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Research Group

Recent Ph.D. graduate John Parejko (Ph.D. 2010) is now a postdoctoral fellow at Yale working on SDSS-III and related projects. Former graduate student Randall Rojas (Ph.D. 2004), works at Raytheon Corporation as a Senior Multi-Disciplined Engineer (Astrophysicist) where he applies his knowledge of astrophysics and statistics to a wide variety of problems, and is completing a Ph.D. in statistics at UCLA.

Former Research Assistant Professors Fiona Hoyle (Research Professor at Observatorio Astronomico Quito, where she moved after becoming a tenured faculty member at Widener University) and Anca Constantin (a tenure-track faculty member at James Madison University, following a postdoc at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) continue to collaborate on several projects.

Publications

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).

Here are some examples of my publications (see the links above for a current and complete list):

voids and void galaxies

• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Voids in the Two-Degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey, Hoyle, F., & Vogeley, M.S. 2004, Astrophysical Journal, 607, 751.
• Simulating Voids, Goldberg, D., & Vogeley, M.S. 2004, Astrophysical Journal, 605, 1.
• 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.
• Voids in the PSCz Survey and the Updated Zwicky Catalog, Hoyle, F., & Vogeley, M.S. 2002, Astrophysical Journal, 566, 641.
• 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.
• Void Statistics of the CfA Redshift Survey, Vogeley, M. S., Geller, M. J., & Huchra, J. P. 1991, Astrophysical Journal, 382, 44.

• 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.
• Minkowski Functionals of SDSS galaxies I : Analysis of Excursion Sets, Hikage et al. 2003, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 55, 911.
• 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.
• Two-Dimensional Topology of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, Hoyle, F., Vogeley, M.S., & Gott, J.R. III 2002, Astrophysical Journal, 570, 44.
• 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.

• The Three-Dimensional Power Spectrum of Galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Tegmark et al. 2004, Astrophysical Journal, 606, 702.
• Cosmological Parameters from SDSS and WMAP, Tegmark et al. 2004, Physical Review D, 69, 103501.
• Cosmological Parameters from Eigenmode Analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Redshifts, Pope et al. 2004, Astrophysical Journal, 607, 655.
• Median Statistics, H_0, and the Accelerating Universe, J.R. Gott, M.S. Vogeley, S. Podariu, and B. Ratra, 2001, Astrophysical Journal, 549, 1.
• Toward High-Precision Measures of Large-Scale Structure, M.S. Vogeley 1998, in The Evolving Universe, ed. D. Hamilton (Kluwer: Dordrecht), 395.
• 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.
• Eigenmode Analysis of Galaxy Redshift Surveys: I. Theory and Methods, M.S. Vogeley, and A.S. Szalay 1996, Astrophysical Journal, 465, 34.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

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)

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