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  • 2013 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Charlie Conroy is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and specializes in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their research primarily focuses on areas within Astronomy and Astrophysics, with significant contributions to subfields such as Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, General Health Professions, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

The main topics of Conroy's work include stellar, planetary, and galactic studies; astronomy and astrophysical research; galaxies related to formation, evolution, and phenomena; astrophysics and star formation studies; gamma-ray bursts and supernovae; astrophysical phenomena and observations; and pulsars and gravitational waves research.

They have published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Conroy include:

  • "Two Remarkably Luminous Galaxy Candidates at z ≈ 10-12 Revealed by JWST" (2022), The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • "The Eighteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Targeting and First Spectra from SDSS-V" (2023), The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • "A Sun-like star orbiting a black hole" (2022), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • "Reconstructing the Last Major Merger of the Milky Way with the H3 Survey" (2021), The Astrophysical Journal
  • "Fast, Slow, Early, Late: Quenching Massive Galaxies at z ∼ 0.8" (2022), The Astrophysical Journal

Conroy frequently collaborates with several researchers in their field. Notable co-authors include:

  • Rohan P. Naidu
  • Benjamin D. Johnson
  • Vedant Chandra
  • Pieter van Dokkum
  • Ana Bonaca

Among the recognitions awarded to Charlie Conroy is the Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, received in 2013.

Best Publications

  • The Average Star Formation Histories of Galaxies in Dark Matter Halos from z = 0-8

    Peter S. Behroozi;Peter S. Behroozi;Risa H. Wechsler;Risa H. Wechsler;Charlie Conroy

  • The propagation of uncertainties in stellar population synthesis modeling I: The relevance of uncertain aspects of stellar evolution and the IMF to the derived physical properties of galaxies

    Charlie Conroy;James E. Gunn;Martin White

  • Galaxy Luminosity Functions to z~1: DEEP2 vs. COMBO-17 and Implications for Red Galaxy Formation

    S. M. Faber;C. N. A. Willmer;C. Wolf;D. C. Koo

  • Galaxy luminosity functions to z∼ 1 from DEEP2 and COMBO-17: Implications for red galaxy formation

    S. M. Faber;C. N. A. Willmer;C. Wolf;D. C. Koo

  • MESA ISOCHRONES AND STELLAR TRACKS (MIST). I. SOLAR-SCALED MODELS

    Jieun Choi;Aaron Dotter;Charlie Conroy;Matteo Cantiello

  • Overview of the SDSS-IV MaNGA Survey: Mapping nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

    Kevin Bundy;Matthew A. Bershady;David R. Law;Renbin Yan

  • THE PROPAGATION OF UNCERTAINTIES IN STELLAR POPULATION SYNTHESIS MODELING. III. MODEL CALIBRATION, COMPARISON, AND EVALUATION

    Charlie Conroy;James E. Gunn

  • A Comprehensive Analysis of Uncertainties Affecting the Stellar Mass - Halo Mass Relation for 0<z<4

    Peter S. Behroozi;Peter S. Behroozi;Charlie Conroy;Risa H. Wechsler;Risa H. Wechsler

  • UniverseMachine: The Correlation between Galaxy Growth and Dark Matter Halo Assembly from z=0-10

    Peter Behroozi;Risa H Wechsler;Risa H Wechsler;Andrew P Hearin;Charlie Conroy

  • Modeling the Panchromatic Spectral Energy Distributions of Galaxies

    Charlie Conroy

  • The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Design, Observations, Data Reduction, and Redshifts

    Jeffrey A. Newman;Michael C. Cooper;Marc Davis;S. M. Faber

  • Modeling luminosity-dependent galaxy clustering through cosmic time

    Charlie Conroy;Risa H. Wechsler;Andrey V. Kravtsov

  • A Substantial Population of Low-Mass Stars in Luminous Elliptical Galaxies

    Pieter G. van Dokkum;Charlie Conroy;Charlie Conroy

  • THE STELLAR INITIAL MASS FUNCTION IN EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES FROM ABSORPTION LINE SPECTROSCOPY. II. RESULTS

    Charlie Conroy;Charlie Conroy;Pieter G. van Dokkum

  • Galaxy evolution in groups and clusters: satellite star formation histories and quenching time-scales in a hierarchical Universe

    Andrew R. Wetzel;Jeremy L. Tinker;Charlie Conroy;Frank C. van den Bosch

  • The MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) Survey: Rest-frame Optical Spectroscopy for ~1500 H-selected Galaxies at 1.37 ? z ? 3.8

    Mariska Kriek;Alice E. Shapley;Naveen A. Reddy;Brian Siana

  • The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: The Galaxy Luminosity Function to z ~ 1

    C. N. A. Willmer;S. M. Faber;D. C. Koo;B. J. Weiner

  • Connecting Galaxies, Halos, and Star Formation Rates Across Cosmic Time

    Charlie Conroy;Risa H. Wechsler

  • FORTY-SEVEN MILKY WAY-SIZED, EXTREMELY DIFFUSE GALAXIES IN THE COMA CLUSTER

    Pieter G. van Dokkum;Roberto Abraham;Allison Merritt;Jielai Zhang

  • THE DUST ATTENUATION LAW IN DISTANT GALAXIES: EVIDENCE FOR VARIATION WITH SPECTRAL TYPE

    Mariska Kriek;Charlie Conroy

Frequent Co-Authors

Aaron J. Romanowsky
Aaron J. Romanowsky San Jose State University
Pieter G. van Dokkum
Pieter G. van Dokkum Yale University
Roberto Abraham
Roberto Abraham University of Toronto
Jean P. Brodie
Jean P. Brodie University of California, Santa Cruz
Dennis Zaritsky
Dennis Zaritsky University of Arizona
Mariska Kriek
Mariska Kriek University of California, Berkeley
Jeremy L. Tinker
Jeremy L. Tinker New York University
Risa H. Wechsler
Risa H. Wechsler Stanford University
Gabriel B. Brammer
Gabriel B. Brammer University of Copenhagen
Renbin Yan
Renbin Yan University of Kentucky

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