Caryl Gronwall

Senior Research Associate Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics Pennsylvania State University

Research Interests

• Data from the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope, including GRAPES (Grism ACS Program for Extragalactic Science)
• Emission-line galaxies, particularly those from the KPNO International Spectroscopic Survey.
• Evolution of faint field galaxies. Check out the DEEP homepage.

Recent Papers

• ACS GTO Team Papers See the full list at this link!
• The DEEP Groth Strip Galaxy Redshift Survey. III. Redshift Catalog and Properties of Galaxies, Weiner et al., ApJ, 2004, in press
• Redshift z=5.4 Lyman alpha Emitting Galaxy with Linear Morphology in the GRAPES/UDF Field, Rhoads et al., 2004, ApJ, in press
• GRAPES, Grism Spectroscopy of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Description and Data Reduction, Pirzkal et al., ApJ Supp, October 2004
• Spectroscopy of KISS Emission-Line Galaxy Candidates. II. Hobby-Eberly Telescope Observations, Gronwall et al., AJ, August 2004
• Radio Continuum Emission at 1.4 GHz from KISS Emission-Line Galaxies, Van Duyne et al., AJ, April 2004
• The KPNO International Spectroscopic Survey. IV. H?-selected Survey List 2, Gronwall et al., AJ, April 2004
• Metal Abundances of KISS Galaxies. II. Nebular Abundances of 12 Low-Luminosity Emission-Line Galaxies, Melbourne et al., AJ, February 2004
• Spectroscopy of KISS Emission-Line Galaxy Candidates. I. MDM Observations (PDF), Wegner et al., AJ, May 2003
• HI Properties of Low Luminosity Star-Forming Galaxies in the KPNO International Spectroscopic Survey (PDF), Lee et al., AJ, December 2002
• The KPNO International Spectroscopic Survey. III. [O III]-selected Survey List (PDF), Salzer et al., AJ, March 2002
• A Measurement of the Contamination in [OIII] 5007 Surveys of Intracluster Stars and the Surface Density of z=3.13 Ly-alpha Galaxies (PDF), Ciardullo et al., ApJ, February 2002
• Publication List from the ADS.

Teaching

Astronomy 597a, Exploring the High Redshift Universe Spring 2007
Astronomy 10, Elementary Astronomy Fall 2006
Astronomy 480, Nebulae Galaxies and Cosmology Spring 2008

---

Background Info

• Vita (PDF)

Previous homes

• B.A., Carleton College
• Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
• Postdoc, Wesleyan University
• Postdoc, Johns Hopkins University