Marc Davis


Who am I?
I am a Professor of Astronomy and Physics, University of California at Berkeley
Office: 517 Campbell Hall
Phone: (510) 642-5156
Fax: (510) 642-3411
Email: marc@coma.berkeley.edu

Curriculum Vitae
Recent Bibliography
last edit: 17 October 1997


Research Activities...

  • Physical Cosmology
  • Large Scale Velocity fields
  • Structure Formation in the Universe
  • Maps of Galactic Dust Details of Dust maps
  • Activities of my research group

  • Recent Publications...

  • David J. Schlegel, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, & Marc Davis Maps of Dust IR Emission for Use in Estimation of Reddening and CMBR Foregrounds (Astrophysical Journal, submitted, Oct '97)
  • Adam Riess, Marc Davis, Jonathan Baker, & Robert Kirshner ``The Velocity Field from Type Ia Supernovae Matches the Gravity Field from Galaxy Surveys" , Astrophysical Journal 1997, 488, L1
  • Marc Davis, Amber Miller, & Simon White A Galaxy Weighted Measure of the Relative Peculiar Velocity Dispersion (submitted to the Astrophysical Journal, March 1997)
  • Emilio E. Falco, Irwin Shapiro, Leonidas Moustakas & Marc Davis An Estimate of $H_0$ from Keck Spectroscopy of the Gravitational Lens System 0957+561 (Astrophysical Journal, in press)
  • Steve Zepf, Leonidas Moustakas, & Marc Davis, ``Keck Spectroscopy of Objects with Lens-like Morphologies in the Hubble Deep Field'', Astrophysical Journal 1997, 474, L1
  • Marc Davis Is the Universe Homogeneous on Large Scales?
    (Contribution to "Critical Dialogs in Cosmology", Princeton, June 1996)

  • Marc Davis, Adi Nusser, and Jeffrey Willick Comparison of Velocity and Gravity Fields: The Mark III Tully-Fisher Catalog Versus the Iras 1.2 Jy Survey
    (Astrophysical Journal, 473, 22 (1996) )

  • Marc Davis and Adi Nusser Indications Of Dark Matter Derived from Large Scale Flows ("Dark Matter", AIP Conference Proceedings 336, ed. S. Holt & C. Bennett, 1995)


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