David, Laurence
Fellowship Advisor Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory staffEarly-Type Galaxies; Groups of Galaxies; Clusters of Galaxies; Cosmology.
Background And Education
Education And Training
- B.A., Drexel University
- M.A., Indiana University
- Ph.D., Indiana University
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Ubertosi, Francesco, Schellenberger, Gerrit, O'Sullivan, Ewan, Vrtilek, Jan, Giacintucci, Simona, David, Laurence P., Forman, William, Gitti, Myriam, Venturi, Tiziana, Jones, Christine, and Brighenti, Fabrizio. 2024. "Jet Reorientation in Central Galaxies of Clusters and Groups: Insights from VLBA and Chandra Data." The Astrophysical Journal, 961 134. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad11d8. 2024
- Schellenberger, Gerrit, O'Sullivan, Ewan, Giacintucci, Simona, Vrtilek, Jan, David, Laurence P., Combes, Francoise, Bîrzan, Laura, Pan, Hsi-An, and Lin, Lihwai. 2023. "Feedback in the Extremely Violent Group Merger NGC 6338." The Astrophysical Journal, 948 101. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acc52e. 2023
- Schellenberger, Gerrit, Giacintucci, Simona, Lovisari, Lorenzo, O'Sullivan, Ewan, Vrtilek, Jan, David, Laurence P., Melin, Jean-Baptiste, Lal, Dharam Vir, Ettori, Stefano, Kolokythas, Konstantinos, Sereno, Mauro, and Raychaudhury, Somak. 2022. "The Unusually Weak and Exceptionally Steep Radio Relic in A2108." The Astrophysical Journal, 925 91. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac3b5a. 2022
- Schellenberger, Gerrit, David, Laurence P., Vrtilek, Jan, O'Sullivan, Ewan, Lim, Jeremy, Forman, William, Sun, Ming, Combes, Francoise, Salome, Philippe, Jones, Christine, Giacintucci, Simona, Edge, Alastair, Gastaldello, Fabio, Temi, Pasquale, Brighenti, Fabrizio, and Bardelli, Sandro. 2020. "Atacama Compact Array Measurements of the Molecular Mass in the NGC 5044 Cooling-flow Group." The Astrophysical Journal, 894 72. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab879c. 2020
- O'Sullivan, Ewan, Schellenberger, Gerrit, Burke, Douglas J., Sun, Ming, Vrtilek, Jan M., David, Laurence P., and Sarazin, Craig. 2019. "Building a cluster: shocks, cavities, and cooling filaments in the group-group merger NGC 6338." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 488 2925–2946. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1711. 2019
- Schellenberger, Gerrit, David, Laurence, O'Sullivan, Ewan, Vrtilek, Jan M., and Haines, C. P. 2019. "Forming One of the Most Massive Objects in the Universe: The Quadruple Merger in Abell 1758." The Astrophysical Journal, 882 59. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab35e4. 2019
- Nagai, H., Onishi, K., Kawakatu, N., Fujita, Y., Kino, M., Fukazawa, Y., Lim, J., Forman, William, Vrtilek, Jan, Nakanishi, K., Noda, H., Asada, K., Wajima, K., Ohyama, Y., David, Laurence, and Daikuhara, K. 2019. "The ALMA Discovery of the Rotating Disk and Fast Outflow of Cold Molecular Gas in NGC 1275." The Astrophysical Journal, 883 193. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab3e6e. 2019
- O'Sullivan, Ewan, Kolokythas, Konstantinos, Kantharia, Nimisha G., Raychaudhury, Somak, David, Laurence P., and Vrtilek, Jan M. 2018. "The origin of the X-ray, radio and H I structures in the NGC 5903 galaxy group." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473 5248–5266. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2702. 2018
- O'Sullivan, Ewan, Ponman, Trevor J., Kolokythas, Konstantinos, Raychaudhury, Somak, Babul, Arif, Vrtilek, Jan M., David, Laurence P., Giacintucci, Simona, Gitti, Myriam, and Haines, Chris P. 2017. "The Complete Local Volume Groups Sample - I. Sample selection and X-ray properties of the high-richness subsample." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 472 1482–1505. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2078. 2017
- David, Laurence P., Vrtilek, Jan, O'Sullivan, Ewan, Jones, Christine, Forman, William, and Sun, Ming. 2017. "The Presence of Thermally Unstable X-Ray Filaments and the Production of Cold Gas in the NGC 5044 Group." The Astrophysical Journal, 842 84. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa756c. 2017
- Lim, Jeremy, Dinh-V-Trung, Vrtilek, Jan, David, Laurence P., and Forman, William. 2017. "The Role of Electron Excitation and Nature of Molecular Gas in Cluster Central Elliptical Galaxies." The Astrophysical Journal, 850 31. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa9275. 2017
- Ehlert, Steven, McDonald, Michael, David, Laurence P., Miller, Eric D., and Bautz, Mark W. 2015. "A Very Deep Chandra Observation of A1795: The Cold Front and Cooling Wake." The Astrophysical Journal, 799 174. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/799/2/174. 2015
- Andrade-Santos, Felipe, Jones, Christine, Forman, William R., Murray, Stephen S., Kraft, Ralph P., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., van Weeren, Reinout J., Nulsen, Paul E. J., David, Laurence P., Dawson, William A., Arnaud, Monique, Pointecouteau, Etienne, Pratt, Gabriel W., and Melin, Jean-Baptiste. 2015. "Chandra and Xmm-Newton Observations of the Bimodal Planck SZ-Detected Cluster Plckg345.40- 39.34 (A3716) with High and Low Entropy Subcluster Cores." The Astrophysical Journal, 803 108. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/803/2/108. 2015
- Guainazzi, Matteo, David, Laurence, Grant, Catherine E., Miller, Eric, Natalucci, Lorenzo, Nevalainen, Jukka, Petre, Robert, and Audard, Marc. 2015. "On the in-flight calibration plans of modern x-ray observatories." Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 1 047001. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.1.4.047001. 2015
- Owers, Matt S., Nulsen, Paul E. J., Couch, Warrick J., Ma, Cheng-Jiun, David, Laurence P., Forman, William R., Hopkins, Andrew M., Jones, Christine, and van Weeren, Reinout J. 2014. "A Merger Shock in A2034." The Astrophysical Journal, 780 163. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/780/2/163. 2014
- David, Laurence P., Lim, Jeremy, Forman, William, Vrtilek, Jan, Combes, Francoise, Salome, Philippe, Edge, Alastair, Hamer, Stephen, Jones, Christine, Sun, Ming, O'Sullivan, Ewan J., Gastaldello, Fabio, Bardelli, Sandro, Temi, Pasquale, Schmitt, Henrique, Ohyama, Youichi, Mathews, William, Brighenti, Fabrizio, Giacintucci, Simona, and Trung, Dinh-V. 2014. "Molecular Gas in the X-Ray Bright Group NGC 5044 as Revealed by ALMA." The Astrophysical Journal, 792 94. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/792/2/94. 2014
- O'Sullivan, Ewan J., David, Laurence P., and Vrtilek, Jan M. 2014. "The impact of sloshing on the intragroup medium and old radio lobe of NGC 5044." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 437 730–739. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1926. 2014
- Bogdán, Ákos, Forman, William R., Vogelsberger, Mark, Bourdin, Hervé, Sijacki, Debora, Mazzotta, Pasquale, Kraft, Ralph P., Jones, Christine, Gilfanov, Marat, Churazov, Eugene, and David, Laurence P. 2013. "Hot X-Ray Coronae around Massive Spiral Galaxies: A Unique Probe of Structure Formation Models." The Astrophysical Journal, 772 97. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/772/2/97. 2013
- Giacintucci, Simona, O'Sullivan, Ewan J., Clarke, Tracy E., Murgia, Matteo, Vrtilek, Jan M., Venturi, Tiziana, David, Laurence P., Raychaudhury, Somak, and Athreya, Ramana M. 2012. "Recurrent Radio Outbursts at the Center of the NGC 1407 Galaxy Group." The Astrophysical Journal, 755 172. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/755/2/172. 2012
- Bogdán, Ákos, David, Laurence P., Jones, Christine, Forman, William R., and Kraft, Ralph P. 2012. "The Diverse Hot Gas Content and Dynamics of Optically Similar Low-mass Elliptical Galaxies." The Astrophysical Journal, 758 65. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/758/1/65. 2012
- David, Laurence P., Jones, Christine, and Forman, William. 2012. "The Universal Gas Mass Fraction in Clusters of Galaxies." The Astrophysical Journal, 748 120. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/748/2/120. 2012
- Gitti, Myriam, Nulsen, Paul E. J., David, Laurence P., McNamara, Brian R., and Wise, Michael W. 2011. "A Chandra Study of the Large-scale Shock and Cool Filaments in Hydra A: Evidence for Substantial Gas Dredge-up by the Central Outburst." The Astrophysical Journal, 732 13. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/732/1/13. 2011
- Giacintucci, Simona, O'Sullivan, Ewan J., Vrtilek, Jan, David, Laurence P., Raychaudhury, Somak, Venturi, Tiziana, Athreya, Ramana M., Clarke, Tracy E., Murgia, Matteo, Mazzotta, Pasquale, Gitti, Myriam, Ponman, Trevor, Ishwara-Chandra, C. H., Jones, Christine, and Forman, William R. 2011. "A Combined Low-radio Frequency/X-ray Study of Galaxy Groups. I. Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope Observations at 235 MHz AND 610 MHz." The Astrophysical Journal, 732 95. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/732/2/95. 2011
- O'Sullivan, Ewan J., Giacintucci, Simona, David, Laurence P., Vrtilek, Jan M., and Raychaudhury, Somak. 2011. "A deep Chandra observation of the poor cluster AWM 4 - II. The role of the radio jets in enriching the intracluster medium." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 411 1833–1842. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17812.x. 2011
- David, Laurence P., O'Sullivan, Ewan J., Jones, Christine, Giacintucci, Simona, Vrtilek, Jan, Raychaudhury, Somak, Nulsen, Paul E. J., Forman, William R., Sun, Ming, and Donahue, Megan. 2011. "Active-Galactic-Nucleus-Driven Weather and Multiphase Gas in the Core of the NGC 5044 Galaxy Group." The Astrophysical Journal, 728, (2) 162. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/728/2/162. 2011
- Owers, Matt S., Randall, Scott W., Nulsen, Paul E. J., Couch, Warrick J., David, Laurence P., and Kempner, Joshua C. 2011. "The Dissection of Abell 2744: A Rich Cluster Growing Through Major and Minor Mergers." The Astrophysical Journal, 728, (1) 27. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/728/1/27. 2011
- O'Sullivan, Ewan J., Giacintucci, Simona, David, Laurence P., Vrtilek, Jan M., and Raychaudhury, Somak. 2010. "A deep Chandra observation of the poor cluster AWM 4 - I. Properties of the central radio galaxy and its effects on the intracluster medium." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 407 321–338. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16895.x. 2010
- Gitti, Myriam, O'Sullivan, Ewan J., Giacintucci, Simona, David, Laurence P., Vrtilek, Jan, Raychaudhury, Somak, and Nulsen, Paul E. J. 2010. "Cavities and Shocks in the Galaxy Group HCG 62 as Revealed by Chandra, XMM-Newton, and Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope Data." The Astrophysical Journal, 714 758–771. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/714/1/758. 2010
- David, Laurence P., Jones, Christine, Forman, William R., Nulsen, Paul E. J., Vrtilek, Jan, O'Sullivan, Ewan J., Giacintucci, Simona, and Raychaudhury, Somak. 2009. "Isotropic Active Galactic Nucleus Heating with Small Radio-quiet Bubbles in the NGC 5044 Group." The Astrophysical Journal, 705 624–638. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/705/1/624. 2009
- Giacintucci, Simona, Vrtilek, Jan M., Murgia, Matteo, Raychaudhury, Somak, O'Sullivan, Ewan J., Venturi, Tiziana, David, Laurence P., Mazzotta, Pasquale, Clarke, Tracy E., and Athreya, Ramana M. 2008. "A Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope Multifrequency Radio Study of the Isothermal Core of the Poor Galaxy Cluster AWM 4." The Astrophysical Journal, 682 186–198. https://doi.org/10.1086/589280. 2008
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- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Academic Department