About me
Center for Galaxy Evolution Fellow,
University of California, Irvine
My research focuses on galaxy formation theory and its interface with
cosmology. One of my primary interests is testing the standard ΛCDM
model on
galactic and sub-galactic scales, both with statistical samples of galaxies and
halos, and in detail in the Milky Way. I use
a combination of numerical simulations, analytic models, and observations in
my work.
See my publications for more of
my interests.
While at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, I led
the
Millennium-II Simulation project
(follow links for movies,
images,
scientific papers, and
data access).
Too big to fail? The puzzling darkness of massive Milky Way subhalos
M. Boylan-Kolchin, J. S. Bullock, & M. Kaplinghat (2011),
MNRAS, 415, L40
Scientific American summary
The Milky
Way's bright satellites as an apparent failure of ΛCDM
M. Boylan-Kolchin, J. S. Bullock, & M. Kaplinghat (2012), MNRAS, 422, 1203
The Space Motion of Leo I: Hubble Space Telescope Proper Motion and Implied
Orbit
S. T. Sohn, G. Besla, R. P. van der Marel, M. Boylan-Kolchin, S. Majewski, &
J. S. Bullock (2013),
ApJ, 768, 139
The Space Motion of Leo I: The Mass of the Milky Way's Dark Matter Halo
M. Boylan-Kolchin, J. S. Bullock, S. T. Sohn, G. Besla, & R. P. van der
Marel (2013),
ApJ, 768, 140
Scientific American write-up
Contact Information
e-mail: m.bk[at]uci.edu
phone: 949.824.2650
fax: 949.824.2174
office: 2180 Frederick Reines Hall
Mailing address:
Department of Physics and Astronomy
4129 Frederick Reines Hall
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-4575
Last modified: April 2013