Danilo Marchesini - News & Events
News:
7.30.2020 - Awarded grant “Collaborative Research: A Medium-Band K-Band Survey with Gemini to
Identify the First Quenching Galaxies and Extreme Episodes of Galaxy Formation” (NSF-2009442) from
the National Science Foundation (36 months; starting date September 1st 2020).
2.05.2020 - CNN article “Dead Monster Galaxy Found Lurking in the Distant Universe” presents to the
public our recently published discovery of an ultra-massive quiescent galaxy at z=3.5
(Forrest et al. 2020). See also press releases by Tufts University and UC-Riverside.
1.01.2019 - Release of the Spitzer-IRAC mosaics in the CFHTLS-Deep, MUSYC, and NMBS-II fields.
The images can be downloaded here
8.01.2018 - Release of the HFFexplorer, a web interface to visually explore the HFF-DeepSpace catalogs and images.
5.17.2018 - Tufts University joins the Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) collaboration. Read more about it on the TuftsNOW article “A New Eye on the Cosmos”
2.01.2018 - Public release of the HFF-DeepSpace catalogs in the Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF-DeepSpace).
6.27.2016 - Awarded Hubble Space Telescope Archive proposal “Grizli: the grism redshift & line database for HST WFC3/IR spectroscopy” (HST-RA-14553).
6.06.2016 - Public release of the Ultra-deep KS-band imaging data of the Hubble Frontier Fields (KIFF).
11.23.2015 - Awarded NASA-ADAP grant: “Unveiling the Monsters: Characterization of Ultra-massive Galaxies in the Early Universe with IRAC Mapping of the NMBS-II/CFTHLS Fields” (NNX16AN49G) (36 months; starting date September 1st 2016).
8.07.2015 - Awarded grant “The Rising of the Dead: When Did Quiescent Galaxies First Appear and What Quenched their Star Formation?” (NSF-1513473) from the National Science Foundation (36 months; starting date September 1st 2015).
6.24.2015 - Awarded Hubble Space Telescope Legacy Archive proposal “A Legacy Archive Program Providing Optical/NIR-selected Multi-wavelength Catalogs and High-level Science Products of the HST Frontier Fields” (HST-RA-14302).
3.01.2013 - Awarded Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement
11.08.2012 - Awarded NASA-ADAP (NNH12ZDA001N-ADAP) grant: “NEWFIRM Medium-Band Survey + Herschel PACS-SPIRE: Constraining the Infrared Properties of a Mass-complete Sample of ~5000 Galaxies at 1<z<4”
10.16.2012 - Awarded Space Telescope Science Institute, AURA grant for support of the HST-WFC3 project: “Size Growth at the Top: WFC3 Imaging of Ultra-Massive Galaxies at 1.5<z<3”.
11.15.2011 - Awarded Mellon Research Fellowship in Arts and Sciences.
07.01.2011 - The Astronomy & Astrophysics Group at Tufts University moves to the Science & Technology Center.
“Astronomers Discover That Galaxies Are Either Asleep or Awake”.
“Massive Galaxies Formed When the Universe Was Young: New Findings Disagree with Current Models” - see image.
10.29.2010 - Awarded Space Telescope Science Institute, AURA grant for support of the archive project: “Constraining the Low-mass End of the Stellar Mass Function at z=2-4”.
“Ultra-deep GNIRS Spectrum Explores Stellar `Birth Control’ in Early Universe”.
“Ultra-Dense Galaxies Found in Early Universe”.
Events:
Department Colloquia
The colloquia in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Tufts University are predominantly aimed at physicists (astrophysicists included!) and physics graduate students. In recent years, a young astronomy group focusing on observational extragalactic astronomy has been quickly growing, and about half of the colloquia focuses on either astrophysics or cosmology.
Our colloquia are held on Friday at 3 pm, preceded by a light refreshment with cookies and coffee/tea at 2:30 pm.
Colloquium calendar for the 2020-2021 academic year
Astronomy Lunch Seminar on Friday
The Astronomy group has initiated this series of seminars on Fridays presented by postdoctoral researchers and senior graduate students from other universities and astronomy departments in the Boston area.
Presentations are held on Friday, at 1:30 pm (for an hour), in the Collaborative Learning and Innovation Complex (CLIC), room 310. If you would like to present your research work in this venue, please don’t hesitate to send an email to Danilo Marchesini.
Astronomy Lunch Seminar calendar for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Paper Discussion
The Astronomy group, jointly with the Cosmology group at Tufts University, have started this weekly event to foster paper discussion within the Astronomy and Cosmology groups at Tufts. Two papers are selected from the arXiv and briefly presented and discussed. Undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs, and faculty are all invited to attend.
We meet every Thursday, at 9:30 pm (for an hour), in Room 404 of the Collaborative Learning and Innovation Complex (CLIC). If you are interested in joining the Paper Discussion on Thursdays, don’t hesitate to send an email Kalina Nedkova (graduate student).
AstroPh Fast&Furious
The Astronomy group meets once a week to browse and talk about the most interesting papers which have recently appeared on the arXiv. Each member of the astronomy group briefly (5 min) presents a paper. We meet every Wednesday, at 12:30 pm (for half an hour), in room 404 of the Collaborative Learning and Innovation Complex (CLIC). Everyone’s welcome!
