PhD Dissertation Bibliography
A list of dissertations referencing data collected at W.M. Keck Observatory.
2016
Deep near-infrared spectroscopy of high-redshift galaxies: the physical growth of passive systems
California Institute of Technology
LRIS MOSFIRE
Two roads to planet detection
California Institute of Technology
AO NIRC2
The Automated Planet Finder telescope's automation and first three years of planet detections
University of California, Santa Cruz
HIRES
Cosmic Explosions: Observations Of Infant Hydrogen-Free Supernovae Towards An Understanding Of Their Parent Systems
AO LGS OSIRIS HIRES LRIS
Ruprecht 147 and the Quest to Date Middle-Aged Stars
Penn State University
HIRES AO LGS NIRC2
Comparative KBOlogy: Using surface spectra of Triton, Pluto, and Charon to investigate atmospheric, surface, and interior processes on Kuiper Belt Objects
University of Colorado at Boulder
AO LGS NGS OSIRIS
Quasar absorption-line measurements of the cosmological variability of fundamental constants
Swinburne University of Technology
Polarimetric Models of Circumstellar Discs Including Aggregate Dust Grains
University of Hertfordshire
AO NIRC2
Radially extended metallicity profiles in nearby early- type galaxies
Swinburne University of Technology
DEIMOS
The transient radio sky observed with the Parkes radio telescope
Swinburne University of Technology
LRIS
Characterizing Infrared Excess Sources in the Galactic Center with Adaptive Optics
University of California, Los Angeles
Unveiling the globular cluster systems of early-type galaxies using wide-field imaging
Swinburne University of Technology
DEIMOS
On Detecting New Worlds: The Art of Doppler Spectroscopy with Iodine Cells
The Pennsylvania State University
HIRES
The Masses and Orbital Dynamics of Exoplanets
University of California, Berkeley
HIRES
2015
Life in the Outer Limits: Insights on Hierarchical Assembly from Stellar Halos in the Local Universe
University of Virginia
DEIMOS
Open Clusters as Tracers of the Galactic Disk
Universita Degli Studi di Padova
HIRES
The build-up of the red sequence in high redshift galaxy clusters
Swinburne University of Technology
LRIS
Host-Galaxy Properties of 32 Low-Redshift Superluminous Supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory
University of California, Riverside
DEIMOS
Galaxies and the Intergalactic Medium at redshift 5.7: The Environment of Metal Absorption Systems
Swinburne University of Technology
Kinematics of Andromeda's Stellar Disk
University of California Santa Cruz
DEIMOS
The Prevalence and Compositions of Small Planets
Harvard University
HIRES
Exploring Planetary System Evolution Through High-Contrast Imaging
University of California, Los Angeles
NIRC2
New Insights from Aperiodic Variability of Young Stars
California Institute of Technology
DEIMOS
Resolved (KPC-Scale) Properties of Emission-Line Galaxies at Intermediate Redshifts
University of California, Riverside
DEIMOS
Spectropolarimetric approach for measuring magnetic fields on brown dwarfs
University of Freiburg
LRIS
Searching for Dual AGNs in Galaxy Mergers: Understanding Double-Peaked [O III] as a Selection Method
University of California, Santa Cruz
Exploring the Dynamic Radio Sky: The Search for Slow Transients with the VLA
California Institute of Technology
DEIMOS ESI LRIS MOSFIRE
The Physical Conditions of Atomic Gas at High Redshift
University of California, San Diego
ESI HIRES
Prevalence of Earth-size Planets Orbiting Sun-like Stars
University of California, Berkeley
Did galaxies reionize the universe?
California Institute of Technology
LRIS NIRSPEC
The needle in the 100 deg2 haystack: The hunt for binary neutron star mergers with LIGO and Palomar Transient Factory
California Institute of Technology
DEIMOS
Luminous and Dark Matter in Early-type Galaxies
University of California, Santa Barbara
DEIMOS LRIS
Constraining the initial conditions and final outcomes of accretion processes around young stars and supermassive black holes
The University of Arizona
AO IF
When Galaxy Clusters Collide: the impact of merger shocks on cluster gas and galaxy evolution
Leiden Observatory
DEIMOS
Faint Galaxies in the Megaparsec-Scale Environments of Hyperluminous QSOs at Redshifts 2 < z < 3
California Institute of Technology
LRIS
A Spectroscopic Survey of Chemical Evolution in Local Group Dwarf Satellite Galaxies
DEIMOS
Volatiles in Protoplanetary Disks
California Institute of Technology
NIRSPEC
2014
Empirically Interrelating Stellar Chromospheric Activity, Photometric Variability and Radial Velocity Variations to Enhance Planet Discovery
Vanderbilt University
Development and Application of Tools to Characterize Transiting Astrophysical Systems
Harvard University
HIRES
Direct observation of extrasolar planets and the development of the gemini planet imager integral field spectrograph
University of California Los Angeles
NIRC2
Robust Constraints on Varying Fundamental Constants from QSO Absorption Systems
Swinburne University of Technology
HIRES
Red Supergiants as Extragalactic Abundance Probes
University of Hawaii at Manoa
MOSFIRE
Understanding Planet Formation Through High Precision Photometry and Spectroscopy
California Institute of Technology
NIRSPEC
Investigating Low-Mass Binary Stars And Brown Dwarfs with Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
University of California Los Angeles
AO LGS MOSFIRE NIRC2 NIRSPEC
Classification, Follow-Up, and Analysis of Gamma- Ray Bursts and their Early-Time Near-Infrared/Optical Afterglows
University of California, Berkeley
LRIS
A Photometric and Spectroscopic Study of Massive and Evolved Galaxies at z > 3
University of California, Riverside
DEIMOS
Testing galaxy formation and the nature of dark matter with satellite galaxies
University of California, Santa Barbara
AO LGS OSIRIS
Kinematics and Dynamics of Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems
Swinburne University of Technology
DEIMOS
Radio Jet Driven Outflows: An Investigation of Extended Emission Line Regions Around Radio Loud AGNs
University of Hawaii at Manoa
LRIS
Tidal dwarf galaxies in gas-rich groups
University of Queensland, Australia
DEIMOS
Beyond the blur: Construction and characterization of the first autonomous AO system and An AO survey of magnetar proper motions
California Institute of Technology
NIRC2
The Stellar Populations of Extragalactic Globular Clusters
Swinburne University of Technology
DEIMOS
An Observational Study of Quasar Host Galaxies, Radio Galaxies, and Lyman Alpha Emitters
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Planetesimals around White Dwarfs
University of California Los Angeles
HIRES
The Chemical Evolution of Star-forming Galaxies
University of Hawaii at Manoa
DEIMOS
2013
Wide-field kinematic structure of early-type galaxy halos
University of California, Santa Cruz
DEIMOS
Hot chemistry and physics in the planet-forming zones of disks
Leiden University
NIRSPEC
Ten Billion Years of Growth: Massive Galaxy Evolution from Structures and Dynamics
Yale University
The globular cluster system of NGC 4365
Swinburne University of Technology
DEIMOS LRIS
A Search for Giant Planets Around Low-Mass Stars: Revealing the Architecture of M Dwarf Planetary Systems
University of Hawaii at Manoa
AO LGS NGS NIRC2 OSIRIS
Size and Velocity Dispersion Evolution of Red and Dead Galaxies
Swinburne University of Technology
An Analysis of Astrophysics and Fundamental Physics from the Lyman-alpha Forest
University of California, San Diego
HIRES
Orbital Structure of Multi-Asteroid and Multi-Planet Systems
University of California, Los Angeles
AO NGS NIRC2
Very-High-Energy Blazars: A Broad(band) Perspective
University of California, Santa Cruz
ESI LRIS
Recent star formation in cluster early-type galaxies : evidence from dynamics and stellar populations over the past 7 Gyr
University of Groningen
LRIS
Studying the Evolution of the M31 Dwarf Galaxies
Yale University
DEIMOS
The Study Of Galaxy Formation And The Development Of MOSFIRE
University of California, Los Angeles
MOSFIRE NIRSPEC
Finding needles in the haystack : a search for AM CVn systems using the Palomar Transient Factory
California Institute of Technology
LRIS
Planet-hosting cool stars: constraining M dwarf properties with visible and infrared spectra
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Unveiling the Hearts of Luminous and Ultra-Luminous Infrared Galaxy Mergers with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics
University of California, Santa Cruz
AO LGS NIRC2 OSIRIS
Dark matter and the assembly history of massive galaxies and clusters
California Institute of Technology
LRIS
Advancing Adaptive Optics Technology: Laboratory Turbulence Simulation and Optimization of Laser Guide Stars
University of California, Santa Cruz
The Intergalactic and Circumgalactic Medium surrounding Star-Forming Galaxies at Redshifts 2 <z <3
California Institute of Technology
HIRES LRIS-B
Modeling Spatially and Spectrally Resolved Observations to Diagnose the Formation of Elliptical Galaxies
Harvard University
2012
In Pursuit of New Worlds: Searches for and Studies of Transiting Exoplanets from Three Space-Based Observatories
Harvard University
HIRES
Neutron stars and NuSTAR : A systematic survey of neutron star masses in high mass x-ray binaries & Characterization of CdZnTe detectors for NuSTAR
California Institute of Technology
LRIS
Understanding post-starburst quasars
University of Wyoming
LRIS
Chemical Abundance Trends in the Milky Way Disk: Implications on the Origin of the Galactic Thick Disk
University of California, Santa Cruz
HIRES
Millimeter and Near- Infrared Observations of Neptune’s Atmospheric Dynamics
University of California, Berkeley
AO OSIRIS
Infrared Observations of Exoplanet Atmospheres
University of California, Los Angeles
NIRSPEC
Food for stars: the role of hydrogen in the formation and evolution of galaxies
University of California, Santa Cruz
ESI HIRES LRIS
The Photometric Properties of Nearby Type Ia Supernovae
University of California, Berkeley
Topics in galaxy evolution : early star formation and quenching
California Institute of Technology
AO DEIMOS OSIRIS
Kinematics of Star Formation in Evolving Galaxies
Swinburne University of Technology
AO OSIRIS
Understanding Star Formation and AGN Activity at z ~ 2 - 3
University of California, Los Angeles
LRIS NIRSPEC
Coevolution of Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies
University of California, Riverside
LRIS
Detailed Properties of High Redshift Galaxies
California Institute of Technology
AO DEIMOS OSIRIS
Searching for variations in the fine- structure constant and the proton-to-electron mass ratio using quasar absorption lines
University of New South Wales
HIRES
Stellar Populations, Outflows, and Morphologies of High-Redshift Galaxies
University of California, Los Angeles
LRIS
The Nature of Low-ionization Broad Absorption Line Quasi-stellar Objects
University of California, Riverside
Constraints on environmental and secular effects on the chemodynamical evolution of dwarf galaxies
University of Victoria
DEIMOS
Black Hole Masses in Nearby Brightest Cluster Galaxies
University of California, Berkeley
AO LGS OSIRIS
Investigating the Early Universe with Lyman-alpha Emission: Galactic Winds and Stellar Populations at z [approx] 3.1
Arizona State University
Numerical adventures in exoplanet formation, detection and characterization
University of California, Santa Cruz
HIRES
Improving Type Ia Standard Candle Cosmology Measurements Using Observations of Early-Type Host Galaxies
University of California Berkeley
DEIMOS LRIS
The Assembly History of Disc Galaxies
University of Oxford
DIEMOS LRIS
The intergalactic medium near high redshift galaxies
Leiden University
Gas Circulation in Major Mergers of Gas Rich Galaxies
University of California, Santa Barbara
ESI
Local Group Dwarf Galaxies in the LCDM Cosmology: Theory Meets Observations
University of California, Irvine
Luminous Infrared Galaxies in the Local Universe: Global Properties, Nuclear Activity, and the Starburst-AGN Connection
University of Hawaii at Manoa
AO OSIRIS
The Kinematic Properties of Clumpy Star- Forming Galaxies
Swinburne University of Technology
LRIS AO OSIRIS
The Characterization of Volatiles Associated with Young Stellar Objects
University of Missouri – St. Louis
NIRSPEC
A magnified view of high redshift star formation
The University of Chicago
AO LGS OSIRIS
Constraining the Recent Star Formation History of the Galactic Center with High Precision Astrometry
University of California, Los Angeles
AO NIRC2 NIRC OSIRIS
Using Strong Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies to Probe the Metallicity History of Star-Forming Galaxies Between Redshift 1 and 3
University of Hawaii at Manoa
AO LGS NGS NIRSPEC OSIRIS
2011
High-Redshift Type Ia Supernova Rates in Galaxy Cluster and Field Environments
University of California, Berkeley
Host Galaxies of Type Ia Supernovae From the Nearby Supernova Factory
University of California, Berkeley
Finding the First Metals
Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
HIRES
The Assembly and Chemical Evolution of Nearby Early- type Galaxies
Swinburne University of Technology
Dynamics of NGC 205 and M32, Andromeda's distorted inner satellites
University of California, Santa Cruz
DEIMOS
Investigating the cosmic-ray ionization rate in the galactic interstellar medium through observations of protonated molecular hydrogen
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bridging the gap : elusive explosions in the local universe
California Institute of Technology
Bulk Compositions of Extrasolar Minor Planets Derived from Externally-Polluted White Dwarfs
University of California, Los Angeles
HIRES
Infrared Spectroscopy and Young Stellar Objects: Characterizing the Dust and Gas in Circumstellar Disks
University of California Davis
NIRSPEC
Galaxy Transformation Under Extreme Conditions: The Evolution of Galaxies in the Largest Structures in the High Redshift Universe
University of California, Davis
DEIMOS LRIS NIRSPEC
Adaptive optics for high-contrast imaging of faint substellar companions
University of California, Santa Cruz
AO
The Diverse Environments of Gamma-Ray Bursts
University of California, Berkeley
LRIS
Star Formation in Damped Lyman-alpha systems and the Outskirts of Lyman Break Galaxies
University of California, San Diego
LRIS ESI HIRES NIRC NIRC2
Spectral Observations and Analyses of Low-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae
University of California, Berkeley
Chemical Tagging of Solar Neighborhood Kinematic Streams
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
HIRES
The Luminosity Function of Lyman-alpha Emitters at the Reionization Epoch: Observations & Theory
Arizona State University
NIRSPEC
Analyse spectroscopique d’´etoiles naines blanches riches en hydrog`ene (DA): vers des mod`eles d’atmosph`ere am´elior´es sans param`etres libres
Universit´e de Montr´eal
HIRES
Exploring AGNs in the Local Universe through High Angular Resolution Spectroscopy and Optical Variability Monitoring
University of California, Irvine
AO LGS OSIRIS
The Fine-Structure Constant and Wavelength Calibration
University of California, San Diego
HIRES
A study of UV, optical and X-ray properties of quasars
The Pennsylvania State University
HIRES
2010
Lyman continuum and Lyman alpha emission from galaxies at high redshift
California Institute of Technology
LRIS
Shapes and spins of near-earth asteroids
California Institute of Technology
AO
Detailed Chemical Abundances of Extragalactic Globular Clusters using High Resolution, Integrated Light Spectra.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
HIRES
Search For Gas Giants Around Late M Dwarfs
The University of Central Florida
NIRSPEC
Physical Processes in the Vicinity of a Supermassive Black Hole
University of California Los Angeles
AO LGS NIRC2
Testing Theory with Dynamical Masses and Orbits of Ultracool Binaries
University of Hawaii at Manoa
AO LGS
The Environments of AGN out to z=2
Universite de Strasbourg
Derivation of fundamental parameters of late- type stars in binaries using precise photometry, high-resolution spectroscopy, imaging with adaptive optics and optical interferometry
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center
AO HIRES NIRC2
Massive binary stars as a probe of massive star formation
University of Wyoming
HIRES
Multiple Star Formation
California Institute of Technology
AO LGS NGS NIRSPEC NIRC2
Exploring the Environments of Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts
University of Hawaii at Manoa
A Random Walk through Star and Planet Formation
University of California, Berkeley
HIRES
The Dependence of Galaxy Star Formation Histories on Environment at 0.6 < z < 0.9
University of California, Santa Cruz
DEIMOS
The kinematics and morphology of cool galactic winds and halo gas from galaxies at 0.3 < z < 1.4
University of California, Santa Cruz
LRIS
Decoding Images of Debris Disks
University of Maryland
AO IF
X-ray and Optical Spectral Properties of Active Galactic Nuclei
University of Wisconsin-Madison
DEIMOS
Quantifying mass substructure in early-type galaxies
The 'Kapteyn Institute' of Astronomy
AO LGS NIRC2
Space weathering on S-complex asteroids
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2009
Towards advanced study of Active Galactic Nuclei with visible light adaptive optics
University of California, Santa Cruz
AO LGS
The Lambda Orionis Star Forming Region
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
LRIS NIRSPEC
Ultracool dwarfs and their companions
Harvard University
NIRSPEC
The formation and evolution of neutron stars: astrometry, timing, and transients
California Institute of Technology
The Energetics and Environments of Swift Gamma-Ray Bursts
California Institute of Technology
LRIS
Star Formation History In Merging Galaxies
University of Hawaii at Manoa
LRIS
Astrophysical Applications of Spectropolarimetry
University of California, Berkeley
LRIS
Observational constraints on the assembly of galaxies and galaxy clusters
University of California, Berkeley
DEIMOS
Studying low-redshift universe through observation of Damped Lyman-alpha quasar absorbers
University of South Carolina
AO LGS
The star forming universe after z=1
University of California, Santa Cruz
A NICMOS parallel survey for galaxies at z = 7-- 10
University of California, Los Angeles
Iron and alpha element distributions in Milky Way dwarf satellite galaxies from medium-resolution spectroscopy
University of California, Santa Cruz
DEIMOS
Dynamics and Multiplicity of Brown Dwarfs and Young, Low Mass Stars
University of California, Los Angeles
AO NIRC2 NIRSPAO NIRC
Observations of Starburst Galaxies: Science and Supporting Technology
University of California, Riverside
Io's surface, atmosphere and volcanism
University of California, Berkeley
AO OSIRIS
The Kiloparsec-Scale Structure and Kinematics of High-Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies
California Institute of Technology
AO LGS OSIRIS
The life, death, and composition of exoterrestrial planets around intermediate mass stars
University of California, Los Angeles
AO NGS NIRC2 HIRES
The Luminous, the Massive and the Dusty: a Near- to Mid-Infrared Spectroscopic Study of Submillimeter Galaxies
California Institute of Technology
AO NIRSPEC OSIRIS
Planet formation and searches
University of California, Santa Cruz
Spectroscopic and theoretical constraints on the differentiation of planetesimals
University of Hawaii at Manoa
ESI
Neutron-Capture Elements and Planetary Companions in the Solar Neighborhood
University of California, Berkeley
HIRES
Morphological and color characteristics of active galactic nucleus host galaxies at Z [approximates to] 1
University of California, Santa Cruz
DEIMOS
Orbital dynamics of Kuiper Belt object satellites, a Kuiper Belt family, and extra-solar planet interiors
California Institute of Technology
AO NIRC2
Physical Properties of Young Brown Dwarfs: High- Resolution Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of Young M and L Dwarfs
University of California, Los Angeles
NIRSPEC
Molecular spectroscopy of planet-forming regions in circumstellar disks
California Institute of Technology
NIRSPEC
Observing Galaxy Formation During the First 2 Billion Years
California Institute of Technology
AO LGS NIRSPEC OSIRIS
Star cluster formation in the nuclear regions of nearby spiral galaxies
University of California, Los Angeles
AO OSIRIS
2008
Milliarcsecond resolution infrared observations of the recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi and low mass stellar systems
The Johns Hopkins University
AO IF
High resolution spectroscopy of old stars and young disks
The University of Texas at Austin
NIRSPEC
Childhood to adolescence: dust and gas clearing in protoplanetary disks
California Institute of Technology
NIRSPEC
Young, massive star clusters in the antennae
California Institute of Technology
NIRSPEC LRIS
On the Development and Applications of Automated Searches for Eclipsing Binary Stars
Harvard University
NIRSPEC
One-Micron Spectroscopic Studies of Accretion and Outflow in T Tauri Stars
University of Massachusetts
NIRSPEC
Type Ia Supernova Evolution and Dark Energy
University of California, Berkeley
DEIMOS ESI LRIS
Extended Emission-Line Regions: Remnants of Quasar Superwinds
University of Hawaii at Manoa
The global properties and substructure characteristics of Andromeda's stellar halo
University of California, Santa Cruz
Multi-wavelength properties of submillimeter-selected galaxies
California Institute of Technology
DEIMOS
Physical conditions in Damped Lyman alpha Systems
University of California, San Diego
The morphological, kinematic, and halo gas properties of magnesium II absorption selected galaxies at intermediate redshift
New Mexico State University
A wide-field survey for high-redshift quasars
University of Hawaii at Manoa
DEIMOS
The Evolution of Emission Lines in Massive Early-Type Red Galaxies
University of California, Santa Cruz
DEIMOS
Metal-poor stars: The fingerprints of the first stars and the early galaxy
University of California, Santa Cruz
ESI HIRES
Exploring the origins of the young stars in the central parsec of the Galaxy with stellar dynamics
University of California, Los Angeles
AO
Near infrared studies of Jupiter's upper atmosphere
University of London
Understanding the physical processes driving galaxy evolution in clusters : a case study of two z~0.5 galaxy clusters
California Institute of Technology
DEIMOS
The detection and exploration of planets from the Trans-atlantic Exoplanet Survey
California Institute of Technology
HIRES
I. Seasonal changes in Titan's cloud activity. II. Volatile ices on outer solar system objects
California Institute of Technology
Infrared Spectral Databases for Titan and Planets
Kyung Hee University
1-10 Myr-old low mass stars and brown dwarfs in nearby star forming regions
California Institute of Technology
HIRES
Investigation of PAHs in planetary nebulae using FLITECAM
University of California, Los Angeles
NIRSPEC
Dissecting the gravitational lens B1608+656 : implications for the Hubble constant.
California Institute of Technology
A comprehensive study of proto-planetary disks around Herbig Ae stars using long-baseline infrared interferometry
University of Michigan
LWS
Discovery and analysis of dust-reddened type 1 quasars - Finding the missing link in quasar evolution
University of California, Davis
ESI
A spatially resolved kinematic study of high redshift star forming galaxies: Development and use of adaptive optics instrumentation
University of California, Los Angeles
AO LGS OSIRIS
2007
Innovations in adaptive optics imaging and spectroscopy: OSIRIS, galaxy surveys, and galaxy mergers
University of California, Los Angeles
AO OSIRIS SHARC
Surface properties of Kuiper Belt Objects and Centaurs
California Institute of Technology
NIRC
CO Emission from the Inner Disk around Intermediate-Mass Stars
Cornell University
NIRSPEC
Keck HIRES spectroscopy of candidate post T Tauri stars
Clemson University
HIRES
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey and the role of environment in galaxy formation and evolution
University of California, Berkeley
DEIMOS
Measurements of X-ray Selected AGN and Novel Superconducting X-ray Detectors
California Institute of Technology
LRIS
Revealing planet formation: Technique, observation, and analysis
University of California, Berkeley
AO NIRC2
Groups and clusters of galaxies in the DEEP2 survey: Significance for cosmic evolution
University of California, Berkeley
DEIMOS
Faint stellar systems in the Virgo Cluster: The connection between dwarf galaxies and globular clusters
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey
ESI
A search for and characterization of the infrared emission from our galaxy's supermassive black hole
University of California, Los Angeles
AO NGS
Comets amongst the asteroids: Icy bodies in the inner solar system
University of Hawaii at Manoa
LRIS
Planet hunting in new stellar domains
University of California, Berkeley
Near-Infrared High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Juptier and Saturn
Kyung Hee University
The effects of circumstellar gas on terrestrial planet formation: Theory and observation
The Pennsylvania State University
NIRSPEC
High contrast spectral imaging of sub- stellar companions around nearby young stars
University of California, Los Angeles
AO OSIRIS
Formation and evolution of massive galaxies and AGN in the early universe
University of Hawaii at Manoa
AO
Supernovae from Deep and Wide Surveys
Tel Aviv University
DEIMOS LRIS
Feedback and environmental effect on star formation in galaxies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Adaptive optics studies of high redshift radio galaxies
University of Hawaii at Manoa
AO OSIRIS
Extragalactic globular cluster subpopulations and galaxy formation
University of California, Santa Cruz
LRIS
Studies of Galaxy Evolution with Redshift Surveys
University of California, Berkeley
DEIMOS
2006
The Assembly of Massive Galaxy Clusters: A Joint X-ray–Optical Study
University of Hawaii at Manoa
LRIS
A High-Resolution study of the High-Redshift Intergalactic Medium
California Institute of Technology
ESI HIRES NIRSPEC
Dynamical Masses of Low Mass Spectroscopic Binary Stars
State University of New York at Stony Brook
AO NIRSPEC
The mass assembly history of field galaxies
California Institute of Technology
Dynamical properties of embedded protostars and the luminosity function of the galactic disk
University of Washington
NIRSPEC
Kinematics, Stellar Populations, and Metallicities
California Institute of Technology
LRIS
New catalogs of radio compact H II regions in the Milky Way
University of California, Davis
LWS
Circumnuclear gas kinematics in Seyfert 1 galaxies and direct measurement of their black hole masses
University of California, Los Angeles
NIRSPEC
Wolf-Rayet Populations in High-Metallicity Starburst Galaxies
Space Telescope Science Institute
LRIS-B
The Role of Major Galaxy Interactions in Galaxy Evolution Since Redshift z ~ 1
National Taiwan University
DEIMOS
Exploring the optical and infrared evolution of galaxies
University of California, Santa Cruz
AO
Brown dwarf companions to young solar analogs: An adaptive optics survey using Palomar and Keck
California Institute of Technology
AO
A High Angular Resolution Survey of Circumstellar Dust around Herbig Ae/Be Stars
University of California, Berkeley
AO LWS NIRC2 OSIRIS
Spectroscopy of Extra-galactic Globular Clusters
Swinburne University of Technology
LRIS
M dwarf planetary systems
University of California, Los Angeles
A Multi-Wavelength Census of Star Formation at z~2
California Institute of Technology
LRIS
On the distribution of dark matter in clusters of galaxies
California Institute of Technology
Chemical abundances of solar-type dwarfs in open clusters
Clemson University
Stellar magnetic activity and the detection of exoplanets
University of California, Berkeley
2005
Towards a Chemical Taxonomy of Comets: Infrared Spectroscopic Methods for Quantitative Measurements of Cometary Water
The University of Toledo
NIRSPEC
The mass of damped Lyman alpha systems at high redshift: Cross-correlation with Lyman break galaxies
University of California, San Diego
The Evolution of Young Clusters
University of Hawaii at Manoa
ESI HIRES
Lyman alpha emitting galaxies at high redshift: Direct detection of young galaxies in a young universe
University of California, Berkeley
DEIMOS LRIS
High angular resolution studies of the structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks
California Institute of Technology
Recycled pulsars
California Institute of Technology
ESI
An adaptive optics search for extrasolar planets around nearby young stars
University of California, Los Angeles
AO
The super star cluster population of the M82 nuclear starburst
University of California, Berkeley
NIRSPEC
A spectroscopic survey of young brown dwarfs in the near-infrared
University of California, Los Angeles
NIRSPEC
Binary Star Systems and Extrasolar Planets
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
HIRES
An infrared investigation into the formation of elliptical galaxies via mergers
University of Hawaii at Manoa
ESI
Feedback in nearby dwarf starburst galaxies and giant extragalactic H II regions
University of California, Santa Barbara
Optical-Infrared Selection of High Redshift QSOs and the z=3 QSO Luminosity Function
University of California, San Diego
LRIS
Cosmology from quasar spectra
University of California, San Diego
HIRES
Planetary signatures in circumstellar debris disks
University of Pennsylvania
Accretion modes and unified schemes for FR-II radio galaxies
University of California, Santa Barbara
LWS
2004
Cosmic explosions: the beasts and their lair
California Institute of Technology
Seasonal trends in Titan's atmosphere: Haze, wind, and clouds
California Institute of Technology
AO
The middle-aged universe: Results from high-z supernovae and the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey
University of California, Berkeley
Linking the power sources of emission-line galaxy nuclei from the highest to the lowest redshifts
Ohio University
Probing galaxies through Quasar absorption lines: Magnesium(II)-selected systems at 0.5 less than or equal to Z less than or equal to 1.5
The Pennsylvania State University
HIRES
An infrared search for substellar companions to nearby white dwarfs
University of California, Los Angeles
Star formation histories of nearby elliptical galaxies
University of California, Santa Cruz
LRIS
Faint optically selected AGN at z=3
California Institute of Technology
LRIS
Astrophysics with white dwarfs
The University of British Columbia
The Diversity of Neutron Stars
California Institute of Technology
LRIS ESI NIRC
Gas and dust chemistry in planet-forming disks
California Institute of Technology
LWS
Massive star evolution: The formation of massive stars in clusters and the evolution of the atmospheres of supergiants
University of California, Los Angeles
LWS
C-enhanced metal poor stars
Universita di Padova
HIRES
Weighing the Universe with weak gravitational lensing
University of Cambridge
ESI
Water ice and radiation in the solar system
The University of Arizona
On the road to planets: T Tauri disk evolution
University of California, Los Angeles
Cosmology from the High Redshift Intergalactic Medium
University of California, San Diego
ESI HIRES LRIS
Strong Gravitational Lenses in a Cold Dark Matter Universe
The University of Tokyo
LRIS
NIR and MIR spectroscopic study of the dust properties of Seyfert galaxies and the implications on AGN unification
University of California, Los Angeles
Outflows in Infrared-Luminous Galaxies: Absorption- Line Spectroscopy of Starbursts and AGN
University of Maryland
Galaxy formation near the epoch of reionization
California Institute of Technology
LRIS
A deep infrared photometric survey for Pleiades brown dwarfs toward the deuterium burning limit
University of California, Los Angeles
Observations of intergalactic heavy-element enrichment in the early universe
California Institute of Technology
HIRES
Multi-color studies of old stellar populations
University of Virginia
A wide-field Chandra survey of the Lockman Hole
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Extended sources in the central parsec of the Galactic Center
University of California, Los Angeles
Revelations from time series spectroscopy of pulsating white dwarf stars
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2003
Young stars and circumstellar disks
Stockholms Universitet
AO
Io’s Neutral Clouds: From the Atmosphere to the Plasma Torus
University of Colorado at Boulder
HIRES
Using infrared photometric redshifts and Keck multi-slit spectroscopy to uncover the hidden z = 1.5--2.5 Bright Ages
University of California, Los Angeles
LRIS-B
Internal dynamics, structure and formation of dwarf elliptical galaxies
University of California, Santa Cruz
ESI
Morphological evolution of distant galaxies from adaptive optics imaging
University of California, Los Angeles
AO
High-precision infra-red stellar interferometry
California Institute of Technology
AO
The Evolving Galaxy Population of Cluster Cl0024+1654
University of California, Santa Cruz
LRIS
Searching for planets in the Hyades
The University of Texas at Austin
HIRES
What Makes a Gamma-Ray Burst
Australian National University
ESI LRIS
Detailed astrophysical properties of Lyman break galaxies
California Institute of Technology
Very long baseline optical interferometry of Active Galactic Nuclei - ‘OHANA project
Observatoire de Paris - Université Paris XI
2002
Star formation and structure formation between redshifts one and four
California Institute of Technology
Toward An Understanding of The Progenitors of Gamma-Ray Bursts
California Institute of Technology
Dust and gas around young stars
University of California, Los Angeles
Infrared spectroscopy of massive stellar clusters in starbursts
University of California, Berkeley
NIRSPEC
Hard X-ray observations of the extragalactic sky: The high energy focusing telescope and the serendipitous extragalactic X-ray source identification survey
California Institute of Technology
The Enigmatic Local Hubble Flow: Probing the Nearby Peculiar Velocity Field with Consistent Distances to Neighboring Galaxies
University of California, Berkeley
Low-mass ultra-cool dwarfs: Atmospheres, rotation and magnetic activity
University of California, Berkeley
Photometry and high-resolution spectroscopy of B-type stars in the Galactic halo
Queen's University of Belfast
Probing Variations In The Fundamental Constants With Quasar Absorption Lines
University of New South Wales
HIRES
Quantitative Spectroscopy of Supergiants
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
HIRES
Titan's Atmosphere At High-Resolution
University of California, Berkeley
LWS
ESI And Spectroscopy Of QSO Host Galaxies
University of California, Santa Cruz
ESI LRIS
1 to 4 micron photometry and the near infrared classification of L and T dwarfs
New Mexico State University
NIRC
Galaxy Populations In Rich Environments
University of California, Santa Cruz
LRIS
White dwarfs in open clusters: The initial- final mass limit, the supernova mass limit, and the white dwarf deficit
University of California, Santa Cruz
LRIS LRIS-B
2001
The Discovery and Characterization of Methane-bearing Brown Dwarfs and the Definition of the T Spectral Class
California Institute of Technology
LRIS NIRC
The Galaxy Luminosity Function in Nearby Poor Groups
University of California, Santa Cruz
ESI LRIS
An Infrared Coronagraphic Search For Substellar Companions to Young Nearby Stars
University of California, Los Angeles
The ROSAT North Ecliptic Pole Survey
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Etude spectropolarimétrique des premières phases de l'évolution des galaxies les plus massives
Université Paris VII
2000
Bent-double radio sources as tracers of clusters of galaxies
Columbia University
LRIS
Age Dating of Interaction-Induced Starbursts in QSO host Galaxies and Companions
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Circumstellar and circumplanetary disks
California Institute of Technology
Very Distant Radio Galaxies: Search Techniques and Emission Line Properties
Leiden University
LRIS NIRC
Circumstellar dust: From protostars to planetary systems
Harvard University
Exozodiacal Dust
California Institute of Technology
MIRLIN
The Geometry and Cosmological Utility of Core- Collapse Supernovae
University of California, Berkeley
LRIS
Distances and Stellar Populations of Elliptical Galaxies
University of California, Berkeley
AO
The Spectral Characteristics of Stripped- Envelope Supernovae
University of California, Berkeley
Observational cosmology from z = 0.001 to z ~ 1
University of California, Berkeley
DEIMOS
An investigation of binary star formation and evolution with surveys of three open clusters
University of California, Los Angeles
Metallicity, Kinematics and Structure of M31's Stellar Halo
University of California, Santa Cruz
Accretion in the galactic halo
University of Hawaii at Manoa
1999
Determining the distance scale with CLASS: Studies of two new gravitational lenses and a measurement of the Hubble Constant
California Institute of Technology
LRIS NIRC
A faint galaxy redshift survey behind massive clusters
University of California, Berkeley
Abundances in Very Metal-Poor Stars
University of California, Santa Cruz
HIRES
The Lyman-alpha forest at z > 2
University of Hawaii at Manoa
HIRES
The physical properties of the redshift-three intergalactic medium from studies of QSO absorption line systems
University of California, San Diego
Infrared interferometry and spectroscopy of circumstellar envelopes
University of California, Berkeley
Origins of the galactic thick disk: Two populations or one?
The University Of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
An infrared/optical imaging survey for brown dwarfs and very-low-mass stars in the Pleiades
University of California, Los Angeles
Probing the dark ages: Observations of the high-redshift universe
University of California, Berkeley
1998
New Views of LINERs: Ultraviolet Properties and Optical Spectropolarimetry
University of California, Berkeley
Weak Lensing by High Redshift Clusters of Galaxies
University of Hawaii at Manoa
LRIS
The Lyman Alpha Forest in Hierarchical Structure Formation Models
University of California, Santa Cruz
Atmospheric Characterization for Adaptive Optics at the W. M. Keck and Hale Telescopes
University of California, Irvine
On the evolution of field galaxies
California Institute of Technology
Internal Kinematics of Distant Field Galaxies
University of California, Santa Cruz
NIRC
The Fundamental Plane of Early-Type Galaxies in the Intermediate Redshift Cluster CL1358+62
University of California, Santa Cruz
Galaxy Evolution from Deep Optical and Near-Infrared Surveys
University of California, Berkeley
NIRC
Polarization and Structure of Broad Absorption Line Quasi-Stellar Objects
California Institute of Technology
Elliptical Galaxies: Structure, Stellar Content, and Evolution
California Institute of Technology
The Physical Properties of the Damped Lya Systems: A Keck HIRES Investigation
University of California, San Diego
HIRES
Speckle Imaging of the Nuclei of Six Seyfert Galaxies at Wavelengths of 2.2 Micron and 1.6 Micron
California Institute of Technology
1997
Measurements of the Deuterium to Hydrogen Ratio in QSO Absorption Systems
University of California, San Diego
The Low Ionization Gaseous Context in Intermediate Redshift Galaxies
University of California, Santa Cruz
HIRES
A narrow-band near-IR search for H(alpha)- emitting galaxy clusters at z similar to 1
University of California, Los Angeles
NIRC
The Stellar Population Histories of Elliptical Galaxies
University of California, Santa Cruz
LRIS
Brown Dwarfs in the Pleiades: photometric and spectroscopic detection and characterization
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
LRIS
1996
Spectropolarimetry of High-Polarization Seyfert I Galaxies
University of California, Santa Cruz
The Nature of Early-Type Galaxies at the Redshift Circa 0.5 Epoch
University of California, Santa Cruz
1994
The Origin of the UV Alignments in Low and High Redshift Radio Galaxies.
University of California, Berkeley