Matthew Bayliss, PhD
Astrophysicist
Recent news, results, and awards:
We've 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)