M. Claudia Scarlata
M. Claudia Scarlata
Director of Graduate Studies for MIfA, Professor, School of Physics and AstronomyContact
John T. Tate Hall Room 285-08 116 Church Street SeMinneapolis, MN 55455
Affiliations
Ph.D., Padova University, 2004
M.S.(summa cum laude), Padova University, 1999
Member, Cosmology Survey Multi-Cycle Treasury program (CANDELS)
Member, COSMOS and z-COSMOS collaboration
Referee, ApJ, MNRAS
Member, HST review panel
Galaxy formation and evolution: Massive galaxies, Evolution of galaxy structure.
Lyα line as a cosmological tool: Escape of Lyα photons, Large-scale structure, Lyα blobs.
Reionization: Lyman continuum escape fraction, IR background fluctuations.
Colbert, Scarlata et al., Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission within Lyα Blobs, Astrophysical Journal [abstract]
Bundy, Scarlata et al. , The Rise and Fall of Passive Disk Galaxies: Morphological Evolution Along the Red Sequence Revealed by COSMOS, Astrophysical Journal [abstract]
Scarlata et al., He II Emission in Lyα Nebulae: Active Galactic Nucleus or Cooling Radiation?, Astrophysical Journal [abstract]
Scarlata et al., The Effect of Dust Geometry on the Lyα Output of Galaxies, Astrophysical Journal Letters [abstract]
Scarlata et al., The Redshift Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies in COSMOS: Do Massive Early-Type Galaxies Form by Dry Mergers?, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series [abstract]
Scarlata et al., COSMOS Morphological Classification with the Zurich Estimator of Structural Types (ZEST) and the Evolution Since z = 1 of the Luminosity Function of Early, Disk, and Irregular Galaxies, Astrophysical Journal [abstract]