December 07, 2015: A Statistical Analysis on SDSS Low-redshift Quasars
Jiayi Sun (The Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics)
A Statistical Analysis on SDSS Low-redshift Quasars, Sun et al. 2015
November 23, 2015: The Dark Matter Halos of Compact Galaxies
Akin Yildirim (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)
The Dark Matter Halos of Compact Galaxies, Yildirim et al. 2015
November 16, 2015: Galaxies Probing Galaxies at High Resolution: Co-Rotating Gas Associated with a Milky Way Analog at z=0.4
Aleks Diamond-Stanic (University of Wisconsin)
Galaxies Probing Galaxies at High Resolution, Diamond-Stanic et al. 2015
November 02, 2015: Surveying Galaxy Proto-clusters in Emission
Yi-Kuan Chiang (University of Texas at Austin)
Models of Hot Gas in Cluster-scale Halos, Chiang et al. 2015
October 26, 2015: Models of Hot Gas in Cluster-scale Halos
Anna Patej (Harvard University)
Models of Hot Gas in Cluster-scale Halos, Patej et al. 2014
October 19, 2015: Modeling Galactic Conformity with the Color-Halo Age Relation in the Illustris Simulation
Aaron D. Bray (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Modeling Galactic Conformity with the Color-Halo Age Relation in the Illustris Simulation, Bray et al. 2015
October 5, 2015: On the origin of excess cool gas in quasar host haloes
Sean Johnson, (University of Chicago)
On the origin of excess cool gas in quasar host haloes, Johnson et al. 2015
September 28, 2015: Signatures of Ubiquitous Galactic-scale Outflows
Guangtun Zhu (Johns Hopkins)
Near-ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Star-forming Galaxies from eBOSS: Signatures of Ubiquitous Galactic-scale Outflows, Zhu et al. 2015
August 3, 2015: Quasar Clustering
Louis Johnson (CfA)
Transverse and longitudinal correlation functions in the intergalactic medium from 32 close pairs of high-redshift quasars, Coppolani et al. 2006
July 20, 2015: Dynamical Modelling of M87 Using Made-to-Measure
Shude Mao (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. V. Modeling the Dynamics of M87 with the Made-to-measure Method, Zhu et al. 2014
June 29, 2015: Splashback in Accreting Dark Matter Halos
Susmita Adhikari (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Splashback in Accreting Dark Matter Halos, Adhikari et al. 2014
June 1, 2015: The formation of massive, compact galaxies at z = 2 in the Illustris simulation
Sarah Wellons (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
The formation of massive, compact galaxies at z = 2 in the Illustris simulation, Wellons et al. 2015
May 4, 2015: Rotating Stellar Models Can Account for the Extended Main Sequence Turnoffs in Intermediate Age Clusters
Tim Brandt (IAS) and Chelsea Huang (Princeton University)
Rotating Stellar Models Can Account for the Extended Main Sequence Turnoffs in Intermediate Age Clusters, Brandt & Huang 2015
April 27, 2015: Action-space Clustering of Tidal Streams to Infer the Galactic Potential
Robyn Sanderson (Columbia University)
Action-space Clustering of Tidal Streams to Infer the Galactic Potential, Sanderson et al. 2015
April 21, 2015: MOSDEF Survey
Mariska Kriek (University of California, Berkeley)
The MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) Survey: Rest-Frame Optical Spectroscopy for ~1500 H-Selected Galaxies at 1.37 < z < 3.8, Kriek et al. 2014
The MOSDEF Survey: Measurements of Balmer Decrements and the Dust Attenuation Curve at Redshifts z~1.4-2.6, Reddy et al. 2015
April 6, 2015: Carbon in Galaxies
Jenny Greene (Princeton University)
Carbon in Red Giants in Globular Clusters and Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies, Kirby et al. 2015
March 30, 2015: Molecular Line Emission in NGC 1068 Imaged with ALMA
Ai-Lei Sun (Princeton University)
Molecular line emission in NGC 1068 imaged with ALMA. I. An AGN-driven outflow in the dense molecular gas, Garcia-Burillo et al. 2014
March 16, 2015: Compact Starbursts at z~0.5
Petchara Pattarakijwanich (Princeton University)
A Redline Starburst: CO(2-1) Observations of an Eddington-limited Galaxy Reveal Star Formation at Its Most Extreme, Geach et al. 2013
February 23, 2015: Uncovering the Dwarf Galaxy Population in Virgo with the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey
Lauren MacArthur (Princeton University)
The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). I. Introduction to the Survey, Ferrarese et al. 2012
February 23, 2015: LRGs in Clusters
Alexie Leauthaud (IPMU)
February 20, 2015: Metal-poor Stars in the Bulge
Kevin Schlaufman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Chemistry of the most metal-poor stars in the bulge and the z>10 universe, Casey & Schlaufman 2012
February 9, 2015: The Effects of Stellar Rotation
Emily Levesque (University of Colorado at Boulder)
The Effects of Stellar Rotation. I. Impact on the Ionizing Spectra and Integrated Properties of Stellar Populations, Levesque et al. 2012
Modeling Tracers of Young Stellar Population Age in Star-forming Galaxies, Levesque & Leitherer 2013
January 19, 2015: First direct implications for the dust extinction and star formation of typical Ly alpha emitters from their faint infrared luminosities
Eric Gawiser (Rutgers University)
First direct implications for the dust extinction and star formation of typical Lyα emitters from their faint infrared luminosities, Kusakabe et al. 2014
To Stack or Not to Stack: Spectral Energy Distribution Properties of Lyalpha-emitting Galaxies at z = 2.1, Vargas et al. 2014
Spectral Energy Distribution Fitting of HETDEX Pilot Survey Lyalpha Emitters in COSMOS and GOODS-N, Hagen et al. 2014
December 8, 2014: Quasar Ionization Front Lyα Emission in an Inhomogeneous Intergalactic Medium
Frederick Davies (University of California Los Angeles)
Quasar Ionization Front Lyα Emission in an Inhomogeneous Intergalactic Medium, Davies et al. 2014
November 24, 2014: Probing the Physical Conditions of Atomic Gas at High Redshift
Marcel Neeleman (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Probing the Physical Conditions of Atomic Gas at High Redshift, Neeleman et al. 2014
November 17, 2014: The Flatness and Sudden Evolution of the Intergalactic Ionizing Background
Joey Munoz (University of California, Santa Barbara)
The Flatness and Sudden Evolution of the Intergalactic Ionizing Background, Munoz et al. 2014
November 10, 2014: Host Environments of Super Luminous Supernovae
Ragnhild Lunnan (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernovae and Long-duration Gamma-Ray Bursts Have Similar Host Galaxies, Lunnan et al. 2014
Zooming In on the Progenitors of Superluminous Supernovae With HST, Lunnan et al. 2014
November 3, 2014: Quenching Galaxies
Katherine Alatalo (California Institute of Technology)
Suppression of Star Formation in NGC 1266, Alatalo et al. 2014
Discovery of an Active Galactic Nucleus Driven Molecular Outflow in the Local Early-type Galaxy NGC 1266, Alatalo et al. 2011
Catching Quenching Galaxies: The Nature of the WISE Infrared Transition Zone, Alatalo et al. 2014
NGC 1266 as a Local Candidate for Rapid Cessation of Star Formation, Alatalo et al. 2014
October 27, 2014: Galaxy Bimodality
Edward N. (Ned) Taylor (University of Melbourne and University of Sydney)
Galaxy And Mass Assembly: Deconstructing Bimodality - I. Red ones and blue ones, Taylor et al. 2014
October 20, 2014: Resolved Stellar Populations and Stellar Mass Distributions in High-z Galaxies
Stijn Wuyts (MPE, Garching)
Smooth(er) Stellar Mass Maps in CANDELS: Constraints on the Longevity of Clumps in High-redshift Star-forming Galaxies, Wuyts et al. 2012
Bulge Growth and Quenching since z=2.5 in CANDELS/3D-HST, Lang et al. 2014
A CANDELS-3D-HST synergy: Resolved Star Formation Patterns at 0.7
October 13, 2014: Metallicity Gradients in High-redshift Galaxies
Tucker Jones (University of California, Santa Barbara)
GLASS: gas-phase metallicity and radial gradients in an interacting system at z~2, Jones et al. 2014
October 6, 2014: Star Formation Rate and Average Black Hole Accretion
Chien-Ting Chen (Dartmouth College)
A correlation between star formation rate and average black hole accretion in star forming galaxies, Chen et al. 2013
September 29, 2014: Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy of a Confirmed Dual Active Galactic Nucleus
Rosalie McGurk (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy of SDSS J0952+2552: A Confirmed Dual Active Galactic Nucleus, McGurk et al. 2011
Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy to Confirm or Disprove Dual Active Galactic Nuclei, McGurk et al. 2014
September 8, 2014: Purely Metal Stars
Philip Hopkins (Caltech)
July 21, 2014 (12:00PM): "Live Fast, Die... Small: The Fall of the First Massive Galaxies" (Barro) and "Kinemetic and Structural Properties of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster" (Toloba)
Guillermo Barro & Elisa Toloba (University of California Santa Cruz)
CANDELS+3D-HST: Compact SFGs at z ~ 2-3, the Progenitors of the First Quiescent Galaxies, Barro et al. 2013
Stellar Kinematics and Structural Properties of Virgo Cluster Dwarf Early-type Galaxies from the SMAKCED project III. Rotation Versus Pressure Support, Toloba et al. 2014
June 16, 2014: Lensing and Initial Mass Function
Drew Newman (Princeton University & Carnegie Institution of Washington)
A giant elliptical galaxy with a lightweight initial mass function, Smith & Lucey 2013
May 19, 2014: Measuring/Searching for Massive BHs in Globular Clusters
Nora Lutzgendorf (European Southern Observatory)
M-σ relation for intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters, Lutzgendorf et al. 2013
May 12, 2014: The Stellar Haloes of Massive Elliptical Galaxies III: Kinematics at Large Radius
Sudhir Raskutti (Princeton University)
The Stellar Haloes of Massive Elliptical Galaxies III: Kinematics at Large Radius, Raskutti et al. 2013
May 05, 2014: NO MEETING THIS WEEK
April 28, 2014: The Dark Side of Galaxy Colour
Andrea Kulier (Princeton University)
The Dark Side of Galaxy Colour, Hearin & Watson 2013
The Dark Side of Galaxy Color: evidence from new SDSS measurements of galaxy clustering and lensing, Hearin et al. 2013
April 21, 2014: ALMA Observations of a Candidate Molecular Outflow in an Obscured Quasar
Ai-Lei Sun (Princeton University)
ALMA Observations of a Candidate Molecular Outflow in an Obscured Quasar, Sun et al. 2014
April 14, 2014: Globular Cluster Specific Frequency and Dark Halo Mass Have a Power-law Relationship
Jenny Greene (Princeton University)
Dark Matter Halos in Galaxies and Globular Cluster Populations, Hudson et al. 2014
The Dependence of Globular Cluster Number on Density for Abell Cluster Central Galaxies, Blakeslee 1997
April 7, 2014: Evidence for Ubiquitous Collimated Galactic-Scale Outflows
Kate Rubin (Harvard University)
Evidence for Ubiquitous Collimated Galactic-Scale Outflows along the Star-Forming Sequence at z~0.5, Rubin et al. 2013
March 31, 2014: Massive Star-forming Host Galaxies of Quasars on Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82
Yoshiki Matsuoka (Princeton University)
Massive Star-forming Host Galaxies of Quasars on Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82, Matsuoka et al. 2014
Mar 24 2013: NO MEETING THIS WEEK
March 17, 2014: NO MEETING THIS WEEK
March 10, 2014: NO MEETING THIS WEEK
March 3, 2014: Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Nearby Disk Galaxies
Chang-Goo Kim (Princeton University)
Molecular Gas and Star Formation in nearby Disk Galaxies, Leroy et al. 2013
February 24, 2014: Observational Constraints on the Lifetimes and Luminosities of AGB Stars.
Jason S. Kalirai (Space Telescope Science Institute)
The Core Mass Growth and Stellar Lifetime of Thermally Pulsing Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars, Kalirai et al. 2014
February 17, 2014: The Morphological Content of 10 EDisCS Clusters at 0.5 < z < 0.8
Petchara Pattarakijwanich (Princeton University)
The Morphological Content of 10 EDisCS Clusters at 0.5 < z < 0.8, Desai et al. 2007
February 10, 2014: On Central Black Holes in Ultra-compact Dwarf Galaxies
Steffen Meiske (European Southern Observatory, Chile)
On Central Black Holes in Ultra-compact Dwarf Galaxies, Mieske et al. 2013
February 3, 2014: Massive Star-forming Host Galaxies of Quasars on Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82
Yoshiki Matsuoka (Princeton University)
Massive Star-forming Host Galaxies of Quasars on Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82, Matsuoka et al. 2014
January 27, 2014: Caught in the act: cluster `k+a' galaxies as a link between spirals and S0s
Stephanie Tonnessen (Princeton University)
Caught in the Act: Cluster `k+a' Galaxies as a Link Between Spirals and S0s, Rodriguez Del Pino et al. 2013
January 13, 2014: Feedback in Galaxy Evolution Simulations
Paul Torrey (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
A physical model for cosmological simulations of galaxy formation: multi-epoch validation, Torrey, P. et al.
December 9, 2013: GMCs in Galaxy-scale Simulations
Yusuke Fujimoto
December 9, 2013: CANCELLED
December 2, 2013: Halo Masses of Lya Emitters
Jean Walker-Soler (Rutgers University)
Present-day Descendants of z = 3 Lyα-emitting Galaxies in the Millennium-II Halo Merger Trees, Walker-Soler et al. 2012
The Phantom Menace of Galaxy Clustering: Assembly Bias and the Galaxy-Halo Relationship, Zentner et al. 2013
Nov 18 2013: Damped Lyα Systems and PopIII Stars
Girish Kulkarni (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)
Chemical Enrichment of Damped Lyα Systems as a Direct Constraint on Population III Star Formation, Kulkarni et al.
Chemical constraints on the contribution of Population III stars to cosmic reionization, Kulkarni et al.
Nov 11 2013: Modeling AGN Feedback in Cool-Core Clusters: The Formation of Cold Clumps
Yuan Li (Columbia University)
Modeling AGN Feedback in Cool-Core Clusters: The Formation of Cold Clumps, Li & Bryan 2013
Nov 4 2013: The Baryon Cycle of Dwarf Galaxies: Dark, Bursty, Gas-Rich Polluters
Sijing Shen (University of California, Santa Cruz)
The Baryon Cycle of Dwarf Galaxies: Dark, Bursty, Gas-Rich Polluters, Shen et al.
Nov 4 2013: Modelling of Galaxy Mergers
George Privon (University of Virginia)
Dynamical Modeling of Galaxy Mergers Using Identikit, Privon et al.
Oct 28 2013: TBA
Ixandra Achitouv (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
Testing spherical evolution for modelling void abundances, Achitouv et al.
Self-consistency of the Excursion Set Approach, Achitouv et al.
Toward a Universal Formulation of the Halo Mass Function, Corasaniti & Achitouv
Oct 21 2013: The Structure of Elliptical Galaxies from Merger Simulations
Dan Taranu (University of Toronto)
Mergers in Galaxy Groups - I. Structure and Properties of Elliptical Remnants, Taranu et al.
Oct 14 2013: Modeling ISM Properties at High Redshift
Gergo Popping (University of Groningen)
The nature of the ISM in galaxies during the star-formation activity peak of the Universe, Popping et al.
Oct 7 2013: Why is the Broad Line Region Similar in all AGN?
Alexei Baskin (Technion - Israel Institute)
Radiation pressure confinement - II. Application to the broad line region in active galactic nuclei, Baskin et al.
The average absorption properties of broad absorption line quasars at 800 < λrest < 3000 Å, and the underlying physical parameters, Baskin et al.
Sep 30 2013: MgII Absorption Around Luminous Red Galaxies
Guangtun Zhu (Johns Hopkins University)
The JHU-SDSS Metal Absorption Line Catalog: Redshift Evolution and Properties of Mg II Absorbers, Zhu et al.
Calcium H & K Induced by Galaxy Halos, Zhu & Menard
The large-scale distribution of cool gas around luminous red galaxies, Zhu et al.
Sep 23 2013: Damped Lyα from Semi-analytic Models
Mike Berry (Rutgers)
Damped Lyα Absorption Systems in Semi-Analytic Models with Multiphase Gas, Berry et al.
Sep 16 2013: The Role of Environment in Elliptical Galaxy Formation
Claire Lackner (Kavli IPMU)
A Link Between Star Formation Quenching and Inner Stellar Mass Density in SDSS Central Galaxies, Fang et al.
Summer 2013: No meetings on the schedule. We will resume galread in the fall.
May 13 2013: The role of cold streams on the build-up of galactic disks
Taysun Kimm (Princeton)
The origin of discs and spheroids in simulated galaxies, Sales et al.
The angular momentum of baryons and dark matter halos revisited, Kimm et al.
May 06 2013: A Fundamental Line for Elliptical Galaxies / Systematic effects on the size-luminosity relation
Preethi Nair (STScI)
A Fundamental Line for Elliptical Galaxies, Nair et al.
Systematic effects on the size-luminosity relation: dependence on model fitting and morphology, Bernardi et al.
Apr 29 2013: Away from the main-sequence and fundamental planes: lives of emission line galaxies
Sangeeta Malhotra (Arizona State University)
Metallicities of Emission-line Galaxies from HST ACS PEARS and HST WFC3 ERS Grism Spectroscopy at 0.6 < z < 2.4, Xia, Malhotra, Rhoads et al.
Sizing up Lyα and Lyman Break Galaxies, Malhotra, Rhoads, Finkelstein et al.
Apr 22 2013: Gaseous galaxy halos
Joshua Peek (Columbia)
Gaseous galaxy halos, Putman, M.E., Peek, J.E.G., Joung, M.R.
Apr 15 2013: Satellite alignments about Milky Way type galaxies
Gurtina Besla (Columbia)
A vast, thin plane of corotating dwarf galaxies orbiting the Andromeda galaxy, Ibata et al., 2013
The vast thin plane of M31 co-rotating dwarfs: an additional fossil signature of the M31 merger and of its considerable impact in the whole Local Group, Hammer et al., 2013
Apr 08 2013: Black Hole-Galaxy Correlations without Self-Regulation
Rachel Somerville (Rutgers)
Black Hole-Galaxy Correlations without Self-Regulation (main paper), Angles-Alcazar et al.
Cosmological Zoom Simulations of z = 2 Galaxies: The Impact of Galactic Outflows, Angles-Alcazar et al.
Apr 01 2013: Comparing Simulated Disks to the Milky Way
Jo Bovy, Institute for Advanced Study
MaGICC Thick Disk I: Comparing a Simulated Disk Formed with Stellar Feedback to the Milky Way, Stinson, Bovy, Rix et al. (Main paper to be discussed)
The Effects of Radial Migration on the Vertical Structure of Galactic Discs, Roskar et al.
Inside Out and Upside Down: Tracing the Assembly of a Simulated Disk Galaxy Using Mono-Age Stellar Populations, Bird et al.
The Chemodynamical Evolution of the Milky Way Disc I: The Solar Vicinity, Minchev et al.
Mar 25 2013: Spitzer Space Telescope observations of the Carina nebula: the steady march of feedback-driven star formation
Nathan Smith, University of Arizona
Spitzer Space Telescope observations of the Carina nebula: the steady march of feedback-driven star formation, Nathan Smith et al.
Mar 18 2013: Physical properties of simulated galaxy populations at z=2
Marcel Haas, Rutgers
Physical properties of simulated galaxy populations at z=2 -- II. Effects of physics ingredients other than cooling and outflows, Marcel Haas et al.
Physical properties of simulated galaxy populations at z=2 -- I. Effect of metal-line cooling and feedback from star formation and AGN, Marcel Haas et al.
Mar 11 2013, *2pm*: The Faint End of the Quasar Luminosity Function at z ~ 4
Eilat Glikman, Yale
The Faint End of the Quasar Luminosity Function at z ~ 4: Implications for Ionization of the Intergalactic Medium and Cosmic Downsizing, Eilat Glikman et al.
The Faint End of the Quasar Luminosity Function at z ~ 4, Eilat Glikman et al.
Mar 04 2013: How to estimate H2 masses from CO
Adam Leroy, North American ALMA Science Center, NRAO
The CO-to-H2 Conversion Factor from Infrared Dust Emission across the Local Group, Adam Leroy et al.
The CO-to-H2 Conversion Factor and Dust-to-Gas Ratio on Kiloparsec Scales in Nearby Galaxies, Karin Sandstrom et al.
Feb 25 2013: Bayesian methods in dust SED fitting / A non-universal Kennicutt-Schmidt relationship
Rahul Shetty, ITA Heidelberg
Dust Spectral Energy Distributions in the Era of Herschel and Planck: A Hierarchical Bayesian-fitting Technique, Kelly, Brandon et al.
Evidence for a non-universal Kennicutt-Schmidt relationship using hierarchical Bayesian linear regression, Shetty, Rahul et al.
Feb 11 2013: Recently quenched galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Petchara Pattarakijwanich, Princeton
Towards a physical picture of star formation quenching: the photometric properties of recently quenched galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, J. Trevor Mender et al.
Feb 04 2013: The growth of ellipticals
Jeremy Murphy, Princeton
The Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey III: The Three-component Structure of Nearly Elliptical Galaxies, Song Huang et al.
How do minor mergers promote inside-out growth of ellipticals, transforming the size, density profile and dark matter fraction?, Michael Hilz et al.
HST/WFC3 Confirmation of the Inside-Out Growth of Massive Galaxies at 0 < z < 2 and Identification of their Star Forming Progenitors at z ~ 3, Shannon Patel et al.
Jan 28 2013: Evolution of stellar disks
Stephanie Tonnesen, Princeton
The ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury XI. The Remarkably Undisturbed NGC 2403 Disk, Williams et al.
Stellar Populations and Radial Migrations in Virgo Disk Galaxies, Roediger et al.
Jan 21 2013: The evolution of galaxies resolved in space and time: an inside-out growth view from the CALIFA survey
Elisa Chisari, Princeton
The evolution of galaxies resolved in space and time: an inside-out growth view from the CALIFA survey, Perez et al., CALIFA collaboration
Jan 14 2013: Evidence for a bottom-heavy IMF in massive early type galaxies
Genevieve Graves, Princeton
Systematic variation of the stellar initial mass function in early-type galaxies, Capellari et al.
The Stellar Initial Mass Function in Early-type Galaxies From Absorption Line Spectroscopy. II. Results, Conroy & van Dokkum
The SWELLS survey - V. A Salpeter stellar initial mass function in the bulges of massive spiral galaxies, Dutton et al.
Dec 10 2012: Cosmological radiative transfer through metals
Luca Graziani, MPA
CRASH3: cosmological radiative transfer through metals, Graziani, L. et al.
The impact of spatial fluctuations in the ultra-violet background on intergalactic carbon and silicon, Bolton, J. & Viel, M.
Dec 3 2012: Sizes and Surface Brightness Profiles of Quiescent Galaxies at z ~ 2
Daniel Szomoru, Leiden
Sizes and Surface Brightness Profiles of Quiescent Galaxies at z ~ 2, Szomoru, D. et al.
Nov 26 2012: Evolution of low-mass galaxies
Stephanie Tonnesen, Princeton
A Fundamental Problem in Our Understanding of Low Mass Galaxy Evolution, Weinmann, S. et al.
Nov 19 2012: BH-galaxy scaling relations
Ai-Lei Sun, Princeton
The Non-causal Origin of the Black-hole-galaxy Scaling Relations, Knud Jahnke & Andrea Maccio
Revisiting the Scaling Relations of Black Hole Masses and Host Galaxy Properties, Nicholas McConnell & Chung-Pei Ma
Nov 16 2012, 3pm Grand Central: 10^{10} solar mass BHs in 10^{11} solar mass S0 galaxies
Remco van den Bosch, MPIA Heidelberg
Nov 12 2012: The colors of satellite galaxies
Jeremy Murphy, Princeton
Dwarf Galaxies and the Cosmic Web, Alejandro Benitez-Llambay, et al.
A Stellar Mass Threshold for Quenching Field Galaxies, Marla Geha, et al.
Nov 5 2012: Active galaxies in SDSS
Jonathan Stern, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Type 1 AGN at low z. III. The optical narrow line ratios, J. Stern & A. Laor
Oct 29 2012: Mg II absorbers
Guangtun Zhu, JHU
Oct 22 2012: HOD Modeling of Green Valley Galaxies
Elisabeth Krause, UPenn
Halo Occupation Distribution Modeling of Green Valley Galaxies, Elisabeth Krause, et al.
Oct 15 2012: Two distinct stellar IMF
Petchara Pattarakijwanich, Princeton
Evidence for Two Distinct Stellar Initial Mass Functions, Dennis Zaritsky, et al.
Oct 8 2012: Models of intrinsic galaxy ellipticities
Elisa Chisari, Princeton
Intrinsic galaxy shapes and alignments I: Measuring and modelling COSMOS intrinsic galaxy ellipticities, Benjamin Joachimi, et al.
Oct 1 2012: Simulating Age and Metallicity Across and Through the Fundamental Plane
Lauren Porter, UCSC
The Effect of Major Mergers on Age and Metallicity Across the Fundamental Plane, Lauren Porter, et al.
Sept 24 2012: Black hole downsizing
Rachel Somerville, Rutgers
Origin of the anti-hierarchical growth of black holes, Michaela Hirschmann, et al.
Sept 17 2012: Gravitational Lensing and the Magellanic Clouds
Gurtina Besla, Columbia
The Origin of the Microlensing Events Observed Towards the LMC and the Stellar Counterpart of the Magellanic Stream, Besla, et al
June 20 2012: Recoiling Super Massive Black Holes, a Direct Search in the Nearby Universe
Davide Lena, RIT
A Displaced Supermassive Black Hole in M87, Batcheldor, et al
May 21 2012: Disk Galaxy Formation
Susan Kassin, NASA Goddard
The Stellar Mass Tully-Fisher Relation to z = 1.2 from AEGIS, Kassin, et al.
The Epoch of Disk Settling: z~1 to now, Kassin, et al
April 23 2012: Lyman Break Galaxies at 3 < z < 7
Dan Stark
Keck Spectroscopy of Faint 3 < z < 7 Lyman Break Galaxies: III. The Mean Ultraviolet Spectrum at z=4, Jones, Stark, and Ellis
April 16 2012: Fossil Groups
Elisa Chisari
On the mass-to-light ratios of fossil groups. Are they simply dark clusters?, Robert N. Proctor
April 9 2012: Galaxy Outflows
Jenny Greene
The Structure and Kinematics of the Circumgalactic Medium from Far-ultraviolet Spectra of z ~= 2-3 Galaxies, Steidel, C. et al.
April 2 2012: TBD
TBD
March 26 2012: A non-constant IMF
Pete Pattarakijwanich
A systematic variation of the stellar initial mass function in early-type galaxies, Michele Cappellari, et al.
Measuring the inclination and mass-to-light ratio of axisymmetric galaxies via anisotropic Jeans models of stellar kinematics, Michele Cappellari
March 19 2012: TBD
canceled
March 12 2012: COLD GASS survey: atomic and molecular gas + quenching models
Claire Lackner
COLD GASS, an IRAM Legacy Survey of Molecular Gas in Massive Galaxies: III. Comparison with semi-analytic models of galaxy formation, Guinevere Kauffmann, et al.
The atomic-to-molecular transition and its relation to the scaling properties of galaxy discs in the local Universe, Jian Fu, et al.
March 5 2012: TBD
Canceled
February 27 2012: ULIRGS
Rachel Somerville (Rutgers)
Physical properties of Herschel selected galaxies in a semi-analytic galaxy formation model, Niemi et al.
GOODS-Herschel & CANDELS: The Morphologies of Ultra-luminous Infrared galaxies at z~2, Kartaltepe et al.
February 20 2012: Galaxy Outflows
Jenny Greene
The Structure and Kinematics of the Circumgalactic Medium from Far-ultraviolet Spectra of z ~= 2-3 Galaxies, Steidel, C. et al.
February 13 2012: CANDELS
Claire Lackner
What turns galaxies off? The different morphologies of star-forming and quiescent galaxies since z~2 from CANDELS, Eric F. Bell, et al.
CANDELS Observations of the Structural Properties and Evolution of Galaxies in a Cluster at z=1.62, Casey Papovich, et al.
February 6 2012: The Milky Way Thick Disk
Jo Bovy (IAS)
The spatial structure of mono-abundance sub-populations of the Milky Way disk, Jo Bovy, et al.
The Milky Way has no thick disk, Jo Bovy, et al.
January 30 2012: Detection of Pristine Gas 2 Gyrs After the Big Bang
Michele Fumagalli (UCSC)
Detection of Pristine Gas Two Billion Years After the Big Bang, Fumagalli, M, et al.
January 23 2012: Outskirts of disk galaxies
Stephanie Tonnesen
The environmental dependence of the structure of outer galactic discs in STAGES spiral galaxies, Maltby, et al.
Dynamical Evidence for Environmental Evolution of Intermediate-Redshift Spiral Galaxies, Moran, et al.
WEDNESDAY, 1:45 PM December 21 2011: VVV survey: the Milky Way Bulge with VISTA
Dante Minniti
December 12 2011: AMR Simulations of Galaxy Formation
Cameron Hummels (Columbia)
Adaptive Mesh Refinement Simulations of Galaxy Formation: Exploring Numerical and Physical Parameters, Cameron Hummels, Greg Bryan
December 5 2011: Flow of Gas into Galaxies and Halos
Freeke van de Voort (Leiden)
The rates and modes of gas accretion on to galaxies and their gaseous haloes, van de Voort, F., et al.
Cold accretion flows and the nature of high column density HI absorption at redshift 3, van de Voort, F., et al.
November 28 2011: Probing Galaxy Halos with COS
Jenny Greene and Ed Jenkins
The Hidden Mass and Large Spatial Extent of a Poststarburst Galaxy Outflow, Tripp, et al.
November 21 2011: Fundamental Plane of Black Hole Activity
Richard Plotkin (University of Amsterdam)
Using the Fundamental Plane of black hole activity to distinguish X-ray processes from weakly accreting black holes, Plotkin, et al
November 14 2011: Local Remnants of the Most Massive Quasars?
Nicholas McConnell (UC Berkeley)
The Largest Black Holes and the Most Luminous Galaxies, Netzer
THE BLACK HOLE MASS IN THE BRIGHTEST CLUSTER GALAXY NGC 6086, McConnell, et al
November 7 2011: LINER-like Emission in Red Galaxies
Renbin Yan (NYU)
The Nature of LINER-like Emission in Red Galaxies, Yan and Blanton
October 31 2011: Tully-Fisher Relation
Sarah Miller (Oxford)
The Assembly History of Disk Galaxies. I. The Tully-Fisher Relation to z~1.3 from Deep Exposures with DEIMOS, Miller, et al.
October 24 2011: Merger Rates
Elisa Chisari
The Major and Minor Galaxy Merger Rates at z < 1.5, Lotz, et. al
October 17 2011: Satellites of L* Galaxies
Erik Tollerud (UC Irvine)
Small-scale Structure in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and ΛCDM: Isolated ~L * Galaxies with Bright Satellites, Tollerud, E., et al.
October 10 2011: Reddening from SDSS Stellar Spectra
Eddie Schlafly (Harvard)
Measuring Reddening with Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stellar Spectra and Recalibrating SFD, Edward F. Schlafly and Douglas P. Finkbeiner
October 3 2011: Low mass BHs and their hosts
Yan-Fei Jiang
Black Hole Mass and Bulge Luminosity for Low-mass Black Holes, Yan-Fei Jiang, et al.
The Host Galaxies of Low-mass Black Holes, Yan-Fei Jiang, et al.
September 26 2011: ATLAS3D: gas in early-type galaxies
Stephanie Tonnesen
The Atlas3D project - X. On the origin of the molecular and ionised gas in early-type galaxies, Davis, Timothy A., et al.
WEDNESDAY, 11 AM September 21 2011: Moving Mesh Cosmological Simulations
Lars Hernquist
Moving mesh cosmology: numerical techniques and global statistics, Mark Vogelsberger
September 12 2011: Mass and Environment vs Star Formation History
Claire Lackner
Mass and environment as drivers of galaxy evolution in SDSS and zCOSMOS and the origin of the Schechter function, Y. Peng, et al.
May 23 2011: Galaxy Evolution and Environment
Renyue Cen
May 9 2011: AGN Clustering
Richard Cool
The XMM-Newton Wide field survey in the COSMOS field: redshift evolution of AGN bias and subdominant role of mergers in triggering moderate luminosity AGN at redshift up to 2.2, V. Allevato et al.
May 2 2011: XUV Disks Show Red Galaxies Sliding Back into the Green Valley!
Stephanie Tonnesen
The Space Density of Extended Ultraviolet (XUV) Disks in the Local Universe and Implications for Gas Accretion onto Galaxies, Jenna J. Lemonias, et al.
April 25 2011: Forming Realistic Late-Type Spirals in a LCDM Universe: The Eris Simulation
Reina Reyes
Forming Realistic Late-Type Spirals in a LCDM Universe: The Eris Simulation, Javiera Guedes, et al.
April 11 2011: Galaxy formation and globular clusters
Claire Lackner
Evidence for two phases of galaxy formation from radial trends in the globular cluster system of NGC 1407, Forbes, Duncan A., et al.
Globular cluster systems in nearby dwarf galaxies - III. Formation efficiencies of old globular clusters, Georgiev, Iskren Y., et al.
April 4 2011: Dark Satellite Dwarf Galaxies
John Wise
Too big to fail? The puzzling darkness of massive Milky Way subhalos, Boylan-Kolchin, et al.
Mechanisms of Baryon Loss for Dark Satellites in Cosmological SPH Simulations, Nickerson, et al.
The Effects of X-Ray and UV Background Radiation on the Low-Mass Slope of the Galaxy Mass Function, Hambrick, et al.
March 28 2011: SLACS:Dark matter profiles and the IMF
Rachel Mandelbaum
Dark Matter Contraction and the Stellar Content of Massive Early-type Galaxies: Disfavoring "Light" Initial Mass Functions, Auger, M. W., et al.
The Initial Mass Function of Early-Type Galaxies, Treu, Tommaso, et al.
March 21 2011: Black holes and their dark matter haloes
Doug Richstone
How important is the dark matter halo for black hole growth?, Marta Volonteri, et al.
Supermassive black holes do not correlate with dark matter halos of galaxies, John Kormendy and Ralf Bender
March 14 2011: Dark matter cusps from stellar feedback
Marilena LoVerde
Stellar Feedback in Dwarf Galaxy Formation, Sergey Mashcenko, et al.
Cosmological puzzle resolved by stellar feedback in high redshift galaxies, Sergey Mashchenko, et al.
February 28 2011: Correlations between black holes and galaxies, from mergers
Greg Novak
How Mergers May Affect The Mass Scaling Relations Between Black Holes, Galaxies, and Other Gravitationally Bound Systems, Chien Y. Peng
The non-causal origin of the black hole-galaxy scaling relations, Knud Jahnke, Andrea Maccio
On the evolution of the intrinsic scatter in black hole versus galaxy mass relations, M. Hirschmann, et al.
February 21 2011: Can SAMS tell us anything? Or do they just tell us Everything?
Stephanie Tonnesen
Times, environments and channels of bulge formation in a LambdaCDM cosmology, De Lucia, et al.
The other side of Bulge Formation in a Lambda-CDM cosmology: Bulgeless Galaxies in the Local Universe, Fontanot, et al.
February 14 2011: Stellar Mass- Black Hole Mass relation with redshift
Claire Lackner
The Relation between Black Hole Mass and Host Spheroid Stellar Mass out to z~2, Vardha Nicola Bennert, et al.
The Building Up of the Black Hole Mass - Stellar Mass Relation, Alessandra Lamastra, et al.
February 7 2011: Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies
Stephanie Tonnesen
The ACS LCID project. V. The Star Formation History of the Dwarf Galaxy LGS-3: Clues for Cosmic Reionization and Feedback, Sebastian L. Hidalgo, et al.
Formation of isolated dwarf galaxies with feedback, Sawala, Till, et al.
January 31 2011: Evolution of the UV background at high z
Andrei Mesinger
Measurements of the UV background at 4.6 < z < 6.4 using the quasar proximity effect, Alexander P. Calverley, et al.
On Lyman-limit Systems and the Evolution of the Intergalactic Ionizing Background, Matthew McQuinn, et al.
January 17 2011: Planck Early Results
Doug Richstone
Planck Early Results: The all-sky Early Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster sample, Planck Collaboration
Decemeber 13 2010: Star Formation
Stephanie Tonnesen
The Dawn of the Red: Star formation histories of group galaxies over the past 5 billion years, Sean L. McGee, et al.
Comparing the relation between star formation and galaxy mass in different environments, Benedetta Vulcani, et al.
Decemeber 13 2010: Thick Disks
Claire Lackner
The thick disk in the galaxy NGC 4244 from S4G imaging, Comerón, S, et al.
The Thick Disks of Spiral Galaxies as Relics from Gas-rich, Turbulent, Clumpy Disks at High Redshift, Bournaud, Frédéric, et al.
November 29 2010: Fundamental Manifold
Richard Cool
Star Clusters, Galaxies, and the Fundamental Manifold, Dennis Zaritsky, et al.
The Fundamental Manifold of Spheroids, Zaritsky, Dennis, at al.
November 1 2010: Outflows and Disk Formation
Stephanie Tonnesen
Hierarchical Formation of Bulgeless Galaxies: Why outflows have low angular momentum, Brook, CB, et al
Bulgeless dwarf galaxies and dark matter cores from supernova-driven outflows, F. Governato, et al.
The effects of gas on morphological transformation in mergers: implications for bulge and disc demographics, Hopkins, Philip F., et al.
October 25 2010: Black Hole Growth
Greg Novak
The bulk of the black hole growth since z~1 occurs in a secular universe: No merger-AGN connection, Mauricio Cisternas, et al.
The Role of Mergers in Early-type Galaxy Evolution and Black Hole Growth, Kevin Schawinski, et al.
October 18 2010: Mass, Metallicity and SFR at high z
Claire Lackner
A fundamental relation between mass, star formation rate and metallicity in local and high-redshift galaxies, F. Mannucci et al.
Measurement of a Metallicity Gradient in a z=2 Galaxy: Implications for Inside-Out Assembly Histories, Tucker Jones, et al.
Gas accretion as the origin of chemical abundance gradients in distant galaxies, G. Cresci, et al.
October 11 2010: Feedback in simulations
Stephanie Tonnesen
Feedback and the structure of simulated galaxies at redshift z = 2, Sales, Laura V., et al.
Hierarchical formation of bulgeless galaxies: Why outflows have low angular momentum, C. B. Brook, et al.
September 27 2010: Masses of early type galaxies from gravitational lensing
Árdís Elíasdóttir
The SL2S Galaxy-scale Lens Sample. II. Cosmic evolution of dark and luminous mass in early-type galaxies, A.J. Ruff, et al.
September 20 2010: Dynamical and Stellar Masses of Galaxies
Reina Reyes
On the Masses of Galaxies in the Local Universe, E.N. Taylor et al.
September 13 2010: Envirnoments of Wet and Dry Mergers
Richard Cool
Where do Wet, Dry, and Mixed Galaxy Mergers Occur? A Study of the Environments of Close Galaxy Pairs in the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey, Lihwai Lin et al.
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Evolution of the Color-Density Relation at 0.4 < z < 1.35, Michael C. Cooper et al.
August 30 2010: Herschel and ULIRGS
Jenny Greene
Herschel reveals a T_dust-unbiased selection of z~2 ULIRGs, Magdis, G. E.; Hwang, H-S; Elbaz, D.; the HerMES team
Measures of star formation rates from infrared (Herschel) and UV (GALEX) emissions of galaxies in the HerMES fields, Buat, V. et al.
The dust content of high-z submillimeter galaxies revealed by Herschel, Santini, P. et al.
May 10 2010: BH growth from AGN distrbution function and BH-bulge relation
Andreas Schulze
Low redshift AGN in the Hamburg/ESO Survey . II. The active black hole mass function and the distribution function of Eddington ratios, Schulze, A.; Wisotzki
May 3 2010: Compactness of Massive Galaxies at high z: HST/WFC3 Observations
Richard Cool
Confirmation of the Remarkable Compactness of Massive Quiescent Galaxies at z ~ 2.3: Early-Type Galaxies Did not Form in a Simple Monolithic Collapse, van Dokkum, Pieter G. et al.
Confirmation of the compactness of a z=1.91 quiescent galaxy with Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3, Daniel Szomoru et al.
Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 Grism Spectroscopy and Imaging of a Growing Compact Galaxy at z=1.9, Pieter G. van Dokkum, Gabriel Brammer
April 19 2010: Extragalactic IR Background
Josh Younger
Dusty Infrared Galaxies: Sources of the Cosmic Infrared Background, Lagache, Guilaine; Puget, Jean-Loup; Dole, Hervé
New Observational Constraints and Modeling of the Infrared Background: Dust Obscured Star-Formation at z>1 and Dust in the Outer Solar System, Chary, Ranga-Ram; Pope, Alexandra
A physical model for the origin of the diffuse cosmic infrared background, Younger, Joshua D.; Hopkins, Philip F.
April 12 2010: Ellipticals and their Globular Clusters
Claire Lackner
The first gigayear of bulge star formation in Virgo ellipticals: constraints from their globular cluster systems, Spitler, L.
Star-forming galaxies at z ~ 2 and the formation of the metal-rich globular cluster population, Shapiro, K et al.
April 5 2010: Resolved stellar mass maps
Reina Reyes
Resolved stellar mass maps of galaxies - I. Method and implications for global mass estimates, Zibetti, Stefano; Charlot, Stéphane; Rix, Hans-Walter
The Optical and Near-Infrared Properties of Galaxies. I. Luminosity and Stellar Mass Functions, Bell, Eric F.; McIntosh, Daniel H.; Katz, Neal; Weinberg, Martin D.
March 29 2010: Early-type galaxies and the central dark matter
Doug Rudd
The central dark matter content of early-type galaxies: scaling relations and connections with star formation histories, Napolitano, Nicola R.; Romanowsky, Aaron J.; Tortora, Crescenzo
On the initial mass function and tilt of the fundamental plane of massive early-type galaxies, Grillo, C.; Gobat, R.
March 22 2010: Star formation indicators at high z
Jenny Greene
Well-Sampled Far-Infrared Spectral Energy Distributions of z ~ 2 Galaxies: Evidence for Scaled up Cool Galaxies, Adam Muzzin, et al.
A joint analysis of BLAST 250--500um and LABOCA 870um observations in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South, Edward L. Chapin
The Mid-Infrared Luminosities of Normal Galaxies over Cosmic Time, Daniel D. Kelson, Bradford P. Holden
March 15 2010: Spatial distribution of star formations
Reina Reyes
Spatially Resolved Galaxy Star Formation and Its Environmental Dependence. II. Effect of the Morphology-Density Relation, Welikala, Niraj; Connolly, Andrew J.; Hopkins, Andrew M.; Scranton, Ryan
Spatially Resolved Galaxy Star Formation and Its Environmental Dependence. I., Welikala, Niraj; Connolly, Andrew J.; Hopkins, Andrew M.; Scranton, Ryan; Conti, Alberto
The Hα galaxy survey. VII. The spatial distribution of star formation within disks and bulges, James, P. A.; Bretherton, C. F.; Knapen, J. H.
March 1 2010: Binary/Dual AGNs
Xin Liu
SDSS J1254+0846: A Binary Quasar Caught in the Act of Merging, Green, Paul J.; et al,
Sub-Parsec Supermassive Binary Quasars: Expectations at z < 1, Volonteri, M.; Miller, J. M.; Dotti, M.
Dual black holes in merger remnants - I. Linking accretion to dynamics, Dotti, M.; Ruszkowski, M.; Paredi, L.; Colpi, M.; Volonteri, M.; Haardt, F.
Type 2 Active Galactic Nuclei with Double-Peaked [O III] Lines: Narrow-Line Region Kinematics or Merging Supermassive Black Hole Pairs?, Liu, Xin; Shen, Yue; Strauss, Michael A.; Greene, Jenny E.
A Search for Binary Active Galactic Nuclei: Double-peaked [O III] AGNs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Smith, K. L.; Shields, G. A.; Bonning, E. W.; McMullen, C. C.; Rosario, D. J.; Salviander, S.