Rachel Cochrane

Welcome! I'm a Flatiron Research Fellow in the Galaxy Formation group within the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute. I work at the boundary of theory and observations. I'm interested in disentangling the physical drivers of star formation and quenching in galaxies, mapping galaxy assembly using high-resolution multi-wavelength imaging, and testing observational methods using simulations. I received my PhD in Astronomy from the University of Edinburgh, where I was advised by Philip Best. Here is a shortened version of my CV.

Selected Publications

  1. Cochrane, R. K. et al.,"The impact of AGN-driven winds on physical and observable galaxy sizes", 2023, arxiv:2303.12858. PDF
  2. Cochrane, R. K., Hayward, C.C., Angles-Alcazar, D. and Somerville, R. S.,"Predicting sub-millimeter flux densities from global galaxy properties", 2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 518, Issue 4, pp.5522–5535. PDF
  3. Cochrane, R. K., Hayward, C.C. and Angles-Alcazar, D.,"Dust temperature uncertainties hamper the inference of dust and molecular gas masses from the dust continuum emission of quiescent high-redshift galaxies", 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, vol. 939, no. 2, pp. L27. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac951d. PDF
  4. Cochrane, R. K. et al., "Resolving a dusty, star-forming SHiZELS galaxy at z = 2.2 with HST, ALMA, and SINFONI on kiloparsec scales", 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 503, Issue 2, pp.2622-2638. doi:10.1093/mnras/stab467. PDF
  5. Cochrane, R. K. et al., "Predictions for the spatial distribution of the dust continuum emission in z=1-5 star-forming galaxies", 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 488, Issue 2, pp.1779-1789. doi:10.1093/mnras/stz1736. PDF
  6. Cochrane, R. K. and Best, P. N., "Dissecting the roles of mass and environment quenching in galaxy evolution with EAGLE", 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 480, Issue 1, pp.864-878. doi:10.1093/mnras/sty1708. PDF
  7. Cochrane, R. K. et al., "The dependence of galaxy clustering on stellar mass, star-formation rate and redshift at z = 0.8-2.2, with HiZELS", 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 475, Issue 3, pp.3730-3745. doi:10.1093/mnras/stx3345. PDF
  8. Cochrane, R. K. et al., "The H-alpha luminosity-dependent clustering of star-forming galaxies from z~0.8 to ~2.2 with HiZELS", 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 469, Issue 3, pp.2913-2932. doi:10.1093/mnras/stx957. PDF

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