education and training
- B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Ph.D., Harvard University
Fabricant, Daniel
Fellowship Advisor
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory staff
Galaxy clusters; galaxy evolution; large-scale structure; instrumentation for optical and infrared astronomy
Background And Education
Publications
selected publications
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article
- 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
- 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. IOP Publishing, 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." In , , 189. 2013
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Location
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Academic Department
