David W. Atlee

Department of Astronomy

The Ohio State University

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A "slightly" outdated headshot, taken during my time at DESY-Zeuthen.
Office Address:
4031 McPherson Laboratory
140 W. 18th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 292-7881

I am a fourth-year (post-candidacy) graduate student in Astronomy at The Ohio State University. I have completed my general exam, which allows me to enter my PhD candidacy. I am currently working with Dr. Paul Martini to measure the star formation rates in low- to intermediate-redshift galaxy clusters using Spitzer imaging.

I graduated from The Pennsylvania State University in December 2005 with degrees in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mathematics, and Physics.

I may be contacted at: atlee [at] astronomy . ohio-state . edu

Interests

Current Work

I am currently working with Dr. Paul Martini to study the accretion histories of AGNs and the growth of their host galaxies. This is connected to my on-going work on star-formation in clusters, as described above, and it is relevant to my interests in the growth of galaxies and galaxy clusters and to the process of AGN feedback. This work will eventually become my dissertation.

I am also working on the mask design software for the MODS and OSMOS spectrographs. This software is based on the mask design software for LUCIFER, which is in turn based on the software developed by ESO for the FORS spectrograph on the VLT.

Publications

I co-authored several IceCube papers during my time as an undergraduate, as a collaboration member. I have also completed a number of papers in collaboration with various faculty members at Ohio State, and I am listed as co-author on several finished or pending papers for which I have taken data as a service observer at MDM Observatory in Tucson, Arizona. (See below for a partial list.)

First Author Papers

I have recently finished a project with Dr. Smita Mathur to study the soft excess in Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies and its relationship to the accretion rate of the central engine. It has been accepted by the Astrophysical Journal (ApJ) and is available here.

I also have a paper on the UV Excess in early-type galaxies with Dr. Chris Kochanek and Roberto Assef. This paper was published by ApJ, and is available online here.

I also have a paper with Dr. Andy Gould, which was published in the July 2007 issue of ApJS. This paper develops a catalog of UV excess QSO candidates from GALEX photometry. It can also be found at astro-ph.

Other Papers

  1. Diverse Kinematic Signatures from Reverberation Mapping of the Broad-Line Region in AGNs (First Author: K.D. Denney)
  2. A Revised Broad-line Region Radius and Black Hole Mass for the Narrow-line Seyfert 1 NGC 4051 (First Author: K.D. Denney)
  3. Tidally Induced Outbursts in OJ 287 during 2005-2008 (First Author: M.J. Valtonen)
  4. The Mass of the Black Hole in the Quasar PG 2130+099(First Author: C.J. Grier)
  5. Explaining Disparate Absorption Statistics towards Quasars and Gamma-Ray Bursts with Patchy MgII Absorbers(First Author: S. Frank)
  6. I am a co-author on all IceCube papers between January 2004 and November 2006.

Links

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