By Associate Professor Caroline Foster

Journal articles

Gunawardhana MLP; Hopkins AM; Bland-Hawthorn J; Brough S; Sharp R; Loveday J; Taylor E; Jones DH; Lara-López MA; Bauer AE; Colless M; Owers M; Baldry IK; López-Sánchez AR; Foster C; Bamford S; Brown MJI; Driver SP; Drinkwater MJ; Liske J; Meyer M; Norberg P; Robotham ASG; Ching JHY; Cluver ME; Croom S; Kelvin L; Prescott M; Steele O; Thomas D; Wang L, 2013, 'Galaxy and mass assembly: Evolution of the Hα luminosity function and star formation rate density up to z < 0.35', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 433, pp. 2764 - 2789, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt890

Brough S; Croom S; Sharp R; Hopkins AM; Taylor EN; Baldry IK; Gunawardhana MLP; Liske J; Norberg P; Robotham ASG; Bauer AE; Bland-Hawthorn J; Colless M; Foster C; Kelvin LS; Lara-Lopez MA; López-Sánchez AR; Loveday J; Owers M; Pimbblet KA; Prescott M, 2013, 'Galaxy and mass assembly: Resolving the role of environment in galaxy evolution', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 435, pp. 2903 - 2917, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1489

Pota V; Forbes DA; Romanowsky AJ; Brodie JP; Spitler LR; Strader J; Foster C; Arnold JA; Benson A; Blom C; Hargis JR; Rhode KL; Usher C, 2013, 'The SLUGGS Survey: Kinematics for over 2500 globular clusters in 12 early-type galaxies', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 428, pp. 389 - 420, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts029

Foster C; Arnold JA; Forbes DA; Pastorello N; Romanowsky AJ; Spitler LR; Strader J; Brodie JP, 2013, 'The SLUGGS survey: Outer triaxiality of the fast rotator elliptical NGC 4473', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 435, pp. 3587 - 3591, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1550

Foster C; Hopkins AM; Gunawardhana M; Lara-López MA; Sharp RG; Steele O; Taylor EN; Driver SP; Baldry IK; Bamford SP; Liske J; Loveday J; Norberg P; Peacock JA; Alpaslan M; Bauer AE; Bland-Hawthorn J; Brough S; Cameron E; Colless M; Conselice CJ; Croom SM; Frenk CS; Hill DT; Jones DH; Kelvin LS; Kuijken K; Nichol RC; Owers MS; Parkinson HR; Pimbblet KA; Popescu CC; Prescott M; Robotham ASG; Lopez-Sanchez AR; Sutherland WJ; Thomas D; Tuffs RJ; Van Kampen E; Wijesinghe D, 2012, 'Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): The mass-metallicity relationship', Astronomy and Astrophysics, 547, http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201220050

Blom C; Forbes DA; Brodie JP; Foster C; Romanowsky AJ; Spitler LR; Strader J, 2012, 'The SLUGGS survey: Globular cluster system kinematics and substructure in NGC 4365', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 426, pp. 1959 - 1971, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21795.x

Forbes DA; Cortesi A; Pota V; Foster C; Romanowsky AJ; Merrifield MR; Brodie JP; Strader J; Coccato L; Napolitano N, 2012, 'Radially extended kinematics in the S0 galaxy NGC 2768 from planetary nebulae, globular clusters and starlight', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 426, pp. 975 - 982, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21877.x

Usher C; Forbes DA; Brodie JP; Foster C; Spitler LR; Arnold JA; Romanowsky AJ; Strader J; Pota V, 2012, 'The SLUGGS survey: Calcium triplet-based spectroscopic metallicities for over 900 globular clusters', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 426, pp. 1475 - 1495, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21801.x

Romanowsky AJ; Strader J; Brodie JP; Mihos JC; Spitler LR; Forbes DA; Foster C; Arnold JA, 2012, 'The ongoing assembly of a central cluster galaxy: Phase-space substructures in the halo of M87', Astrophysical Journal, 748, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/748/1/29

Forbes DA; Spitler LR; Graham AW; Foster C; Hau GKT; Benson A, 2011, 'Bridging the gap between low- and high-mass dwarf galaxies', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 413, pp. 2665 - 2678, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18335.x

Forbes DA; Spitler LR; Strader J; Romanowsky AJ; Brodie JP; Foster C, 2011, 'Evidence for two phases of galaxy formation from radial trends in the globular cluster system of NGC 1407', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 413, pp. 2943 - 2949, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18373.x

Brough S; Hopkins AM; Sharp RG; Gunawardhana M; Wijesinghe D; Robotham ASG; Driver SP; Baldry IK; Bamford SP; Liske J; Loveday J; Norberg P; Peacock JA; Bland-Hawthorn J; Brown MJI; Cameron E; Croom SM; Frenk CS; Foster C; Hill DT; Jones DH; Kelvin LS; Kuijken K; Nichol RC; Parkinson HR; Pimbblet K; Popescu CC; Prescott M; Sutherland WJ; Taylor E; Thomas D; Tuffs RJ; van Kampen E, 2011, 'Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Galaxies at the faint end of the Hα luminosity function', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 413, pp. 1236 - 1243, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18210.x

Foster C; Spitler LR; Romanowsky AJ; Forbes DA; Pota V; Bekki K; Strader J; Proctor RN; Arnold JA; Brodie JP, 2011, 'Global properties of 'ordinary' early-type galaxies: Photometry and spectroscopy of stars and globular clusters in NGC 4494', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 415, pp. 3393 - 3416, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18965.x

Foster C; Forbes DA; Proctor RN; Strader J; Brodie JP; Spitler LR, 2010, 'Deriving metallicities from the integrated spectra of extragalactic globular clusters using the near-infrared calcium triplet', Astronomical Journal, 139, pp. 1566 - 1578, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/139/4/1566

Foster C; Proctor RN; Forbes DA; Spolaor M; Hopkins PF; Brodie JP, 2009, 'Metallicity gradients at large galactocentric radii using the near-infrared Calcium triplet', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 400, pp. 2135 - 2146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15606.x

Foster C; Nelson LA, 2009, 'The size, shape, and orientation of cosmological voids in the sloan digital sky survey', Astrophysical Journal, 699, pp. 1252 - 1260, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/699/2/1252

Colberg JM; Pearce F; Foster C; Platen E; Brunino R; Neyrinck M; Basilakos S; Fairall A; Feldman H; Gottlöber S; Hahn O; Hoyle F; Müller V; Nelson L; Plionis M; Porciani C; Shandarin S; Vogeley MS; Van De Weygaert R, 2008, 'The Aspen-Amsterdam void finder comparison project', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 387, pp. 933 - 944, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13307.x

Conference Papers

Bryant JJ; Bland-Hawthorn J; Lawrence J; Norris B; Minh SS; Brown R; Wang A; Bhatia GS; Saunders W; Content R; Zhelem R; Venkatesan S; Mohanan M; Gillingham P; Patterson R; Robertson D; Pai N; McGregor H; Zheng J; Vaughan S; Foster C; Leon-Saval S; Croom S, 2020, 'Hector - A new multi-object integral field spectrograph instrument for the Anglo-Australian Telescope', in Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2560309

Preprints

Ko K; Jerjen H; Sweet SM; López-Sánchez ÁR; Deeley S; Foster C; Baumgardt H; Das PK; Alabi A, 2026, The Delegate Survey: KOALA/AAOmega-IFU spectroscopy of three nearby dwarf galaxies, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag1679

Çakır O; Owers M; Quattropani G; Pak M; Barsanti S; Bland-Hawthorn J; Bryant J; Croom S; Das PK; Foster C; Gunawardhana M; Jeong H; Lee JC; Lee JH; Mai Y; Oh K; Oh S; Ristea A; Sweet S; Tuntipong S; Bhatia G; Brodrick D; Brown R; Cheng E; Content R; Crous F; Farrell T; Gillingham P; Houston E; Lawrence J; McGregor H; Mohanan M; Min S-S; Norris B; Pai N; Sadman A; Saunders W; Venkatesan S; Wang A; Zhelem R; Zheng J, 2026, Hector Galaxy Survey: Falling in Between - Infalling Galaxies in the Midst of the Abell 3667 Merger, https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18621v1

Battisti AJ; Muller EGM; Wisnioski E; Mendel JT; Foster C; Lagos CDP; Harborne KE; Aalia IU; Barsanti S; Breda I; Calzetti D; Croom SM; Das PK; Ferré-Mateu A; Gao T; Gjergo E; Grasha K; Mai Y; Mailvaganam A; Mukherjee T; Mun M; Remus R-S; Sharma G; Sweet SM; Thater S; Valenzuela LM; Sande JVD; Ven GVD; Zafar T; Ziegler B, 2026, The MAGPI Survey: Emission Line Products Data Release and the Role of Spectroscopic Aperture Covering Fraction on the Balmer Decrement-Stellar Mass Relation, https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18464v1

Mai Y; Croom SM; Wisnioski E; Battisti AJ; Mendel JT; Mun M; Foster C; Harborne KE; Lagos CDP; Breda I; Gao T; Grasha K; Mukherjee T; Poci A; Remus R-S; Sharda P; Sweet SM; Thater S; Valenzuela LM; Ven GVD; Zafar T; Ziegler B, 2025, The MAGPI Survey: forward modelled gas-phase metallicity gradients in galaxies at $z\sim 0.3$, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf2182

Mukherjee T; Zafar T; Nanayakkara T; Gurung-Lopez S; Gupta A; Croom SM; Battisti A; Glazebrook K; Papaderos P; Riggs M; Wisnioski E; Foster C; Harborne KE; Lagos CDP; Mendel T; Prathap J; Barsanti S; Sweet SM; Valenzuela LM; Mailvaganam A, 2025, A Census of Double-Peaked Lyman-alpha Emitters in MAGPI: Classification, Global Characteristics, and Spatially Resolved Properties, https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18398v3

Bagge R; Foster C; Brough S; Çakır O; Cortese L; D'Eugenio F; Croom S; Owers M; van de Sande J, 2025, Cluster passage driving galaxy kinematic and structural evolution in the SAMI Galaxy Survey, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2508.07589

Foster C; Donoghoe MW; Battisti A; D'Eugenio F; Harborne K; Venville T; Lagos CDP; Mendel JT; Bagge R; Barsanti S; Bellstedt S; Boecker A; Chen Q; Derkenne C; Ferre-Matteu A; Gjergo E; Gupta A; Muller EGM; Santucci G; Park H-J; Remus R-S; Thater S; Sande JVD; Vaughan S; Brough S; Croom SM; Valenzuela LM; Wisnioski E; Team TMAGPI, 2025, The MAGPI Survey: the kinematic morphology-density relation (or lack thereof) and the Hubble sequence at $z\sim0.3$, https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16751v1

Foster C; Bellstedt S; DEugenio F; Poci A; Bagge R; Harborne K; Venville T; Mendel JT; Lagos CDP; Wisnioski E; Barone TM; Battisti AJ; Barsanti S; Brough S; Croom SM; Derkenne C; Kimmig LC; Mailvaganam A; Remus R-S; Sharma G; Sweet SM; Thater S; Valenzuela LM; van de Sande J; Vaughan SP; Ziegler B, 2025, The MAGPI Survey: the subtle role of environment and not-so-subtle impact of generations of stars on galaxy dynamics, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2501.08461

Mun M; Wisnioski E; Harborne KE; Lagos CDP; Valenzuela LM; Remus R-S; Mendel JT; Battisti AJ; Ellison SL; Foster C; Bravo M; Brough S; Croom SM; Gao T; Grasha K; Gupta A; Mai Y; Mailvaganam A; Muller EGM; Sharma G; Sweet SM; Taylor EN; Zafar T, 2024, The MAGPI Survey: radial trends in star formation across different cosmological simulations in comparison with observations at $z \sim$ 0.3, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2411.17882

Mukherjee T; Zafar T; Nanayakkara T; Gupta A; Gurung-Lopez S; Battisti A; Wisnioski E; Foster C; Mendel JT; Harborne KE; Lagos CDP; Kodama T; Croom SM; Thater S; Webb J; Barsanti S; Sweet SM; Prathap J; Valenzuela LM; Mailvaganam A; Martinez JLC, 2024, The MAGPI Survey: Insights into the Lyman-alpha line widths and the size of ionized bubbles at the edge of cosmic reionization, https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17684v3

Derkenne C; McDermid RM; Santucci G; Poci A; Thater S; Bellstedt S; Mendel JT; Foster C; Harborne KE; Lagos CDP; Wisnioski E; Croom S; Remus R-S; Valenzuela LM; Sande JVD; Sweet SM; Ziegler B, 2024, The MAGPI Survey: Evidence Against the Bulge-Halo Conspiracy, https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04834v1

Mun M; Wisnioski E; Battisti AJ; Mendel JT; Ellison SL; Taylor EN; Lagos CDP; Harborne KE; Foster C; Croom SM; Bellstedt S; Barsanti S; Gupta A; Valenzuela LM; Chen Q-H; Grasha K; Mukherjee T; Park H-J; Sharda P; Sweet SM; Remus R-S; Zafar T, 2024, The MAGPI Survey: Evolution of radial trends in star formation activity across cosmic time, https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16319v1

Mukherjee T; Zafar T; Nanayakkara T; Wisnioski E; Battisti A; Gupta A; Lagos CDP; Harborne KE; Foster C; Mendel T; Croom SM; Mailvaganam A; Prathap J, 2023, Compact to extended Lyman-$α$ emitters in MAGPI: strong blue peak emission at $z\gtrsim3$, https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07019v1

Foster C; Vaughan S; Fraser-McKelvie A; Brough S; Bryant JJ; Croom SM; D'Eugenio F; Groves B; Konstantopoulos IS; López-Sánchez ÁR; Oh S; Owers MS; Sweet SM; van de Sande J; Wisnioski E; Yi SK; Zovaro HRM, 2023, The SAMI Survey: Evidence for dynamical coupling of ionised gas and young stellar populations, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2302.06712

Foster C; Mendel JT; Lagos CDP; Wisnioski E; Yuan T; D'Eugenio F; Barone TM; Harborne KE; Vaughan SP; Schulze F; Remus R-S; Gupta A; Collacchioni F; Khim DJ; Taylor P; Bassett R; Croom SM; McDermid RM; Poci A; Battisti AJ; Bland-Hawthorn J; Bellstedt S; Colless M; Davies LJM; Derkenne C; Driver S; Ferré-Mateu A; Fisher DB; Gjergo E; Johnston EJ; Khalid A; Kobayashi C; Oh S; Peng Y; Robotham ASG; Sharda P; Sweet SM; Taylor EN; Tran K-VH; Trayford JW; van de Sande J; Yi SK; Zanisi L, 2021, The MAGPI Survey -- science goals, design, observing strategy, early results and theoretical framework, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2011.13567

Croom SM; Taranu DS; van de Sande J; Lagos CDP; Harborne KE; Bland-Hawthorn J; Brough S; Bryant JJ; Cortese L; Foster C; Goodwin M; Groves B; Khalid A; Lawrence J; Medling AM; Richards SN; Owers MS; Scott N; Vaughan SP, 2021, The SAMI Galaxy Survey: The role of disc fading and progenitor bias in kinematic transitions, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2105.10179

Barsanti S; Owers MS; McDermid RM; Bekki K; Bland-Hawthorn J; Brough S; Bryant JJ; Cortese L; Croom SM; Foster C; Lawrence JS; López-Sánchez AR; Oh S; Robotham ASG; Scott N; Sweet SM; van de Sande J, 2020, The SAMI Galaxy Survey: bulge and disk stellar population properties in cluster galaxies, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2011.04873

Pak M; Oh S; Lee JH; Scott N; Smith R; van de Sande J; Croom SM; D'Eugenio F; Bekki K; Brough S; Foster C; Barone TM; Kraljic K; Jeong H; Bland-Hawthorn J; Bryant JJ; Goodwin M; Lawrence J; Owers MS; Richards SN, 2020, The Sami Galaxy Survey: stellar populations of passive spiral galaxies in different environment, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2011.03736

Oh S; Colless M; Barsanti S; Casura S; Cortese L; van de Sande J; Owers MS; Scott N; D'Eugenio F; Bland-Hawthorn J; Brough S; Bryant JJ; Croom SM; Foster C; Groves B; Lawrence JS; Richards SN; Sweet SM, 2020, The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Decomposed Stellar Kinematics of Galaxy Bulges and Disks, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2005.06474

Rawlings A; Foster C; van de Sande J; Taranu DS; Croom SM; Bland-Hawthorn J; Brough S; Bryant JJ; Colless M; Lagos CDP; Konstantopoulos IS; Lawrence JS; López-Sánchez ÁR; Lorente NPF; Medling AM; Oh S; Owers MS; Richards SN; Scott N; Sweet SM; Yi SK, 2019, The SAMI Galaxy Survey: rules of behaviour for spin-ellipticity radial tracks in galaxies, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1910.01358

Sharp R; Allen JT; Fogarty LMR; Croom SM; Cortese L; Green AW; Nielsen J; Richards SN; Scott N; Taylor EN; Barnes LA; Bauer AE; Birchall M; Bland-Hawthorn J; Bloom JV; Brough S; Bryant JJ; Cecil GN; Colless M; Couch WJ; Drinkwater MJ; Driver S; Foster C; Goodwin M; Gunawardhana MLP; Ho I-T; Hampton EJ; Hopkins AM; Jones H; Konstantopoulos IS; Lawrence JS; Leslie SK; Lewis GF; Liske J; Lopez-Sanchez AR; Lorente NPF; McElroy R; Medling AM; Mahajan S; Mould J; Parker Q; Pracy MB; Obreschkow D; Owers MS; Schaefer AL; Sweet SM; Thomas A; Tonini C; Walcher CJ, 2014, The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Cubism and covariance, putting round pegs into square holes, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1407.5237

Allen JT; Croom SM; Konstantopoulos IS; Bryant JJ; Sharp R; Cecil GN; Fogarty LMR; Foster C; Green AW; Ho I-T; Owers MS; Schaefer AL; Scott N; Bauer AE; Baldry I; Barnes LA; Bland-Hawthorn J; Bloom JV; Brough S; Colless M; Cortese L; Couch WJ; Drinkwater MJ; Driver SP; Goodwin M; Gunawardhana MLP; Hampton EJ; Hopkins AM; Kewley LJ; Lawrence JS; Leon-Saval SG; Liske J; López-Sánchez ÁR; Lorente NPF; McElroy R; Medling AM; Mould J; Norberg P; Parker QA; Power C; Pracy MB; Richards SN; Robotham ASG; Sweet SM; Taylor EN; Thomas AD; Tonini C; Walcher CJ, 2014, The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Early Data Release, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1407.6068

Taylor EN; Hopkins AM; Baldry IK; Bland-Hawthorn J; Brown MJI; Colless M; Driver S; Norberg P; Robotham ASG; Alpaslan M; Brough S; Cluver ME; Gunawhardhana M; Kelvin LS; Liske J; Conselice CJ; Croom S; Foster C; Jarrett TH; Lopez ML; Loveday J, 2014, Galaxy And Mass Assembly: Deconstructing Bimodality - I. Red ones and blue ones, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1408.5984

Brodie JP; Romanowsky AJ; Strader J; Forbes DA; Foster C; Jennings ZG; Pastorello N; Pota V; Usher C; Blom C; Kader J; Roediger JC; Spitler LR; Villaume A; Arnold JA; Kartha SS; Woodley KA, 2014, The SAGES Legacy Unifying Globulars and GalaxieS Survey (SLUGGS): Sample definition, methods, and initial results, https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/796/1/52

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