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Michael S. Vogeley
Professor of Physics Drexel University
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Ph.D. (Astronomy), Harvard University, 1993
A.M. (Astronomy), Harvard University, 1988
A.B. (Astrophysical Sciences), Princeton University, 1987
Phone: (215) 895-2710
Fax: (215) 895-5934
Email: vogeley@drexel.edu
Office: Disque 811
Postal address: Department of Physics, Drexel University,
3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Research Interests
Observational and theoretical cosmology, cosmic voids, galaxy formation and
evolution, statistical analysis of large data sets, active galactic
nuclei, time-series analysis,
basketball
shot analysis.
More information is on the
Drexel Astrophysics Group research home page.
Research Group
My research group at Drexel currently includes physics graduate
students Sam Kumagai, Keri Heuer, and Henry Adair, and physics undergraduate students Gavin Ashman and Christina Ludwig.
Drexel faculty collaborators include Professors Dave Goldberg, Steve
McMillan, and Gordon Richards in Physics, and Prof. Chaomei Chen in
the College of Computing and Informatics. I also collaborate
with many researchers at institutions across the globe, particularly
with other members of the SDSS and LSST collaborations.
Research Group Alumni
Rebecca Phillipson (Ph.D. 2020) was a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in the
Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington and at Villanova University and will join the Villanova faculty in Fall 2024.
Jackeline Moreno (Ph.D. 2019) is a research scientist at Lockheed Martin.
Kelly Douglass (Ph.D. 2017) is an Assistant Professor of
Physics and Astronomy and Director of the C.E.K. Mees Observatory at the
University of Rochester.
Crystal Moorman (Ph.D. 2015) is an Assistant Professor of Physics,
Director of the Belk Astronomical Observatory, and Chair of the Physics Department at the University of Lynchburg.
Vishal Kasliwal (Ph.D. 2015) was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton
and the University of Pennsylvania. He is now a Senior Member of Technical Staff at AMD.
Danny Pan (Ph.D. 2011) was a postdoctoral fellow at
Shanghai National Observatory and is now Head of Data Science at SetSail.
John Parejko (Ph.D. 2010) was a postdoctoral
fellow at Yale and is now Astronomer at the University of Washington.
Randall Rojas (Ph.D. 2004) worked at Raytheon
Corporation as a Senior Multi-Disciplined Engineer (Astrophysicist)
where he applied his knowledge of astrophysics and statistics to a
wide variety of problems. He also completed a Ph.D. in statistics at
UCLA, and is now an adjunct associate professor of Economics at UCLA.
Former Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Assistant Professor Fiona Hoyle
is currently a Research Professor
at Observatorio Astronomico Quito, where she moved after becoming a
tenured faculty member at Widener University.
Former Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Assistant Professor
Anca Constantin is a tenured Professor in the Department of Physics
at James Madison University, where she was hired in 2009 following a
postdoctoral position at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Professional Affiliations
American Astronomical Society, International Astronomical Union,
Society of Catholic Scientists
Sponsored Research
My research at Drexel has been supported by $4.6M in grants from NASA, NSF, the
AAS, and the John Templeton Foundation.
Publications
The outdated list below is illustrative of my research interests,
selected from over 100 refereed articles.
For up to date publications and
links to the articles, see
the ADS
abstract service and
the astro-ph
preprint archive.
Here's a really good review of cosmology, together with a long list of useful references:
The Beginning and
Evolution of the Universe, an invited review for PASP by Bharat
Ratra and myself (Ratra, B. & Vogeley, M.S. 2008, PASP, 120, 235).
Here are some examples of my publications (see the links above for a current and complete list):
voids and void galaxies
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Influence of the Void Environment on Chemical Abundances in Dwarf
Galaxies and Implications for Connecting Star Formation History and
Halo Mass,
Douglass, K.A., Vogeley, M.S., Cen, R. 2018, Astrophysical Journal, 864, 144.
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Large-Scale Environmental Dependence of the Abundance Ratio of Nitrogen to Oxygen in Blue, Star-forming Galaxies Fainter than L*,
Douglass, K.A., Vogeley, M.S. 2017, Astrophysical Journal, 837, 42.
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Determining the Large-Scale Environmental Dependence of Gas-Phase Metallicity in Dwarf Galaxies,
Douglass, K.A., Vogeley, M.S. 2017, Astrophysical Journal, 834, 186.
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On the Star Formation Properties of Void Galaxies,
Moorman, C., Moreno, J., White, A., Vogeley, M.S., Hoyle, F., Giovanelli, R., Haynes, M.P. 2016, Astrophysical Journal, 831, 118.
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The Optical Luminosity Function of Galaxies in the SDSS and ALFALFA Surveys
Moorman, C., Vogeley, M.S., Pan, D.C., Hoyle, F., Haynes, Martha P., Giovanelli, R. 2015, Astrophysical Journal, 810:108.
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The HI Mass Function and Velocity Width Function of Void Galaxies in the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey,
Moorman, C., Vogeley, M.S., Pan, D.C., Hoyle, F., Hayne, Martha P., Giovanelli, R. 2014, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 444, 3559.
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Photometric Properties of Void Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7,
Hoyle, F., Vogeley, M. S., Pan, D. C. 2012, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 426, 3041.
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Cosmic Voids in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7,
Pan, D. C., Vogeley, M.S., Hoyle, F., Choi, Y.-Y., Park, C. 2012, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 421, 926.
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The Aspen-Amsterdam Void Finder Comparison Project,
Colberg, J.M. et al. 2008, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 387, 933.
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Environmental Dependence of Properties of Galaxies in the Sloan
Digital Sky Survey,
Park, C., Choi, Y-Y. Vogeley, M.S., Gott, J.R., Blanton, M.R. 2007 Astrophysical Journal, 658, 898.
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Spectroscopic Properties of Void Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey,
Rojas,
R.R., Vogeley, M.S., Hoyle, F., Brinkmann, J. 2005, Astrophysical
Journal, 624, 571.
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Luminosity Function of Void Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey,
Hoyle, F.,
Rojas, R., Vogeley, M. S. 2005, Astrophysical Journal, 620, 618.
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Photometric Properties of Void Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey,
Rojas, R., Vogeley, M.S., Hoyle, F. 2004, Astrophysical Journal,
617, 50.
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The Mass Function of Void Galaxies in the SDSS Data Release 2,
Goldberg, D.M.,
Jones, T,D., Hoyle, F., Rojas, R.R., Vogeley, M.S., Blanton,
M.R. 2005, Astrophysical Journal, 621, 643.
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Voids in the Two-Degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey,
Hoyle, F., Vogeley,
M.S. 2004, Astrophysical Journal, 607, 751.
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Simulating Voids,
Goldberg, D., Vogeley, M.S. 2004, Astrophysical Journal,
605, 1.
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Galaxy Voids in Cold Dark Matter Universes,
Benson, A.J., Hoyle, F., Torres, F.,
Vogeley, M.S. 2003, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 340, 160.
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Voids in the PSCz Survey and the Updated Zwicky Catalog,
Hoyle, F., Vogeley,
M.S. 2002, Astrophysical Journal, 566, 641.
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Voids and Constraints on Non-Linear Gravitational Clustering,
M.S. Vogeley, M.J. Geller, C. Park, J.P. Huchra 1994,
Astronomical Journal, 108, 745.
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Void Statistics of the CfA Redshift Survey,
Vogeley, M. S., Geller, M. J., Huchra,
J. P. 1991, Astrophysical Journal, 382, 44.
active galactic nuclei
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Complex Variability of Kepler AGN Revealed by Recurrence
Analysis,
Phillipson, R.A., Boyd, P.T., Smale, A.P., Vogeley, M.S.. 2020, MNRAS,
accepted (arXiv:2001.02800).
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Stochastic Modeling Handbook for Optical AGN Variability,
Moreno, J., Vogeley, M.S., Richards, G.T., Yu, W. 2019, PASP, 131 (1000), 063001.
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Extracting Information from AGN Variability,
Kasliwal,V.P., Vogeley, M.S., Richards, G.T. 2017, MNRAS, 470, 3027.
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Are the Variability Properties of the Kepler AGN Light
Curves Consistent with a Damped Random Walk?
Kasliwal, V.P.,
Vogeley, M.S., Richards, G.T. 2015, MNRAS, 451, 4328.
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Do the Kepler AGN Light Curves Need Re-processing?
Kasliwal, V.P., Vogeley, M.S., Richards, G.T., Williams, J., Carini, M.T. 2015, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453, 2075.
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Source Matching in the SDSS and RASS: Which Galaxies are Really X-Ray
Sources?
Parejko, J.K., Constantin, A., Vogeley, M.S., & Hoyle, F. 2008, Astronomical Journal, 135, 10.
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Active Galactic Nuclei in Void Regions,
Constantin, A., Hoyle, F., Vogeley, M.S. 2008, ApJ 673, 715.
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The Clustering of Low Luminosity AGN,
Constantin, A., Vogeley, M. S. 2006, ApJ, 650, 727.
topology and mapping of large-scale structure
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A Map of the Universe,
Gott, J.R. III, Juric, M., Schlegel, D., Hoyle, F., Vogeley,
M.S., Tegmark, M., Bahcall, N., Brinkmann, J. 2005, Astrophysical
Journal, 624, 463.
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Mapping the Universe with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey,
Vogeley, M.S., Hoyle, F., Rojas, R.R., & Goldberg, D.M. 2004, in
proceedings of IAU Coll. 195 Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters: intense
life in the suburbs, ed. A. Diaferio (refereed), preprint
astro-ph/0408583
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Minkowski Functionals of SDSS galaxies I : Analysis of Excursion Sets,
Hikage et
al. 2003, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 55, 911.
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Two-Dimensional Topology of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey,
Hoyle, F., Vogeley, M.S., Gott, J.R., Blanton, M., Tegmark, M.,
Weinberg, D.H. 2002, Astrophysical Journal, 580, 663.
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Two-Dimensional Topology of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey,
Hoyle, F.,
Vogeley, M.S., Gott, J.R. III 2002, Astrophysical Journal, 570, 44.
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Topological Analysis of the CfA Redshift Survey,
M.S. Vogeley, C. Park, M.J. Geller, J.P. Huchra, J.R. Gott 1994,
Astrophysical Journal, 420, 525.
power spectrum and cosmological parameter estimation
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The Three-Dimensional Power Spectrum of Galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky
Survey,
Tegmark et al. 2004, Astrophysical Journal, 606, 702.
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Cosmological Parameters from SDSS and WMAP,
Tegmark et al. 2004, Physical
Review D, 69, 103501.
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Cosmological Parameters from Eigenmode Analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Redshifts,
Pope et al. 2004, Astrophysical Journal, 607, 655.
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Median Statistics, H_0, and the Accelerating Universe,
J.R. Gott, M.S. Vogeley, S. Podariu, B. Ratra, 2001,
Astrophysical Journal, 549, 1.
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Toward High-Precision Measures of Large-Scale Structure,
M.S. Vogeley 1998, in The Evolving Universe, ed. D. Hamilton (Kluwer:
Dordrecht), 395.
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Measuring the Galaxy Power Spectrum with Future Redshift Surveys,
M. Tegmark, A.J.S. Hamilton, M.A. Strauss, M.S. Vogeley,
A.S. Szalay 1998, Astrophysical Journal, 499, 555.
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Eigenmode Analysis of Galaxy Redshift Surveys: I. Theory and Methods,
M.S. Vogeley, A.S. Szalay 1996, Astrophysical Journal, 465, 34.
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Power Spectrum, Correlation Function, and Tests for Luminosity Bias
in the CfA Redshift Survey, Park, C., Vogeley, M. S., Geller,
M. J., J.P. Huchra 1994, Astrophysical Journal, 431, 569.
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The Power Spectrum of Galaxies in the Nearby Universe, da
L.N. da Costa, M.S. Vogeley, M.J. Geller, J.P. Huchra, C. Park
1994, Astrophysical Journal, 437, L1.
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Large-Scale Clustering of Galaxies in the CfA Redshift Survey,
Vogeley, M. S.,
Park, C., Geller, M. J., Huchra, J. P. 1992, Astrophysical Journal, 391, L5.
Courses (with links to course web pages)
Honors 301-20h
Cosmology: Past, Present, and Future of the Universe
Physics 115
Contemporary Physics III
Physics 131
Survey of the Universe
Physics 233
Introduction to Relativity
Physics 326
Quantum Mechanics I
Physics 327
Quantum Mechanics II
Physics 428
Quantum Mechanics III
Physics 432/532
Cosmology (Undergraduate/Graduate)
Links
Drexel Astrophysics Group
Department of
Physics home page
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Space Telescope Science Insitute
Last update: May 6, 2024