Mark Fardal Postdoctoral Research Associate University of Massachusetts

Contact

• Dr. Mark Fardal
  University of Massachusetts
  Dept. of Astronomy
  LGRT 619-E
  710 N. Pleasant St.
  Amherst, MA
  01003-9305
  
• phone: 413-577-2108
• fax: 413-545-4223
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• Galaxy formation
• Background Radiation
• Local Group substructure and merging

• On the Evolutionary History of Stars and their Fossil Mass and Light
  Fardal, M. A., Katz, N., Weinberg, D. H., Dav'e, R. 2007, MNRAS, 379, 985
• Stellar Kinematics in the Complicated Inner Spheroid of M31: Discovery of Substructure Along the Southeastern Minor Axis and its Relationship to the Giant Southern Stream
  Gilbert, K. M., Fardal, M. A., et al. 2007, ApJ, 668, 245
• Investigating the Andromeda Stream: III. A Young Shell System in M31
  Fardal, M. A., Guhathakurta, P., Babul, A., McConnachie, A. W. 2007, MNRAS, 380, 15
• Investigating the Andromeda stream - II. Orbital fits and properties of the progenitor
  Fardal, M. A., Babul, A., Geehan, J. J., Guhathakurta, P. 2006, MNRAS, 366, 1012
• Investigating the Andromeda stream - I. Simple analytic bulge-disc-halo model for M31
  Geehan, J. J., Fardal, M. A., Babul, A., Guhathakurta, P. 2006, 366, 996
• The impact of mergers on relaxed X-ray clusters - I. Dynamical evolution and emergent transient structures
  Poole, G. B., Fardal, M. A., Babul, A., McCarthy, I. G., Quinn, T., Wadsley, J. 2006, MNRAS, 373, 881

• M31 substructure: description, movies, images
• Background radiation, star formation, and the IMF