Gregory H. Rudnick, Assistant Professor

5069 Malott Hall
TEL: (785) 864-4099
FAX: (785) 864-5262
Email: grudnick@ku.edu

Professional Background:

2008-Present: Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy, University of Kansas
2004-2008: Leo Goldberg Postdoctoral Fellow, National Optical AstronomyObservatory, Tucson, AZ
2001-2004: Postdoctoral Researcher, Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany

Education:

2000-2001:Dissertation research conducted at Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany

2001: Ph.D. in Astronomy, University of Arizona, Tucson
1996: B.S. in Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Honors

NASA Group Achievement Award for the Spitzer Space Telescope Observing Program for Students and Teachers 2007

Member, American Astronomical Society

Research Interests:

I am interested in studying the formation and evolution of galaxies using primarily observational techniques.  Specifically, I am trying to determine how galaxies assembled their mass over cosmic time and how much the evolution of galaxies is determined by the places in which they reside as they evolve.  I address these areas by using a variety of telescopes on the ground and in space to observe galaxies at multiple wavelengths and at multiple epochs.  Doing so I can directly track their evolution and the dependence of that evolution on, e.g. their mass and the density of galaxies around them.  Progress in these fields will give us a better idea of how our own galaxy formed and how galaxies in the local Universe today attained their present state.

Selected Publications:

1. The Lopsidedness of Present-Day Galaxies: Results from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Reichard, T. A., Heckman, T. M., Rudnick, G., Brinchmann, J., and Kauffmann, G., Astrophysical Journal 677, 186 (2008)

2. Spitzer Mid- to Far-Infrared Flux Densities of Distant Galaxies, Papovich, C., Rudnick, G., Le Floc'h, E., van Dokkum, P. G., Rieke, G. H., Taylor, E. N., Armus, L.,
Gawiser, E., Huang, J. and Marcillac, D., and Franx, M., Astrophysical Journal, 668 45 (2007)

3. The Color Magnitude Distribution of Field Galaxies to z~3: The Evolution and Modeling of the Blue Sequence', Labbe, I., Franx, M., Rudnick, G., Foerster Schreiber, N. M., van Dokkum, P., Moorwood, A., Rix, H.-W., Roettgering, H., Trujillo, I., van der Werf, P., Astrophysical Journal 665, 944 (2007)

4. Measuring the Average Evolution of Luminous Galaxies at z<3: The Rest-Frame Optical Luminosity Density, Spectral Energy Distribution, and Stellar Mass Density, Rudnick, G., Labbe, I., Foerster Schreiber, N. M., Wuyts, S., Franx, M., Finlator, K., Kriek, M., Moorwood, A., Rix, H.-W., Roettgering, H., Trujillo, I., van der Wel, A., van der Werf, P. and van Dokkum, P. G., Astrophysical Journal 650, 624 (2006)

5. IRAC Mid-Infrared Imaging of the Hubble Deep Field-South: Star Formation Histories and Stellar Masses of Red Galaxies at z>2, Labbe, I., Huang, J., Franx, M., Rudnick, G., Barmby, P., Daddi, E., van Dokkum, P. G., Fazio, G. G., Foerster Schreiber, N. M., Moorwood, A. F. M., Rix, H.-W., Roettgering, H., Trujillo, N., van der Werf, P., Astrophysical Journal Letters 624, L81 (2005)

6. The Luminosity-Size and Mass-Size Relations of Galaxies out to z~3, Trujillo, I., Rudnick, G., Rix, H.-W., Labbe, I., Franx, M., Daddi, E., Van Dokkum, P. G., Foerster Schreiber, N. M., Kuijken, K., Moorwood, A., Rottgering, H., Van De Wel, A., Van Der Werf, P., Van Starkenburg L., Astrophysical Journal 604, 521 (2004)

7. The Rest-Frame Optical Luminosity Density, Color, and Stellar Mass Density of the Universe from z=0 to z=3, Rudnick, G., Rix, H.-W., Franx, M., Labbe, I., Blanton, M., Daddi, E., Foerster Schreiber, N. M., Moorwood, A., Roettgering, H., Trujillo, I., van de Wel, A., van der Werf, P., van Dokkum, P. G., van Starkenburg L., Astrophysical Journal 599, 847 (2003)

8. Large Disklike Galaxies at High Redshift', Labbe, I., Rudnick, G., Franx, M., Daddi, E., van Dokkum, P. G., Foerster Schreiber, N. M., Kuijken, K., Moorwood, A., Rix, H.-W., Roettgering, H., Trujillo, I., van der Wel, A., van der Werf, P., van Starkenburg, L., Astrophysical Journal Letters 591, L95 (2003)