D. Zaritsky

Publication List Details

Period

1994 - 2009

Number

50

Co-Authors

Photometric redshifts and cluster tomography in the ESO Distant Cluster Survey (2009)

Pello, R., Rudnick, G., De Lucia, G., Simard, L., Clowe, D. I., Jablonka, P., ...

This paper reports the results obtained on the photometric redshifts measurement and accuracy, and cluster tomography in the ESO Distant Cluster Survey (EDisCS) fields. Photometric redshifts were...

Focusing Cosmic Telescopes: Exploring Redshift z~5-6 Galaxies with the Bullet Cluster 1E0657-56 (2009)

Bradač, M., Treu, T., Applegate, D., Gonzalez, A. H., Clowe, D., Forman, W., ...

The gravitational potential of clusters of galaxies acts as a cosmic telescope allowing us to find and study galaxies at fainter limits than otherwise possible and thus probe closer to the epoch of...

The Star Formation History and Extended Structure of the Hercules Milky Way Satellite (2009)

Sand, D. J., Olszewski, E. W., Willman, B., Zaritsky, D., Seth, A., Harris, J., ...

We present imaging of the recently discovered Hercules Milky Way satellite and its surrounding regions to study its structure, star formation history and to thoroughly search for signs of disruption....

Spatially Correlated Cluster Populations in the Outer Disk of NGC 3184 (2009)

Herbert-Fort, S., Zaritsky, D., Moustakas, J., Christlein, D., Wilcots, E., Baruffolo, A., ...

We use deep (~27.5 mag V-band point-source limiting magnitude) V- and U-band LBT imaging to study the outer disk (beyond the optical radius R_25) of the non-interacting, face-on spiral galaxy NGC...

Evolution of red-sequence cluster galaxies from redshift 0.8 to 0.4: ages, metallicities, and morphologies (2009)

Sánchez-Blázquez, P., Jablonka, P., Noll, S., Poggianti, B. M., Moustakas, J., Milvang-Jensen, B., ...

We present a comprehensive analysis of the stellar population properties and morphologies of red-sequence galaxies in 24 clusters and groups from z ~ 0.75 to z ~ 0.45. The dataset, consisting of 215...

Frequency and properties of bars in cluster and field galaxies at intermediate redshifts (2009)

Barazza, F. D., Jablonka, P., Desai, V., Jogee, S., Aragón-Salamanca, A., De Lucia, G., ...

We present a study of large-scale bars in field and cluster environments out to redshifts of ~0.8 using a final sample of 945 moderately inclined disk galaxies drawn from the EDisCS project. We...

Evolution of Cluster Red-Sequence Galaxies from redshift 0.8 to 0.4: ages, metallicities and morphologies (2009)

Sanchez-Blazquez, P., Jablonka, P., Noll, S., Poggianti, B. M., Moustakas, J., Milvang-Jensen, B., ...

We present a comprehensive analysis of the stellar population properties (age, metallicity and the alpha-element enhancement [E/Fe]) and morphologies of red-sequence galaxies in 24 clusters and...

Spitzer Sage Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud. III. Star Formation and ~1000 New Candidate Young Stellar Objects (2008)

Whitney, B. A., Sewilo, M., Indebetouw, R., Robitaille, T. P., Meixner, M., Gordon, K., ...

We present ~1000 new candidate Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud selected from Spitzer Space Telescope data, as part of the Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution...

The evolution of the brightest cluster galaxies since z~1 from the ESO Distant Cluster Survey (EDisCS) (2008)

Whiley, I. M., Aragon-Salamanca, A., De Lucia, G., Bamford, S. P., Best, P., ...

[Abridged] We present K-band data for the brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) from the ESO Distant Cluster Survey. These data are combined with photometry from Aragon-Salamanca et al. (1998) and a...

The structural properties and star formation history of Leo T from deep LBT photometry (2008)

Harris, J., Coleman, M. G., Martin, N. F., Bell, E. F., Rix, H-W., ...

We present deep, wide-field g and r photometry of the transition type dwarf galaxy Leo T, obtained with the blue arm of the Large Binocular Telescope. The data confirm the presence of both very young...

The structural properties and star formation history of Leo T from deep LBT photometry (2008)

Harris, J., Coleman, M. G., Martin, N. F., Bell, E. F., Rix, H. W., ...

We present deep, wide-field g and r photometry of the transition-type dwarf galaxy Leo T, obtained with the blue arm of the Large Binocular Telescope. The data confirm the presence of both very young...

Bootes II ReBooted: An MMT/MegaCam Study of An Ultra-Faint Milky Way Satellite (2007)

Walsh, S. M., Willman, B., Sand, D., Harris, J., Seth, A., Zaritsky, D., ...

[abridged] We present MMT/Megacam imaging in Sloan $g$ and $r$ of the extremely low luminosity Bo\"otes II Milky Way companion. We use a bootstrap approach to perform robust measurements of, and...

A photometric search for transients in galaxy clusters (2007)

Sand, D. J., Zaritsky, D., Herbert-Fort, S., Sivanandam, S., Clowe, D.

We have begun a program to search for supernovae and other transients in the fields of galaxy clusters with the 2.3m Bok Telescope on Kitt Peak. We present our automated photometric methods for data...

The Morphological Content of Ten EDisCS Clusters at 0.5 < z < 0.8 (2007)

Desai, V., Dalcanton, J. J., Aragon-Salamanca, A., Jablonka, P., Poggianti, B., Gogarten, S. M., ...

We describe Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging of 10 of the 20 ESO Distant Cluster Survey (EDisCS) fields. Each ~40 square arcminute field was imaged in the F814W filter with the Advanced Camera...

Spitzer SAGE survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud II: Evolved Stars and Infrared Color Magnitude Diagrams (2006)

Blum, R. D., Mould, J. R., Olsen, K. A., Frogel, J. A., Werner, M., Meixner, M., ...

Color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) are presented for the Spitzer SAGE (Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution) survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). IRAC and MIPS 24 um epoch one data are...

The X-ray properties of optically-selected z>0.6 clusters in the ESO Distant Cluster Survey (2006)

Johnson, O., Best, P., Zaritsky, D., Clowe, D., Aragon-Salamanca, A., Halliday, C., ...

We present XMM-Newton observations of three optically-selected z > 0.6 clusters from the ESO Distant Cluster Survey (EDisCS), comprising the first results of a planned X-ray survey of the full EDisCS...

The evolution of the star formation activity in galaxies and its dependence on environment (2005)

Poggianti, B. M., De Lucia, G., Desai, V., Simard, L., Halliday, C., ...

We study how the proportion of star-forming galaxies evolves between z=0.8 and z=0 as a function of galaxy environment, using the [OII] line in emission as a signature of ongoing star formation. Our...

Weak lensing mass reconstructions of the ESO Distant Cluster Survey (2005)

Clowe, D., Schneider, P., Aragon-Salamanca, A., Bremer, M., De Lucia, G., Halliday, C., ...

We present weak lensing mass reconstructions for the 20 high-redshift clusters i n the ESO Distant Cluster Survey. The weak lensing analysis was performed on deep, 3-color optical images taken with...

EDisCS -- the ESO Distant Cluster Survey -- Sample Definition and Optical Photometry (2005)

White, S. D. M., Clowe, D. I., Simard, L., Rudnick, G., De Lucia, G., Aragon-Salamanca, A., ...

We present the ESO Distant Cluster Survey (EDisCS) a survey of 20 fields containing distant galaxy clusters with redshifts ranging from 0.4 to almost 1.0. Candidate clusters were chosen from among...

Spectroscopy of clusters in the ESO Distant Cluster Survey (EDisCS) (2004)

Halliday, C., Milvang-Jensen, B., Poirier, S., Poggianti, B. M., Jablonka, P., Aragon-Salamanca, A., ...

We present spectroscopic observations of galaxies in 4 clusters at z = 0.7-0.8 and in one cluster at z~0.5 obtained with the FORS2 spectrograph on the VLT as part of the ESO Distant Cluster Survey...

The Star Formation History of the Small Magellanic Cloud (2003)

Harris, J., Zaritsky, D.

We present the spatially-resolved star formation and chemical enrichment history of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) across the entire central $4-degree x 4.5-degree area of the main body, based on...

The Deep Lens Survey (2002)

Wittman, D., Tyson, J. A., Dell'Antonio, I. P., Becker, A. C., Margoniner, V. E., Cohen, J., ...

The Deep Lens Survey (DLS) is a deep BVRz' imaging survey of seven 2x2 degree fields, with all data to be made public. The primary scientific driver is weak gravitational lensing, but the survey is...

Tests of the Las Campanas Distant Cluster Survey from confirmation observations for the ESO Distant Cluster Survey (2002)

Gonzalez, A. H., Zaritsky, D., Simard, L., Clowe, D., White, S. D. M.

The ESO Distant Cluster Survey (EDisCS) is a photometric and spectroscopic study of the galaxy cluster population at two epochs, zsimilar or equal to0.5 and zsimilar or equal to0.8, drawn from the...

Hubble Space Telescope Images of Stephan's Quintet: Star Cluster Formation in a Compact Group Environment (2001)

Gallagher, S. C., Charlton, J. C., Hunsberger, S. D., Zaritsky, D., Whitmore, B. C.

Analysis of Hubble Space Telescope/Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 images of Stephan's Quintet, Hickson Compact Group 92, yielded 115 candidate star clusters (with V-I < 1.5). Unlike in merger remants,...

HST Images of Stephan's Quintet: Star Cluster Candidates in a Compact Group Environment (2000)

Gallagher, S. C., Hunsberger, S. D., Charlton, J. C., Zaritsky, D.

We present HST WFPC2 images of Stephan's Quintet which encompass three interacting galaxies and their associated tidal features. These deep, three-color (B, V, I) images indicate recent, massive...

A ``Short'' Distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud With the Hipparcos Calibrated Red Clump Stars (1998)

Stanek, K. Z., Zaritsky, D., Harris, J.

Following an approach developed by Paczy\'nski & Stanek, we derive a distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) by comparing red clump stars from the Hipparcos catalog with the red clump stars...

The Environment of ``E+A'' Galaxies (1995)

Zabludoff, A. I., Zaritsky, D., Lin, H., Tucker, D., Hashimoto, Y., Shectman, S. A., ...

The violent star formation history of ``E+A'' galaxies and their detection almost exclusively in distant clusters is frequently used to link them to the ``Butcher-Oemler effect'' and to argue that...

Carnegie Observatories (1994)

Santa Barbara Street, L. Searle �director, H. Babcock �emeritus, A. Dressler, J. Kristian, P. Mccarthy, ...

This report covers research done by Carnegie Observatories postdoctoral and scientific staff, and by visiting investigators at Las Campanas Observatory, during the one year period from July 1, 1994...