Sandra M Faber

TitleAstronomer/Professor Astronomy,
Interim Director, UCO
DivisionPhysical & Biological Sciences
DepartmentUCO/Lick Observatory,
Astronomy & Astrophysics Department
AffiliationsUCO/Lick Observatory
Phone831-459-2991
Email,
FAX831-459-5244
Web Site Web Page
Web Page
OfficeISB Room 379
Campus Mail StopUCO / Lick Observatory
Mail1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA
95064
USA
picture of Sandra M Faber

Research Interests

My research is focused on using the lookback power of large telescopes to study the formation and evolution of galaxies. With colleagues Koo and Guhathakurta at UCSC and Davis at UCB, we completed the DEEP2 survey of 50,000 distant galaxies using the DEIMOS spectrograph at Keck 2, for which I was the PI. In the Extended Groth Strip, DEEP2 spectra have been augmented by a wealth of multi-wavelength data from the Chandra, Spitzer, and GALEX telescopes to create AEGIS, the largest deeply imaged panchromatic region on the sky. DEEP2/AEGIS data are being used to count galaxies, study their morphologies (see image above), measure their star-formation rates, and study their dynamics and metallicities. Our team has also joined with other scientists to create the CANDELS project, which is the largest survey of the universe undertaken by the Hubble Telescope. This incredibly rich database provides unique material for studying every aspect of galaxy evolution from mass assembly, to star-formation, morphological transformation, AGNs, and their effects.

Biography, Education and Training

BA, Swarthmore College, 1966
PhD, Harvard University, 1972

Honors, Awards and Grants

University Professor, University of California
Bower Award and Prize for Science from the Franklin Institute
Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society
Dannie Heinemann Prize of the American Astronomical Society
Centennial Medal of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Annette de Vaucouleurs Medal, University of Texas
Médaille de l’Institute d’Astrophysique de Paris
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow
Honorary degrees: University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of
Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College, Williams College
Member, National Academy of Sciences
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Member, American Philosophical Society
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Harvard Board of Overseers
Member, Board of Trustees, Carnegie Institution for Science
Vice President and member, Board of Directors, Annual Reviews

Selected Publications

A Relationship between Nuclear Black Hole Mass and Galaxy Velocity Dispersion, K. Gebhardt et al., ApJ, 531, 13, 2000

The Demography of Massive Dark Objects in Galaxy Centers, J. Magorrian et al., AJ, 115, 2285, 1998

Velocity dispersions and mass-to-light ratios for elliptical galaxies, S.M. Faber and R.E. Jackson, ApJ, 204, 668, 1976

Formation of galaxies and large-scale structure with cold dark matter, G. Blumenthal et al., Nature, 311, 517, 1984

Spectroscopy and photometry of elliptical galaxies. I - A new distance estimator, A. Dressler et al., ApJ, 313, 42, 1987

Masses and mass-to-light ratios of galaxies, S.M. Faber & J. S. Gallagher, ARAA, 17, 135, 1979

Spectroscopy and photometry of elliptical galaxies. V - Galaxy streaming toward the new supergalactic center, D. Lynden-Bell et al., ApJ, 326, 19, 1988

The Centers of Early-Type Galaxies with HST. IV. Central Parameter Relations, S.M. Faber et al., AJ, 114, 1771, 1997

Galaxy Luminosity Functions to z~1 from DEEP2 and COMBO-17: Implications for Red Galaxy Formation, S.M. Faber et al., ApJ, 665, 265, 2007

Teaching Interests

Galaxy evolution

Advisees, Post Docs, Graduate Students, Researchers

NameE-Mail AddressPhone Number
Edmond Cheung831-459-2774
Jerome J Fang831-459-3259
Jonathan Russell Trump831-502-7085 (office)
Mark William Mozena831-459-4485
Hassen Mohammed Yesuf831-459-4485

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