Fabricant, Daniel
Fellowship Advisor Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory staffFabricant, Daniel
Fellowship Advisor Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory staffGalaxy clusters; galaxy evolution; large-scale structure; instrumentation for optical and infrared astronomy
Background And Education
Education And Training
- B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Ph.D., Harvard University
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Fabricant, Daniel, Ben-Ami, Sagi, Chilingarian, Igor V., Fata, Robert, Moran, Sean, Paegert, Martin, Smith, Matthew, and Zajac, Joseph. 2025. "An Integral Field Unit for the Binospec Spectrograph." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 137 015002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/ada701. 2025
- Fabricant, Daniel, Catropa, Daniel, Fata, Robert, Brown, Warren, Doherty, Peter, Durusky, Daniel, Kansky, Jan, Kradinov, Vladimir, McLeod, Brian, Braulio Neto, Antonio, Podgorski, William, Ribeiro, Rafael, Witinski, Mark, Andrade, Denis, Baldwin, Daniel, Bednarski, Daniel, D'Arco, Joseph, Fermino, Carlos, Gualberto, Tiago, Giorgetti, Tiago, Hartmann, Vitor, Laporte, Rene, Petrucci, Igor, Paegert, Martin, Rinaldi, Decio et al. 2025. "GMACS: A Moderate-dispersion Optical Spectrograph for the Giant Magellan Telescope." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 137 035002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/adb0f0. 2025
- Sohn, Jubee, Geller, Margaret J., Hwang, Ho Seong, Fabricant, Daniel G., Utsumi, Yousuke, and Damjanov, Ivana. 2023. "HectoMAP: The Complete Redshift Survey (Data Release 2)." The Astrophysical Journal, 945 94. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acb925. 2023
- Afanasiev, Anton V., Chilingarian, Igor V., Grishin, Kirill A., Makarov, Dmitry, Makarova, Lidia, Fabricant, Daniel, Caldwell, Nelson, and Moran, Sean. 2023. "KDG 64: a large dwarf spheroidal or a small ultradiffuse satellite of Messier 81." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 520 6312–6321. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad559. 2023
- Sohn, Jubee, Geller, Margaret J., Hwang, Ho Seong, Fabricant, Daniel G., Moran, Sean M., and Utsumi, Yousuke. 2021. "The HectoMAP Redshift Survey: First Data Release." The Astrophysical Journal, 909 129. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abd9be. 2021
- Grishin, Kirill A., Chilingarian, Igor V., Afanasiev, Anton V., Fabricant, Daniel, Katkov, Ivan Yu, Moran, Sean, and Yagi, Masafumi. 2021. "Transforming gas-rich low-mass disky galaxies into ultra-diffuse galaxies by ram pressure." Nature Astronomy, 5 1308–1318. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01470-5. 2021
- Sohn, Jubee, Fabricant, Daniel G., Geller, Margaret J., Hwang, Ho Seong, and Diaferio, Antonaldo. 2020. "The Velocity Dispersion Function for Quiescent Galaxies in Nine Strong-lensing Clusters." The Astrophysical Journal, 902 17. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abb23b. 2020
- Sohn, Jubee, Geller, Margaret J., Zahid, H. Jabran, and Fabricant, Daniel G. 2019. "A Complete Spectroscopic Census of A2029: A Tale of Three Histories." The Astrophysical Journal, 872 192. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab0213. 2019
- Kansky, Jan, Chilingarian, Igor, Fabricant, Daniel, Matthews, Anne, Moran, Sean, Paegert, Martin, Duane Gibson, J., Porter, Dallan, and Roll, John. 2019. "Binospec Software System." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 131 075005. https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/ab1ceb. 2019
- Fabricant, Daniel, Fata, Robert, Epps, Harland, Gauron, Thomas, Mueller, Mark, Zajac, Joseph, Amato, Stephen, Barberis, Jack, Bergner, Henry, Brennan, Patricia, Brown, Warren, Chilingarian, Igor, Geary, John, Kradinov, Vladimir, McLeod, Brian, Smith, Matthew C., and Woods, Deborah. 2019. "Binospec: A Wide-field Imaging Spectrograph for the MMT." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 131 075004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/ab1d78. 2019
- Chilingarian, Igor V., Afanasiev, Anton V., Grishin, Kirill A., Fabricant, Daniel, and Moran, Sean. 2019. "Internal Dynamics and Stellar Content of Nine Ultra-diffuse Galaxies in the Coma Cluster Prove Their Evolutionary Link with Dwarf Early-type Galaxies." The Astrophysical Journal, 884 79. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab4205. 2019
- Conroy, Charlie, Bonaca, Ana, Cargile, Phillip, Johnson, Benjamin D., Caldwell, Nelson, Naidu, Rohan P., Zaritsky, Dennis, Fabricant, Daniel, Moran, Sean, Rhee, Jaehyon, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, Berlind, Perry, Calkins, Michael L., Kattner, ShiAnne, and Ly, Chun. 2019. "Mapping the Stellar Halo with the H3 Spectroscopic Survey." The Astrophysical Journal, 883 107. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab38b8. 2019
- Saburova, Anna S., Chilingarian, Igor V., Kasparova, Anastasia V., Katkov, Ivan Yu, Fabricant, Daniel G., and Uklein, Roman I. 2019. "UGC 1378 - a Milky Way sized galaxy embedded in a giant low surface brightness disc." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 489 4669–4678. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2434. 2019
- Damjanov, Ivana, Zahid, H. Jabran, Geller, Margaret J., Fabricant, Daniel G., and Hwang, Ho Seong. 2018. "hCOSMOS: A Dense Spectroscopic Survey of r ≤ 21.3 Galaxies in the COSMOS field." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 234 21. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aaa01c. 2018
- Monna, A., Seitz, S., Geller, M. J., Zitrin, A., Mercurio, A., Suyu, S. H., Postman, M., Fabricant, D. G., Hwang, H. S., and Koekemoer, A. 2017. "Separating galaxies from the cluster dark matter halo in Abell 611." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465 4589–4601. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw3048. 2017
- Sohn, Jubee, Geller, Margaret J., Zahid, H. Jabran, Fabricant, Daniel G., Diaferio, Antonaldo, and Rines, Kenneth J. 2017. "The Velocity Dispersion Function of Very Massive Galaxy Clusters: Abell 2029 and Coma." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 229 20. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aa653e. 2017
- Hwang, Ho Seong, Geller, Margaret J., Park, Changbom, Fabricant, Daniel G., Kurtz, Michael J., Rines, Kenneth J., Kim, Juhan, Diaferio, Antonaldo, Zahid, H. Jabran, Berlind, Perry, Calkins, Michael, Tokarz, Susan, and Moran, Sean. 2016. "HectoMAP and Horizon Run 4: Dense Structures and Voids in the Real and Simulated Universe." The Astrophysical Journal, 818 173. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/818/2/173. 2016
- Geller, Margaret J., Hwang, Ho Seong, Dell'Antonio, Ian P., Zahid, Harus Jabran, Kurtz, Michael J., and Fabricant, Daniel G. 2016. "SHELS: Complete Redshift Surveys of Two Widely Separated Fields." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 224 11. https://doi.org/10.3847/0067-0049/224/1/11. 2016
- Zahid, H. Jabran, Geller, Margaret J., Fabricant, Daniel G., and Hwang, Ho Seong. 2016. "The Scaling of Stellar Mass and Central Stellar Velocity Dispersion for Quiescent Galaxies at z<0.7." The Astrophysical Journal, 832 203. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/832/2/203. 2016
- Zahid, H. Jabran, Damjanov, Ivana, Geller, Margaret J., Hwang, Ho Seong, and Fabricant, Daniel G. 2016. "The Stellar Mass Fundamental Plane and Compact Quiescent Galaxies at z < 0.6." The Astrophysical Journal, 821 101. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/821/2/101. 2016
- Kewley, Lisa J., Zahid, H. Jabran, Geller, Margaret J., Dopita, Michael A., Hwang, Ho Seong, and Fabricant, Dan. 2015. "A Rise in the Ionizing Photons in Star-forming Galaxies over the Past 8 Billion Years." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 812 L20. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/812/2/L20. 2015
- Monna, A., Seitz, S., Zitrin, A., Geller, M. J., Grillo, C., Mercurio, A., Greisel, N., Halkola, A., Suyu, S. H., Postman, M., Rosati, P., Balestra, I., Biviano, A., Coe, D., Fabricant, D. G., Hwang, H. S., and Koekemoer, A. 2015. "Constraining the galaxy mass content in the core of A383 using velocity dispersion measurements for individual cluster members." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447 1224–1241. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2534. 2015
- Chilingarian, Igor, Beletsky, Yuri, Moran, Sean, Brown, Warren, McLeod, Brian A., and Fabricant, Daniel. 2015. "Data Reduction Pipeline for the MMT and Magellan Infrared Spectrograph." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 127 406–420. https://doi.org/10.1086/680598. 2015
- McLeod, Brian A., Geary, John, Conroy, Maureen, Fabricant, Daniel, Ordway, Mark, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew H., Amato, Stephen, Ashby, Matthew L. N., Caldwell, Nelson, Curley, Dylan, Gauron, Thomas, Holman, Matthew, Norton, Timothy, Pieri, Mario, Roll, John, Weaver, David, Zajac, Joseph, Palunas, Povilas, and Osip, David. 2015. "Megacam: A Wide-Field CCD Imager for the MMT and Magellan." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 127 366–382. https://doi.org/10.1086/680687. 2015
- Starikova, Svetlana, Jones, Christine, Forman, William R., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., Kurtz, Michael J., Geller, Margaret J., Fabricant, Daniel G., Murray, Stephen S., and Dell'Antonio, Ian P. 2014. "Comparison of Galaxy Clusters Selected by Weak-lensing, Optical Spectroscopy, and X-Rays in the Deep Lens Survey F2 Field." The Astrophysical Journal, 786 125. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/786/2/125. 2014
- Utsumi, Yousuke, Miyazaki, Satoshi, Geller, Margaret J., Dell'Antonio, Ian P., Oguri, Masamune, Kurtz, Michael J., Hamana, Takashi, and Fabricant, Daniel G. 2014. "Reducing Systematic Error in Weak Lensing Cluster Surveys." The Astrophysical Journal, 786 93. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/786/2/93. 2014
- Geller, Margaret J., Hwang, Ho Seong, Fabricant, Daniel G., Kurtz, Michael J., Dell'Antonio, Ian P., and Zahid, Harus Jabran. 2014. "SHELS: A Complete Galaxy Redshift Survey with R <= 20.6." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 213 35. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/213/2/35. 2014
- Kannappan, Sheila J., Stark, David V., Eckert, Kathleen D., Moffett, Amanda J., Wei, Lisa H., Pisano, D. J., Baker, Andrew J., Vogel, Stuart N., Fabricant, Daniel G., Laine, Seppo, Norris, Mark A., Jogee, Shardha, Lepore, Natasha, Hough, Loren E., and Weinberg-Wolf, Jennifer. 2013. "Connecting Transitions in Galaxy Properties to Refueling." The Astrophysical Journal, 777 42. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/777/1/42. 2013
- Fabricant, Daniel, Chilingarian, Igor, Seong Hwang, Ho, Kurtz, Michael J., Geller, Margaret J., Del''Antonio, Ian P., and Rines, Kenneth J. 2013. "Measuring Galaxy Velocity Dispersions with Hectospec." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 125 1362–1369. https://doi.org/10.1086/673499. 2013
- Zahid, H. Jabran, Geller, Margaret J., Kewley, Lisa J., Hwang, Ho Seong, Fabricant, Daniel G., and Kurtz, Michael J. 2013. "The Chemical Evolution of Star-forming Galaxies over the Last 11 Billion Years." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 771 L19. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/771/2/L19. 2013
- McLeod, Brian A., Fabricant, Daniel, Nystrom, George, McCracken, Ken, Amato, Stephen, Bergner, Henry, Brown, Warren, Burke, Michael, Chilingarian, Igor, Conroy, Maureen, Curley, Dylan, Furesz, Gabor, Geary, John, Hertz, Edward, Holwell, Justin, Matthews, Anne, Norton, Tim, Park, Sang, Roll, John, Zajac, Joseph, Epps, Harland, and Martini, Paul. 2012. "MMT and Magellan Infrared Spectrograph." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 124 1318–1335. https://doi.org/10.1086/669044. 2012
- Fabricant, Daniel, Fata, Robert, Brown, Warren R., McLeod, Brian A., Mueller, Mark, Gauron, Thomas, Roll, John, Bergner, Henry, Geary, John, Kradinov, Vladimir, Norton, Tim, Smith, Matt, and Zajac, Joseph. 2012. "NIRMOS: a wide-field near-infrared spectrograph for the Giant Magellan Telescope." Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 8446. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926262. 2012
- Hwang, Ho Seong, Geller, Margaret J., Kurtz, Michael J., Dell'Antonio, Ian P., and Fabricant, Daniel G. 2012. "SHELS: Optical Spectral Properties of WISE 22 μm Selected Galaxies." The Astrophysical Journal, 758 25. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/758/1/25. 2012
- Kurtz, Michael J., Geller, Margaret J., Utsumi, Yousuke, Miyazaki, Satoshi, Dell'Antonio, Ian P., and Fabricant, Daniel G. 2012. "Testing Weak-lensing Maps with Redshift Surveys: A Subaru Field." The Astrophysical Journal, 750 168. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/750/2/168. 2012
- Szentgyorgyi, Andrew H., McLeod, Brian A., Fabricant, D., Fata, R., Norton, T., Ordway, M., Roll, J., Bergner, H., Conroy, M., Curley, D., Epps, H., Gauron, T., Geary, J., Mueller, M., Uomoto, A., Amato, S., Barberis, J., Eng, R., Furesz, G., Hertz, E., Hull, C., McCracken, K., Nystrom, G., Osip, D., Palunas, P. et al. 2012. "The F/5 instrumentation suite for the Clay Telescope." Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 8446 28. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925510. 2012
- Geller, Margaret J., Diaferio, Antonaldo, Kurtz, Michael J., Dell'Antonio, Ian P., and Fabricant, Daniel G. 2012. "The Faint End of the Luminosity Function and Low Surface Brightness Galaxies." The Astronomical Journal, 143 102. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/143/4/102. 2012
- Jacoby, George H., Bouchez, A., Colless, M., DePoy, D., Fabricant, D., Hinz, P., Jaffe, D., Johns, M., McCarthy, P., McGregor, P., Shectman, S., and Szentgyorgyi, Andrew H. 2012. "The instrument development and selection process for the Giant Magellan Telescope." Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 8446. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925402. 2012
- Szentgyorgyi, Andrew H., Furesz, Gabor, Cheimets, Peter, Conroy, Maureen, Eng, Roger, Fabricant, Daniel, Fata, Robert, Gauron, Thomas, Geary, John, McLeod, Brian A., Zajac, Joseph, Amato, Stephen, Bergner, Henry, Caldwell, Nelson, Dupree, Andrea, Goddard, Richard, Johnston, Everett, Meibom, Søren, Mink, Douglas, Pieri, Mario, Roll, John, Tokarz, Susan, Wyatt, William, Epps, Harland, Hartmann, Lee et al. 2011. "Hectochelle: A Multiobject Optical Echelle Spectrograph for the MMT." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 123 1188–1209. https://doi.org/10.1086/662209. 2011
- Westra, Eduard, Geller, Margaret J., Kurtz, Michael J., Fabricant, Daniel G., and Dell'Antonio, Ian. 2010. "Empirical Optical k-Corrections for Redshifts." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 122 1258–1284. https://doi.org/10.1086/657452. 2010
- Westra, Eduard, Geller, Margaret J., Kurtz, Michael J., Fabricant, Daniel G., and Dell'Antonio, Ian. 2010. "Evolution of the H? Luminosity Function." The Astrophysical Journal, 708 534–549. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/708/1/534. 2010
- Geller, Margaret J., Kurtz, Michael J., Dell'Antonio, Ian P., Ramella, Massimo, and Fabricant, Daniel G. 2010. "SHELS: Testing Weak-Lensing Maps with Redshift Surveys." The Astrophysical Journal, 709 832–850. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/709/2/832. 2010
- Freedman Woods, Deborah, Geller, Margaret J., Kurtz, Michael J., Westra, Eduard, Fabricant, Daniel G., and Dell'Antonio, Ian. 2010. "Triggered Star Formation in Galaxy Pairs at z = 0.08-0.38." The Astronomical Journal, 139 1857–1870. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/139/5/1857. 2010
- Fabricant, Daniel G., Kurtz, Michael J., Geller, Margaret J., Caldwell, Nelson, Woods, Deborah, and Dell'Antonio, Ian. 2008. "Spectrophotometry with Hectospec, the MMT's Fiber-Fed Spectrograph." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 120 1222–1232. 2008
- Kurtz, Michael J., Geller, Margaret J., Fabricant, Daniel G., Wyatt, William F., and Dell'Antonio, Ian P. 2007. "mu-PhotoZ: Photometric Redshifts by Inverting the Tolman Surface Brightness Test." The Astronomical Journal, 134 1360–1367. 2007
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Conference Paper
- Chilingarian, Igor, Brown, Warren, Fabricant, Daniel, McLeod, Brian A., Roll, John, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew H., and Friedel, D. N. 2013. "Data Reduction Pipeline for the MMT Magellan Infrared Spectrograph." from Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXII. 475, 189. 2013
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