Dr. Jason Melbourne
  Postdoctoral Scholar in Astrophysics
California Institute of Technology

Research

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California Institute of Technology
MS 301-17
Pasadena CA 91125
USA

(626) 395-6627


My AO DataBases
CATS BOOTES ANGST AO

Maintained by Dr. Jason Melbourne (Caltech)
Last update November, 2011

Pope John Paul II with the Vatican Observatory Summer School 2001
New Year's Party at the Jerusalem Cosmology Winter School 2006
Science With
Adaptive Optics
I use high spatial resolution adaptive optics images
to track to the morphologies and stellar content
of galaxies across cosmic time
2011

Resolved H-alpha imaging of z=2 ultra-luminous infrared galaxies with the OSIRIS integral field spectrograph reveals star formation and AGN activity

2010

A study of the resolved stellar populations and star formation history of nearby dwarf irregular galaxy KKH98.

2009

Rest-frame optical morphologies of z=2 ultra-luminous infrared galaxies
2007

Strong gravitaional lens observed with Keck adaptive optics
2005

The Center for Adaptive Optics Treasury Survey (CATS)
CATS detects z=1.3 SN with Keck Adaptive Optics (H=24 Vega)


CATS images a gas rich merger with significant star formation (in GOODS-S)


CATS images a "dry" merger with little gas or star formation (in GOODS-S)
2003

The Center for Adaptive Optics Treasury Survey (CATS) A 3 color image combining Keck Adaptive Optics K-band (red) with HST ACS V (blue) and z (green) in the GEMS field