Allison Man
Assistant Professor
Research Classification
Research Interests
galaxy formation and evolution
Relevant Thesis-Based Degree Programs
Research Options
I am available and interested in collaborations (e.g. clusters, grants).
I am interested in and conduct interdisciplinary research.
I am interested in working with undergraduate students on research projects.
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Master's students
Doctoral students
Postdoctoral Fellows
Any time / year round
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News Releases
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Publications
- A Multiwavelength Study of ELAN Environments (AMUSE2). Mass Budget, Satellites Spin Alignment, and Gas Infall in a Massive z ∼ 3 Quasar Host Halo (2022)
The Astrophysical Journal, - A massive stellar bulge in a regularly rotating galaxy 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang (2021)
Science, 371 (6530), 713--716 - An Exquisitely Deep View of Quenching Galaxies through the Gravitational Lens: Stellar Population, Morphology, and Ionized Gas (2021)
The Astrophysical Journal, - Molecular Gas in a Gravitationally Lensed Galaxy Group at z = 2.9 (2021)
The Astrophysical Journal, - Recent Star Formation in a Massive Slowly Quenched Lensed Quiescent Galaxy at z = 1.88 (2021)
The Astrophysical Journal, 907 (1), L8 - The Pan-African School for Emerging Astronomers (2021)
Nature Astronomy, - Knocking on giants' doors: I. The evolution of the dust-to-stellar mass ratio in distant dusty galaxies (2020)
arXiv e-prints, - REQUIEM-2D Methodology: Spatially Resolved Stellar Populations of Massive Lensed Quiescent Galaxies from Hubble Space Telescope 2D Grism Spectroscopy (2020)
The Astrophysical Journal, - The interacting nature of dwarf galaxies hosting superluminous supernovae (2020)
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 643, A47 - X-shooter Spectroscopy and HST Imaging of 15 Massive Quiescent Galaxies at z ≳ 2 (2020)
The Astrophysical Journal, - Characterizing Galaxies in the Early Universe (2019)
Canadian Long Range Plan for Astronony and Astrophysics White Papers, - Compact Star-forming Galaxies as Old Starbursts Becoming Quiescent (2019)
The Astrophysical Journal, - Discovery of intergalactic bridges connecting two faint z ∼ 3 quasars (2019)
Astronomy and Astrophysics, - MUSE unravels the ionisation and origin of metal-enriched absorbers in the gas halo of a z = 2.92 radio galaxy (2019)
Astronomy and Astrophysics, - Physical Characterization of an Unlensed, Dusty Star-forming Galaxy at z = 5.85 (2019)
The Astrophysical Journal, - Quenching by gas compression and consumption (2019)
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 624, A81 - Revealing the Origin and Cosmic Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes (2019)
Canadian Long Range Plan for Astronony and Astrophysics White Papers, - Neutral versus ionized gas kinematics at z ≃ 2.6: the AGN-host starburst galaxy PKS 0529-549 (2018)
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, - Star formation quenching in massive galaxies (2018)
Nature Astronomy, - The First ESO Astronomy Research Training — Ghana 2018 (2018)
The Messenger, - Thirty-fold: Extreme Gravitational Lensing of a Quiescent Galaxy at z = 1.6 (2018)
The Astrophysical Journal, - A massive, dead disk galaxy in the early Universe (2017)
- ALMA reveals starburst-like interstellar medium conditions in a compact star-forming galaxy at z 2 using [CI] and CO (2017)
- Fellows at ESO (2017)
The Messenger, - The Bright and Dark Sides of High-redshift Starburst Galaxies from Herschel and Subaru Observations (2017)
- The evolution of superluminous supernova LSQ14mo and its interacting host galaxy system (2017)
- Are quiescent galaxies truly devoid of star formation? The mid-, far-infrared and radio properties of quiescent galaxies at z = 0.1 - 3 (2016)
- Confirming the Existence of a Quiescent Galaxy Population out to z=3: A Stacking Analysis of Mid-, Far-Infrared and Radio Data (2016)
- Radio AGN signatures in massive quiescent galaxies out to z=1.5 (2016)
- Resolving the Discrepancy of Galaxy Merger Fraction Measurements at z ̃ 0-3 (2016)
- The role of galaxy merging in the life of massive galaxies (2016)
- A Black Hole Recoil Candidate in a Nearby Dwarf Galaxy (2014)
- A Spectroscopic Sample of Massive, Quiescent z ~ 2 Galaxies: Implications for the Evolution of the Mass-Size Relation (2014)
- SDSS1133: an unusually persistent transient in a nearby dwarf galaxy (2014)
- Submillimeter Galaxies as Progenitors of Compact Quiescent Galaxies (2014)
- The Role of Galaxy Interaction in the SFR-M * Relation: Characterizing Morphological Properties of Herschel-selected Galaxies at 0.2 < z < 1.5 (2013)
- VLT/X-Shooter Near-infrared Spectroscopy and HST Imaging of Gravitationally Lensed z ~ 2 Compact Quiescent Galaxies (2013)
- Deep Absorption Line Studies of Quiescent Galaxies at z ~ 2: The Dynamical-mass-Size Relation and First Constraints on the Fundamental Plane (2012)
- The Pair Fraction of Massive Galaxies at 0 <= z <= 3 (2012)
- Galaxy pairs as a probe for mergers at z ~ 2 (2011)
- OT 110215: further NIR observations from NOT of the GRB candidate. (2011)
- OT 110215: NIR observations from NOT of GRB candidate. (2011)
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