Carla Adams
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| Teaching Assistant |
| Entered: | 2001 |
| Office: | 101 Astronomy |
| Phone: | (575)646-4438 |
| Fax: | (575)646-1602 |
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| E-mail: | cladams |
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| M.S. | New Mexico State University, | 2004 |
| B.S. | University of Pittsburgh, | 2001 |
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Research
I am working with my advisor, Dr. Nicole Vogt, on the effects on field spirals
of a first pass through the environment of a massive galaxy cluster. We are
quantifying star formation truncation and morphological transformation in
these galaxies, as they interact with the cluster potential (tidal effects),
with the hot gas component of the cluster (e.g., ram pressure stripping), and
with other galaxies (galaxy-galaxy harassment). The data we use come from the
Very Large Array (VLA), the Owens Valley Radio Observatory
(OVRO), the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray
Observatory.
I would like to acknowledge generous support from the New Mexico
Space Grant Consortium.
Future Work
I defended my M.S. thesis on Extremes of Galaxy Evolution: Tracing Star
Formation in Local Cluster Spiral Galaxies, on November 3, 2004. I then
accepted a teaching position in astronomy at the Dona Ana Community College.
