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Ours is a small group working on diverse topics in galaxy evolution and
cosmology.
Jeremy is the nominal
ring master, and his research interests can be found
here.
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Current Members:
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Kyle Willett
is working on his PhD in astrophyscis, focusing mainly on OH megamasers
and their host galaxies. Kyle has been using the
Spitzer Space Telescope
to study the root
causes of OH megamaser activity in merging galaxies. Kyle is also confronting
theory with observations and plans to break the OH megamaser redshift record.
He is also taking a careful look at our neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31).
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Ben Zeiger
is a graduate student in astrophyscis. He is working on
several projects involving formaldehyde (H2CO):
two projects involve detailed studies and modeling in gravitational
lenses; one predicts the excitation and detectability of formaldehyde
across cosmic time; and one is studying formaldehyde in nearby
starburst galaxies. This work is being done mostly at the
Green Bank Telescope. Ben has
also newly detected several molecules at high redshift!
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Anthony Smith
is a first-year graduate student in astrophysics. He is working on
Very Large Array
maps of formaldehyde in nearby starburst galaxies.
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Katie Grasha
is an undergraduate physics and math major working on
searches for damped Lyman-alpha (DLA) systems in the 21-cm spin-flip
line of neutral hydrogen. She is becoming a blackbelt of
Green Bank Telescope spectroscopy.
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Past Members:
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Erin Macdonald
was an undergraduate physics and math double-major
working on a data mining project using the
ALFALFA survey.
She searched for "nearby" neutral hydrogen absorption toward distant
radio galaxies and quasars, and she did follow-up work
at the Green Bank Telescope.
She is now in a graduate program at the University of Glasgow.
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