Moire Prescott

Biography

Education

• PhD: University of Arizona, 2009
• BS: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003

RESEARCH:

• Galaxy formation and evolution
• Physical conditions and kinematics of the circumgalactic and intergalactic media
• Giant Lya nebulae and the growth of massive structures
• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and AGN variability
• Dust and stellar populations in galaxies

CURRENT STUDENTS:

Primary Advisor:

Kelly Sanderson (graduate) – Characterizing Extended Emission Line Regions Around Type II AGN

Audrey Dijeau (graduate) – Searching for Low Redshift Extended Emission Line Nebulae

Daniel Godines Alcantara (graduate) – Using Machine Learning to Find High Redshift Lyman-alpha Nebulae

Natalie Wells (undergraduate) – Galaxies in the Vicinity of Lyman-alpha Nebulae

Elena Fuentes (undergraduate) – Gas Physical Conditions in "Green Bean" Galaxies

 

Past Students:

Agnar Hall (graduate) – studying the environments of Lyman-alpha nebulae using HST imaging.

Sean Sellers (graduate) – searching for Lyman-alpha nebulae using intermediate-band imaging

Jodi Berdis (graduate) – emission line diagnostics in Lyman-alpha nebulae

Dominic Hernandez (undergraduate) – galaxy colors in Lyman-alpha nebulae

Alex Jenkins (undergraduate) – astronomical image processing

Arthur Cox (undergraduate) – emission line diagnostics in a Lyman-alpha nebula

 

TEACHING:

ASTR 1115G (formerly ASTR110G) – Introduction to Astronomy

ASTR 400 – Undergraduate Independent Research

ASTR 401 – Topics in Modern Astrophysics

ASTR 402 – Introduction to Astronomical Observations and Techniques

ASTR 500 – Graduate Seminar

ASTR 555 – Galaxies I

 

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS (student authors denoted by *):

• Using Multiple Emission Line Ratios to Constrain the Slope of the Dust Attenuation Law, ApJ, Volume 928, Issue 1, 71, 11 pp. (2022)

• Mapping the Morphology and Kinematics of a Lyman-alpha-selected Nebula at z=3.15 with MUSE, ApJ, Volume 923, Issue 2, 252, 13 pp. (2021)

• Understanding Ly-alpha Nebulae at Low Redshift I: The Sizes, Powering, and Kinematics of "Green Bean" Galaxies, ApJ, Volume 885, Issue 1, 40, 11 pp. (2019)
• A Massive Dead Disk Galaxy in the Young Universe, Nature, Volume 546, Issue 7659, pp. 510-513 (2017)
• Overturning the Case for Gravitational Powering in the Prototypical Cooling Lyα Nebula, ApJ, Volume 802, pp. 32-42 (2015)
• Spatially Resolved Gas Kinematics within a Lyα Nebula: Evidence for Large-scale Rotation, ApJ, Volume 799, pp. 62-76 (2015)
• A Successful Broadband Survey for Giant Ly-alpha Nebulae. II. Spectroscopic Confirmation, ApJ, Volume 762, Issue 1, pp. 38-45 (2013)
• Resolving the Galaxies within a Giant Ly-alpha Nebula: Witnessing the Formation of a Galaxy Group?, ApJ, Volume 752, Issue 2, pp. 86-110 (2012)
• A Successful Broadband Survey for Giant Ly-alpha Nebulae. I. Survey Design and Candidate Selection, ApJ, Volume 748, Issue 2, pp. 125-144 (2012)
• The Line Polarization Within a Giant Ly-alpha Nebula, ApJ, Volume 730, Issue 2, pp. L25-L29 (2011)
• The Discovery of a Large Ly-alpha+HeII Nebula at z~1.67: A Candidate Low Metallicity Region?, ApJ, Volume 702, Issue 1, pp. 554-566 (2009)
• The Overdense Environment of a Large Ly-alpha Nebula at z~2.7, ApJ, Volume 678, Issue 2, pp. L77-L80 (2008)

All Publications