Curriculum Vitae

Bradford Holden

University of California, Lick Observatory

ISB, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, 95064, CA USA
Office: (831) 459-8939
Email: holden@ucolick.org
WWW: http://astro.uchicago.edu/home/web/holden/

Education

• Ph. D. (Astronomy and Astrophysics), University of Chicago, 1999. Evolution in the Space Density of Clusters of Galaxies from the Palomar Deep Cluster Survey

• M. Sc. (Astronomy and Astrophysics), University of Chicago, 1994.

• B. A. (Physics with Honors) University of California, Santa Cruz, 1993.

Research Interests

• Surveys for High Redshift Clusters of Galaxies

• Origin of the Metals and Gas in the Intracluster Medium

• Stellar Populations and Scaling Relations for Early-Type Galaxies

Academic Employment

• 5/2003 - Present: Postdoctoral Researcher - UCO/Lick Observatory
• 1/2000 - 4/2003: Postdoctoral Researcher - UC, Davis Dept. of Physics
• 7/1993 - 12/1999: Teaching and Research Assistant - Univ. of Chicago

References

Prof. Garth Illingworth	Prof. Richard Kron	Dr. S. Adam Stanford
UCO/Lick Observatory	Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics	Dept. of Physics
University of California	University of Chicago	University of California
1156 High Street	5640 S. Ellis Ave.	IGPP L-413, P.O. 0808
Santa Cruz, CA 95064	Chicago, IL 60637	Livermore, CA 94551
gdi@ucolick.org	rich@oddjob.uchicago.edu	adam@igpp.ucllnl.org
(831) 459-2843	(773) 702-3335	(925) 423-6013

Papers in Progress

• Holden, B. P., et al., 2004, The Size-Magnitude Relation of Cluster Early-type Galaxies at $z=1.24$, in preparation

• Holden, B. P., et al., 2004, The Fundamental Plane of Cluster Ellipticals at $z=1.24$: Evolution in the Mass to Light Ratio, in preparation

• Holden, B. P., Stanford, S. A., Eisenhardt, P., & Dickinson, M., 2004, Evolution in the Colors of Early-type Cluster Galaxies from $0.7 < z < 1.3$, AJ, in press

Publications in Refereed Journals

• Blakeslee, J. P., Zekser, K. C., Franx, M., White, R. L., Ford, H. C., Bouwens, R. J., Infante, L., Cross, N. J. G., Hertling, G., Holden, B. P., Illingworth, G. D., Motta, V., Menanteau, F., Meurer, G. R., Postman, M., Rosati, P., & Zheng, W. 2004, Advanced Camera for Surveys Observations of a Strongly Lensed Arc in a Field Elliptical Galaxy, ApJL, 602, 9

• Rosati, P., Tozzi, P., Ettori, S., Mainieri, V., Demarco, R., Stanford, S. A., Lidman, C., Nonino, M., Borgani, S., Della Ceca, R., Eisenhardt, P., Holden, B. P., & Norman, C., 2004, Chandra and XMM-Newton Observations of RDCS 1252.9-2927, A Massive Cluster at z=1.24, AJ, 127, 230

• Blakeslee, J. P., Franx, M., Postman, M., Rosati, P., Holden, B. P., Illingworth, G. D., Ford, H. C., Cross, N. J. G., Gronwall, C., Benitez, N., Bouwens, R. J., Broadhurst, T. J., Clampin, M., Demarco, R., Golimowski, D. A., Hartig, G. F., Infante, L., Martel, A. R., Miley, G. K., Menanteau, F., Meurer, G. R., Sirianni, M. & White, R. L. 2003, Advanced Camera for Surveys Photometry of the Cluster RDCS 1252.9-2927: The Color-Magnitude Relation at z = 1.24, ApJL, 596, 143

• Fosbury, R. A. E., Villar-Martin, M., Humphrey, A., Lombardi, M. and Rosati, P., Stern, D., Hook, R. N., Holden, B. P., Stanford, S. A., Squires, G. K., Rauch, M. & Sargent, W. L. W. 2003, Massive Star Formation in a Gravitationally Lensed H II Galaxy at z = 3.357, ApJ, 596, 797

• Stern, D., Holden, B. P., Stanford, S. A., & Spinrad, H., 2003, Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Radio-Selected Galaxy Overdensity at z=1.11, AJ, 125, 2759

• Stanford, S. A., Eisenhardt, P., Dickinson, M., Holden, B. P., & De Propris, R. 2002, Optical and Near-Infrared Photometry of Distant Galaxy Clusters, ApJS, 142, 153

• Holden, B. P., Stanford, S. A., Squires, G., Rosati, P., Tozzi, P., Eisenhardt, P., Elston, R. & Spinrad, H., 2002, Chandra Observations of Two $z=0.81$ Clusters of Galaxies and the High Redshift Luminosity-Temperature Relation, AJ, 124, 33

• Stern, D., Tozzi, P., Stanford, S. A., Rosati, P., Holden, B., Eisenhardt, P., Elston, R., Wu, K., Connolly, A., Spinrad, H., Dawson, S., Dey, A., & Chaffee, F., 2002, SPICES II. Optical and Near-Infrared Identifications of Faint X-Ray Sources from Deep Chandra Observations of Lynx, AJ, 123, 2223, (astro-ph/0203392)

• Stern, D. et al. 2002, Chandra Detection of a Type II Quasar at z=3.288, ApJ, 568, 71

• Stanford, S. A., Holden, B. P., Rosati, P., Eisenhardt, P., Stern, D., Squires, G., & Spinrad, H. 2002, An X-ray Selected Galaxy Cluster at $z=1.11$ in the ROSAT Deep Cluster Survey, AJ, 123, 619

• Borgani, S., Rosati, P., Tozzi, P., Stanford, S. A., Eisenhardt, P., Lidman, C., Holden, B. P., Norman, C. & Squires, G., 2001, Measuring $\Omega_m$ with the ROSAT Deep Cluster Survey, ApJ, 561, 13

• Holden, B. P., Stanford, S. A., Rosati, P., Squires, G., Tozzi, P., Fosbury, R. A. E., Papovich, C., Eisenhardt, P., Elston, R. & Spinrad, H., 2001, RX J0848+4456: Disentangling a Moderate Redshift Cluster, AJ, 122, 629

• Stanford, S. A., Holden, B. P., Rosati, P., Tozzi, P., Borgani, S., Eisenhardt, P., & Spinrad, H., 2001, The Intracluster Medium in z $>$ 1 Galaxy Clusters, ApJ, 552, 504

• van Dokkum, P. G., Stanford, S. A., Holden, B. P., Eisenhardt, P. R., Dickinson, M., & Elston, R., 2001, The Galaxy Population of Cluster RX J0848+4453 at Z=1.27, ApJ, 552, 101L

• Adami, C., Ulmer, M. P., Romer, A. K., Nichol, R. C., Holden, B. P., & Pildis, R. A., 2000, The Bright SHARC Survey: The Selection Function and Its Impact on the Cluster X-Ray Luminosity Function, ApJS, 131, 391

• Adami, C., Holden, B. P., Castander, F. J., Mazure, A., Nichol, R. C., & Ulmer, M. P. 2000, Dynamical and content evolution of a sample of clusters from z $\simeq$ 0 to z $\simeq$ 0.5, A&A, 362, 825

• Holden, B. P., Adami, C., Nichol, R. C., Castander, F. J., Lubin, L. M., Romer, A. K., Mazure, A., Postman, M. & Ulmer, M. P. 2000, The Canada-France-Hawaii Optical PDCS Survey II: Evolution in the Space Density of Clusters of Galaxies, AJ, 120, 23

• Adami, C., Holden, B. P., Castander, F. J., Nichol, R. C., Mazure, A., Ulmer, M. P., Postman, M. & Lubin, L. M. 2000, The Canada-France-Hawaii Optical PDCS Survey I: The Data, AJ, 120, 1

• Romer, A.K., Nichol R.C., Holden, B. P., Ulmer, M.P., Pildis, R.A., Adami, C., Burke, D.J., Collins, C.A., Merrelli, A.J., & Metevier, A.M., 2000, The Serendipitous High-Redshift Archival ROSAT Cluster Survey - I: Data Analysis and Bright Cluster Catalog, ApJS, 126, 209

• Holden, B. P., Nichol, R. C., Romer, A. K., Metevier, A., Ulmer, M. P., Lubin, L. M., & Postman, M. 1999, Spectroscopic Observations of Distant Optically Selected Clusters, AJ, 118, 2002

• Nichol, R. C., Romer, A. K., Holden, B. P., Ulmer, M.P., Pildis, R.A., Adami, C., Merrelli, A.J., Burke, D.J., & Collins, C.A. 1999, The Bright SHARC Survey: The X-Ray Cluster Luminosity Function, ApJ, 521, L21

• Adami, C., Nichol, R. C., Mazure, A., Durret, F., Holden, B. P., Lobo, C. 1998, Deep Probing of the Coma Cluster. A&A, 334, 765

• Holden, B. P., Romer, A. K., Nichol, R. C., & Ulmer, M. P. 1997, X-ray Observations of Distant Optically Selected Clusters. AJ, 114, 1701

• Burke, D. J., Collins, C. A., Sharples, R. M., Romer, A. K., Holden, B. P., & Nichol, R. C. 1997, The Southern SHARC Survey: The z = 0.3 - 0.7 Cluster X-ray Luminosity Function. ApJL, 488, L83

• Nichol, R. C., Holden, B. P., Romer, A. K., Ulmer, M. P., Burke, D. J., & Collins, C. A. 1996, Evolution in the X-ray Cluster Luminosity Function Revisited. ApJ, 481, 644.

• Connolly, A. J., Szalay, A. S., Koo, D. C., Romer, A. K., Holden, B. P., Nichol, R. C., & Miyaji, T. 1996, Super-clustering at a Redshift z=0.54. ApJL, 473, L67

Conference Presentations - last three years

• Holden, B., Blakeslee, J., Postman, M., Zirm, A., Illingworth, G. & Ford, H. Cluster Early-Type Galaxies: Do They Evolve?, ``Multiwavelength Mapping of Galaxy Formation and Evolution (Watching Galaxies Form)'', Venice, 2003

• Holden, B., Stanford, A., Rosati, P., Eisenhardt, P., & Tozzi, P. Evolution in z $\sim$ 1 X-ray Clusters?, ``Clusters of Galaxies: Probes of Cosmological Structure and Galaxy Evolution'', OCIW, 2003

• Holden, B. & Gregg, M. 2002, Watching Galaxies Fall Into (a) Coma, ``The IGM/Galaxy Connection: The Distribution of Baryons at z=0'', Boulder, 2002

• Holden, B., Stanford, S. A., Rosati, P., Tozzi, P., Squires, G. K., Borgani, S., & Eisenhardt, P. 2001, X-ray temperature and morphology of $z>0.8$ clusters of galaxies, ``Tracing Cosmic Evolution with Galaxy Clusters'' (Sesto 2001), (astro-ph/0110032)

• Holden, B., Stanford, S. A., Rosati, P., Tozzi, P., Borgani, S., & Eisenhardt, P. 2001, The Intracluster Medium in z $>$ 1 Galaxy Clusters, American Astronomical Society Meeting, 197, 112403