Astronomy 616: GALAXIES

Spring 2007 Instructor: Jon Holtzman
Class Times: MWF 10:30 - 11:20
Location: AY 119

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Paper presentations

• Jessica 1: Ulatraviolet and Far Infrared selected Star Forming Galaxies at z=0: Differences and Overlaps
• Joe 1: Measuring shapes of galaxy images - II: Morphology of 2MASS galaxies
• Paul 1: Total Galaxy Magnitudes and Effective Readii from Petrosian Magnitudes and Radii
• Cat 1: Galaxy Classifications Using Fractal Signature
• Roberto 1: Trucanted Stellar Disks in the near Infrared
• Jillian 1: The stellar mass distribution in early-type disk galaxies: surface photometry and bulge-disk decompositions
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• Claudia 1: Photometric Redshift Techniques: Reliability and Applications
• Tina 1: Dependence of Galaxy Structure on Rest-Frame Wavelength and Galaxy Type
• Sophia 1: A Chandra View of Dark Matter in Early Type Galaxies
• Chas 1: Mathematical Morphology: Star/Galaxy Differentiationa dn Galaxy Morphology Classification
• Ryan 1: The Fundamental Properties of Galaxies and a New Glaaxy Classification System
• Sean 1: A new approach to Galaxy Morphology I: Analysis of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Early Release
• Allison 1: Morphological Classification of Galaxies by Shaplet Decomposition in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II: Multiwavelength Classification
• Jiehae 1:
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• Paul 2: Tip of the Red Gian Branch Distances I. Optimiziation of a Maximum Likelihood Algorithm
• Cat 2: The Galaxy Luminosity Function down to M~-10 in the Hydra I Clusters
• Jessica 2: The bimodal galaxy color distribution: Dependence on Luminosity and Environment
• Joe 2: The Environmental Dependence of Galaxy Properties in the Local Universe: Dependences on Luminosity, Local Density, and System Richness
• Roberto 2: The Millenium Galaxy Catalog: Morphological Classification and Bimodality in the Colour-Concentration Plane
• Jillian 2: The dependence of the galaxy luminosity function on environment
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• Claudia 2: Environmental dependencies in the luminosity function of galaxies
• Tina 2: The Luminosity Fucntion of Void Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sly Survey
• Sophia 2: The Global, Local, and Cluster Galaxy Luminosity Function
• Chas 2: On the Luminosity Function of Galaxies in Groups in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• Ryan 2: COMBO-17 measurements of the effect of environment on the type-dependent galaxy luminosity function
• Sean 2: The Millenium Galaxy Catalogue: The Luminosity Functions of Bulges and DIscs and Their Implied Stellar Mass Densities
• Allison 2: Galaxy Colour, Morphology, and Environment in the Sload Digital Sky Survey
• Jiehae 2: The Group evolution multiwavelength study: the near-infrared luminosity function of nearby galaxy groups
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• Paul 3: Evolutionary Stellar Population Synthesis at High Spectral Optical Wavelengths
• Cat 3: Where the Blue Stragglers Roam: Searching for a Link Between Formation and Environment
• Jessica 3: Effects of Young Stellar Populations on Determination of Ages and Metallicities of Dominating Stellar Populations of Galaxies
• Joe 3: The Initial Mass Function towards the Low-Mass End in the Large Magellanic CLoud with HST WFPC2 Observations
• Roberto 3: Blue Stragglers in Low Luminosity Star Clusters
• Jillian 3: The radial distribution of blue straggler stars and the nature of their progenitors
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• Tina 3: Chemical Evolution models of Local Group galaxies
• Ryan 3: Models of the Solar Vicinity: The Metal Rich Stage
• Sophia 3: Infrared Stellar Populations in the Central Parts of the Milky Way Galaxy
• Chas 3: Inside the whale: the structure and dynamics of the isolated Cetus dwarf spheroidal
• Sean 3: Testing the universal stellar IMF on the metallicity distribution in teh bulges of the Milky Way and M31
• Claudia 3: Oxygen abundances and chemical evolution in low surface brightness galaxies
• Jiehae 3: Galactic Chemical Evolution: Carbon through Zinc
• Allison 3: Phase-Space Distributions of CHemical Abundances in Milky Way-Type Galaxy Halos
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• Paul 4: The Luminosities, Sizes, and Velocity Dispersions of Brightest Cluster Galaxies: Implications for Formation History
• Cat 4: The Elliptical Galaxies NGC 1052 and NGC 7796: Stellar Populations and Abundance alpha/Fe Ratios
• Jessica 4: The VMC Survey and the SFH of some Local Group Galaxies
• Joe 4: Structural evolution in elliptical galaxies: the age-shape relation
• Roberto 4: Chemical Evolution Models of Ellipticals and Bulges
• Jillian 4: An Observational Limit on the Dwarf Galaxy Population of the Local Group
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• Sophia 4: Evidence From the Motions of Old Stars that the Galaxy Collapsed
• Ryan 4: A More Fundamental Plane
• Chas 4: Abundance diagnosis of E+A (post-starburst) galaxies
• Tina 4: Formation and evolution of S0 galaxies: a SAURON case study of NGC 7332
• Allison 4: The sigma-L Correlation in Nearby Early-Type Galaxies
• Claudia 4: The star formation histories of elliptical galaxies across the fundamental plane
• Jiehae 4
• Sean 4: Are disk galaxies the progenitors of giant ellipticals
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• Cat 5: The Ursa Major Cluster of Galaxies. V. HI Rotation Curve Shapes and the Tully-Fisher Relations
• Jessica 5: Evolution of the Galaxy Luminosity Function for Redshift and Density Environment at 0.03 - z - 0.5
• Paul 5: The galaxy luminosity - size relation and selection biases in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
• Roberto 5: The Globular Cluster Kinematics and Galaxy Dark Matter Content of NGC 4649 (M60)
• Joe 5: Specific Star Formation Rate Profiles in Nearby Spiral Galaxies: Quantifying the Inside-Out FOrmation of Disks
• Jillian 5: The Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation of Galaxies with Extended Rotation Curves and the Stellar Mass of Rotating Galaxies
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• Sophia 5: Active Galaxies and Radiative Heating
• Ryan 5: The UV Upturn: From M32 to Distant Clusters
• Chas 5: The Long Faint Tail of the High-Redshift Galaxy Population
• Tina 5: Far-Ultraviolet & X-ray Observations of VV 114: Feedback in a Local Analog to Lyman Break Galaxies
• Allison 5
• Claudia 5: AEGIS: Infrared Spectroscopy of An Infrared Luminous Lyman Break Galaxy at z=3.01
• Jiehae 5
• Sean 5: The Evolution of Submillimeter Galaxiesw: Two Populations and Redshift Cut-off
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• Paul: Interactions, mergers and the fundamental mass relations of galaxies
• Joe: The GOODS-MUSIC sample: a multicolour catalog of near-IR selected galaxies in the GOODS-South field
• Jessica: The Tully-Fisher Relation for S0 Galaxies