ALFALFA

Official ALFALFA Team Projects

ALFALFA is an open science collaboration. It is assumed that all projects undertaken as part of the collaboration will adopt the general ALFALFA recommended project guidelines and the recommended criteria for authorship.

The projects listed here have been submitted to and approved by the ALFALFA Oversight Committee.

Team projects

TitleTeam leaderTimeframeProject Summary
Blended HI signals from distant clusters Lyle HoffmanLong term Summary
An H-alpha Imaging Survey for a Volume-Limited Sample of ALFALFA Sources John SalzerLong term Summary
Synthesis Imaging of Low Mass Dwarfs discovered by ALFALFA Ayesha BegumSeveral objects observed with GMRT 2006 (Coming)
Integrated Spectra of galaxies detected by ALFALFA Alessandro BoselliLong term (Coming)
H-alpha Imaging of ALFALFA Galaxies in Selected Cluster Fields Peppo GavazziLong term (Coming)
ALFALFA survey of the region around ZwCL1400+0949 Tom Balonek2007- (Coming)
ALFALFA detection of dE/dS0's in Virgo Becky Koopmann2007- (Coming)
ALFALFA detections in the region around M33 Edvige Corbelli2008 (Coming)
ALFALFA detection of E/SO galaxies Sperello di Serego AlighieriLong term (Coming)
ALFALFA as a blind HI absorption line survey Jeremy Darling/Emmanuel MomjianLong term (Coming)
GALEX observations of ALFALFA low mass galaxies Martha HaynesLong term (GALEX Cycle 3&4) (Coming)
UV Star Formation and HI Content within the ALFALFA volume Riccardo GiovanelliLong term (GALEX Cycle 3) (Coming)
Fast Rotators in the ALFALFA sample Paolo SalucciLong term Summary
HI in Tidal Dwarf Galaxy candidates Sarah Higdon/Jim HigdonLong term (Coming)
ALFALFA Detections of the most gas-rich GASS targets Barbara Catinella & GASS teamLong term (Coming)
The Low Mass End of the Tully-Fisher relation Mike Blanton, Marla Geha and Andrew WestLong term (Coming)
Extended HI Emission Around the Pegasus Dwarf Galaxy Noah Brosch and Lyle Hoffman2008- Summary
Comparison of SDSS/ALFALFA sample selection Jessica Rosenberg and Andrew West2008- (Coming)
CO in High HI mass ALFALFA detections Min Yun and Aeree Chung2008-- (Coming)
ALFALFA Detections in the 2MTF Survey Karen Masters2008-- (Coming)
Simulations of extended features found in ALFALFA Dave Kornreich & Brian Kent2008-- (Coming)
Impact of the Group Environment from ALFALFA Undergraduate ALFALFA team2008-- Summary
ALFALFA SPROUTS in Diffuse Fields: Understanding Foreground Subtraction for EOR Experiments using ALFALFA Miguel Morales and Judd Bowman2008-- (Coming)
The ALFALFA-RESOLVE Survey Sheila Kannappan 2009-- (Coming)

Graduate student PhD (i.e major) projects

Project titleStudentInstitutionContext Adviser Timeframe Project Summary
Chemical abundances of low mass galaxies Amélie SaintongeCornellPart of PhD thesis Riccardo Giovanelli2007 (completed) Summary
First epoch ALFALFA Virgo cluster survey Brian KentCornellPart of PhD thesis Riccardo Giovanelli2008 (completed) Summary
ALFALFA survey of the Leo region Sabrina StierwaltCornellPart of PhD thesis Martha Haynes2009 (PhD expected) Summary
Very Extended HI Disks Jayce DowellIndiana U.Part of PhD thesis Liese van Zee2006-Coming...
Extremely Isolated Galaxies Oded SpectorTel Aviv U.Part of PhD thesis Noah Brosch2007-Summary
The Group Environment in the Coma-A1367 Supercluster Kelley HessU. WisconsinPart of PhD thesis Eric Wilcots2007-Summary
HI Mass Function and its Dependence on Local Environment Ann MartinCornellPart of PhD thesis Martha Haynes2007-Summary
Definition of HI Deficiency from ALFALFA Mari Carmen ToribioBarcelonaPart of PhD thesis José-Maria Solanes2008-Summary
Bar Fraction in the Virgo cluster Lea GiordanoITP ZurichPart of PhD thesis Kim-Vy Tran & Ben Moore2008-Summary
High Velocity Clouds in the ALFALFA Survey Betsey AdamsCornellPart of Ph.D. project Martha Haynes & Riccardo Giovanelli2009--(coming)
Star formation and gas content in ALFALFA selected samples Shan HuangCornellPart of Ph.D. Thesis Martha Haynes & Riccardo Giovanelli2009--(coming)
HI correlation function and the HI bias parameter Manolis PapastergisCornellPart of PhD thesis Riccardo Giovanelli & Martha Haynes2009-(coming)
ALFALFA-GASS: Gas Content of "Green Valley" Dwellers Silvia FabelloU. MunichPart of PhD thesis Guinevere Kauffmann2009-(coming)
ALFALFA-RESOLVE: Gas Content of a Mass-limited Sample David StarkU. North CarolinaPart of PhD thesis Sheila Kannappan2009-(coming)

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