All News
Team finds hidden trove of black holes in dwarf galaxies
Posted May 24, 2022
RESOLVE team research published today reveals that active galactic nuclei (AGN, or growing massive black holes) are much more common in dwarf galaxies than previously known. The newly discovered massive black holes are the building blocks of supermassive black holes like the one at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. Check out the news release on EurekAlert.
RESOLVE Data Science Portal initialized
Posted May 22, 2022
We aim to make the RESOLVE and ECO surveys accessible to interested students, teachers, and members of the public for scientific exploration. Unlike most astronomical surveys, RESOLVE and ECO provide data that can often (not always!) be readily interpreted without advanced statistics. We have begun constructing the new Data Science Portal (DSP) to guide non-astronomers as they learn to use our survey data to explore the basic science of galaxies. The inaugural DSP contains two tutorials vetted and improved by high school physics students (taught by Leslie Chamberlain at The Harpeth Hall School): What is a galaxy? by Zack Hutchens and Galaxies and their different flavors by Derrick Carr. The DSP is available from the outreach menu item and also linked here.
RESOLVE DR2 HI Masses and Environment Metrics
Posted October 21, 2016
HI masses or strong upper limits for nearly all RESOLVE galaxies have been released in Stark et al. (2016), along with environment metrics used to investigate the environment dependence of galaxy cold gas content. Click here and here for data tables and here for paper.
RESOLVE and ECO featured in NOAO Newsletter
Posted March 16, 2016
Check out the story on RESOLVE and ECO in the March 10, 2016 NOAO newsletter (pages 3-4).
Special Session on RESOLVE and ECO at the January 2016 AAS Meeting
Posted August 29, 2015
There will be a special talk session on RESOLVE and ECO at the January 2016 American Astronomical Society meeting in Kissimmee, Florida, from 10-11:30am on Thursday January 7th in the Sarasota room, with an accompanying poster session the same day. These sessions will include science results based on recent and upcoming data releases.
| Time | Talk | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 10-10:10 | RESOLVE & ECO: Survey Design | Sheila Kannappan |
| 10:10-10:25 | ECO & RESOLVE: Morphology and Disk Growth in Environmental Context | Amanda Moffett |
| 10:25-10:40 | The Mass Census for RESOLVE & ECO | Kathleen Eckert |
| 10:40-10:55 | Mocking the ECO & RESOLVE Surveys: Probing the Environmental Dependencies of Galaxy Properties | Andreas Berlind |
| 10:55-11:10 | The RESOLVE Survey Atomic Gas Census and Environmental Influences on Galaxy Gas Content | David Stark |
| 11:10-11:20 | The Photometric and Kinematic Properties of Compact Core Galaxies in the RESOLVE Survey | Elaine Snyder |
| 11:20-11:30 | An Initial Investigation of Active Galaxies in RESOLVE & ECO | Dara Norman |
| Number | Poster | Presenter |
| 333.01 | Exploring the Origin of HI Profile Asymmetries in the RESOLVE Survey | David Stark |
| 333.02 | Probing Cosmic Gas Accretion with RESOLVE and ECO | Sheila Kannappan |
| 333.03 | Detailed Analysis of Starburst and AGN Activity in Blue E/S0 Galaxies in RESOLVE | Ashley Bittner |
| 333.04 | Status of the Dynamical Census of Galaxies and Groups in the RESOLVE Survey | Kathleen Eckert |
| 333.05 | Simulating Compact Elliptical Galaxy Formation by Tidal Stripping for Comparison to the RESOLVE Survey | Christine Ray |
ECO Data Release 1
Posted July 31, 2015
Basic properties of all ECO galaxies including stellar masses, colors, morphologies, and environmental properties have been released in Moffett et al. (2015). These measurements are combined with archival UV and HI data to analyze the environmental dependence of galaxy disk growth, with emphasis on disk regrowth in E/S0 galaxies.
click here for data
click here for paper
RESOLVE DR1 photometry
Posted July 30, 2015
High-quality UV/optical/near-IR photometry and stellar mass estimates for all galaxies have been released in Eckert et al. (2015), where they are combined with our nearly complete HI census to provide a volume-limited calibration of the photometric gas fractions technique.
click here for data
click here for paper
click here for code
First Team Meeting
Posted September 3rd, 2012
We now have enough data to get serious about science! Our first all-hands meeting will take place in Chapel Hill from January 17-21, 2013. If you'd like to get involved with RESOLVE, this is the time. Please send Sheila Kannappan an email describing what you'd like to do, and if your plans mesh with ours, we'll be glad to have you join us. More soon!
Postdoctoral Position Available
Posted October 26th, 2011
Applications are invited for a three-year postdoctoral position in extragalactic astronomy at the University of North Carolina. The successful candidate will work in collaboration with Prof. Sheila Kannappan and her group on multi-wavelength studies of galaxy evolution, focusing on projects of mutual interest in any of several broad areas including the structure, dynamics, gas content, star formation, stellar populations, and environments of galaxies.
This position is funded through the RESOLVE Survey, a volume-limited census of stellar, gas, and dynamical mass as well as star formation and merging for all galaxies and larger structures within 53,000 cubic Mpc of the nearby universe, from dwarfs with baryonic mass ~109 M☉ up to groups, filaments, and voids on tens of Mpc scales. Experience with data reduction, theoretical analysis, programming, and/or instrumentation in any wavelength regime will be helpful, along with an aptitude for learning new research techniques. Data sources may include SOAR, SALT, GALEX, Herschel, Spitzer, HST, Arecibo, the EVLA, the GBT, ALMA, IRAM, and archival surveys (SDSS, UKIDSS, AKARI).
The successful candidate will gain access to the UNC share of the SOAR, SALT, and PROMPT telescopes and to state-of-the-art computing facilities including the Topsail cluster. He or she will enjoy substantial freedom to define personal research directions. Opportunities to contribute to SOAR instrumentation may be possible for an applicant with relevant experience and interests.
The position provides health benefits, a travel allowance, and a generous salary. All requirements for the PhD must be completed prior to the negotiated start date, ideally spring-fall 2012.
Applicants should arrange submission of at least three recommendation letters plus cover letter, CV, publication list, and brief statement of research background and interests by December 16, 2011. Late applications may be considered until the position is filled. All materials including letters should be sent to resolvepostdoc@unc.edu with the applicant's name in the email subject line (pdf or plain text only please). UNC is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages applications from women and minorities.
RESOLVE in the news
Posted November 20th, 2010
Check out the feature article on RESOLVE in the SciTech pages of the Triangle's main newspaper The News & Observer. Also published in The Charlotte Observer. (November 8, 2010)