Martin Meyer’s Homepage

thanks for stopping by.  i am a research fellow at the university of western australia.   please browse below and follow the links for information on my current research (and some travel snaps)

Research Interests

● The Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS).  Research interests focus on the IRAC component of this project, and in particular on the nature of PAH emission and its relationship to star formation and other components of the ISM.

● The HI Parkes All-Sky Survey Catalogue (HICAT).  This is the largest blind catalogue of HI-rich galaxies compiled to date, containing 4,315 sources over the entire southern sky. ref1 ref2

● The Tully-Fisher relation.  In particular, the near-infrared and infrared relations, examining trends in slope and sources of scatter in the relationship.

● Large-scale structure.  I have examined the large-scale structure of gas-rich galaxies in the local universe through the two-point correlation function of HIPASS galaxies. ref

● Stellar cluster dissolution.  Detecting dissolving stellar clusters by using stellar photometry on resolved ACS images to identify clusters that could otherwise not be seen using surface photometry. ref ref

● The local cosmic density of HI, the HI mass function and its environmental dependence. ref

● The Search for Ionization in Neutral Gas Galaxies (SINGG) and the Search for Ultraviolet emission in Neutral Gas Galaxies (SUNGG).  These surveys provide measurements of local star formation properties in a non-optical/NIR selected sample. ref

● Quasars from a complete spectroscopic survey.  This work is the first quasar survey to be carried out without the use of a pre-selection technique, providing an independent check on the completeness of existing quasar surveys and their selection techniques. ref

● Supernovae as significant producers of dust in the universe. ref

SINGS

SUNGG

HIPASS   

Picture Albums

Canada   

Australia

SINGG

Pacific Islands