Work Stuff:
Alternate Universe paper and data: Added Dec 21, 2015
Planck Bandmerged Early Release Compact Source catalogs See X. Chen et al., 2016, MNRAS
Talk on Reionization
Euclid mission involvement
Origins Mission Concept (Password required)
GOODS Spitzer Legacy Program (Password required)
Chary & Elbaz (2001) templates (IDL Savefile)
Chary & Elbaz (2001) template luminosities (IDL Savefile)
Code to calculate bolometric luminosities from 24 micron flux and redshift using
CE01 and DH02. Note that in Magnelli et al. 2009, DH02 have been found to be a poor representation of z<1.3 galaxies.
So I recommend editing out the DH02 part of the code.
Code to calculate bolometric luminosities
from monochromatic flux densities (including Herschel/ALMA) and redshift using
a variety of templates. See README file in the tarball for details.
Spitzer IRS Spectroscopy Results
Spitzer observations of the z=8.26 gamma-ray burst (GRB090423)
Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), Spitzer Data
An Hour-long CITA Seminar on Reionization
Students/postdocs and their current positions:
Benjamin Magnelli (Ph.D. CEA-Saclay, France) -> MPE postdoc ->IfA, Bonn postdoc -> ALMA staff
Alexandra Pope (Ph.D. Univ of British Columbia, Vancouver) -> NOAO -> UMass faculty
Anthony Pullen (Ph.D. Caltech) -> NYU faculty
James Davies (M.S. Johns Hopkins) -> SSC Data Analyst -> CfA Data Analyst
Fan Yang (Ph.D. NAOC, China)->Beijing Normal University
Ethan Cochran (B.Sc. UCLA) -> Data Science
Kyle Finner (Ph.D. Yonsei) -> current
Bomee Lee (Ph.D. UMass) -> Korean Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Staff Scientist
Abhishek Prakash (Ph.D. UPittsburgh) -> Health Care consultancy
Eric Murphy (Ph.D. Yale) -> NRAO Staff Scientist
Matt Thomson (Ph.D. Univ of Sussex) -> UK Department of Education -> Ernst & Young
Hyunjin Shim (Ph.D. Seoul National Univ) -> Kyungpook National University, South Korea, faculty
Alessandro Rettura (Ph.D. U. Paris) -> Keck observatory instrument support scientist
Carmen Rodriguez-Gonzalez (Ph.D. Cambridge) - International Center for Genetics, UK
Xi Chen (Ph.D. UCLA) -> Data Analyst for the NASA Extragalactic Database
Past Education/Public Outreach Programs:
Primary school kids in Ethiopia:2019
Measuring the Spin of Supermassive Black Holes with SOFIA: 2017. We have recently initiated a program to undertake high
cadence optical observations of black holes with NASA's SOFIA observatory and Caltech's Palomar observatory. If interested and have skills in analysis of time-domain
astronomy data, drop me a line.
NITARP with Planck: 2012.
There is no better training for a real-world experience than for students to face a scientific
problem and to work collaboratively to solve it, while having fun at it. Thus, the goal of the NITARP
program is to have school students and teachers work on active astronomical
research areas with cutting-edge NASA research facilities.
Recent Press Releases:
Evidence for Alternate Universes?: Feb 2016
Euclid mission selection: Jan 2013
Are Distant Galaxies Grazers or Voracious Tigers?: Jun 2011
Planck Early Results: Jan 2011
Recent Honors:
NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal (2011)