Matthew Bayliss, PhD 

Recent news, results, and awards:

• We've been awarded 24 more orbits with HST as a part of the Cycle 32 bridge program to measure spatially resolved Lyα in the host galaxies of five wide separation lensed quasars. 

• We have been awarded 15 hours on Gemini North and South via the NOIRLab TAC, and Riley Owens has been awarded 6 hours on Gemini North through the Gemini Fast Turnaround.

• Congrats to Riley Owens on his new paper, "Connecting Lyα and Ionizing Photon Escape In the Sunburst Arc"!

• We've been awarded a 44 orbit HST program in Cycle 32 to measure spatially resolved LyC and Lyα emission down to 10's of parsec scales in SGAS1110.

• Raven Gassis' refereed conference proceeding, "Understanding Shape and Centroid Deviations in 39 Strong Lensing Galaxy Clusters in Various Dynamical States", has been accepted for publication

• Congratulations, Dr. Alex Navarre, on your successful PhD defense! (March 2024)

• Undergraduates Riley Owens and Prasanna Adhikari presented their research at the Jan 2025 AAS meeting in new Orleans (Owens+2024, Adhikari+2024).

• Alex Navarre's paper, "Resolving Clumpy vs. Extended Lyman-alpha In Strongly Lensed, High-Redshift Lyman-alpha Emitters" accepted for publication in ApJ!

• Undergraduates Rose Hewald, Nikolas Younker, Prasanna Adhikari, Lauren Elicker, Emmy Bursk authored an Astrobites post (link here) about their work running and documenting JWST NIRSpec IFU data reduction pipelines. 

• Dr. Keunho Kim's paper, "Small Region, Big Impact: Highly Anisotropic Lyman-continuum Escape from a Compact Starburst Region with Extreme Physical Properties", accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

• Congratulations to UC undergraduate, Lauren Elicker, who was awarded a SULI fellowship to work at Los Alamos National Lab starting in August 2023 (and matriculating to the astrophysics PhP program at Pittsburgh in fall 2024)!

• Ohio Space Grant Consortium SICHOP grant awarded (Co-PIs Bayliss and undergraduate Lauren Elicker) - $10,000 to fund undergraduate work using and documenting JWST data reduction pipelines

• Dr. Keunho Kim's paper, "A Gradual Decline of Star Formation since Cluster In-fall: New Kinematic Insights into Environmental Quenching at 0.3z<1.1", accepted for publication in ApJ

• Dr. Keunho Kim's white paper for the Roman Space Telescope posted

• JWST Cycle 2 Program JWST-GO-03483, Approved (PI: Bayliss), with joint HST program HST-GO-17311

• Riley Owens' Gemini Fast Turnaround observing program approved (PI: Owens)