Dan Coe
Caltech Postdoc at JPL

 coe(at)caltech.edu
webpage at JPL
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A Brief History (CV  html  PDF):
Caltech / JPL Postdoc with Leonidas Moustakas
JHU (& IAA) Grad school ACS Science Team with Narciso Benitez and Holland Ford
Cornell Undergrad with Saul Teukolsky

Research (and selected papers):
      Strong Gravitational Lensing
            Dark matter maps of galaxy clusters:
                  LensPerfect (Coe08)
                  Future Detailed Mass Maps (Decadal white paper, Coe09a)
                  Abell 1689 (Broadhurst05)
            Cosmological Constraints from Time Delays (Coe09b)
                Fisher Matrix Quick-Start Guide (Coe09c)
      Photometric Redshifts (with BPZ):
            Ultra Deep Field (Coe06)
      Weak Gravitational Lensing:
            Dark Matter Ring in CL0024 (Jee07)
            Abell 1689 (Medezinski07)

Software

Fisher.py: Fisher Matrices and Confidence Contours
Fisher.py

LensPerfect: Strong Lensing Mass Maps which Perfectly Reproduce All Multiple Image Positions
LensPerfect LensPerfect

ColorPro: PSF-corrected Aperture-Matched Photometry
ColorPro

SExSeg: Force SExtractor to run using an input segmentation map
SExSeg

Ultra Deep Field photometric redshifts: clickable image map and catalog
Our UDF redshifts were used recently to make this UDF flythrough movie

Thesis (Sept. 2007, JHU):

     Towards an Understanding of Dark Matter:
     Precise Gravitational Lensing Analysis
     Complemented by Robust Photometric Redshifts
  • Ch. 1-4: Introduction (5MB): Reviews of Dark Matter, DM simulations, and Gravitational Lensing, plus a brief intro to Photometric Redshifts
  • Ch. 5: UDF Photometric Redshifts (AJ 132, 926)
  • Ch. 6: LensPerfect (ApJ 681, 814)
  • Ch. 7: LensPerfect Analysis of Abell 1689 (in prep.)
  • Ch. 8: Summary and Future Work
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    "We now stand on the threshold of once again exploring new worlds.
    And it is likely that one day we may encounter new lifeforms...
    Can we find a way to coexist with what we fear and not subjugate what we can overpower?"
    -- Land of Lost Monsters, Animal Planet

    Last modified: Tue Dec 29 09:05:45 CST 2009