Marc Postman

Marc Postman
BornApril 6, 1958 (1958-04-06) (age 66)
New York City, New York
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materMIT
Harvard University
AwardsAURA Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement (1993, 2013)
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
InstitutionsSpace Telescope Science Institute
Princeton University
Doctoral advisorMargaret J. Geller

Marc Postman (born April 6, 1958) is an American astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute[1] in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. His research interests include observational studies of the formation and evolution of galaxies and large scale structure in the universe. His work focuses on determining, observationally, the relationships between galaxy-scale phenomena and the surrounding large-scale environment and matter distribution. His recent research includes characterizing the properties of brightest cluster galaxies [2] [3] [4] [5] and placing new constraints on the cosmic optical background.[6][7]

  1. ^ "STScI Home".
  2. ^ Lauer, Tod R.; Postman, Marc; Strauss, Michael A.; Graves, Genevieve J.; Chisari, Nora E. (2014). "Brightest Cluster Galaxies at the Present Epoch". The Astrophysical Journal. 797 (2): 82. arXiv:1407.2260. Bibcode:2014ApJ...797...82L. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/797/2/82. S2CID 118315557.
  3. ^ Fogarty, Kevin; Postman, Marc; Larson, Rebecca; Donahue, Megan; Moustakas, John (2017). "The Relationship Between Brightest Cluster Galaxy Star Formation and the Intracluster Medium in CLASH". The Astrophysical Journal. 846 (2): 103. arXiv:1701.05903. Bibcode:2017ApJ...846..103F. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa82b9. S2CID 119065090.
  4. ^ Fogarty, Kevin; Postman, Marc; Li, Yuan; Dannerbauer, Helmut; Liu, Hauyu Baobab; Donahue, Megan; Ziegler, Bodo; Koekemoer, Anton; Frye, Brenda (2019). "The Dust and Molecular Gas in the Brightest Cluster Galaxy in MACS 1931.8-2635". The Astrophysical Journal. 879 (2): 103. arXiv:1905.01377. Bibcode:2019ApJ...879..103F. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab22a4. hdl:10150/633838. S2CID 146120608.
  5. ^ Gültekin, Kayhan; Burke-Spolaor, Sarah; Lauer, Tod R.; w. Lazio, T. Joseph; Moustakas, Leonidas A.; Ogle, Patrick; Postman, Marc (2021). "Chandra Observations of Abell 2261 Brightest Cluster Galaxy, a Candidate Host to a Recoiling Black Hole". The Astrophysical Journal. 906 (1): 48. arXiv:2010.13980. Bibcode:2021ApJ...906...48G. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/abc483. S2CID 225075966.
  6. ^ Lauer, Tod R.; Postman, Marc; Weaver, Harold A.; Spencer, John R.; Stern, S. Alan; Buie, Marc W.; Durda, Daniel D.; Lisse, Carey M.; Poppe, A. R.; Binzel, Richard P.; Britt, Daniel T.; Buratti, Bonnie J.; Cheng, Andrew F.; Grundy, W. M.; Horányi, Mihaly; Kavelaars, J. J.; Linscott, Ivan R.; McKinnon, William B.; Moore, Jeffrey M.; Núñez, J. I.; Olkin, Catherine B.; Parker, Joel W.; Porter, Simon B.; Reuter, Dennis C.; Robbins, Stuart J.; Schenk, Paul; Showalter, Mark R.; Singer, Kelsi N.; Verbiscer, Anne J.; Young, Leslie A. (2021). "New Horizons Observations of the Cosmic Optical Background". The Astrophysical Journal. 906 (2): 77. arXiv:2011.03052. Bibcode:2021ApJ...906...77L. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/abc881. hdl:1721.1/133770.2. S2CID 226277978.
  7. ^ Lauer, Tod R.; Postman, Marc; Spencer, John R.; Weaver, Harold A.; Stern, S. Alan; Gladstone, G. Randall; Binzel, Richard P.; Britt, Daniel T.; Buie, Marc W.; Buratti, Bonnie J.; Cheng, Andrew F.; Grundy, W. M.; Horányi, Mihaly; Kavelaars, J. J.; Linscott, Ivan R.; Lisse, Carey M.; McKinnon, William B.; McNutt, Ralph L.; Moore, Jeffrey M.; Núñez, J. I.; Olkin, Catherine B.; Parker, Joel W.; Porter, Simon B.; Reuter, Dennis C.; Robbins, Stuart J.; Schenk, Paul M.; Showalter, Mark R.; Singer, Kelsi N.; Verbiscer, Anne. J.; Young, Leslie A. (2022). "Anomalous Flux in the Cosmic Optical Background Detected with New Horizons Observations". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 927 (1): L8. arXiv:2202.04273. Bibcode:2022ApJ...927L...8L. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac573d. S2CID 246680032.