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I am Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Tufts University, and the Director of Graduate Studies of the department. I am also the Chair of the Executive Committee of the NorthEast Participation Group (NEPG) of the Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) collaboration.
These pages contain links to my research and teaching.
Welcome!
Email:
danilo[dot]marchesini[at]tufts[dot]edu
Address:
Tufts University
Physics & Astronomy Department
Collaborative Learning and Innovation Complex (CLIC)
574 Boston Avenue
Medford, MA 02155
USA
Tel.: +1 (617) 627-2756
Fax: +1 (617) 627-3878
Office: 312-E
News:
2.05.2020 - CNN article “Dead Monster Galaxy Found Lurking in the Distant Universe” presents our recently published discovery of an ultra-massive quiescent galaxy at z=3.5 (Forrest et al. 2020). See also press releases by Tufts and UC-Riverside.
1.01.2019 - Public release of the Spitzer-IRAC mosaics in the CFHTLS-Deep, MUSYC, and NMBS-II fields (Annunziatella et al. 2018). The IRAC images can be download from here.
5.17.2018 - Tufts University joins the Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) collaboration. Read more about it on TuftsNOW.
2.01.2018 - Data release of the HFF-DeepSpace multi-wavelength photometric catalogs, and catalogs of photometric redshifts, stellar population properties, rest-frame colors and magnitudes, and lensing magnification factors.
6.06.2016 - Ultra-deep Ks-band imaging data of Hubble Frontier Fields (KIFF) release.
