CDI Seminar

CDI Seminar

Mar 13, 2012, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Peter Freeman, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Statistics
A thorough investigation of cosmological theories of hierarchical structure formation requires the accurate and precise identification of galaxy morphologies as a function of redshift. One aspect of any such investigation is the determination of the galaxy merger rate and its time evolution. Astronomers identify mergers by finding complex substructures within a galaxy's project brightness...