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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1998 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Dennis Zaritsky is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States and specializes in the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a principal focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics. Their research encompasses subfields including Instrumentation, Computational Mechanics, Global and Planetary Change, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's work addresses a broad range of topics, particularly in the areas of Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena; Astronomy and Astrophysical Research; Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies; Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies; Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae; Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation; and Scientific Research and Discoveries.

Frequent coauthors of Dennis Zaritsky are:

  • Ananthan Karunakaran (37 joint publications)
  • Richard L. Donnerstein (36 joint publications)
  • Kristine Spekkens (34 joint publications)
  • Charlie Conroy (30 joint publications)
  • Ana Bonaca (29 joint publications)

Zaritsky has published extensively across several prominent venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) - 48 publications
  • The Astrophysical Journal - 28 publications
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - 28 publications
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics - 9 publications
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters - 7 publications

Some of the recent papers by Dennis Zaritsky include:

  • "Reconstructing the Last Major Merger of the Milky Way with the H3 Survey" (2021, The Astrophysical Journal)
  • "Preparing for low surface brightness science with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory: Characterization of tidal features from mock images" (2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)
  • "The GOGREEN survey: the environmental dependence of the star-forming galaxy main sequence at 1.0 < z < 1.5" (2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)
  • "Evidence from Disrupted Halo Dwarfs that r-process Enrichment via Neutron Star Mergers is Delayed by ≳500 Myr" (2022, The Astrophysical Journal Letters)
  • "Implications for galaxy formation models from observations of globular clusters around ultradiffuse galaxies" (2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)

Dennis Zaritsky has been recognized with fellowships, including:

  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2006)
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1998)

Best Publications

  • A Direct Empirical Proof of the Existence of Dark Matter

    Douglas Clowe;Maruša Bradač;Anthony H. Gonzalez;Maxim Markevitch;Maxim Markevitch

  • H II regions and the abundance properties of spiral galaxies

    Dennis Zaritsky;Robert C. Kennicutt;John P. Huchra

  • Overview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys.

    Arjun Dey;David J. Schlegel;Dustin Lang;Robert Blum

  • Spitzer Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud, Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution (SAGE) I: Overview and Initial Results

    Margaret Meixner;Karl D. Gordon;Remy Indebetouw;Joseph L. Hora

  • The spitzer survey of stellar structure in galaxies (s^4g)

    Kartik Sheth;Kartik Sheth;Michael Regan;Joannah L. Hinz;Armando Gil de Paz

  • Spitzer Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud: Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution (SAGE). I. Overview and Initial Results

    Margaret Meixner;Karl D. Gordon;Remy Indebetouw;Joseph L. Hora

  • The Magellanic Clouds Photometric Survey: The Large Magellanic Cloud Stellar Catalog and Extinction Map

    Dennis Zaritsky;Jason Harris;Ian B. Thompson;Eva K. Grebel

  • The environment of "E+A" galaxies

    Ann I. Zabludoff;Dennis Zaritsky;Huan Lin;Douglas Tucker

  • The ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury

    Julianne J. Dalcanton;Benjamin F. Williams;Anil C. Seth;Andrew Dolphin

  • The Environment of ``E+A'' Galaxies

    A. I. Zabludoff;D. Zaritsky;H. Lin;D. Tucker

  • The Star Formation History of the Large Magellanic Cloud

    Jason Harris;Dennis Zaritsky

  • Nonaxisymmetric structures in the stellar disks of galaxies

    Hans Walter Rix;Dennis Zaritsky;Dennis Zaritsky

  • The Star Formation History of the Small Magellanic Cloud

    Jason Harris;Jason Harris;Dennis Zaritsky

  • NON-AXISYMMETRIC STRUCTURES IN THE STELLAR DISKS OF GALAXIES

    Hans-Walter Rix;Dennis Zaritsky

  • The Magellanic Clouds Photometric Survey: The Large Magellanic Cloud Stellar Catalog and Extinction Map

    Dennis Zaritsky;Jason Harris;Ian B. Thompson;Eva K. Grebel

  • A Census of Baryons in Galaxy Clusters and Groups

    Anthony H. Gonzalez;Dennis Zaritsky;Ann I. Zabludoff

  • Strong and weak lensing united III: Measuring the mass distribution of the merging galaxy cluster 1E0657-56

    Marusa Bradac;Douglas Clowe;Anthony H. Gonzalez;Phil Marshall

  • The evolution of the star formation activity in galaxies and its dependence on environment

    B. M. Poggianti;A. von der Linden;G. De Lucia;V. Desai

  • Overview of the DESI legacy imaging surveys

    Arjun Dey;David J. Schlegel;Dustin Lang;Dustin Lang;Robert Blum

  • Spitzer Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud, Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution (SAGE). IV. Dust Properties in the Interstellar Medium

    Jean Philippe Bernard;William T. Reach;Deborah Paradis;Margaret Meixner

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony H. Gonzalez
Anthony H. Gonzalez University of Florida
Pascale Jablonka
Pascale Jablonka École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Ann I. Zabludoff
Ann I. Zabludoff University of Arizona
Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca
Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca University of Nottingham
Kartik Sheth
Kartik Sheth National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Luis C. Ho
Luis C. Ho Peking University
John Moustakas
John Moustakas Siena College
Roberto P. Saglia
Roberto P. Saglia Max Planck Society
Bo Milvang-Jensen
Bo Milvang-Jensen University of Copenhagen
Roeland P. van der Marel
Roeland P. van der Marel Space Telescope Science Institute

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