IRENE SHIVAEI
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"DistantDust" ERC Program
Dissecting Dust in the Distant Universe: A Panchromatic Study with JWST and ALMA

I am the PI of the European Research Council Starting Grant, "DistantDust", started in November 2024
​website: 
https://sites.google.com/view/ercdistantdust/home
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Summary of the project

Galaxies evolve through complex interactions within their baryonic components, particularly the interstellar medium (ISM) and its crucial constituent, dust. This dust influences everything from a galaxy’s appearance across various wavelengths to the processes of star formation. However, understanding dust at high redshifts (beyond nearby galaxies) has been limited, leaving gaps in our knowledge of its properties and formation. The ERC-funded DistantDust project aims to bridge this gap using the James Webb Space Telescope. By analysing dust at pivotal cosmic epochs, such as Cosmic Noon and the Early Universe, alongside ground-based observatories, this project will enhance our understanding of star formation and galaxy evolution across cosmic time.

First-author and major contribution publications

* Complete list of publications:  https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/public-libraries/JJuulBVqSwy8BBa9iXfDow​
  1. The tight correlation between PAH and CO emission from z ∼ 0 to 4 PDF
    Shivaei, I. & Boogaard L. A&A Letters 691, L2 (2024)
  2. A new census of dust and PAHs at z=0.7-2 with JWST MIRI PDF
    Shivaei, I., et al. A&A 690, A89 (2024) 
  3. Carbonaceous dust grains seen in the first billion years of cosmic time PDF
    Witstok, J., Shivaei, I., Smit, R. et al. Nature 621, 
    7978 (2023)
  4. The UV 2175Å Attenuation Bump and its Correlation with PAH Emission at z~2 PDF
    Shivaei, I., Boogaard, L., Diaz-Santos, T., et al. 2022, MNRAS 514, 1886
  5. IR SED and Dust Masses of Sub-solar Metallicity Galaxies at z~2.3 PDF
    Shivaei, I., Popping, G., Rieke, G., et al. 2022, ApJ 928, 68
  6. Dependence of the IRX-β dust attenuation relation on metallicity and environment PDF
    Shivaei, I., Darvish, B., Sattari, Z., et al. 2020, ApJL, 903, L28
  7. The MOSDEF Survey: Calibrating the relationship between Hα star-formation rate and radio continuum luminosity at 1.4 < z < 2.6 PDF 
    Duncan, K., Shivaei, I., Shapley, A., et al. 2020, MNRAS, 498, 3648
  8. The MOSDEF Survey: the Variation of the Dust Attenuation Curve with Metallicity PDF
    Shivaei, I., Reddy, N., Rieke, G., et al. 2020, ApJ, 899, 117 
  9. JWST/MIRI Surveys in GOODS-S PDF
    Rieke, G., Alberts, S., Shivaei, I., et al., Astro2020: Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, science white papers,  Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 51, Issue 3, id. 11
  10. Near-IR Spectroscopic Studies of Galaxies at z~1-3 PDF
    Shivaei, I., 2019, Proceedings of IAU Symposium 352, arXiv: 1910.06237 
  11. The Far-infrared Emission of the First Massive Galaxies​ PDF
    De Rossi, M. E., Rieke, G., Shivaei, I., et al. 2018, ApJ, 869, 4
  12. The MOSDEF Survey: Direct Observational Constraints on the Ionizing Photon Production Efficiency at z ∼ 2 PDF
    Shivaei, I., Reddy, N., Siana, B., et al., 2018, ApJ, 855, 42
  13. The MOSDEF Survey: Metallicity Dependence of the PAH Emission at High Redshift and Implications for 24μm-inferred IR Luminosities and Star Formation Rates at z ∼ 2 PDF
    Shivaei, I., Reddy, N., Shapley, A., et al., 2017, ApJ, 837, 157
    Also featured in: UCR Today, Phys.org, Science Daily, EurekAlert, Space Daily
  14. The MOSDEF Survey: The Strong Agreement Between Hα and UV-to-FIR Star Formation Rates for z ∼ 2 Star-Forming Galaxies PDF
    Shivaei, I., Kriek, M., Reddy, N., et al., 2016, ApJL, 820, L23
    Also featured in: Astronomy UCR, UCR Today, Keck Observatory, Phys.org, Science Daily, EurekAlert, Space Daily, Astronomy Now
  15. The MOSDEF Survey: Dissecting the Star-Formation Rate vs. Stellar Mass Relation Using Hα and Hβ Emission Lines at z ∼ 2 ​PDF
    Shivaei, I., Reddy, N. A., Shapley, A. E., et al., 2015b, ApJ, 815, 98
  16. Investigating Hα, UV, and IR Star-formation Rate Diagnostics for a Large Sample of z ∼ 2 Galaxies ​PDF
    ​Shivaei, I., Reddy, N. A., Steidel, C. C., & Shapley, A. E., 2015a, ApJ, 804, 10​
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