Sinclaire Manning

I am an observational astronomer broadly interested in galaxy formation and evolution with a focus on dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) at high (z>3) redshift. DSFGs are heavily dust-obscured galaxies undergoing bursts of star-formation. The unknown abundance of the DSFGs in the early Universe calls into question our current understanding of massive galaxy evolution and leaves us asking: 1) How ubiquitous are DSFGs in the first ~2 billion years of the Universe? and 2) How do these galaxies evolve over time? I use observations at (sub)millimeter wavelengths with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) along with ancillary data from deep extragalactic fields to detect and physically characterize these intriguing systems.