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Michael S. Vogeley
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
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Ph.D. (Astronomy), Harvard University, 1993
A.M. (Astronomy), Harvard University, 1988
A.B. (Astrophysical Sciences), Princeton University, 1987
Phone: (215) 895-2710
Fax: (215) 895-5934
Email: vogeley@drexel.edu
Office: Disque 811
Postal address: Department of Physics, Drexel University,
3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
My personal web site (under construction) lives at
www.vogeley.net.
Research Interests
Observational and theoretical cosmology, galaxy formation and
evolution, statistical analysis of large data sets, active galactic nuclei.
More information is on the
Drexel Astrophysics Group research home page.
Research Group
My research group and collaborators at Drexel include physics graduate
students John Parejko, Danny Pan, and Vishal Kasliwal, Visiting
Research Professor Fiona Hoyle (former postdoc, now a faculty member
at Widener University), Professors David Goldberg and Gordon Richards
in Physics and Prof. Chaomei Chen and graduate student Jian Zhang in
the College of Information Science and Technology. Former Research
Assistant Professor Anca Constantin (a researcher at the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and soon to be a faculty
member at James Madison University) continues to collaborate on AGN
projects. Former graduate students include Randall Rojas
(Ph.D. 2004), whose position at Raytheon Corporation as a Senior
Multi-Disciplined Engineer (Astrophysicist) has him applying his
knowledge of astrophysics and statistics to a wide variety of
problems.
Publications
The following list is illustrative of my research interests, but is
(and always will be) out of date. Up to date publications lists and
links to the articles are available on
the ADS
abstract service and
the astro-ph
preprint archive.
Here's a really good review of cosmology, together with a long list of useful references:
The Beginning and
Evolution of the Universe, an invited review for PASP by Bharat
Ratra and myself (Ratra, B. & Vogeley, M.S. 2008, PASP, 120, 235).
Other publications include results of research on
voids and void galaxies
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Mapping the Universe with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey,
Vogeley, M.S., Hoyle, F., Rojas, R.R., & Goldberg, D.M. 2004, in
proceedings of IAU Coll. 195 Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters: intense
life in the suburbs, ed. A. Diaferio (refereed), preprint
astro-ph/0408583
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Spectroscopic Properties of Void Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey,
Rojas,
R.R., Vogeley, M.S., Hoyle, F., & Brinkmann, J. 2004, Astrophysical Journal, submitted,
preprint astro-ph/0409074
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Luminosity Function of Void Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey,
Hoyle, F.,
Rojas, R., & Vogeley, M. S. 2003, Astrophysical Journal, submitted, preprint astro-ph/0309728.
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Photometric Properties of Void Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey,
Rojas, R., Vogeley, M.S., & Hoyle, F. 2004, Astrophysical Journal, accepted (Dec. 10, 2004 issue), preprint astro-ph/0307274.
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The Mass Function of Void Galaxies in the SDSS Data Release 2,
Goldberg, D.M.,
Jones, T,D., Hoyle, F., Rojas, R.R., Vogeley, M.S., & Blanton, M.R. 2004, Astrophysical Journal, submitted, preprint astro-ph/0406527.
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Voids in the Two-Degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey,
Hoyle, F., & Vogeley,
M.S. 2004, Astrophysical Journal, 607, 751.
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Simulating Voids,
Goldberg, D., & Vogeley, M.S. 2004, Astrophysical Journal,
605, 1.
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Galaxy Voids in Cold Dark Matter Universes,
Benson, A.J., Hoyle, F., Torres, F.,
& Vogeley, M.S. 2003, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 340, 160.
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Voids in the PSCz Survey and the Updated Zwicky Catalog,
Hoyle, F., & Vogeley,
M.S. 2002, Astrophysical Journal, 566, 641.
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Voids and Constraints on Non-Linear Gravitational Clustering,
M.S. Vogeley, M.J. Geller, C. Park, and J.P. Huchra 1994,
Astronomical Journal, 108, 745.
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Void Statistics of the CfA Redshift Survey,
Vogeley, M. S., Geller, M. J., & Huchra,
J. P. 1991, Astrophysical Journal, 382, 44.
topology and mapping of large-scale structure
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A Map of the Universe,
Gott, J.R. III, Juric, M., Schlegel, D., Hoyle, F., Vogeley,
M.S., Tegmark, M., Bahcall, N., & Brinkmann, J. 2003, Astrophysical Journal,
submitted, preprint astro-ph/0310571.
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Minkowski Functionals of SDSS galaxies I : Analysis of Excursion Sets,
Hikage et
al. 2003, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 55, 911.
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Two-Dimensional Topology of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey,
Hoyle, F., Vogeley, M.S., Gott, J.R., Blanton, M., Tegmark, M., &
Weinberg, D.H. 2002, Astrophysical Journal, 580, 663.
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Two-Dimensional Topology of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey,
Hoyle, F.,
Vogeley, M.S., & Gott, J.R. III 2002, Astrophysical Journal, 570, 44.
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Topological Analysis of the CfA Redshift Survey,
M.S. Vogeley, C. Park, M.J. Geller, J.P. Huchra, and J.R. Gott 1994,
Astrophysical Journal, 420, 525.
power spectrum and cosmological parameter estimation
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The Three-Dimensional Power Spectrum of Galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky
Survey,
Tegmark et al. 2004, Astrophysical Journal, 606, 702.
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Cosmological Parameters from SDSS and WMAP,
Tegmark et al. 2004, Physical
Review D, 69, 103501.
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Cosmological Parameters from Eigenmode Analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Redshifts,
Pope et al. 2004, Astrophysical Journal, 607, 655.
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Median Statistics, H_0, and the Accelerating Universe,
J.R. Gott, M.S. Vogeley, S. Podariu, and B. Ratra, 2001,
Astrophysical Journal, 549, 1.
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Toward High-Precision Measures of Large-Scale Structure,
M.S. Vogeley 1998, in The Evolving Universe, ed. D. Hamilton (Kluwer:
Dordrecht), 395.
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Measuring the Galaxy Power Spectrum with Future Redshift Surveys,
M. Tegmark, A.J.S. Hamilton, M.A. Strauss, M.S. Vogeley, and
A.S. Szalay 1998, Astrophysical Journal, 499, 555.
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Eigenmode Analysis of Galaxy Redshift Surveys: I. Theory and Methods,
M.S. Vogeley, and A.S. Szalay 1996, Astrophysical Journal, 465, 34.
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Power Spectrum, Correlation Function, and Tests for Luminosity Bias
in the CfA Redshift Survey, Park, C., Vogeley, M. S., Geller,
M. J., and J.P. Huchra 1994, Astrophysical Journal, 431, 569.
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The Power Spectrum of Galaxies in the Nearby Universe, da
L.N. da Costa, M.S. Vogeley, M.J. Geller, J.P. Huchra, and C. Park
1994, Astrophysical Journal, 437, L1.
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Large-Scale Clustering of Galaxies in the CfA Redshift Survey,
Vogeley, M. S.,
Park, C., Geller, M. J., & Huchra, J. P. 1992, Astrophysical Journal, 391, L5.
Sponsored Research
My research at Drexel has been supported by grants from NASA, NSF, the
AAS, and the John Templeton Foundation.
Courses (with links to course web pages)
Honors 301-12h
Theory of Special Relativity
Honors 301-20h
Cosmology: Past, Present, and Future of the Universe
Physics 115
Contemporary Physics III
Physics 131
Survey of the Universe
Physics 326
Quantum Mechanics III
Physics 327
Quantum Mechanics III
Physics 428
Quantum Mechanics III
Physics 750-509
Cosmology (Graduate)
Links
Drexel Astrophysics Group
Department of
Physics home page
Drexel University home
page
Sloan Digital Sky Survey public
page
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Last update: May 14, 2009