Julianne Dalcanton

Julianne Dalcanton presenting at the Royal Astronomical Society in 2012.

Julianne Dalcanton (* Pittsburgh) is an American astronomer.

She is Associate Professor of Astronomy, University of Washington, and researcher for Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Her main work is on the area of galaxy formation and evolution. She is currently leading the ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury (ANGST) program on the Hubble Space Telescope.

She became known worldwide by her discovery of the comet C/1999 F2, which is named after her. She is also a contributor to the physics blog Cosmic Variance.

Dalcanton is married with two children.

Journal articles

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• Dalcanton, Julianne J.; Spergel, David N.; Summers, F. J. (1997). "The Formation of Disk Galaxies". The Astrophysical Journal 482 (2): 659–676. arXiv:astro-ph/9611226. Bibcode:1997ApJ...482..659D. doi:10.1086/304182. 
• Hogan, Craig J.; Dalcanton, Julianne J. (2000). "New dark matter physics: Clues from halo structure". Physical Review D 62 (6): 063511. arXiv:astro-ph/0002330. Bibcode:2000PhRvD..62f3511H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.62.063511. 

External links

• University of Washington Profile
• Video discussion/conversation with Dalcanton and Jennifer Ouellette on Bloggingheads.tv
• The ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey (ANGST)