Professor Maarten Baes
Extragalactic astronomy – Galaxies – Radiative transfer
The SKIRT team concentrates on multi-wavelength modelling of galaxy evolution, with a focus on the consistent comparison of models and observational data. This research heavily builds on the in-house developed SKIRT radiative transfer code. We are also involved in several observational and instrumentation projects, from X-ray to radio wavelengths.
Projects
SKIRT
The SKIRT project offers state-of-the-art software for simulating radiation transfer in astrophysical systems such as galaxies, circumnuclear disks, or star forming regions.
Euclid
Euclid is a wide-angle space telescope with a 600-megapixel camera to determine the redshift of detected galaxies. It was developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Euclid Consortium.
TNG50
We use the SKIRT code to generate the TNG50-SKIRT Atlas, a synthetic UV to near-infrared broadband image atlas for a complete stellar-mass selected sample of galaxies extracted from the TNG50 cosmological simulation.