Marta B. Silva

Kapteyn Astronomical Institute Phone: +31 503 634 276 University of Groningen Email: [email protected] Landleven 12, Home: http://www.astro.rug.nl/~silva 9747 AG, Groningen The Netherlands

Personal Information

Nationality: Portuguese

Research Interests My main research focuses on the study of the high redshift Universe. I study the Universe, in a period ranging from the cosmic “dark ages” to the present day, using multi-wavelength observational data sets. I am particularly interested in the potential of the Tomographic Line Intensity Mapping technique to probe the Epoch of Reionization and to constrain the properties of the first galaxies and their evolution over cosmic time. In addition, I want to explore the potential of the Intensity mapping technique to probe the interconnection between galaxies and the IGM.

Education

Ph.D. in Physics - Multidisciplinary Center for Astrophysics (CENTRA), 2011 - 2014 Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal Thesis Title: Probing the Epoch of Reionization with Intensity Mapping of Molecular and Atomic Lines Supervisors: Prof. Mario G. Santos (University of Western Cape - RSA) and Prof. Asantha Cooray (University of California Irvine - USA) Final qualification: Passed with Distinction

B.Sc. & M.Sc. in Physics - Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal 2004 - 2009 Thesis Title: Fast Large Simulations of the Epoch of Reionization Supervisors: Prof. Mario G. Santos and Dr. Patricia Castro

Present Position Postdoctoral Researcher at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, 2014 - 2018 The Netherlands Supervisor: Prof. Saleem Zaroubi

1 Supervised Students Local supervisor - Mr. Robin Kooistra, PhD student, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, 2014 - 2018 University of Groningen

Participation Projects

LOFAR-EoR (LOw-Frequency ARray – Epoch of Reionization) 2014 - pres. Key Science Project from ASTRON – Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy

TIME-Pilot (Tomographic Ionized carbon Intensity Mapping Experiment) 2013 - pres. Keck Institute for Space Studies – United States of America

CDIM (Cosmic Dawn Intensity Mapper) 2016 - pres. proposed NASA Probe Class Mission – United States of America

SKA (The Square Kilometre Array) 2007 - 2014 2013 - 2014 ALMA (The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array)

SPHEREx (Spectral Intensity Mapper wide-field near-IR spectrometer) 2014 - 2015 JPL/Caltech project - selected for NASA MIDEX Phase A – USA

Contributed Talks [1] “Observing the Universe in H-alpha emission with the new generation surveys”, Cosmological Signals from Cosmic Dawn to the Present, Aspen Winter Conference on Astrophysics, 2018

[2] “Line Intensity Mapping During the Epoch of Reionization”, IAUS333: Peering towards Cos- mic Dawn, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2017

[3] “Simulations of UV emission from Galaxies and From the IGM”, UV Sky Surveys, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2017

[4] “Probing the low surface brightness universe with line intensity mapping, ”Royal Astronomical Society Specialist Discussion Meeting - The ultra-low surface brightness Universe, London, England, 2017

[5] “Unveiling the cosmic web baryons with Intensity Mapping of IGM filaments”, From Wall to Web, Berlin, Germany, 2016

[6] “Intensity mapping of IGM filaments as a probe of the UV/X-ray background”, Signals From the Deep Past: Unveiling Early Cosmic Structures, Varenna, Malta, 2016

[7] “Unveiling the cosmic web through intensity mapping of IGM filaments”, 13th Potsdam Thinkshop - Near field cosmology 2016, Obergurgl, Austria, 2016

[8] “Cross-correlating high–z transition lines to probe of high-z Universe” First stars, galaxies, and black holes: Now and Then Groningen, Netherlands, 2015

[9] “Probing the Reionization Process and its Sources with Line Intensity Mapping”, Advanced Workshop on Cosmological Structures from Reionization to Galaxies:, Trieste, Italy, 2015

2 [10] “Probing the Epoch of Reionization with intensity mapping of molecular and atomic lines”, Groningen, Netherlands, 2014

[11] “Three dimensional ’Intensity Mapping’ of the Universe during the EoR”, Conference Trans- formational science with the SKA, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 2014

[12] “Probing the Epoch of Reionization with atomic and molecular lines”, International School of Physics Enrico Fermi: new Horizons for Observational Cosmology, Varenna, Italy, 2013

[13] “Probing the Epoch of Reionization with Intensity Mapping of Lyman Alpha emission”, Winter School on Very High Time and Space Resolution Astrophysics, Asiago, Italy, 2013

[14] “Intensity mapping of Lyman-alpha emission”, 1st IDPASC Students Workshop, Coimbra, Por- tugal, 2012

[15] “Intensity mapping of Lyman-alpha emission during the Epoch of Reionization”, XXII Por- tuguese National Meeting on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Porto, Portugal, 2012

[16] “Intensity mapping of Lyman-alpha emission during the Epoch of Reionization”, European Weak of Astronomy and Space Science, Rome, Italy, 2012

[17] “Probing the Epoch of Reionization with intensity mapping of molecular and fine structure lines”, 7th Iberian meeting on Cosmology, Lisbon, Portugal, 2012

[18] “Probing Reionization with intensity mapping of molecular and fine structure lines”, IDPASC Dark Matter school, Évora, Portugal, 2011

[19] “Probing the first galaxies with the SKA”, JENAM, Lisbon, Portugal (poster), 2010

[20] “Fast and Large Volume Simulations of the 21cm Signal from the EoR”, Part., Astrop. and Cosmology Winter School, Sesimbra, Portugal, 2009

Computer Skills Programming Languages: C, C++, Python, SQL

Astronomy Software:

• Codes for simulating the HI 21cm signal from the EoR: SimFast21, 21cmFast

• N-body/SPH codes: Gadget-2

• Other: Amiga halo finder

Experience with simulation databases:

• The Millennium and Millennium II simulation projects

• The Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments (EAGLE) project

Languages Portuguese: Mother tongue. English: Fluent written and spoken.

3 Peer-Reviewed Publications [1] Silva, M.B., Zaroubi, S., Kooistra, R. and Cooray, A., “Tomographic Intensity Mapping versus Galaxy Surveys: Observing the Universe in Hα emission with new generation instruments”, MNRAS, 475, 1587, 2018

[2] Sun, G. , Moncelsi, L., Viero, Silva, M.B., M.P., Bock, J., Bradford, C.M., Chang, T.C., Cheng, Y.T., Cooray, A., Crites, A., Hailey-Dunsheath, S., Hunacek, J., Uzgil, B. and Zemcov, M., 2017, “A Foreground Removal Strategy for [CII] Intensity Mapping Experiments Using Galax- ies Selected by Stellar Mass and Redshift”, accepted by ApJ, arXiv:1610.10095

[3] Kooistra, R. and Silva, M.B. and Zaroubi, S., “Filament hunting: Integrated HI 21 cm emission from filaments inferred by galaxy surveys”, MNRAS, 468, 857-869, 2017

[4] Patil, A.H., Yatawatta, S., Koopmans, L.V.E., de Bruyn, A.G., Brentjens, M.A., Zaroubi, S. , Asad, K.M.B., Hatef, M., Jelic, V, Mevius, M., Offringa, A.R., Pandey, V.N., Vedantham, H., Abdalla, F.B., Brouw, W.N., Chapman, E., Ciardi, B., Gehlot, B.K., Ghosh, A., Harker, G., Iliev, I.T. , Kakiichi, K., Majumdar, S., Mellema, G., Silva, M.B., Schaye, J., Vrbanec, D. and Wijnholds, S.J., “Upper Limits on the 21 cm Epoch of Reionization Power Spectrum from One Night with LOFAR”, ApJ, 838, 65, 2017

[5] Gong, Y., Cooray, A., Silva, M.B., Zemcov, M., Feng, C., Santos, M.G., Dore, O. and Chen, X., “Intensity Mapping of H-alpha, H-beta, OII, and OIII Lines at z<5”, ApJ, 835, 273, 2017

[6] Fonseca, J., Silva, M.B., Santos, M.G. and Cooray, A.,”Cosmology with intensity mapping techniques using atomic and molecular lines”, MNRAS, 464, 1948-1964, 2017

[7] Silva, M.B., Kooistra, R. and Zaroubi, S., “Mapping the low-surface brightness Universe in the UV band with Ly-alpha emission from IGM filaments”, MNRAS, 462, 1961-1971, 2016

[8] Yahya, S., Bull, P., Santos, M., Silva, M., Maartens, R., Okouma, P. and Basset, B., “Cosmo- logical performance of SKA HI galaxy surveys”, MNRAS, 450, 2251-2260, 2015

[9] Silva, M., Santos, M., Cooray, A. and Gong, Y., “Prospects for detecting CII emission during the Epoch of Reionization”, Apj, 806, 209, 2015

[10] Staniszewski, Z., Bock, J., Bradford. M., Brevik, J., Cooray, A., Gong, Y., Hailey-Dunsheath, S., O’Brient, R., Santos, M., Shirokoff, E., Silva, M. and Zemcov, M., “The Tomographic Ionized Carbon Intensity Mapping Experiment (TIME) CII Imaging Spectrometer”, Journal of Low Temperature Physics . ISSN 0022-2291, 2014

[11] Gong, Y., Silva, M., Cooray, A., and Santos M., “Foreground contamination in Ly-alpha In- tensity Mapping during the Epoch of Reionization”, ApJ, 785, 1, 2014

[12] Silva, M., Santos, M., Gong, Y. and Cooray, A., “Intensity Mapping of Lyman-alpha Emission during the Epoch of Reionization”, ApJ, 763, 132, 2013

[13] Gong, Y., Chen, X., Silva, M.B., Cooray, A. and Santos, M., “The OH line contamination of 21 cm intensity fluctuation measurements for z=1 4”, ApJ, 740, L20, 2011

[14] Gong, Y., Cooray, A., Silva, M.B., Santos, M., Bock, J., Bradford, M. and Zemcov, M., “In- tensity Mapping of the CII Fine Structure Line during the Epoch of Reionization”, ApJ, 745, 49, 2011

4 [15] Gong, Y., Cooray, A., Silva, M.B., Santos, M., Lubin, P. and Rawlings, S., “Probing Reioniza- tion with Intensity Mapping of Molecular and Fine-structure Lines”, ApJ, 728, L46, 2011

[16] Santos, M.G., Silva, M.B., Pritchard, J.R., Cen, R. and Cooray, A., ”Probing the First Galaxies with the Square Kilometre Array”, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 527, A93, 2011

[17] Santos, M.G., Ferramacho, L., Silva, M.B., Amblard A., and Cooray A., “Fast and Large Vol- ume Simulations of the 21 cm Signal from the Reionization and pre-Reionization Epochs”, MNRAS, 406, 2421–2432, 2010

Other Publications [1] Chang, T.C., Gong, Y. and Santos, M. and Silva, M.B., Aguirre, J., Doré, O. and Pritchard, J., “Synergy of CO/[CII]/Lya Line Intensity Mapping with the SKA”, Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array, AASKA14, 4, 2015 7. Cooray, A., Bock, J., Burgarella, D., Chary, R., Chang, T.-C., Doré, O., Fazio, G., Ferrara, A., Gong, Y., Santos, M., Silva, M. and Zemcov, M., “Cosmic Dawn Intensity Mapper”, arXiv: 1602.05178, 2016 8. Santos, M., Alonso, D., Bull, P., Silva, M.B. and Yahya, S., ”HI galaxy simulations for the SKA: number counts and bias”, Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array, AASKA14, 21, 2015

[2] Santos, M.G., Ferramacho, L. and Silva, M.B., “Fast Large VolumeSimulations of the Epoch of Reionization”, in Proc. Wide Field Science and Technology for the SKA, Limelette, Belgium, ASTRON, ISBN 978-90-805434-5-4, 2010

[3] Santos, M.G., Ferramacho, L. and Silva, M.B., Amblard A., and Cooray A., “Fast Large Vol- ume Simulations of the Epoch of Reionization and Pré Reionization” in Proc. of the 45th Rencontres de Moriond, 2010

[4] Silva, M.B., Santos, M.G., Pritchard, J.R., Cen, R. and Cooray, A., “ Probing the Very First Galaxies with the SKA”, in Proc. Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting (JE- NAM)/18th, Annual Meeting of the European-Astronomical-Society/20th Annual Portuguese Meeting of Astronomy and Astrophysics/Symposium 7 - Square Kilometre Array (SKA), Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, pages 101–116. SPRINGER, January 2012

[5] Gong, Y., Cooray, A., Silva, M., Santos, M., Bock, J., Bradford, M. and Zemcov, M., “Intensity Mapping of the CII Fine Structure Line during the EoR”, AAS, 219, 427.17, 2012

[6] Silva, M., Santos, M., Gong, Y. and Cooray, A., “Probing with atomic and molecular lines”, 2014. Proceedings of the International School of Physics Enrico Fermi, Course 186, ”New Horizons for Observational Cosmology” edited by A. Cooray, E. Komatsu, A. Melchiorri and L. Lamagna, pp. 416, 2014

[7] Chang, T.C., Gong, Y. and Santos, M. and Silva, M.B., Aguirre, J., Doré, O. and Pritchard, J., “Synergy of CO/[CII]/Lya Line Intensity Mapping with the SKA”, Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array, AASKA14, 4, 2015

[8] Cooray, A., Bock, J., Burgarella, D., Chary, R., Chang, T.-C., Doré, O., Fazio, G., Ferrara, A., Gong, Y., Santos, M., Silva, M. and Zemcov, M., “Cosmic Dawn Intensity Mapper”, arXiv: 1602.05178, 2016

5 [9] Santos, M., Alonso, D., Bull, P., Silva, M.B. and Yahya, S., ”HI galaxy simulations for the SKA: number counts and bias”, Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array, AASKA14, 21, 2015

Software Publications SimFast21- Software for “Simulating the Cosmological 21cm Signal from the Epoch of Reioniza- tion”, Copyright 2010 Mario Santos, Luis Ferramacho, Marta Silva, Alexandre Amblard and Asantha Cooray Publicly available at http://www.simfast21.org/

References Prof. Mário G. Santos (Ph.D. advisor) Associate professor of Physics and Astronomy University of Western Cape, Cape Town 7535, South Africa +021-959-3461 [email protected]

Prof. Asantha Cooray (Ph.D. co-advisor) Professor of Physics and Astronomy University of California Irvine, 2162 Frederick Reines Hall United States of America +01 949 824 6832 [email protected]

Prof. Saleem Zaroubi (Postdoc advisor) Associate professor of Astrophysics Kapteyn astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, Landleven 12, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands +31-50-3634055 [email protected]

Prof. Yan Gong (Long term collaborator) National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences 20A Datun Rd., Beijing 100012, China +86-010-64848917 [email protected]

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