Galaxy destruction workshop
curriculum vitae
Chris Purcell
Center for Cosmology
Physics & Astronomy Dept.
2140A Reines Hall
Univ. of California, Irvine
Irvine CA, 92697-4575
(+1) 949/824/2892
publications
Research - simulation of galaxy formation/stability/disruption; analytic
formulation of ΛCDM structure and self-interaction; connecting
Local Group observation to precision cosmological models
Education - B.S. Physics, magna cum laude,
M.S. Physics & Astronomy,
Ph.D. Physics & Astronomy,
Teaching - Physics 20A: Introduction to Astronomy
Physics 52B: Circuits Lab
Physics 3LC: Basic Physics Laboratory
>100 hours of astronomy outreach to
local communities and schools
Heated Disc Stars in the Stellar Halo
Chris W. Purcell (UC Irvine), James S. Bullock (UC Irvine),
Stelios Kazantzidis (Ohio State): 2010, MNRAS accepted
The Dark Disk of the Milky Way
Chris W. Purcell, James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat (UC Irvine): 2009, ApJ, 703, 2775
The Destruction of Thin Stellar Disks via
Cosmologically Common Satellite Accretion Events
Chris W. Purcell (UC Irvine), Stelios Kazantzidis (Ohio State),
James S. Bullock (UC Irvine): 2009, ApJ, 694, L98
The Metallicity of Diffuse Intrahalo Light
Chris W. Purcell, James S. Bullock (UC Irvine),
Andrew R. Zentner (Univ. of Pittsburgh): 2008, MNRAS, 391, 550
Shredded Galaxies as the Source of
Diffuse Intrahalo Light On Varying Scales
Chris W. Purcell, James S. Bullock (UC Irvine),
Andrew R. Zentner (KICP, Univ. of Chicago): 2007, ApJ, 666, 20
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Mergers and Disk Survival in ΛCDM
James S. Bullock, Kyle R. Stewart, Chris W. Purcell (UC Irvine):
2009, IAU Symposium, 254, 85
The Assembly of Galaxy Clusters
Joel C. Berrier, Kyle R. Stewart, James S. Bullock,
Chris W. Purcell, Elizabeth J. Barton (UC Irvine),
Risa H. Wechsler (Stanford): 2009, ApJ, 690, 1292
Stellar Populations across the NGC 4244 Truncated Galactic Disk
R.S. de Jong, A.C. Seth, D. Radburn-Smith, E.F. Bell, T.M. Brown,
J.S. Bullock, S. Courteau, J.J. Dalcanton, H.C. Ferguson,
D. Zucker: 2007, ApJ, 667, L49
GHOSTS: The Resolved Stellar Outskirts of Massive Disk Galaxies
R.S. de Jong, A.C. Seth, E.F. Bell, T.M. Brown, J.S. Bullock,
2007, IAU Symposium, 241, 503
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MNRAS
February 2010: Heated Disc Stars in the Stellar Halo (MNRAS)
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