Our research uses gravitational lensing and analysis of optical multi-band, x-ray, and radio images to map out the dark matter in galaxy clusters in the local Universe and compare it with the properties of the galaxies and gas. By combining our analysis (and those of past undergraduate and graduate students), we measure the properties of the dark matter and the evolution of galaxies from the center to the outskirts of the cluster. This work involves using the computational resources at CCV to run and modify scripts to take raw telescope data into images, catalogs of galaxy positions, shapes, and brightnesses.
Romero Mejia, Dani, Green, Alexander, and Paris, Lucca,
"Dark Matter and Galaxy Evolution in Observations of Galaxy Clusters"
(2022).
Summer Research Symposium.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/psws-kv90
Each year, Brown University showcases the research of its undergraduates at the Summer Research Symposium. More than half of the student-researchers are UTRA recipients, while others receive funding from a variety of Brown-administered and national programs and fellowships and go …
