Research at IPAC

Critical to the proper execution of all programs at the Greater IPAC is a staff of active researchers who can guide the development of those tasks and subsequently assist other astronomers in using the final products. The list below is intended to highlight our research activities and provide links to resources internally and globally, in the hope of improving visibility and encouraging collaborations both within IPAC and with the science community at large.

Recent Results

Featured Science Authors

Dariofadda Dario Fadda

Featured Science Papers

Star Formation Rates and Galaxy Masses in the Coma Cluster Dario Fadda Thu, Feb 09, 2012

Matter is distributed in a highly inhomogeneous way in the Universe. We observe galaxies arranged in filaments and walls, connecting higher-density clusters of galaxies. The nearby Coma Cluster of galaxies is a typical example with a filament, feeding galaxies to another neighboring cluster. Former IPAC postdoc Louise Edwards, along with IPAC scientist Dario Fadda, used the Spitzer Space Telescope to study how star formation in Coma's galaxies is influenced by environmental effects.

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Research Projects

5mJy Unbiased Spitzer Extragalactic Survey 5muses 5MUSES Operational

The 5mJy Unbiased Spitzer Extragalactic Survey (5Muses) is a mid-infrared spectroscopic survey of 330 galaxies with Spitzer's Infrared Spectrograph (IRS).

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Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey CANDELS Operational

CANDELS is a powerful imaging survey of the distant Universe being carried out with two cameras on board the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Cosmic Evolution Survey COSMOS Operational

COSMOS is an HST Treasury Project to survey a 2 square degree equatorial field with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The project also incorporates major commitments from other observatories, including Spitzer, GALEX, the VLA radio telescope, ESO's VLT in Chile, ESA's XMM X-ray satellite, and Japan's 8-meter Subaru telescope in Hawaii.

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Dwarf Archives Landtdwarf Operational

DwarfArchives.org is an online archive containing astrometric, photometric, and spectroscopic information for all known L and T dwarfs, as well as a select sample of over 500 M dwarfs.

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Great Observatories All-Sky LIRG Survey Goals GOALS Operational

The Great Observatories All-sky LIRG Survey (GOALS), is combining imaging and spectroscopic data from NASA's Spitzer, Hubble, Chandra and GALEX space-borne observatories in a comprehensive study of over 200 of the most luminous infrared-selected galaxies in the local Universe.

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Habitable Zone Gallery Habitable Zone Gallery Operational

The Habitable Zone Gallery (www.hzgallery.org) is a new service to the exoplanet community which provides Habitable Zone information for each of the exoplanetary systems with known planetary orbital parameters.

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Herschel Infrared Galactic Plane Survey Hi-GAL Operational

The Herschel infrared Galactic Plane Survey (Hi-GAL) is a Herschel Open Time Key Project to map the inner Milky Way galaxy in 5 bands between 60 and 600 microns with diffraction limited spatial resolution.

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Key Insights on Nearby Galaxies: a Far-Infrared Survey with Herschel Kingfish KINGFISH Operational

The KINGFISH project (Key Insights on Nearby Galaxies: a Far-Infrared Survey with Herschel) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey of 61 nearby (d < 30 Mpc) galaxies, chosen to cover the full range of integrated properties and local interstellar medium (ISM) environments found in the local Universe.

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MIPS Galactic Plane Survey Mipsgal_sq MIPSGAL Operational

MIPSGAL is an extensive infrared survey of the Galactic plane of the Milky Way, our Galaxy, using the Spitzer Space Telescope.

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MIPS Galactic Plane Survey II MIPSGAL II Operational

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Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey Sings_sq SINGS Operational

The Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS) is a comprehensive imaging and spectroscopic study of 75 nearby galaxies (D < 30 Mpc).

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Spitzer Mapping of the Outer Galaxy SMOG Operational

The Spitzer Mapping of the Outer Galaxy (SMOG) project is a 21 square degree area mapping of a representative region of the outer Galaxy (l=102-109, b=0-3) using Spitzer's IRAC and MIPS instruments.

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Spitzer Wide-area Infrared Extragalactic Survey Swire_patch SWIRE Operational

The Spitzer Wide-area Infrared Extragalactic survey is one of six very large programs undertaken as Legacy surveys during the first year of flight of the Spitzer Space Telescope. SWIRE has imaged nearly 50 square degrees (equal to the area of 250 full moons) divided among 6 different directions on the sky, detecting over 2 million galaxies by their heat radiation, some of them over 11 billion light years away.

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The Panchromatic Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Ultraviolet Coverage Uvudf UVUDF Operational

The Panchromatic Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Ultraviolet Coverage (UVUDF) is a treasury Hubble Space Telescope program using the WFC3-UVIS detector with the F225W, F275W, and F336W filters. These UV images will reach point source detection limits of AB=29, a factor of ten fainter than the GALEX ultradeep surveys.

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WFC3 Infrared Spectroscopic Parallel Survey WISPs Operational

The WISP survey is a large Hubble Space Telescope pure parallel program with the WFC3 G102 and G141 infrared grisms. The broad, continuous, spectral coverage of the G102 and G141 grisms provides the best currently feasible measurement of the star formation rate continuously from 0.5 <z < 2.5.

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Young Stellar Object Variability YSOVAR Operational

The Young Stellar Object Variability project (YSOVAR) is an Exploration Science program being conducted by the Spitzer Space Telescope during its warm mission with the InfraRed Array Camera (IRAC).

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