Rosemary Coogan
Northern Irish astrophysicist
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Rosemary Theresa Coogan (born 1991) is an astrophysicist and UK astronaut from Northern Ireland.[1] Her research considers galaxy evolution and space-based telescopes. She is part of ESA's European Astronaut Corps.
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University College, Durham (MPhys, MSc)
Rosemary Coogan | |
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Coogan in 2022 | |
| Born | 1991 (age 34–35) Belfast, United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | University of Sussex (PhD) University College, Durham (MPhys, MSc) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics CNES |
| Thesis | The impact of environment on galaxy evolution : starburst and AGN activity (2019) |
| Space career | |
| ESA astronaut | |
| Selection | 2022 ESA Group |
Early life and education
Coogan was educated at Brighton & Hove High School, now Brighton Girls.[2] She was involved with military training from a young age.[3] She was trained as a petty officer with the Sea Cadets. In 2009 she joined HMS Calliope and HMS Example, where she was made an Officer cadet.[3] She was later promoted to Midshipman of the Royal Naval Reserve.[4]
Coogan studied for her undergraduate degree in Physics at Durham University (University College), graduating in 2013.[4] She remained in Durham for her master's research, where she studied gamma-ray astronomy with Paula Chadwick.[5][6] Her research involved observations using the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope to study the 0.1 < Eγ < 300 GeV gamma-ray emission of radio quasars. Coogan also worked on data science during a work placement at Senseye.[7] She worked as a simulation support engineer to develop machine learning models to detect anomalies from robotic sensors.
Coogan moved to the University of Sussex as a doctoral researcher, studying galaxy evolution and the activity of active galactic nuclei.[8] She found that dense cluster environment increases the star formation efficiency, which she attributed to the high number of mergers, interactions and the active galactic nuclei.[8] Toward the end of her doctorate, she attempted to inform future observations by constructing mock images of survey fields for the Square Kilometre Array.[8]
Career
Coogan moved to the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics.[3][9] In Germany, Coogan studied galaxy evolution with space-based telescopes. In 2022, Coogan was appointed to the CNES, where she works on Euclid and James Webb Space Telescope.[3]
In 2022, Coogan was selected by the European Astronaut Corps to join the 2022 European Space Agency Astronaut Group.[3][10] She said that she applied to the space programme because she wanted to get "hands-on" with contributing the most that we can from space.[3] Coogan completed ESA's Basic Training curriculum at the European Astronaut Centre, and graduated on 22 April 2024 alongside her classmates from "The Hoppers"[11] group.[12]
Selected publications
- R T Coogan; E Daddi; M T Sargent; et al. (2 June 2018). "Merger driven star-formation activity in Cl J1449+0856 at z=1.99 as seen by ALMA and JVLA". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. arXiv:1805.09789. Bibcode:2018MNRAS.479..703C. doi:10.1093/MNRAS/STY1446. ISSN 0035-8711. Wikidata Q58911747.
- A Zanella; E Daddi; G Magdis; et al. (3 September 2018). "The [C ii] emission as a molecular gas mass tracer in galaxies at low and high redshifts". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 481 (2): 1976–1999. arXiv:1808.10331. Bibcode:2018MNRAS.481.1976Z. doi:10.1093/MNRAS/STY2394. ISSN 0035-8711. Wikidata Q58911729.
- J. M. Simpson; Ian Smail; A. M. Swinbank; et al. (23 July 2019). "The East Asian Observatory SCUBA-2 Survey of the COSMOS Field: Unveiling 1147 Bright Sub-millimeter Sources across 2.6 Square Degrees". The Astrophysical Journal. 880 (1): 43. arXiv:1912.02229. Bibcode:2019ApJ...880...43S. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/AB23FF. ISSN 0004-637X. Wikidata Q108805316.