Erin Sheldon

Education

  • 1997-2002

    Graduate Student
    Department of Physics, University of Michigan
    PhD recieved August 2002: Measuring the Correlation between Luminous and Dark Matter with Gravitational Lensing

  • 1992-1997

    Undergraduate at the University of Missouri
    B.S. in Physics/Math

Research Interests

  • Gravitational Lensing
  • Dark Matter and its distribution throughout the universe
  • The Correlation between Luminous and Dark Matter
  • Cosmology

Current Empoyment

  • Center for Cosmological Physics (CFCP), University of Chicago

More Research Stuff

  • NEW! The latest paper on lensing due to galaxies, in which we measure the lensing signal to 10 Mpc, can be found here
  • A paper studying the distribution of dark matter around galaxies. Most importantly we study how the amount of dark matter in galaxies relates to their luminosity (or baryonic content) Check it out here
  • We also recently published a paper about gravitational lensing due to galaxy clusters. Click here for a copy of the paper.

As you may have read above, I am interested in the distribution of mass in the universe, in particular the dark matter (which is ~90% of the mass). Most of the data I use in these studies will come from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, or SDSS

Our group was in the New York Times in 2000. The subject was a paper of ours on the study of gravitational lensing due to galaxies. Check out the article. That paper was accepted to the Astronomical Journal. Go here for a copy of the paper.


Note: We DO NOT use x-ray light for our studies, despite the implications of the first paragraph of this article. We use light in the visible and near infrared, 4000-8500 angstroms. The responses for SDSS filters are here. We used data from the middle three bandpasses for our lensing studies.

Additional Info:
Here is my CV(i.e. Publications, Awards, Education, all that jazz)
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