John Stocke

Position: Professor Office: Duane C328B Phone: 303-492-1521 FAX: 303-492-7178 Email: stocke@casa.colorado.edu

Teaching Interests:

• ASTR 3510 Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation I (spring 2007)
• ASTR 3510 Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation I: Imaging (spring 2005)
• ASTR 3510-010 Observations/Instrumentation I (spring 2003)
• ASTR 1110 General Astronomy-Solar System (spring 1998)
• APAS 2000-001 Ancient Astronomy/World (taught spring 1997)

Research Interests:

• The evolution of quasars and BL Lacertae objects.
• The structure of extended radio galaxies.
• The environment of active galaxies (Seyferts and radio galaxies) and its effect in the active nucleus of these galaxies.
• Very isolated galaxies
• X-ray emission from quasars, Seyferts, BL Lac objects, and normal stars
• Herbig-Haro objects as interstellar shock fronts and tracers of bipolar outflows from young stars.

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Recent Publications (2005-2007):

• Stocke, J., Danforth, C., Shull, M., Penton, S., and Giroux, M. 2007, “The Metallicity of Intergalactic Gas in Cosmic Voids,” Ap.J., 671, 146-152.

• Putman, M., Rosenberg, J., Stocke, J., and McEntaffer, R. 2006, “The Relationship Between Baryons and Dark Matter in Extended Galaxy Halos”, A.J., 131, 771-781.

• Kanekar, N., Carilli, C., Langston, G., Rocha, G., Combes, F., Subrahmanyan, R., Stocke, J., Menten, K., Briggs, F., and Wiklind, T. 2006, “Constraints on Changes in Fundamental Constants from a Cosmologically Distant OH Absorber/Emitter”, Phys. Rev. Ltrs., 95, 261301-261304.

• Stocke, J., Penton, S., Danforth, C., Shull, M., Tumlinson, J., and McLin, K. 2006, “The Galaxy Environment of O VI Absorption Systems”, Ap. J., 641, 217-228.

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