Welcome to the Home page of Aaron A. Dutton
About Me
I am a Postdoc at UCO Lick Observatory working with the DEEP2 project (
Webpages:
DEEP2,
AEGIS).
I did my PhD at the Institute of Astronomy, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, working with
Frank van den Bosch
on disk galaxy formation.
Before that I did a Masters in Physics at the University of British Columbia, Canada, working with
Stephane Courteau on mass models of spiral galaxies.
I did my undergraduate degree in Mathematics at Cambridge University, England.
My Research
My main interest is the understanding the structure and formation of disk galaxies and their dark matter halos.
My recent/current projects include:
- The origin of disk galaxy scaling relations;
- The structure and angular momentum of dark matter halos in cosmological simulations;
- The role of galactic outflows (aka feedback) in setting disk galaxy scaling relations;
- The origin of the exponential density profile of galactic disks;
- Measuring the evolution of galaxy sizes;
- Measuring the relation between galaxy mass and halo mass with satellite kinematics and weak galaxy-galaxy lensing;
- Measuring the distribution of baryonic and dark matter in disk galaxies with kinematics and strong gravitational lensing.
Collaborators
Refereed Papers
Refereed Papers from NASA ADS ( sorted by citations,
sorted by date)
- On the Origin of Exponential Galaxy Disks
Dutton 2009
astro-ph/0810.5164, 2009MNRAS.396..121D, citations=2
- The Impact of Feedback on Disk Galaxy Scaling Relations
Dutton, & van den Bosch 2009
astro-ph/0810.4963, 2009MNRAS.396..141D, citations=2
- Concentration, Spin and Shape of Dark Matter Haloes as a Function of the Cosmological Model: WMAP1, WMAP3 and WMAP5 results.
Maccio', Dutton, & van den Bosch 2008
astro-ph/0805.1926, 2008MNRAS.391.1940M, citations=22
- Scaling Relations of Spiral Galaxies.
Courteau, Dutton, van den Bosch, MacArthur, Dekel, McIntosh, & Dale 2007
astro-ph/0708.0422,
2007ApJ...671..203C,citations=22
- Concentration, Spin and Shape of Dark Matter Haloes:
Scatter and the Dependence on Mass and Environment 2007
Maccio', Dutton, van den Bosch, Moore, Potter, & Stadel.
astro-ph/0608157,
2007MNRAS.378...55M ,citations=93
- A Revised Model for the Formation of Disk Galaxies:
Low Spin, and Dark-Halo Expansion
Dutton, van den Bosch, Dekel, & Courteau 2007
astro-ph/0604553,
2007ApJ...654...27D ,citations=71
- Mass Modeling of Disk Galaxies:
Constraints, Degeneracies and Adiabatic Contraction
Dutton, Courteau, Carignan & de Jong 2005
astro-ph/0310001,
2005ApJ...619..218D ,citations=33
Conference Proceedings
- Confronting Scaling Relations of Spiral Galaxies with Hierarchical Models of Disk Formation.
Dutton & Courteau
astro-ph/0801.1506, in proceedings of "Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Disks" Rome, Italy, 2007
- The Tully-Fisher Zero Point Problem
Dutton, van den Bosch & Courteau
astro-ph/0801.1505, in proceedings of "Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Disks" Rome, Italy, 2007
- Origin of the Joint Distribution of Structural Parameters in Disk Galaxies
Dutton, van den Bosch, Courteau, & Dekel
astro-ph/0501256, in proceedings of "Baryons in Dark Matter Halos", Novigrad, Croatia, 2004
Links
In the background is a view from Whistler Peak of the Black Tusk in Garibaldi Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
Page last updated: 11 June 2009
