James D. Lowenthal

Associate Professor

Department of Astronomy
Smith College
Clark Science Center
McConnell Hall, Room 412
Northampton, MA 01063


Five Colleges Astronomy Department

Office telephone: (413)585-6995
Department FAX: (413)585-3786
james (at) ast.smith.edu

Academic Vita

RESEARCH INTERESTS

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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

H-alpha image of the well-known objects M81 and M82, a pair of interacting galaxies at redshift z=0.0 (less than 10 million light years away -- almost our back yard), taken with the KPNO Burrell-Schmidt telescope.

I-band image of a pair of interacting galaxies at redshift z=0.408 (about 4 billion light years away), taken at the 10-meter Keck telescope. Click here to see a spectrum.

Spectrum of the Coup Fourre galaxy, a Lyman-alpha galaxy at z=2.3 (about 12 billion light years away), from the Multiple Mirror Telescope.

RECENT PAPERS

Evidence for a Population of High-Redshift Submillimeter Galaxies from Interferometric Imaging
J. D. Younger et al
2007, ApJ, in press
Measuring the Halo Mass of z=3 Damped Ly-alpha Absorbers from the Absorber-Galaxy Cross-correlation
N. Bouche, J. P. Gardner, D. H. Weinberg, N. Katz, R Dave, & J. D. Lowenthal
2005, ApJ, 628, 89
The Star Formation Rate-Density Relationship at Redshift Three
N. Bouche & J. D. Lowenthal
2005, ApJLett, 623, 75
The clustering of galaxies around three damped Ly-alpha absorbers at Redshift Three
N. Bouche & J. D. Lowenthal
2004, ApJ, 609, 513
Clustering of galaxies at z=3 around the probable Damped Ly-alpha absorber towards QSO APM 08279+5255
N. Bouche & J.D. Lowenthal
2003, ApJ, in press
The Morphology of 9 Radio-selected Faint Galaxies from deep HST Imaging
N.D. Roche, J.D. Lowenthal, & D.C. Koo
2002, MNRAS, 337, 840.
Keck Spectroscopy and Imaging of Faint Galaxies Identifed as MicroJansky Radio Sources
N.D. Roche, J.D. Lowenthal, & D.C. Koo
2002, MNRAS, 330, 307
Gzipped postscript images available at these links: Plate 1, Plate 2, Plate 3
H-alpha Imaging with HST+NICMOS of An Elusive Damped Ly-alpha Cloud at z=0.6
Bouche, N., Lowenthal, J.D., Charlton, J.C., Bershady, M.A., Churchill, C.W. and Steidel, C.C.
2001, ApJ, 550, 585
Lyman-alpha Imaging of a Very Luminous z=2.3 Starburst Galaxy with WFPC2
Roche, N.D., Lowenthal, J.D. & Woodgate, B.
2000, MNRAS, 317, 937.
Near-Infrared Galaxy Counts to J and K~24 as a Function of Image Size
Bershady, M. A., Lowenthal, J. D., and Koo, D. C.
1998, ApJ, 505, 50
Far-Ultraviolet Spectra of Starburst Galaxies: Stellar Population and the Kinematics of the Interstellar Medium
Gonzalez Delgado, R. M., Leitherer, C., Heckman, T., Lowenthal, J.D., Ferguson, H.C., & Robert, C.
1998, ApJ, 495, 698
Keck Spectroscopy of z~3 Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field
Lowenthal, J. D., Koo, D. C., Guzman, R., Gallego, J., Phillips, D., Faber, S. M. Vogt, N. P., Illingworth, G. D. & Gronwall, C.
1997, ApJ, 481, 673
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(See also the DEEP home page for more information.)
Imaging and Spectroscopy of Damped Lyman-alpha Quasi Stellar Object Absorption-Line Clouds
Lowenthal, J.D., Hogan, C.J., Green, R.F., Woodgate, B., Caulet, A., Brown, L. & Bechtold, J.B.
1995, ApJ, 451, 484
Also available: PostScript version
Imaging the Host Galaxies of High-Redshift Radio-Quiet QSOs
Lowenthal, J.D., Heckman, T. & Lehnert, M.
1995, ApJ, 439, 588

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Some of my other interests besides astronomy

James D. Lowenthal
Five Colleges Astronomy Department
Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063
james (at) ast.smith.edu