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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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Amandeep Gill
is a first-year graduate student in astrophysics. She is working on
the connection between formaldehyde excitation and OH megamaser activity
in nearby starburst galaxies.
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Jordan Mirocha
is a second-year graduate student in astrophysics. He is working on
the connection between the dynamical mass of galaxies and their central
black holes.
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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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Ben Zeiger
is a graduate student in astrophyscis. He worked 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.
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Srikar Appana
was an undergraduate student in astrophysics. He worked on
the radio properties of galaxy groups in a study of the role
of environment on AGN feedback.
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Anthony Smith
is a graduate student in astrophysics. He worked on
Very Large Array
maps of formaldehyde in nearby starburst galaxies.
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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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