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  • 2007 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Tommaso Treu is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Physics and Astronomy, with a significant body of work in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as contributions to Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Computational Mechanics.

Their research topics span a variety of areas including:

  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing
  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

Key recent publications by Tommaso Treu include:

  • The GLASS-JWST Early Release Science Program. I. Survey Design and Release Plans, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal
  • Early Results from GLASS-JWST. III. Galaxy Candidates at z ∼9-15*, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Other notable papers associated with Treu's research network include:

  • STRIDES: a 3.9 per cent measurement of the Hubble constant from the strong lens system DES J0408−5354, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The brightest galaxies at cosmic dawn, 2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Dark matter haloes of massive elliptical galaxies at z ∼ 0.2 are well described by the Navarro-Frenk-White profile, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Tomaso Treu regularly publishes in the following venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics

Frequent collaborators include Takahiro Morishita, Guido Roberts-Borsani, Michele Trenti, M. Castellano, and Simon Birrer, reflecting recurring partnerships in research projects and publications.

In recognition of their contributions to the field, Tommaso Treu was named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Tensions between the early and late Universe

    Licia Verde;Tommaso Treu;Adam G. Riess;Adam G. Riess

  • H0LiCOW – XIII. A 2.4 per cent measurement of H0 from lensed quasars: 5.3σ tension between early- and late-Universe probes

    Kenneth C. Wong;Sherry H. Suyu;Sherry H. Suyu;Sherry H. Suyu;Geoff C. F. Chen;Cristian E. Rusu;Cristian E. Rusu

  • The Low-luminosity End of the Radius-Luminosity Relationship for Active Galactic Nuclei

    Misty C. Bentz;Kelly D. Denney;Catherine J. Grier;Aaron J. Barth

  • Tensions between the Early and the Late Universe

    L. Verde;T. Treu;A.G. Riess

  • CAN MINOR MERGING ACCOUNT FOR THE SIZE GROWTH OF QUIESCENT GALAXIES? NEW RESULTS FROM THE CANDELS SURVEY

    Andrew B. Newman;Richard S. Ellis;Kevin Bundy;Tommaso Treu

  • The Lick AGN Monitoring Project: Broad-Line Region Radii and Black Hole Masses from Reverberation Mapping of Hbeta

    Misty C. Bentz;Jonelle L. Walsh;Aaron J. Barth;Nairn Baliber;Nairn Baliber

  • The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. III. The Structure and Formation of Early-Type Galaxies and Their Evolution since z ≈ 1

    Leon V. E. Koopmans;Tommaso Treu;Adam S. Bolton;Adam S. Bolton;Scott Burles

  • Strong Lensing by Galaxies

    Tommaso Treu

  • The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. I. A large spectroscopically selected sample of massive early-type lens galaxies

    Adam S. Bolton;Adam S. Bolton;Scott Burles;Leon V. E. Koopmans;Tommaso Treu;Tommaso Treu

  • THE SLOAN LENS ACS SURVEY. X. STELLAR, DYNAMICAL, AND TOTAL MASS CORRELATIONS OF MASSIVE EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES

    M. W. Auger;T. Treu;A. S. Bolton;R. Gavazzi;R. Gavazzi

  • Constraints on the equation of state of dark energy and the Hubble constant from stellar ages and the CMB

    Raul Jimenez;Licia Verde;Tommaso Treu;Daniel Stern

  • H0LiCOW - V. New COSMOGRAIL time delays of HE 0435-1223: H0 to 3.8 per cent precision from strong lensing in a flat ΛCDM model

    V. Bonvin;F. Courbin;S. H. Suyu;S. H. Suyu;S. H. Suyu;P. J. Marshall

  • A wide field Hubble Space Telescope study of the cluster CL0024+16 at z=0.4. I: morphological distributions to 5 Mpc radius

    T. Treu;R.S. Ellis;J.-P. Kneib;A. Dressler

  • The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. IV. The Mass Density Profile of Early-Type Galaxies out to 100 Effective Radii

    Raphaël Gavazzi;Tommaso Treu;Jason D. Rhodes;Léon V. E. Koopmans

  • Massive Dark Matter Halos and Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies to z ~ 1

    Tommaso Treu;Tommaso Treu;Léon V.E. Koopmans

  • The lick agn monitoring project: Broad-line region radii and black hole masses from reverberation mapping of Hβ

    Misty C. Bentz;Jonelle L. Walsh;Aaron J. Barth;Nairn Baliber;Nairn Baliber

  • The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. V. The Full ACS Strong-Lens Sample

    Adam S. Bolton;Scott Burles;Leon V. E. Koopmans;Tommaso Treu

  • The Structure & Dynamics of Massive Early-type Galaxies: On Homology, Isothermality and Isotropy inside one Effective Radius

    L.V.E. Koopmans;A. Bolton;T. Treu;O. Czoske

  • A Wide-Field Hubble Space Telescope Study of the Cluster Cl 0024+16 at z = 0.4. I. Morphological Distributions to 5 Mpc Radius

    Tommaso Treu;Richard S. Ellis;Jean-Paul Kneib;Alan Dressler

  • The Initial Mass Function of Early-Type Galaxies

    Tommaso Treu;Tommaso Treu;Matthew W. Auger;Leon V. E. Koopmans;Raphael Gavazzi;Raphael Gavazzi

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher D. Fassnacht
Christopher D. Fassnacht University of California, Davis
Michele Trenti
Michele Trenti University of Melbourne
Richard S. Ellis
Richard S. Ellis University College London
Aaron J. Barth
Aaron J. Barth University of California, Irvine
Jong-Hak Woo
Jong-Hak Woo Seoul National University
Raphael Gavazzi
Raphael Gavazzi Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
Massimo Stiavelli
Massimo Stiavelli Space Telescope Science Institute
Léon V. E. Koopmans
Léon V. E. Koopmans University of Groningen
Matthew A. Malkan
Matthew A. Malkan University of California, Los Angeles
Misty C. Bentz
Misty C. Bentz Georgia State University

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