M. Claudia Scarlata

M. Claudia Scarlata

Director of Graduate Studies for MIfA, Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy

Contact

mscarlat@umn.edu

John T. Tate Hall
Room 285-08
116 Church Street Se
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Affiliations

Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics (MIfA)

Research Interests

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.

http://homepages.spa.umn.edu/~scarlata/research.html

Research Group

Cosmology Survey Multi-Cycle Treasury Program (CANDELS)

Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) Collaboration

z-COSMOS Collaboration

Selected Publications

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]