, S. M. and van de Sande, J. (2021). The SAMI galaxy survey: bulge and disk stellar population properties in cluster galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 906 (2) 100, 1-32. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/abc956
2021
Journal Article
Environmental processing of galaxies in HI-rich groups
Dzudzar, Robert, Kilborn, Virginia, Sweet, Sarah M., Meurer, Gerhardt, Jarrett, T. H. and Kleiner, Dane (2021). Environmental processing of galaxies in HI-rich groups. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 500 (3), 3689-3710. doi: 10.1093/mnras/staa3439
2020
Journal Article
SHαDE Lg: survey description and mass–kinematics scaling relations for dwarf galaxies
Barat, Dilyar, D’Eugenio, Francesco, Colless, Matthew, Sweet, Sarah M., Groves, Brent and Cortese, Luca (2020). SHαDE Lg: survey description and mass–kinematics scaling relations for dwarf galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 498 (4), 5885-5903. doi: 10.1093/mnras/staa2716
2020
Journal Article
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Gas velocity dispersions in low-z star-forming galaxies and the drivers of turbulence
Varidel, Mathew R, Croom, Scott M, Lewis, Geraint F, Fisher, Deanne B, Glazebrook, Karl, Catinella, Barbara, Cortese, Luca, Krumholz, Mark R, Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Bryant, Julia J, Groves, Brent, Brough, Sarah, Federrath, Christoph, Lawrence, Jon S, Lorente, Nuria P, Owers, Matt S, Richards, Samuel N, López-Sánchez, Ángel R, Sweet, Sarah M, van de Sande, Jesse and Vaughan, Sam P (2020). The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Gas velocity dispersions in low-z star-forming galaxies and the drivers of turbulence. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495 (2), 2265-2284. doi: 10.1093/mnras/staa1272
2020
Journal Article
A giant galaxy in the young Universe with a massive ring
Yuan, Tiantian, Elagali, Ahmed, Labbé, Ivo, Kacprzak, Glenn G., Lagos, Claudia del P., Alcorn, Leo Y., Cohn, Jonathan H., Tran, Kim-Vy H., Glazebrook, Karl, Groves, Brent A., Freeman, Kenneth C., Spitler, Lee R., Straatman, Caroline M. S., Fisher, Deanne B. and Sweet, Sarah M. (2020). A giant galaxy in the young Universe with a massive ring. Nature Astronomy, 4 (10), 957-964. doi: 10.1038/s41550-020-1102-7
2020
Journal Article
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Decomposed stellar kinematics of galaxy bulges and disks
Oh, Sree, Colless, Matthew, Barsanti, Stefania, Casura, Sarah, Cortese, Luca, van de Sande, Jesse, Owers, Matt S, Scott, Nicholas, D’Eugenio, Francesco, Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Brough, Sarah, Bryant, Julia J, Croom, Scott M, Foster, Caroline, Groves, Brent, Lawrence, Jon S, Richards, Samuel N and Sweet, Sarah M (2020). The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Decomposed stellar kinematics of galaxy bulges and disks. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495 (4), 4638-4658. doi: 10.1093/mnras/staa1330
2020
Journal Article
Star–gas misalignment in galaxies. I. The properties of galaxies from the Horizon-AGN simulation and comparisons to SAMI
Khim, Donghyeon J., Yi, Sukyoung K., Dubois, Yohan, Bryant, Julia J., Pichon, Christophe, Croom, Scott M., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Brough, Sarah, Choi, Hoseung, Devriendt, Julien, Groves, Brent, Owers, Matt S., Richards, Samuel N., Sande, Jesse van de and Sweet, Sarah M. (2020). Star–gas misalignment in galaxies. I. The properties of galaxies from the Horizon-AGN simulation and comparisons to SAMI. The Astrophysical Journal, 894 (2) 106, 106. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab88a9
2020
Journal Article
From peculiar morphologies to Hubble-type spirals: the relation between galaxy dynamics and morphology in star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 1.5
Gillman, s, Tiley, A. L., Swinbank, A. M., Harrison, C. M., Smail, Ian, Dudzeviciute, U., Sharples, R. M., Cortese, L., Obreschkow, D., Bower, R. G., Theuns, T., Cirasuolo, M., Fisher, D. B., Glazebrook, K., Ibar, Edo, Mendel, J. Trevor and Sweet, Sarah M. (2020). From peculiar morphologies to Hubble-type spirals: the relation between galaxy dynamics and morphology in star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 1.5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492 (1), 1492-1512. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz3576
2020
Journal Article
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: the contribution of different kinematic classes to the stellar mass function of nearby galaxies
Guo, Kexin, Cortese, Luca, Obreschkow, Danail, Catinella, Barbara, van de Sande, Jesse, Croom, Scott M., Brough, Sarah, Sweet, Sarah, Bryant, Julia J., Medling, Anne, Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Owers, Matt and Richards, Samuel N. (2020). The SAMI Galaxy Survey: the contribution of different kinematic classes to the stellar mass function of nearby galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 491 (1), 773-781. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz3042
2020
Journal Article
Photometric and spectroscopic monitoring, radial velocities and evolutionary status of the chromospherically active, close eclipsing binaries ST Centauri and V0775 Centauri
Moriarty, D. J.W., Liakos, A., Drinkwater, M. J., Mohit, A., Sweet, S. M. and West, J. F. (2020). Photometric and spectroscopic monitoring, radial velocities and evolutionary status of the chromospherically active, close eclipsing binaries ST Centauri and V0775 Centauri. Astrophysics and Space Science, 365 (1) 1. doi: 10.1007/s10509-019-3709-7
2020
Journal Article
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: first detection of a transition in spin orientation with respect to cosmic filaments in the stellar kinematics of galaxies
Welker, C., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Van de Sande, J., Lagos, C., Elahi, P., Obreshkow, D., Bryant, J., Pichon, C., Cortese, L., Richards, S. N., Croom, S. M., Goodwin, M., Lawrence, J. S., Sweet, S., Lopez-Sanchez, A., Medling, A., Owers, M. S., Dubois, Y. and Devriendt, J. (2020). The SAMI Galaxy Survey: first detection of a transition in spin orientation with respect to cosmic filaments in the stellar kinematics of galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 491 (2), 2864-2884. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz2860
2020
Journal Article
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: rules of behaviour for spin-ellipticity radial tracks in galaxies
Rawlings, Alexander, Foster, Caroline, van de Sande, Jesse, Taranu, Dan S., Croom, Scott M., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Brough, Sarah, Bryant, Julia J., Colless, Matthew, Lagos, Claudia del P., Konstantopoulos, Iraklis S., Lawrence, Jon S, Lopez-Sanchez, Angel R, Lorente, Nuria P. F., Medling, Anne M., Oh, Sree, Owers, Matt S., Richards, Samuel N., Scott, Nicholas, Sweet, Sarah M. and Yi, Sukyoung K. (2020). The SAMI Galaxy Survey: rules of behaviour for spin-ellipticity radial tracks in galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 491 (1), 324-343. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz2797
2019
Journal Article
Group pre-processing versus cluster ram-pressure stripping: the case of ESO156−G029
Džudžar, Robert, Kilborn, Virginia, Murugeshan, Chandrashekar, Meurer, Gerhardt, Sweet, Sarah M. and Putman, Mary (2019). Group pre-processing versus cluster ram-pressure stripping: the case of ESO156−G029. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 490 (1), L6-L11. doi: 10.1093/mnrasl/slz139
2019
Journal Article
Star-forming, rotating spheroidal galaxies in the GAMA and SAMI surveys
Moffett, Amanda J., Phillipps, Steven, Robotham, Aaron S. G., Driver, Simon P., Bremer, Malcolm N., Cortese, Luca, Wong, O. Ivy, Brough, Sarah, Brown, Michael J., Bryant, Julia J., Conselice, Christopher J., Croom, Scott M., George, Koshy, Goldstein, Greg, Goodwin, Michael, Holwerda, Benne W., Hopkins, Andrew M., Konstantopoulos, Iraklis S., Lawrence, Jon S., Lorente, Nuria P. F., Medling, Anne M., Owers, Matt S., Pimbblet, Kevin A., Richards, Samuel N., Sweet, Sarah M. and van de Sande, Jesse (2019). Star-forming, rotating spheroidal galaxies in the GAMA and SAMI surveys. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 489 (2), 2830-2843. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz2237
2019
Journal Article
No evidence for intermediate-mass black holes in the globular clusters ω Cen and NGC 6624
Baumgardt, H., He, C., Sweet, S. M., Drinkwater, M., Sollima, A., Hurley, J., Usher, C., Kamann, S., Dalgleish, H., Dreizler, S. and Husser, T. -O. (2019). No evidence for intermediate-mass black holes in the globular clusters ω Cen and NGC 6624. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 488 (4), 5340-5351. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz2060
2019
Journal Article
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: satellite galaxies undergo little structural change during their quenching phase
Cortese, L., van de Sande, J., Lagos, C. P., Catinella, B., Davies, L. J. M., Croom, S. M., Brough, S., Bryant, J. J., Lawrence, J. S., Owers, M. S., Richards, S. N., Sweet, S. M. and Bland-Hawthorn, J. (2019). The SAMI Galaxy Survey: satellite galaxies undergo little structural change during their quenching phase. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485 (2), 2656-2665. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz485
2019
Journal Article
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Bayesian inference for gas disc kinematics using a hierarchical Gaussian mixture model
Varidel, Mathew R., Croom, Scott M., Lewis, Geraint F., Brewer, Brendon J., Di Teodoro, Enrico M., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Bryant, Julia J., Federrath, Christoph, Foster, Caroline, Glazebrook, Karl, Goodwin, Michael, Groves, Brent, Hopkins, Andrew M., Lawrence, Jon S., Lopez-Sanchez, Angel R., Medling, Anne M., Owers, Matt S., Richards, Samuel N., Scalzo, Richard, Scott, Nicholas, Sweet, Sarah M., Taranu, Dan S. and van de Sande, Jesse (2019). The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Bayesian inference for gas disc kinematics using a hierarchical Gaussian mixture model. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485 (3), 4024-4044. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz670
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Sarah Sweet is:
- Available for supervision
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Available projects
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Spatially-resolved Galaxy Evolution
How typical or unusual is our Local Group of galaxies, which has two massive spiral galaxies each with a plane of satellite dwarf galaxies? You could determine how common the Local Group is by using equitable methods to study the fundamental physical properties of its dwarfs and the dwarfs of observed and simulated groups that resemble the Local Group.
How do the irregular, clumpy, highly-starforming galaxies we see in the distant, long-ago universe transform to the familiar elliptical and spiral galaxies we see in the present-day universe? You could investigate new ways to understand high-redshift galaxies based on fundamental physical properties such as angular momentum or chemical abundance.
There are several projects available, all focusing on disentangling galaxy evolution with the technology of integral field spectroscopy (IFS). Our team is part of world-leading IFS surveys (Hector Galaxy Survey, MAGPI, Delegate, AGEL, WALLABY) and is working to map the properties of thousands of galaxies in 3D (two spatial and one spectral dimensions). We use these data to understand the connection between the internal and external properties of galaxies of all sizes and shapes and at all distances.
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Understanding diversity: chemical and kinematic tracers of galaxy evolution
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Holger Baumgardt
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Doctor Philosophy
Studying the stellar initial mass function and binary fraction using Gaia data
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Holger Baumgardt
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Doctor Philosophy
Studying globular cluster tidal tails with Gaia
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Holger Baumgardt
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Doctor Philosophy
Studying the dwarf galaxy population of the Milky Way
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Holger Baumgardt
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Doctor Philosophy
Formation and Dynamics of Stellar-mass Black Holes in Star Clusters
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Holger Baumgardt
Completed supervision
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
The Formation of Lenticular and Compact Elliptical Galaxies
Associate Advisor
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