Galaxy Destruction Workshop
 
 

First Author:


The Sagittarius Impact as an Architect of Spirality and Outer Rings in the Milky Way

Chris W. Purcell (U. of Pittsburgh), James S. Bullock, Erik Tollerud, Miguel Rocha (UC Irvine), Sukanya Chakrabarti (Florida Atl. Univ.):

2011, Nature, 477, 7364, 301  -- 7 citations


Heated Disc Stars in the Stellar Halo

Chris W. Purcell (UC Irvine), James S. Bullock (UC Irvine), Stelios Kazantzidis (Ohio State):

2010, MNRAS, 404, 1711  -- 14 citations


The Dark Disk of the Milky Way

Chris W. Purcell, James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat (UC Irvine):

2009, ApJ, 703, 2775  -- 15 citations


The Destruction of Thin Stellar Disks via Cosmologically Common Satellite Accretion Events

Chris W. Purcell (UC Irvine), Stelios Kazantzidis (Ohio State), James S. Bullock (UC Irvine):

2009, ApJ, 694, L98  -- 45 citations


The Metallicity of Diffuse Intrahalo Light

Chris W. Purcell, James S. Bullock (UC Irvine), Andrew R. Zentner (Univ. of Pittsburgh):

2008, MNRAS, 391, 550  -- 11 citations


Shredded Galaxies as the Source of Diffuse Intrahalo Light On Varying Scales

Chris W. Purcell, James S. Bullock (UC Irvine), Andrew R. Zentner (KICP, Univ. of Chicago): 2007, ApJ, 666, 20  -- 69 citations


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Nth Author & Conference Proceedings:


Signatures of minor mergers in the Milky Way disc I: The SEGUE G-Dwarf sample

Facundo A. Gómez, Ivan Minchev, Brian W. O'Shea, Young Sun Lee, Timothy C. Beers, Deokkeun An, James S. Bullock, Chris W. Purcell, Álvaro Villalobos

2012, MNRAS submitted


The GHOSTS Survey. I. Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys Data

D. Radburn-Smith, R.S. de Jong, A.C. Seth, J. Bailin, E.F. Bell, T.M. Brown, J.S. Bullock, S. Courteau, J.J. Dalcanton, H.C. Ferguson, P. Goudfrooij, S. Holfeltz, Holwerda, B. W., C. Purcell, Sick, J., D. Streich, M. Vlajic, D. Zucker:

2011, ApJS, 195, 18 -- 3 citations


Galactic Disk Transformation via Massive Satellite Accretion Events

Chris W. Purcell (UC Irvine), Stelios Kazantzidis (Ohio State), James S. Bullock (UC Irvine):

2009, ASP Conf. Series, vol. 419, 248


Mergers and Disk Survival in ΛCDM

James S. Bullock, Kyle R. Stewart, Chris W. Purcell (UC Irvine):

2009, IAU Symposium, 254, 85 -- 8 citations


The Assembly of Galaxy Clusters

Joel C. Berrier, Kyle R. Stewart, James S. Bullock, Chris W. Purcell, Elizabeth J. Barton (UC Irvine),

Risa H. Wechsler (Stanford):

2009, ApJ, 690, 1292 -- 36 citations


Stellar Populations across the NGC 4244 Truncated Galactic Disk

R.S. de Jong, A.C. Seth, D. Radburn-Smith, E.F. Bell, T.M. Brown, J.S. Bullock, S. Courteau, J.J. Dalcanton, H.C. Ferguson, P. Goudfrooij, S. Holfeltz, Holwerda, B.W., C. Purcell, Sick, J.,

D. Zucker:

2007, ApJ, 667, L49 -- 37 citations


GHOSTS: The Resolved Stellar Outskirts of Massive Disk Galaxies

R.S. de Jong, A.C. Seth, E.F. Bell, T.M. Brown, J.S. Bullock, S.Courteau, J.J. Dalcanton, H.C. Ferguson, P. Goudfrooij,S.Holfeltz, C. Purcell, D. Radburn-Smith, D. Zucker:

2007, IAU Symposium, 241, 503 -- 11 citations

 

Publications (in chronological order; links go to arXiv)

Dr. Chris Purcell

Postdoc Research Assoc. Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, and Pittsburgh Particle-physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology Center ( PITT PACC )

401E Allen Hall

3941 O’Hara St.

Univ. of Pittsburgh

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cpurcell@pitt.edu



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