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
2018
Journal Article
Angular momentum evolution of bulge stars in disc galaxies in NIHAO
Wang, Liang, Obreschkow, Danail, Lagos, Claudia del P, Sweet, Sarah M, Fisher, Deanne, Glazebrook, Karl, Macciò, Andrea V, Dutton, Aaron A and Kang, Xi (2018). Angular momentum evolution of bulge stars in disc galaxies in NIHAO. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 482 (4), 5477-5491. doi: 10.1093/mnras/sty3010
2018
Journal Article
Near-identical star formation rate densities from Hα and FUV at redshift zero
Audcent-Ross, Fiona M., Meurer, Gerhardt R., Wong, O. I., Zheng, Z., Hanish, D., Zwaan, M. A., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Elagali, A., Meyer, M., Putman, M. E., Ryan-Weber, E. V., Sweet, S. M., Thilker, D. A., Seibert, M., Allen, R., Dopita, M. A., Doyle-Pegg, M. T., Drinkwater, M., Ferguson, H. C., Freeman, K. C., Heckman, T. M., Kennicutt, R. C., Kilborn, V. A., Kim, J. H., Knezek, P. M., Koribalski, B., Smith, R. C., Staveley-Smith, L., Webster, R. L. and Werk, J. K. (2018). Near-identical star formation rate densities from Hα and FUV at redshift zero. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 480 (1), 119-133. doi: 10.1093/mnras/sty1538
2018
Journal Article
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: spatially resolving the main sequence of star formation
Medling, Anne M., Cortese, Luca, Croom, Scott M., Green, Andrew W., Groves, Brent, Hampton, Elise, Ho, I-Ting, Davies, Luke J. M., Kewley, Lisa J., Moffett, Amanda J., Schaefer, Adam L., Taylor, Edward, Zafar, Tayyaba, Bekki, Kenji, Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Bloom, Jessica V., Brough, Sarah, Bryant, Julia J., Catinella, Barbara, Cecil, Gerald, Colless, Matthew, Couch, Warrick J., Drinkwater, Michael J., Driver, Simon P., Federrath, Christoph, Foster, Caroline, Goldstein, Gregory, Goodwin, Michael, Hopkins, Andrew ... Wright, Angus (2018). The SAMI Galaxy Survey: spatially resolving the main sequence of star formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475 (4), 5194-5214. doi: 10.1093/mnras/sty127
2018
Journal Article
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: gas content and interaction as the drivers of kinematic asymmetry
Bloom, J. V., Croom, S. M., Bryant, J. J., Schaefer, A. L., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Brough, S., Callingham, J., Cortese, L., Federrath, C., Scott, N., van de Sande, J., D'Eugenio, F., Sweet, S., Tonini, C., Allen, J. T., Goodwin, M., Green, A. W., Konstantopoulos, I. S., Lawrence, J., Lorente, N., Medling, A. M., Owers, M. S., Richards, S. N. and Sharp, R. (2018). The SAMI Galaxy Survey: gas content and interaction as the drivers of kinematic asymmetry. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476 (2), 2339-2351. doi: 10.1093/mnras/sty273
2018
Conference Publication
Spatially Resolved Galaxy Angular Momentum
Sweet, Sarah M., Fisher, Deanne B., Glazebrook, Karl, Obreschkow, Danail, Lagos, Claudia D. P. and Wang, Liang (2018). Spatially Resolved Galaxy Angular Momentum. IAU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, August 2018. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1481585
2018
Journal Article
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: understanding observations of large-scale outflows at low redshift with EAGLE simulations
Tescari, E., Cortese, L., Power, C., Wyithe, J. S. B., Ho, I. -T., Crain, R. A., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Croom, S. M., Kewley, L. J., Schaye, J., Bower, R. G., Theuns, T., Schaller, M., Barnes, L., Brough, S., Bryant, J. J., Goodwin, M., Gunawardhana, M. L. P., Lawrence, J. S., Leslie, S. K., Lopez-Sanchez, A. R., Lorente, N. P. F., Medling, A. M., Richards, S. N., Sweet, S. M. and Tonini, C. (2018). The SAMI Galaxy Survey: understanding observations of large-scale outflows at low redshift with EAGLE simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473 (1), 380-397. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stx2315
2017
Journal Article
Erratum: Choirs, HI galaxy groups: Catalogue and detection of star-forming dwarf group members (vol 433, pg 543, 2013)
Sweet, Sarah M., Meurer, Gerhardt, Drinkwater, Michael J., Kilborn, Virginia, Denes, Helga, Bekki, Kenji, Hanish, Dan, Ferguson, Henry, Knezek, Patricia, Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Dopita, Michael, Doyle-Pegg, Marianne T., Elson, Ed, Freeman, Ken, Heckman, Tim, Kennicutt, Robert, Kim, Ji Hoon, Koribalski, Barbel, Meyer, Martin, Putman, Mary, Ryan-Weber, Emma, Smith, Chris, Staveley-Smith, Lister, Wong, O. Ivy, Webster, Rachel, Werk, Jessica and Zwaan, Martin (2017). Erratum: Choirs, HI galaxy groups: Catalogue and detection of star-forming dwarf group members (vol 433, pg 543, 2013). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471 (3), 3615-3616. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stx1845
2017
Journal Article
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: disc-halo interactions in radio-selected star-forming galaxies
Leslie, S. K., Bryant, J. J., Ho, I. -T., Sadler, E. M., Medling, A. M., Groves, B., Kewley, L. J., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Croom, S. M., Wong, O. I., Brough, S., Tescari, E., Sweet, S. M., Sharp, R., Green, A. W., Lopez-Sanchez, A. R., Allen, J. T., Fogarty, L. M. R., Goodwin, M., Lawrence, J. S., Konstantopoulos, I. S., Owers, M. S. and Richards, S. N. (2017). The SAMI Galaxy Survey: disc-halo interactions in radio-selected star-forming galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471 (2), 2438-2452. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stx1673
2017
Journal Article
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: mass as the driver of the kinematic morphology-density relation in clusters
Brough, Sarah, van de Sande, Jesse, Owers, Matt S., d'Eugenio, Francesco, Sharp, Rob, Cortese, Luca, Scott, Nicholas, Croom, Scott M., Bassett, Rob, Bekki, Kenji, Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Bryant, Julia J., Davies, Roger, Drinkwater, Michael J., Driver, Simon P., Foster, Caroline, Goldstein, Gregory, Lopez-Sanchez, A. R., Medling, Anne M., Sweet, Sarah M., Taranu, Dan S., Tonini, Chiara, Yi, Sukyoung K., Goodwin, Michael, Lawrence, J. S. and Richards, Samuel N. (2017). The SAMI Galaxy Survey: mass as the driver of the kinematic morphology-density relation in clusters. Astrophysical Journal, 844 (1) 59, 59. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa7a11
2017
Journal Article
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: a new method to estimate molecular gas surface densities from star formation rates
Federrath, Christoph, Salim, Diane M., Medling, Anne M., Davies, Rebecca L., Yuan, Tiantian, Bian, Fuyan, Groves, Brent A., Ho, I-Ting, Sharp, Robert, Kewley, Lisa J., Sweet, Sarah M., Richards, Samuel N., Bryant, Julia J., Brough, Sarah, Croom, Scott, Scott, Nicholas, Lawrence, Jon, Konstantopoulos, Iraklis and Goodwin, Michael (2017). The SAMI Galaxy Survey: a new method to estimate molecular gas surface densities from star formation rates. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 468 (4), 3965-3978. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stx727
2017
Journal Article
Using an artificial neural network to classify multicomponent emission lines with integral field spectroscopy from SAMI and S7
Hampton, E. J., Medling, A. M., Groves, B., Kewley, L., Dopita, M., Davies, R., Ho, I.-T., Kaasinen, M., Leslie, S., Sharp, R., Sweet, S. M., Thomas, A. D., Allen, J., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Brough, S., Bryant, J. J., Croom, S., Goodwin, M., Green, A., Konstantantopoulos, I. S., Lawrence, J., López-Sánchez, Á. R., Lorente, N. P. F., McElroy, R., Owers, M. S., Richards, S. N. and Shastri, P. (2017). Using an artificial neural network to classify multicomponent emission lines with integral field spectroscopy from SAMI and S7. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470 (3), 3395-3416. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stx1413
2017
Journal Article
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: kinematics of dusty early-type galaxies
Bassett, R., Bekki, K., Cortese, L., Couch, W. J., Sansom, A. E., van de Sande, J., Bryant, J. J., Foster, C., Croom, S. M., Brough, S., Sweet, S. M., Medling, A. M., Owers, M. S., Driver, S. P., Davies, L. J. M., Wong, O. I., Groves, B. A., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Richards, S. N., Goodwin, M., Konstantopoulos, I. S. and Lawrence, J. S. (2017). The SAMI Galaxy Survey: kinematics of dusty early-type galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470 (2), 1991-2006. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stx1000
2016
Journal Article
The Sami galaxy survey: galaxy interactions and kinematic anomalies in Abell 119
Oh, Sree, Yi, Sukyoung K., Cortese, Luca, Sande, Jesse van de, Mahajan, Smriti, Jeong, Hyunjin, Sheen, Yun-Kyeong, Allen, James T., Bekki, Kenji, Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Bloom, Jessica V., Brough, Sarah, Bryant, Julia J., Colless, Matthew, Croom, Scott M., Fogarty, L. M. R., Goodwin, Michael, Green, Andy, Konstantopoulos, Iraklis S., Lawrence, Jon, López-Sánchez, Á. R., Lorente, Nuria P. F., Medling, Anne M., Owers, Matt S., Richards, Samuel, Scott, Nicholas, Sharp, Rob and Sweet, Sarah M. (2016). The Sami galaxy survey: galaxy interactions and kinematic anomalies in Abell 119. The Astrophysical Journal, 832 (1) 69, 1-13. doi: 10.3847/0004-637x/832/1/69
2016
Journal Article
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: asymmetry in gas kinematics and its links to stellar mass and star formation
Bloom, J. V., Fogarty, L. M. R., Croom, S. M., Schaefer, A., Bryant, J. J., Cortese, L., Richards, S., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Ho, I-T., Scott, N., Goldstein, G., Medling, A., Brough, S., Sweet, S.M., Cecil, G., López-Sánchez, A., Glazebrook, K., Parker, Q., Allen, J. T., Goodwin, M., Green, A. W., Konstantopoulos, I. S., Lawrence, J. S., Lorente, N., Owers, M. S. and Sharp, R. (2016). The SAMI Galaxy Survey: asymmetry in gas kinematics and its links to stellar mass and star formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465 (1), 123-148. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stw2605
2016
Journal Article
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: spatially resolving the environmental quenching of star formation in GAMA galaxies
Schaefer, A. L., Croom, S. M., Allen, J. T., Brough, S., Medling, A. M., Ho, I.-T., Scott, N., Richards, S. N., Pracy, M. B., Gunawardhana, M. L. P., Norberg, P., Alpaslan, M., Bauer, A. E., Bekki, K., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Bloom, J. V., Bryant, J. J., Couch, W. J., Driver, S. P., Fogarty, L. M. R., Foster, C., Goldstein, G., Green, A. W., Hopkins, A. M., Konstantopoulos, I. S., Lawrence, J. S., López-Sánchez, A. R., Lorente, N. P. F., Owers, M. S. ... Wong, O. I. (2016). The SAMI Galaxy Survey: spatially resolving the environmental quenching of star formation in GAMA galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464 (1), 121-142. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stw2289
2016
Journal Article
LZIFU: an emission-line fitting toolkit for integral field spectroscopy data
Ho, I-Ting, Medling, Anne M., Groves, Brent, Rich, Jeffrey A., Rupke, David S. N., Hampton, Elise, Kewley, Lisa J., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Croom, Scott M., Richards, Samuel, Schaefer, Adam L., Sharp, Rob and Sweet, Sarah M. (2016). LZIFU: an emission-line fitting toolkit for integral field spectroscopy data. Astrophysics and Space Science, 361 (9) 280. doi: 10.1007/s10509-016-2865-2
2016
Journal Article
Searching for binary y dwarfs with the Gemini multi-conjugate adaptive optics system (GeMS)
Opitz, Daniela, Tinney, C. G., Faherty, Jacqueline K., Sweet, Sarah, Gelino, Christopher R. and Kirkpatrick, J. Davy (2016). Searching for binary y dwarfs with the Gemini multi-conjugate adaptive optics system (GeMS). The Astrophysical Journal, 819 (1) 17, 1-9. doi: 10.3847/0004-637x/819/1/17
2016
Journal Article
Erratum: the SAMI Galaxy Survey: can we trust aperture corrections to predict star formation?
Richards, S. N., Bryant, J. J., Croom, S. M., Hopkins, A. M., Schaefer, A. L., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Allen, J. T., Brough, S., Cecil, G., Cortese, L., Fogarty, L. M. R., Gunawardhana, M. L. P., Goodwin, M., Green, A. W., Ho, I.-T., Kewley, L. J., Konstantopoulos, I. S., Lawrence, J. S., Lorente, N. P. F., Medling, A. M., Owers, M. S., Sharp, R., Sweet, S. M. and Taylor, E. N. (2016). Erratum: the SAMI Galaxy Survey: can we trust aperture corrections to predict star formation?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 458 (2), 1300-1300. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stw381
2016
Journal Article
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: extraplanar gas, galactic winds and their association with star formation history
Ho (何宜庭), I-Ting, Medling, Anne M., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Groves, Brent, Kewley, Lisa J., Kobayashi, Chiaki, Dopita, Michael A., Leslie, Sarah K., Sharp, Rob, Allen, James T., Bourne, Nathan, Bryant, Julia J., Cortese, Luca, Croom, Scott M., Dunne, Loretta, Fogarty, L. M. R., Goodwin, Michael, Green, Andy W., Konstantopoulos, Iraklis S., Lawrence, Jon S., Lorente, Nuria P. F., Owers, Matt S., Richards, Samuel, Sweet, Sarah M., Tescari, Edoardo and Valiante, Elisabetta (2016). The SAMI Galaxy Survey: extraplanar gas, galactic winds and their association with star formation history. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 457 (2), 1257-1278. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stw017
2016
Journal Article
Erratum: Kinematics of dwarf galaxies in gas-rich groups, and the survival and detectability of tidal dwarf galaxies (vol 455, pg 2508, 2016)
Sweet, Sarah M., Drinkwater, Michael J., Meurer, Gerhardt, Kilborn, Virginia, Audcent-Ross, Fiona, Baumgardt, Holger and Bekki, Kenji (2016). Erratum: Kinematics of dwarf galaxies in gas-rich groups, and the survival and detectability of tidal dwarf galaxies (vol 455, pg 2508, 2016). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456 (4), 3961-3963. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stv2974
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Sarah Sweet is:
- Available for supervision
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Available projects
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Spatially-resolved Galaxy Evolution
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.
How typical or unusual is our Local Group of galaxies, having 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 which resemble the Local Group.
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 Survey, Dwarfs in Local Group Analogues, AGEL, WALLABY) and is working to map the properties of thousands of galaxies in 3D (two spatial and one spectral dimensions). We will use these data to understand the connection between the internal and external properties of galaxies of all sizes and shapes and at all distances.
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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 Survey, Dwarfs in Local Group Analogues, 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
The Abundance and Distribution of Chemical Content within Galaxies Near and Far
Principal 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
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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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Master Philosophy
Studying globular cluster tidal tails with Gaia
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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