Background
Selinsgrove
Area High School,
Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, 1994-1998.
B.S. Physics with Honors
in Astronomy and Astrophysics,
The Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, Pennsylvania, May 2002.
Ph.D.
Candidate in Astrophysics, Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2002–.
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Presentations
Teaching
Spring 2003
171.102
Section 13 ·
General Physics II For Physical Science Majors (Dr. Timothy Heckman)
173.112
Section 11 · General Physics Laboratory II (Dr. Yung
Lee)
Fall 2002
171.101
Section 13 ·
General Physics I For Physical Science Majors (Dr. Rosemary Wyse)
173.111
Section 23 · General Physics Laboratory I (Dr. Yung Lee)
Current
Research - Star Formation, AGN, and Asymmetry in Galaxies
My current
research project entails seeking links between galaxy and AGN host
galaxy properties by studying galaxy asymmetry and star formation,
which are thought to be linked to galaxy interactions.
I worked
on a research project on Broad Absorption Line Quasars (BALQSOs) to
fulfill the undergraduate honors requirements at Penn State and to
get my feet wet in an astronomical research field. I worked with Gordon
Richards, Donald Schneider, and Patrick Hall in making a catalog of
BALQSOs and then studied the spectra of the objects. This work comprised
my honors thesis and resulted in my first two first-authored publications.
Future work includes the creation of the SDSS Data Release 3 BALQSO
catalog.
Publications
- Trump, J. R., Hall, P. B., Reichard, T. A., Richards, G. T., Schneider, D. P., and Vanden Berk, D. E.
"A Catalog of Broad Absorption Line Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Third Data Release"
in preparation (2006).
- Reichard,
T. A.,
Richards, G. T., Schneider, D. P., et al. 2003
"Continuum
and Emission Line Properties of Broad Absorption Line Quasars."
AJ, 126, front cover and pp. 2594–2607, 2003;
astro-ph/0308508
- Richards,
G. T. et al. 2003.
"Red
and Reddened Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey."
AJ, 126,
1131, 2003.
- Reichard,
T. A.,
Richards, G. T., Schneider, D. P., et al.
"A
Catalog of Broad Absorption Line Quasars from the Sloan Digital
Sky Survey Early Data Release."
AJ, 125, 1711-1728,
2003; astro-ph/0301019
- Richards,
G. T., Vanden Berk, D. E., Reichard, T.
A. et al.
"Broad
Emission-Line Shifts in Quasars: An Orientation Measure for Radio-Quiet
Quasars?"
AJ, 124, 1-17, 2002.
- Schneider,
D. P. et al.
"The
Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog. I. Early Data Release."
AJ, 123, 567-577, 2002.
Conferences
- AGN
Physics with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Princeton University,
July 2003. Presented poster: "Continuum
and Emission Line Properties of Broad Absorption Line Quasars."
An excerpt
from my first referee report (for the first of a two-paper series):
As
one who has worked on these objects long enough (20 years) to see
them rise from obscurity, I found this to be a delightful paper
- very well constructed, complete, and readable. The sample is unprecedented
and the data handling is exemplary. I really like the BAL detection
technique and I appreciate that they so clearly enunciate their
caveats regarding the fitted power law index and E(B-V)'s. Certainly
there is follow-up analysis in the works so the fact that the paper
is a little short of conclusions does not trouble me. I hope that
the subsequent analysis is submitted to the A.J. The paper should
be published essentially as it is though I make a few suggestions
that would improve it, below.
How about
that!
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