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.
Much of my recent work has been related to running and analyzing the Millennium-II Simulation(see movies and images or access data from the simulation).
Latest results:
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
Small Scale Structure in the SDSS and ΛCDM: Isolated ~L* Galaxies with Bright Satellites
E. Tollerud, M. Boylan-Kolchin, E. Barton, J. S. Bullock, C. Trinh (2011), ApJ, 738, 102
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: May 2012