The NGVS Team

 

Chantal Balkowski


(Observatoire de Paris, GEPI, France) - interstellar medium, galaxy harassment.


Michael Balogh


(University of Waterloo, Canada) - Low surface brightness features, tidal stripping, galaxy harassment, environmental effects on galaxy evolution. CoI of the NGVS-IR.


John Blakeslee


(NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Canada) - Structure and evolution of early-type galaxies and galaxy clusters, globular clusters and stellar populations, distance measurements and galaxy peculiar motions. CoI of the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey, the Virgo Redux, and the NGVS-IR.


Samuel Boissier


(Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, France) - star formation, stellar populations.


Alessandro Boselli


(Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, France) - structural parameters, stellar populations, scaling relations, environmental effects. CoI of the Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey, Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey (ALFALFA), Arecibo Galaxy Enironment Survey (AGES), the GALEX Virgo Survey, and the NGVS-IR


Frederic Bournaud


(Laboratoire AIM, CEA-Saclay, France) - galaxy formation, tidal stripping. CoI of the NGVS-IR


Claude Carignan


(Universite de Montreal, Canada) - late-type galaxies, scaling relations, structural parameters, stellar populations.


Ray Carlberg


(University of Toronto, Canada) - galaxy morphology, interactions, weak lensing. Member of the CFHT Legacy Survey (CFHLS) consortium, and CoI of the NGVS-IR.


Scott Chapman


(Cambridge University, UK) - resolved stellar populations, tidal stream, galaxy  harassment, dwarf galaxies. CoI of the NGVS-IR


Patrick Cote


(NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Canada) - Structure of dark matter halos, star formation and chemical enrichment histories of galaxies, structure and dynamics of galaxies and galaxy clusters, stellar populations within, and beyond, the Local Group, extragalactic distance scale, dust content of elliptical galaxies. PI of the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey and the Virgo Redux. CoI of the the NGVS-IR.


Stephane Courteau


(Queen's University, Canada) - late-type galaxies, scaling relations, structural parameters, stellar populations, galaxy dynamics. PI of the Spectroscopic and H-band Virgo Survey (SHiVir). CoI of the NGVS-IR.


Jean-Charles Cuillandre


(CFHT, USA) - Galaxy luminosity function, weak lensing, instrumentation, advanced data processing. Author of the Elixir processing system.


Tim Davidge


(NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Canada) - Observational aspects of the early evolution of galaxies, resolved stellar populations.


Serge Demers


(Universite de Montreal, Canada) - resolved stellar populations, dwarf galaxies.


Pierre-Alain Duc


(Laboratoire AIM, CEA-Saclay, France) - intergalactic medium, tidal debris, envirnmental effects on galaxy evolution. CoI of the NGVS-IR.


Patrick Durrell


(Youngstown State University, USA) - intracluster tracers, resolved stellar populations, globular clusters, dwarf galaxies. CoI of the Virgo Intracluster Star (VICS) Project and the NGVS-IR.


Eric Emsellem


(Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon, France, and ESO, Germany) - early-type galaxies, structural parameters, stellar populations, dynamics. Co-PI of the SAURON Atlas3D Survey. CoI of the NGVS-IR.


Thomas Erben


(University of Bonn, Germany) - Weak Lensing, High Redshift Clusters.


Laura Ferrarese


(NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Canada) - structure and dynamics of early-type galaxies, scaling relations, galactic nuclei and supermassive black holes, the extragalactic distance scale. CoI of the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey, the Virgo Redux, and the NGVS-IR. PI of the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey.


Giuseppe Gavazzi


(Universita’ degli Studi di Milano) - structural parameters, stellar populations, scaling relations. CoI, of the Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey, Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey (ALFALFA), the GALEX Virgo Survey, and the NGVS-IR.


Raphael Gavazzi


(Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, France) - strong and weak lensing.


Stephen Gwyn


(NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Canada) - High redshift galaxies, galaxy evolution, photometric redshifts. Project PI for MegaPipe.


Henk Hoekstra


(Universiteit Leiden The Netherlands, ) - weak lensing, galaxy clusters. Member of the CFHT Legacy Survey - Wide (CFHLS) and Red Sequence Cluster Survey 2 (RCS2) consortia.


Patrick Hudelot


(Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, France) - strong and weak lensing, galaxy clusters, data processing.


Marc Huertas-Company


(Observatoire de Paris, GEPI, France) - galaxy morphology, galaxy clusters.


Olivier Ilbert


(Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, France) - galaxy clusters, luminosity function, photometric redshifts. CoI of the NGVS-IR.


Andres Jordan


(Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Chile) - globular star clusters, dwarf galaxies, galaxy structure. CoI of the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey, the Virgo Redux, and the NGVS-IR.


Kyokki

(NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Canada) - intergalactic critters. Team mascot.


JJ Kavelaars


(NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Canada) - Kuiper Belt Objects.


Ariane Lancon


(Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg, France) - stellar populations, star clusters. Co-PI of the NGVS-IR


Alan McConnachie

(University of Victoria, Canada) - resolved stellar populations, tidal streams, galaxy harassment, dwarf galaxies. CoI of the NGVS-IR.


Dean McLaughlin


(Keele University, UK) - Galaxy dynamics, globular star cluster, star formation, structure of dark matter haloes. CoI of the HST/WFPC2+NICMOS Virgo Redux.


Simona Mei


(Observatoire de Paris, GEPI, France) - stellar populations, galaxy clusters, extragalactic distance scale. CoI of the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey, the Virgo Redux, and the NGVS-IR.


Yannick Mellier 


(Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, France) - Strong and weak lensing, structure of galaxy clusters. Project P.I for Terapix and member of the CFHT Legacy Survey - Wide (CFHLS). CoI of the NGVS-IR.


Chris Mihos


(Case Western Reserve University, USA) - intracluster tracers, galaxy mergers, gas inflows. PI of the Intracluster Light Virgo Survey (ICLVS).


Chien Peng


(NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Canada) - galaxy morphology, galaxy evolution from morphology and SED, super-massive black holes. Author of GALFIT, a 2-D image fitting algorithm for galaxy analysis. CoI of the NGVS-IR.


Eric Peng


(Peking University, China) - globular star clusters, dwarf galaxies. CoI of the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey, the Virgo Redux, and the NGVS-IR.


Thomas Puzia


(NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Canada) - Star clusters and star cluster systems, chemical evolution and enrichment histories of galaxies, galaxy formation and evolution, stellar populations, population synthesis models, structural parameters and dynamics of stellar systems, stellar abundances, hierarchical structure formation and mass assembly of galaxies. CoI of the Virgo Redux. PI of the NGVS-IR.


Marcin Sawicki


(Saint Mary’s University, Canada) - high redshift galaxies, quasars.



David Schade


(NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Canada) - galaxy evolution, high redshift galaxies, quasars, quasars hosts, data mining. CADC group lead.



Luc Simard


(NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Canada) - galaxy morphology, bulge/disk decomposition, galaxy formation and evolution. Author of GIM2D, a 2-D image fitting algorithm for galaxy analysis.


James Taylor


(University of Waterloo, Canada) - galaxy formation, morphology, substructure.


John Tonry 


(Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii) - distance measurements and galaxy peculiar motions, strong lensing, stellar populations. CoI of the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey, and the NGVS-IR.


Brent Tully


(Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii) - distance measurements and galaxy peculiar motions, dwarf galaxies, environmental effect on galaxy evolution, galaxy luminosity function. CoI of the NGVS-IR.


Wim van Driel


(Observatoire de Paris, GEPI, France) - interstellar medium, late type galaxies. CoI of the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey (ALFALFA) and Arecibo Galaxy Enironment Survey (AGES).


Ludo van Waerbeke


(University of British Columbia, Canada) - weak lensing, galaxy clusters. Member of the CFHT Legacy Survey - Wide (CFHLS) consortium.


Bernd Vollmer


(Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg, France) - interstellar medium, galaxy harassment.


Christine Wilson


(McMaster University, Canada) - interstellar medium, star formation. PI of the JCMT/SCUBA2 Nearby Galaxy Legacy Survey.







NGVS Students and Postdoctoral Fellows


Nicholas Ball -- CANFAR Postdoc, NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Canada


Charles Chien -- Graduate student (w/ JJ Kavelaars), University of Victoria, Canada and IANCU, Taiwan


Sebastien Fabbro -- CANFAR Postdoc, University of Victoria, Canada


Etienne Ferriere -- Graduate student (w/ P.-A. Duc), Laboratoire AIM, CEA-Saclay, France


Jennifer Goldin -- Graduate student (w/ C. Wilson), McMaster University, Canada


Chengze Liu -- Postdoctoral Fellow, Peking University, Canada


Lauren MacArthur -- CANFAR Postdoc, NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Canada



Leo Michel-Dansac -- Postdoctoral Fellow (w/ E. Emsellem), Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon, France


Roberto Munoz -- Postdoctoral Fellow (w/ A. Lancon), Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, France


David Woods -- CANFAR Postdoc, University of British Columbia, Canada







Additional Collaborators


Timothy Beers -- Spectroscopic Followup, Michigan State University, USA


Nelson Caldwell -- Spectroscopic Followup, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, USA


Michele Cantiello -- SBF Analysis, Osservatorio Astronomico di Collurania, Universita' di Teramo, Italy


Wing-Huen Ip -- Kuiper Belt Objects, IANCU, Taiwan


Brian Yanny -- Spectroscopic Followup, Fermilab, USA


Lupin Chun-Che Lin -- Kuiper Belt Objects, IANCU, Taiwan


Chris Pritchet -- Kuiper Belt Objects and Transient Phenomena, University of Victoria, Canada

 

Laura Ferrarese, P.I.


The NGVS Team is composed of 45 scientists at 23 institutions in Canada, France, Hawaii, the continental US, UK, Italy, China and Chile. Team members cover a brad range of expertize, reflecting the diverse science objective of the NGVS, including both observational and theoretical aspects of the structure of the Milky Way halo, the morphology, stellar populations and dynamics of galaxies, the interconnection between the intracluster medium and star formation, the properties of galactic nuclei and AGNs, the large scale distribution of dark matter, the evolution of high redhshift clusters, and the study of strong lensing sources and cosmic shear. Many team members are PI or CoIs of several ongoing and planned Virgo surveys.