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Alison Coil
Faculty Profile
News and Awards
Extreme Star Formation Reveals a Fleeting Phase of Galactic Evolution
Professor Alison Coil awarded extensive access to the Keck Telescope over the next 4 years to undertake a new survey of distant galaxies
Intense Bursts of Star Formation Drive Fierce Galactic Winds
Professors Coil, Dudko and Anderson promoted.
Suspects in the quenching of star formation exonerated
Publications
AEGIS:
The Clustering of X-ray Active Galactic Nuclei Relative to Galaxies at z~1
, 2009, ApJ, 701, 1484-1499, Coil, AL, Georgakakis, A, Newman, JA, Cooper, MC, Croton, D, Davis, M, Koo, DC, Laird, ES, Nandra, K, Weiner, BJ, Willmer, CNA, Yan, R.
Ubiquitous Outflows in DEEP2 Spectra of Star-Forming Galaxies at z=1.4
, 2009, ApJ, 692, 187-211, Weiner, BJ, Coil, AL, Prochaska, JX, Newman, JA, Cooper, MC, Bundy, K, Conselice, CJ, Dutton, AA, Faber, SM, Koo, DC, Lotz, JM, Rieke, GH, Rubin, KHR.
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Color and Luminosity Dependence of Galaxy Clustering at z~1
, 2008, ApJ, 672, 153-176, Coil, AL, Newman, JA, Croton, D, Cooper, MC, Davis, M, Faber, SM, Gerke, BF, Koo, DC, Padmanabhan, N, Wechsler, RH, Weiner, BJ.
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Clustering of Quasars and Galaxies at z=1
, 2007, ApJ, 654, 115-124, Coil, AL, Hennawi, JF, Newman, JA, Cooper, MC, Davis, M.
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Clustering of Galaxies as a Function of Luminosity at z=1
, 2006, ApJ, 644, 671-677, Coil, AL, Newman, JA, Cooper, MC, Davis, M, Faber, SM, Koo, DC, Willmer, CNA.
Alison Coil
Ph. D., University of California at Berkeley, 2004
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Office: SERF 426
Phone: 858-822-3940
Email:
acoil@ucsd.edu
Research Statement
Observational astrophysics, with a focus on galaxy evolution, observational cosmology, and large-scale structure.