Michael J. Hudson

Ages and metallicities for quiescent galaxies in the Shapley Supercluster: Driving parameters of the stellar populations (2009)

Smith, Russell J., Lucey, John R., Hudson, Michael J.

We use high signal-to-noise spectroscopy for a sample of 232 quiescent galaxies in the Shapley Supercluster, to investigate how their stellar populations depend on velocity dispersion, luminosity and...

The Star Formation Histories of Red-Sequence Galaxies, Mass-to-Light Ratios and the Fundamental Plane (2009)

Allanson, Steven P., Hudson, Michael J., Smith, Russell J., Lucey, John R.

This paper addresses the challenge of understanding the typical star formation histories of red sequence galaxies, using linestrength indices and mass-to-light ratios as complementary constraints on...

Abundance ratios in red-sequence galaxies over a wide mass range: The "X-planes" for magnesium, calcium, carbon and nitrogen (2009)

Smith, Russell J., Lucey, John R., Hudson, Michael J., Bridges, Terry J.

We analyse the abundance ratios of the light elements Mg, Ca, C and N, relative to Fe, for 147 red-sequence galaxies in the Coma cluster and the Shapley Supercluster. The sample covers a...

The Radio Luminosity Function and Galaxy Evolution in the Coma Cluster (2009)

Miller, Neal A., Hornschemeier, Ann E., Mobasher, Bahram, Bridges, Terry J., Hudson, Michael J., Marzke, Ronald O., ...

We investigate the radio luminosity function (RLF) and radio source population for two fields within the Coma cluster of galaxies. Our VLA data reach down to log(L) = 20.23 W/Hz for Coma, and we...

A spectroscopic survey of dwarf galaxies in the Coma Cluster: Stellar populations, environment and downsizing (2008)

Smith, Russell J., Lucey, John R., Hudson, Michael J., Allanson, Steven P., Bridges, Terry J., Hornschemeier, Ann E., ...

We investigate the stellar populations in a sample of 89 faint (M*+2 to M*+4) red galaxies in the Coma cluster, using high S/N spectroscopy from the MMT. Our sample is drawn from two 1-degree fields,...

Consistently Large Cosmic Flows on Scales of 100 Mpc/h: a Challenge for the Standard LCDM Cosmology (2008)

Watkins, Richard, Feldman, Hume A., Hudson, Michael J.

Peculiar velocity surveys have non-uniform spatial distributions of tracers, so that the bulk flow estimated from them does not correspond to that of a simple volume such as a sphere. Thus bulk flow...

Cosmic Flows on 100 Mpc/h scales (2008)

Feldman, Hume A., Hudson, Michael J., Watkins, Richard

To study galactic motions on the largest available scales, we require bulk flow moments whose window functions have as narrow a peak as possible and having as small an amplitude as possible outside...

A large population of recently-quenched red-sequence dwarf galaxies in the outskirts of the Coma Cluster (2008)

Smith, Russell J., Marzke, Ronald O., Hornschemeier, Ann E., Bridges, Terry J., Hudson, Michael J., Miller, Neal A., ...

We analyse the stellar populations of 75 red-sequence dwarf galaxies in the Coma cluster, based on high signal-to-noise spectroscopy from the 6.5m MMT. The sample covers a luminosity range 3-4...

The HST/ACS Coma Cluster Survey: I - Survey Objectives and Design (2008)

Carter, David, Goudfrooij, Paul, Mobasher, Bahram, Ferguson, Henry C., Puzia, Thomas H., Aguerri, Alfonso L., ...

We describe the HST ACS Coma cluster Treasury survey, a deep two-passband imaging survey of one of the nearest rich clusters of galaxies, the Coma cluster (Abell 1656). The survey was designed to...

NUV-IR colours of red sequence galaxies in local clusters (2008)

Rawle, Timothy D., Smith, Russell J., Lucey, John R., Hudson, Michael J., Wegner, Gary A.

We present GALEX near-UV (NUV) and 2MASS J band photometry for red sequence galaxies in local clusters. We define quiescent samples according to a strict emission threshold, removing galaxies with...

The Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys Coma Cluster survey I: survey objectives and design (2008)

Carter, David, Goudfrooij, Paul, Mobasher, Bahram, Ferguson, Henry C., Puzia, Thomas H., Aguerri, Alfonso L., ...

We describe the HST ACS Coma Cluster Treasury survey, a deep two-passband imaging survey of one of the nearest rich clusters of galaxies, the Coma Cluster (Abell 1656). The survey was designed to...

The Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys Coma Cluster survey I: survey objectives and design (2008)

Carter, David, Goudfrooij, Paul, Mobasher, Bahram, Ferguson, Henry C., Puzia, Thomas H., Aguerri, Alfonso L., ...

We describe the HST ACS Coma Cluster Treasury survey, a deep two-passband imaging survey of one of the nearest rich clusters of galaxies, the Coma Cluster (Abell 1656). The survey was designed to...

Ages and metallicities of faint red galaxies in the Shapley Supercluster (2007)

Smith, Russell J., Lucey, John R., Hudson, Michael J.

We present results on the stellar populations of 232 quiescent galaxies in the Shapley Supercluster, based on spectroscopy from the AAOmega spectrograph at the AAT. The key characteristic of this...

The Masses and Shapes of Dark Matter Halos from Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing in the CFHTLS (2007)

Parker, Laura C., Hoekstra, Henk, Hudson, Michael J., Van Waerbeke, Ludovic, Mellier, Yannick

We present the first galaxy-galaxy weak lensing results using early data from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey (CFHTLS). These results are based on ~22 sq. deg. of i' data. From this...

Line Emission in the Brightest Cluster Galaxies of the NOAO Fundamental Plane and Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (2007)

Edwards, L. O. V., Hudson, Michael J., Balogh, Michael L., Smith, Russell J.

We examine the optical emission line properties of Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) selected from two large, homogeneous datasets. The first is the X-ray selected National Optical Astronomy...

The Peculiar Velocities of Local Type Ia Supernovae and their Impact on Cosmology (2007)

Neill, James D., Hudson, Michael J., Conley, Alex

We quantify the effect of supernova Type Ia peculiar velocities on the derivation of cosmological parameters. The published distant and local Ia SNe used for the Supernova Legacy Survey first-year...

The NOAO Fundamental Plane Survey - III. Variations in the stellar populations of red-sequence galaxies from the cluster core to the virial radius (2006)

Smith, Russell J., Hudson, Michael J., Lucey, John R., Nelan, Jenica E., Wegner, Gary A.

We analyse absorption line-strength indices for ~3000 red-sequence galaxies in 94 nearby clusters, to investigate systematic variations of their stellar content with location in the host cluster. The...

Proteomic analysis of Neisseria lactamica and Neisseria meningitidis outer membrane vesicle vaccine antigens (2006)

Vaughan, Thomas E., Skipp, Paul J., O'Connor, C. David, Hudson, Michael J., Vipond, Richard, Elmore, Michael J., ...

Vaccines to prevent meningococcal disease have been developed from the outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) of Neisseria meningitidis and the related commensal organism Neisseria lactamica. In addition to...

Cosmological Parameters from the Comparison of the 2MASS Gravity Field with Peculiar Velocity Surveys (2005)

Pike, R. W., Hudson, Michael J.

We compare the peculiar velocity field within 65 $h^{-1}$ Mpc predicted from 2MASS photometry and public redshift data to three independent peculiar velocity surveys based on type Ia supernovae,...

Mass-to-Light Ratios of Galaxy Groups from Weak Lensing (2005)

Parker, Laura C., Hudson, Michael J., Carlberg, Ray G., Hoekstra, Henk

We present the findings of our weak lensing study of a sample of 116 CNOC2 galaxy groups. The lensing signal is used to estimate the mass-to-light ratio of these galaxy groups. The best fit...

NOAO Fundamental Plane Survey -- II. Age and Metallicity along the Red Sequence (2005)

Nelan, Jenica E., Smith, Russell J., Hudson, Michael J., Wegner, Gary A., Lucey, John R., Moore, Stephen A. W., ...

We present spectroscopic linestrength data for 4097 red-sequence galaxies in 93 low-redshift galaxy clusters, and use these to investigate variations in average stellar populations as a function of...

Streaming motions of galaxy clusters within 12000 km/s - V. The peculiar velocity field (2004)

Hudson, Michael J., Smith, Russell J., Lucey, John R., Branchini, Enzo

We analyze in detail the peculiar velocity field traced by 56 clusters within 120 h^-1 Mpc in the Streaming Motions of Abell Clusters (SMAC) sample. The bulk flow of the SMAC sample is 687 +- 203...

The Consistency of Cosmic Flows on 100 Mpc/h Scales (2003)

Hudson, Michael J

We have compared the bulk flow of recent large-scale peculiar velocity surveys (SMAC, SC, Lauer and Postman, Willick, EFAR and Tonry's SNIa sample) to each other, allowing for the errors due to...

An examination into the development of golf courses in Nova Scotia / (2002)

Hudson, Michael J.

"This is an authorized facsimile, made from the microfilm master copy of the original dissertation or master thesis published by UMI."

Cosmology with the Space-Luminosity Distribution of Virialized Halos (2001)

Marinoni, Christian, Hudson, Michael J., Giuricin, Giuliano

We derive the observed luminosity function of virialized systems. Coupling this statistic with the mass function predicted by CDM cosmogonies we obtain the functional behavior of the mass-to-light...

Early-type Galaxy Distances from the Fundamental Plane and Surface Brightness Fluctuations (2001)

Blakeslee, John P., Lucey, John R., Tonry, John L., Hudson, Michael J., Narayanan, Vijay K., Barris, Brian J.

We compare two methods for deriving distances to early-type galaxies: fundamental plane (FP) and surface brightness fluctuations (SBF) distances for 170 galaxies. A third set of distances is provided...

The Optical Luminosity Function of Virialized Systems (2001)

Marinoni, Christian, Hudson, Michael J., Giuricin, Giuliano

We determine the optical luminosity function of virialized systems over the full range of density enhancements, from single galaxies to clusters of galaxies. The analysis is based on galaxy systems...

The Mass-To-Light Function of Virialized Systems and the Relationship Between Their Optical and X-ray Properties (2001)

Marinoni, Christian, Hudson, Michael J.

We compare the B-band luminosity function of virialized halos with the mass function predicted by the Press-Schechter theory in cold dark matter cosmogonies. We find that all cosmological models fail...

A Synthesis of Data from Fundamental Plane and Surface Brightness Fluctuation Surveys (2001)

Blakeslee, John P., Lucey, John R., Barris, Brian J., Hudson, Michael J., Tonry, John L.

We perform a series of comparisons between distance-independent photometric and spectroscopic properties used in the surface brightness fluctuations (SBF) and fundamental plane (FP) methods of...

On the dependence of spectroscopic indices of early-type galaxies on age, metallicity and velocity dispersion (2000)

Kuntschner, Harald, Lucey, John R., Smith, Russell J., Hudson, Michael J., Davies, Roger L.

We investigate the Mg-sigma and -sigma relations in a sample of 72 early-type galaxies drawn mostly from cluster and group environments using a homogeneous data-set which is well-calibrated onto the...

Bulk-flow and beta_I from the SMAC project (1999)

Smith, Russell J., Hudson, Michael J., Lucey, John R., Schlegel, David J., Davies, Roger L.

The SMAC project is a Fundamental Plane peculiar velocity survey of 56 clusters of galaxies to a depth of cz ~ 12000 km/s. We present here some results from the analysis of the SMAC velocity field,...

Are Recent Peculiar Velocity Surveys Consistent? (1999)

Hudson, Michael J., Smith, Russell J., Lucey, John R., Schlegel, David J., Davies, Roger L.

We compare the bulk flow of the SMAC sample to the predictions of popular cosmological models and to other recent large-scale peculiar velocity surveys. Both analyses account for aliasing of...

Cluster Distances: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1999)

Lucey, John R., Smith, Russell J., Hudson, Michael J., Schlegel, David J., Davies, Roger L.

Galaxy clusters are important targets for peculiar velocity studies as a direct comparison of the various distance indicators can be made. The potential problem of an environmental effect biasing the...

Conference Highlights: Cosmic Flows (1999)

Hudson, Michael J.

I summarize the highlights of "Cosmic Flows: Towards an Understanding of the Large-scale Structure in the Universe", a workshop held in Victoria, Canada in July 1999.

A Large-Scale Bulk Flow of Galaxy Clusters (1998)

Hudson, Michael J., Smith, Russell J., Lucey, John R., Schlegel, David J., Davies, Roger L.

We report first results from the ``Streaming Motions of Abell Clusters'' (SMAC) project, an all-sky Fundamental Plane survey of 699 early-type galaxies in 56 clusters between ~3000 km/s and ~14000...

A Test for Large-Scale Systematic Errors in Maps of Galactic Reddening (1998)

Hudson, Michael J.

Accurate maps of Galactic reddening are important for a number of applications, such as mapping the peculiar velocity field in the nearby Universe. Of particular concern are systematic errors which...

Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing in the Hubble Deep Field: The Halo Tully-Fisher Relation at Intermediate Redshift (1997)

Hudson, Michael J., Gwyn, Stephen D. J., Dahle, Haakon, Kaiser, Nick

A tangential distortion of background source galaxies around foreground lens galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field is detected at the 99.3% confidence level. An important element of our analysis is the...

The Environmental Dependence of Brightest Cluster Galaxies: Implications for Large-Scale Flows (1996)

Hudson, Michael J., Ebeling, Harald

(Shortened) We construct a subsample of the Lauer & Postman (LP) brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) sample which comprises 64 Abell/ACO clusters with X-ray luminosities from ROSAT. We find that both BCG...

Neisseria lactamica Protects against Experimental Meningococcal Infection

Oliver, Kerry J., Reddin, Karen M., Bracegirdle, Philippa, Hudson, Michael J., Borrow, Ray, Feavers, Ian M., ...

Immunological and epidemiological evidence suggests that the development of natural immunity to meningococcal disease results from colonization of the nasopharynx by commensal Neisseria spp.,...

Expression of Heterologous Antigens in Commensal Neisseria spp.: Preservation of Conformational Epitopes with Vaccine Potential

O'Dwyer, Clíona A., Reddin, Karen, Martin, Denis, Taylor, Stephen C., Gorringe, Andrew R., Hudson, Michael J., ...

Commensal neisseriae share with Neisseria meningitidis (meningococcus) a tendency towards overproduction of the bacterial outer envelope, leading to the formation and release during growth of outer...

Distribution and Genetic Diversity of the ABC Transporter Lipoproteins PiuA and PiaA within Streptococcus pneumoniae and Related Streptococci

Whalan, Rachael H., Funnell, Simon G. P., Bowler, Lucas D., Hudson, Michael J., Robinson, Andrew, Dowson, Christopher G.

Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The existence of approximately 90 antigenically distinct capsular serotypes has greatly complicated the development of...

Neisseria lactamica Protects against Experimental Meningococcal Infection

Oliver, Kerry J., Reddin, Karen M., Bracegirdle, Philippa, Hudson, Michael J., Borrow, Ray, Feavers, Ian M., ...

Immunological and epidemiological evidence suggests that the development of natural immunity to meningococcal disease results from colonization of the nasopharynx by commensal Neisseria spp.,...

Expression of Heterologous Antigens in Commensal Neisseria spp.: Preservation of Conformational Epitopes with Vaccine Potential

O'Dwyer, Clíona A., Reddin, Karen, Martin, Denis, Taylor, Stephen C., Gorringe, Andrew R., Hudson, Michael J., ...

Commensal neisseriae share with Neisseria meningitidis (meningococcus) a tendency towards overproduction of the bacterial outer envelope, leading to the formation and release during growth of outer...

Distribution and Genetic Diversity of the ABC Transporter Lipoproteins PiuA and PiaA within Streptococcus pneumoniae and Related Streptococci

Whalan, Rachael H., Funnell, Simon G. P., Bowler, Lucas D., Hudson, Michael J., Robinson, Andrew, Dowson, Christopher G.

Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The existence of approximately 90 antigenically distinct capsular serotypes has greatly complicated the development of...