R.J. Lavery's Worlds of Scientific Investigation

I. Distant Ring Galaxies

• "Probing the Evolution of the Galaxy Interaction/Merger
  Rate Using Collisional Ring Galaxies". ( PDF: PS)
  
  R.J. Lavery, A. Remijan, V. Charmandaris, R. D. Hayes & A. A. Ring
  Astrophysical Journal 612, 679, 2004

• "Probing the Evolution of the Galaxy Interaction/Merger
  Rate Using Distant Collisional Ring Galaxies"
  
  R.J. Lavery & A.J. Remijan
  Contribution to the 15th IAP Meeting, July 1999.
  Postscript format.

• Distant Ring Galaxies Identified in HST WFPC2 Images.
  Prress Release from the Austin TX AAS Meeting.

• "Distant Ring Galaxies as Evidence for a Steeply Increasing Galaxy Interaction Rate with Redshift"
  
  R.J. Lavery, P. Seitzer, N.B. Suntzeff, A.R. Walker and G.S. Da Costa
  Astrophys. J. Lett., 467, L1, 1996. This is a Postscript File
  
  The figure for this paper in GIF or Postscript format

II. Distant Clusters of Galaxies

• Abell 963 at z = 0.206
  Galaxy Positions & Cluster Membership

  Velocity Dispersion Histogram. Sigma = 1370 km/s. This is in GIF format.

  ROSAT HRI X-Ray Profile. This is in GIF format.

  An Image of the NE Region of A963

  "The Velocity Dispersion and Dispersion Profile of Abell 963 "
  

  R.J. Lavery and J.P. Henry
  Conference Proceedings - Melbourne 1995. This is a Postscript File
  
  Presented at IAU Symp. #173 "Gravitational Lensing", July 1995, Melbourne, Australia.

• Southern Abell Richness 3 Clusters
  Redshifts for Southern R=3 Clusters. Data reduction is in progress.

III. Gravitational Lensing of Distant Galaxies By Clusters

• "An Extremely Thin Gravitational Arc Formed by the Distant Cluster CL 0016+1609: Lensing of a Compact HDF-Type Object?"
  R.J. Lavery
  Astron. J., 112, 1812, 1996). This is a Postscript File
  
  This is Figure 1 for this paper in GIF Format.
  This is Figure 2 for this paper in GIF or Postscript format.

IV. The Local Group Galaxy: The Tucana Dwarf

• "HST/WFPC2 Imaging of the Tucana Dwarf Galaxy "
  R.J. Lavery, P. Seitzer, N.B. Suntzeff, A.R. Walker and G.S. Da Costa
  Conference Proceedings - Crete 1995. This is a Postscript File
  
  Presented at "From Stars to Galaxies -- The Impact of Stellar Physics on Galaxy Evolution", October 1995, Crete, Greece. From Stars to Galaxies: The Impact of Stellar Physics on Galaxy Evolution, ed. C. Leitherer, U. Fritze-von Alvensleben, & J. Huchra, ASP Conf. Series Vol. 98 (San Francisco: ASP) pp. 333-334, 1996.

  Image of Tucana Obtained on the Anglo-Australia Telescope

V. Publications

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