Bradford Holden

UCO/Lick Observatory
University of California, Santa Cruz
1156 High Street, ISB
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Office: (831) 459-3387
Email: holden@ucolick.org
Web: http://www.ucolick.org/~holden

Education

• Ph. D. (Astronomy and Astrophysics), University of Chicago, 1999.

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

• B. A. (Physics) with Honors and Thesis Honors, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1993. Thesis - ``The Dependence of the Mass-Luminosity Relation on Metallicity.''

Research Interests

• Stellar Populations of Early-Type Galaxies
• Dynamics and Evolution of Elliptical and S0 Galaxies
• Surveys for High Redshift Galaxies

Academic Employment

• 7/2006 - Present: Research Astronomer - UCO/Lick Observatory
• 5/2003 - 6/2006: Postdoctoral Researcher - UC, Santa Cruz - ACS Instrument Definition Team
• 1/2000 - 4/2003: Postdoctoral Researcher - UC, Davis Physics - IGPP/LLNL
• 10/1993 - 12/1999: Teaching and Research Assistant

Recently Awarded Programs

• HST Cycle 16 - Building the Significant NICMOS Investment in GOODS: A Bright, Wide-Area Search for z>6 Galaxies - P.I. R. Bouwens
• HST Cycle 15 - The Formation Epoch of Early-type Galaxies: Constraints from the Fundamental Plane at z=1.3 - P.I. B. Holden
• Spitzer Cycle 2 - Life on the Edges: Morphological Transformation of Galaxies in Clusters of Galaxies at z = 1 - P.I. B. Holden
• HST Cycle 14 - Witnessing Galaxy Transformation in Galaxy Groups at z > 1 - P.I. S. Mei

Community Service

• NOAO Extragalactic Panel Member 2004 - 2006
• Spitzer Cycle 3 TAC 2006
• Chandra Cycle 6 TAC 2004

Publications in Progress

• "The Color-Density Relation for Mass-selected Galaxies in the z = 0.83 Cluster RX J0152.7-1357", Patel, S., et al., ApJ, in prep.

Publications in Refereed Journals

• "Mass-Selection and the Evolution of the Morphology-Density Relation from z = 0.8 TO z = 0", Holden, B. P., et al., ApJ, 670, 190, ADS,, arXiv:0707.2787

• "The Evolution of the Field and Cluster Morphology-Density Relation for Mass-Selected Samples of Galaxies", van der Wel, A., Holden, B., et al., ApJ, 670, 206 ADS, arXiv:0707.2782

• "Spectroscopy of z~6 i-Dropout Galaxies: Frequency of Ly&alpha Emission and the Sizes of Ly&alpha Emitting Galaxies" Dow-Hygelund, C., Holden, B. P., et al., ApJ, 660, 47 ADS, astro-ph/0612454

• "Evolution of the Color-Magnitude relation in High-Redshift Clusters: Early-type Galaxies in the Lynx Supercluster at z~1.26", Mei, S., Holden, B. P. et al.,ApJ, 644, 759 ADS astro-ph/0604082

• "The Possible z=0.83 Precursors of z=0 M* Early-type Cluster Galaxies", Holden, B. P., et al., ApJL, 642, 123 ADS astro-ph/0603839

• "Clusters at Half Hubble Time: Galaxy Structure and Colors in RXJ0152.7-1357 and MS1054-03", Blakeslee, J. P., Holden, B. P., et al., ApJ, 644, 30 ADS astro-ph/0603058

• "UV Continuum Spectroscopy of a 6L* z = 5.5 Starburst Galaxy", Dow-Hygelund, C. C., Holden, B. P., Bouwens, R. J., van der Wel, A., Illingworth, G. D., Zirm, A., Franx, M., Rosati, P., Ford, H., van Dokkum, P. G., Stanford, S. A., Eisenhardt, P. & G. G. Fazio, ApJL, 630, L137 ADS (astro-ph/0507306).

• "Evolution in the Cluster Early-Type Galaxy Size-Surface Brightness Relation at z~1", Holden, B. P., et al., 2005, ApJ, 630, 137 ADS (astro-ph/0503365).

• "The Fundamental Plane of Cluster Ellipticals at z=1.25: Evolution in the Mass to Light Ratio", Holden, B. P., et al., 2005, ApJL, 620, L83 ADS astro-ph/0412570

• "Evolution in the Colors of Early-Type Clusters Galaxies", Holden, B. P., Stanford, S. A., Eisenhardt, P., & Dickinson, M. 2004, AJ, 127, 2484 ADS astro-ph/0503367

• ``Advanced Camera for Surveys Photometry of the Cluster RDCS 1252.9-2927: The Color-Magnitude Relation at z = 1.24'' 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, ApJL, 596, 143 astro-ph/0309036

• ``Massive Star Formation in a Gravitationally Lensed H II Galaxy at z = 3.357'', 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, ApJ, 596, 797 astro-ph/0307162

• ``Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Radio-Selected Galaxy Overdensity at z=1.11'', Stern, D., Holden, B. P., Stanford, S. A., & Spinrad, H. 2003, AJ, 125, 2759 astro-ph/0306182

• ``Optical and Near-Infrared Photometry of Distant Galaxy Clusters'', Stanford, S. A., Eisenhardt, P., Dickinson, M., Holden, B. P., & De Propris, R. 2002, ApJS, 142, 153 astro-ph/0203498

• ``Chandra Observations of Two z=0.81 Clusters of Galaxies and the High Redshift Luminosity-Temperature Relation'' Holden, B. P., Stanford, S. A., Squires, G., Rosati, P., Tozzi, P., Eisenhardt, P., Elston, R. & Spinrad, H., AJ, 124, 33 astro-ph/0203474

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

• ``Chandra Detection of a Type II Quasar at z=3.288'', Stern, D., Moran, E., Coil, A., Connolly, A., Davis, M., Dawson, S., Dey, A., Eisenhardt, P., Elston, R., Graham, J, Harrison, F., Helfand, D., Holden, B. P., Mao, P., Rosati, P., Spinrad, H., Stanford, S. A., Tozzi, P., & Wu, K., 2002, ApJ, 568, 71 astro-ph/0111513

• ``An X-ray Selected Galaxy Cluster at z=1.11'', Stanford, S. A., Holden, B. P., Rosati, P., Eisenhardt, Stern, D., Squires, G., & Spinrad, 2002, AJ, 123, 619, astro-ph/0110709

• ``Measuring Omega_m with the ROSAT Deep Cluster Survey'', Borgani, S., Rosati, P., Tozzi, P., Stanford, S. A., Eisenhardt, P., Lidman, C., Holden, B. P., Norman, C. & Squires, G., 2001, ApJ, 561, 13, astro-ph/0106428

• ``RX J0848+4456: Disentangling a Moderate Redshift Cluster'' 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, AJ, 122, 629 astro-ph/0105011

• ``The Intracluster Medium in z > 1 Galaxy Clusters'' Stanford, S. A., Holden, B. P., Rosati, P., Tozzi, P., Borgani, S., Eisenhardt, P., & Spinrad, H., 2001, ApJ, 552, 504, astro-ph/0012250

• "The Galaxy Population of Cluster RX J0848+4453 at z=1.27'', van Dokkum, P. G., Stanford, S. A., Holden, B. P., Eisenhardt, P. R., Dickinson, M. & Elston, R. ApJ, 552, 101L, astro-ph/0104261

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

• ``Dynamical and Content Evolution of a Sample of Clusters of Galaxies from z ~ 0.0 to z~ 0.5'', Adami, C., Holden, B. P., Castander, F. J., Mazure, A., Nichol, R. C., & Ulmer, M. P. 2000, A&A, 120, 1

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

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

• ``The Bright SHARC Survey: The Cluster Catalog.'' Romer, A. K., Nichol, R. C., Holden, B. P., Ulmer, M. P., Pildis, R., Merrelli, A. J., Adami, C., Burke, D. J., Collins, C. A., Metevier, A., Kron, R. G., & Commons, K. 2000, ApJS, 126, 209

• ``A Turn-over in the Galaxy Luminosity Function in the Coma Cluster Core?'' Adami, C., Ulmer, M. P., Durret, F., Nichol, R. C., Mazure, A., Holden, B. P., Romer, A. K., & Savine, C. 2000, A&A, 353, 930

• ``Spectroscopic Observations of Optically Selected Clusters of Galaxies from the Palomar Distant Cluster Survey.'' Holden, B. P., Nichol, R. C., Romer, A. K., Metevier, A., Postman, M., Ulmer, M. P. & Lubin, L. M. 1999, AJ, 118, 2002

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

• ``A Deficit of High-Redshift, High-Luminosity X-Ray Clusters: Evidence for a High Value of Omega_m?'' Reichart, D. E., Nichol, R. C., Castander, F. J., Burke, D. J., Romer, A. K., Holden, B. P., Collins, C. A, & Ulmer, M. P. 1999, ApJ, 518, 521

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

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

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

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

• ``Super-clustering at a Redshift z=0.54.'' Connolly, A. J., Szalay, A. S., Koo, D. C., Romer, A. K., Holden, B. P., Nichol, R. C., & Miyaji, T. 1996, ApJL, 473, L67
  

  
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