Research Interests and Projects for Granada 2002

Jon Holtzman, New Mexico State University

• Some past and present research interests
  • cosmology: microwave background anisotropies and large scale structure (thesis)

  • massive young compact clusters in external galaxies with HST (Faber, Shaya, Carlson, et al.)

  • resolved stellar populations in Local Group galaxies
    • HST: LMC (Gallagher, Mould, Cole, Watson, others)

    • HST: Phoenix and WLM (G. Smith, Grillmair)

    • HST: comprehensive data archive and star formation histories (Afonso, Dolphin, Skillman, Dohm-Palmer)

    • population gradients HST/ground (Harbeck, Grebel, et al.)

    • ground: Sextans and Carina (Harbeck, Grebel, Geisler, Sarajedini)

    • solar neighborhood star formation history: abundances of Hipparcos stars from APO (V. Smith, Noriega)

  • stellar populations of spiral galaxy bulges: APO spectroscopy (Moorthy, Walterbos)

  • structural properties and populations of spiral galaxies
    • BVRH ground-based sample (Courteau, MacArthur)

    • Lopsidedness from SDSS sample (Valenzuela, Klypin)

    • Bulge/disk decomposition from SDSS sample

  • Mass profiles from spirals from satellite dynamics with SDSS (Prada, Vitvitska, Klypin)

  • variability of brown dwarfs (Marley, Gelino)

  • instrumentation/calibration:
    • WFPC2 (last gasp: modelling the PSF)

    • WFC3, launch in 2004

    • ARC 3.5m instrument scientist

    • NMSU APO 1m robotic telescope