Peter Erwin: Astronomical Research

Curriculum Vitae (PDF file)

Refereed Papers

``Evolutionary Paths Between Different Red Galaxy Types and the Buildup of Massive E-S0's Through Major Mergers at 0.7 < z < 1.2,'' Mercedes Prieto, M. Carmen Eliche-Moral, Marc Balcells, David Cristóbal-Hornillos, Peter Erwin, David Abreu, Lilian Domínguez-Palmero, Angela Hempel, Carlos López Sanjuan, Rafael Guzmán, Pablo Pérez-González, Guillermo Barro, Jesus Gallego, and Jaime Zamorano, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, submitted.
``The HST/ACS Coma Cluster Survey: VIII. Barred Disk Galaxies in the Core of the Coma Cluster,'' Irina Marinova, Shardha Jogee, Tim Weinzirl, Peter Erwin, Neil Trentham, Henry C. Ferguson, Marc Balcells, David Carter, Mark den Brok, Alister W. Graham, Paul Goodfrooij, Rafael Guzmán, Derek Hammer, Carlos Hoyos, Bahram Mobasher, Mustapha Moucine, Reynier F. Peletier, Eric Peng, and Gijs Verdoes Kleijn, 2012, The Astrophysical Journal, in press.
``Do Nuclear Star Clusters and Supermassive Black Holes Follow the Same Host-Galaxy Correlations?'' Peter Erwin and Dimitri A. Gadotti, 2012 invited paper for Advances in Astronomy special issue, vol. 2012, Article ID 946368.
``The Relation Between Galaxy Morphology and Environment in the Local Universe: An RC3-SDSS Picture,'' David Wilman and Peter Erwin, 2012, The Astrophysical Journal, in press.
``A Strong Dichotomy in S0 Disk Profiles Between the Virgo Cluster and the Field,'' Peter Erwin, Leonel Gutiérrez, and John E. Beckman, 2012 The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 744: L11. (PDF preprint)
``The Outer Disks of Early-Type Galaxies. II. Surface-Brightness Profiles of Unbarred Galaxies and Trends with Hubble Type,'' Leonel Gutiérrez, Peter Erwin, Rebeca Aladro, and John E. Beckman, 2011, The Astronomical Journal, 142: 145.
``The HST/ACS Coma Cluster Survey: VII -- Colour Gradients in Giant and Dwarf Early-Type Galaxies,'' M. den Brok, R.F. Peletier, E.A. Valentyn, M. Balcells, D. Carter, P. Erwin, H.C. Ferguson, P. Goudfrooij, A.W. Graham, D. Hammer, J.R. Lucey, N. Trentham, R. Guzmán, C. Hoyos, G. Verdoes Kleijn, S. Jogee, A.M. Karick, I. Marinova, M. Mouhcine, and T. Weinzirl, 2011, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 414: 3052.
``The central black hole mass of the high-sigma but low-bulge-luminosity lenticular galaxy NGC 1332,'' S. P. Rusli, J. Thomas, P. Erwin, R. P. Saglia, N. Nowak, and R. Bender, 2011, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 410: 1223. (arXiv:1009.0515)
``The HST/ACS Coma Cluster Survey. II. Data Description and Source Catalogs,'' Derek Hammer and 46 co-authors, 2010, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 191: 143. (arXiv:1005.3300)
``Do black hole masses scale with classical bulge luminosities only? The case of the two composite pseudo-bulge galaxies NGC 3368 and NGC 3489,'' N. Nowak, J. Thomas, P. Erwin, R. P. Saglia, R. Bender, and R. I. Davies, 2010, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 403: 646. (ADS link)
``The HST/ACS Coma Cluster Survey -- V. Compact Stellar Systems in the Coma Cluster,'' J. Price, S. Phillipps, A. Huxor, N. Trentham, H. C. Ferguson, R. O. Marzke, A. Hornschemeier, P. Goudfrooij, D. Hammer, R. B. Tully, K. Chiboucas, R. J. Smith, D. Carter, D. Merritt, M. Balcells, P. Erwin, and T. H. Puzia, 2009, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 397: 1816. (ADS link)
``Robust Determination of the Major Merger Fraction at z = 0.6 in Groth Strip,'' Carlos López-Sanjuan, Marc Balcells, Cesar Enrique García-Dabó, Mercedes Prieto, David Cristóbal-Hornillos, M. Carmen Eliche-Moral, David Abreu, Peter Erwin, and Rafael Guzmán, 2009, The Astrophysical Journal, 694: 643. (ADS link)
``Bulges of Disk Galaxies at Intermediate Redshifts. I. Samples with and without Bulges in the Groth Strip,'' L. Domínguez-Palmero, M. Balcells, P. Erwin, M. Prieto, D. Cristóbal-Hornillos, M. C. Eliche-Moral, and R. Guzmán, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 488: 1167. (ADS link)
``The HST/ACS Coma Cluster Survey: I - Survey Objectives and Design,'' David Carter and 36 co-authors, 2008, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 176: 424. (ADS link)
``NGC 2655: From Inner Polar Ring to Outer Shells and Tails,'' Linda S. Sparke, Gustaaf van Moorsel, Peter Erwin, and Elizabeth Wehner, 2008, The Astronomical Journal, 135: 99. (ADS link)
``The Outer Disks of Early-Type Galaxies. I. Surface-Brightness Profiles of Barred Galaxies,'' Peter Erwin, Michael Pohlen, and John E. Beckman, 2008. The Astronomical Journal, 135: 20. (PDF) (ADS link)
``Double-Barred Galaxies at Intermediate Redshifts: A Feasibility Study,'' Thorsten Lisker, Victor P. Debattista, Ignacio Ferreras, and Peter Erwin, 2006. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 370: 477. (astro-ph/0509610) (ADS link)
``GOYA Survey: U and B Number Counts in the Groth-Westphal Strip,'' M. Carmen Eliche-Moral, Marc Balcells, Mercedes Prieto, César E. García-Dabó, Peter Erwin, and David Cristóbal-Hornillos, 2006. The Astrophysical Journal, 639: 644. (astro-ph/0511138) (ADS link)
``How Large Are the Bars in Barred Galaxies?'' Peter Erwin, 2005. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 364: 283. (PDF) (ADS link)
``Anti-Truncation of Disks in Early-Type Barred Galaxies'' Peter Erwin, John E. Beckman, and Michael Pohlen, 2005. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 626: L81. (PDF) (ADS link)
``The Nature of Luminous X-Ray Sources with Mid-Infrared Counterparts,'' A. Alonso-Herrero et al., 2004. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement 154: 155. (astro-ph/0406153) (ADS link)
``Evidence for a New Elliptical-Galaxy Paradigm: Sérsic and Core Galaxies,'' I. Trujillo, Peter Erwin, A. Asensio Ramos, and Alister W. Graham, 2004. The Astronomical Journal 127: 1917. (PDF) (ADS link)
``Double-Barred Galaxies: I. A Catalog of Barred Galaxies with Secondary Bars and Inner Disks,'' Peter Erwin, 2004. Astronomy & Astrophysics 415: 941. (PDF) (ADS link)
``When Is a Bulge Not a Bulge? Inner Disks Masquerading as Bulges in NGC 2787 and NGC 3945,'' Peter Erwin, Juan Carlos Vega Beltrán, Alister W. Graham, and John E. Beckman, 2003. The Astrophysical Journal, 597: 929. (PDF) (ADS link)
``A New Empirical Model for the Structural Analysis of Early-type Galaxies and a Critical Review of the Nuker Model,'' Alister W. Graham, Peter Erwin, I. Trujillo, and A. Asensio, 2003. The Astronomical Journal 125: 2951. (astro-ph/0306023) (ADS link)
``An Imaging Survey of Early-Type Barred Galaxies,'' Peter Erwin and Linda S. Sparke, 2003. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 146: 299. (PDF with color figures [17 MB]; PDF with main text [no individual galaxy figures, 1.2 MB]) (ADS link)
Note: This is a rather lengthy paper, with complex color illustrations and somewhat detailed discussions of almost 40 individual galaxies. If you're interested in our methods for finding and measuring inner bars, inner disks, etc., then you might try the second of the two versions listed above, the ``main-text-only'' version (which omits the individual figures for each galaxy, so it's only 1.2 MB). If you think you might be interested in a particular galaxy -- and want to check if it's in the paper first -- I've abstracted the tables listing the galaxies in the sample and our measurements of their components (bars, rings, etc), here: PDF Tables [308 KB].
``Double Bars, Inner Disks, and Nuclear Rings in Early-Type Disk Galaxies,'' Peter Erwin and Linda S. Sparke, 2002. The Astronomical Journal 124: 65. (astro-ph/0203514) (ADS link)
``A Correlation Between Galaxy Light Concentration and Supermassive Black Hole Mass,'' Alister W. Graham, Peter Erwin, N. Caon, and I. Trujillo, 2001. Astrophysical Journal Letters 563: L11. (astro-ph/0111152) (ADS link)
``Triple Bars and Complex Central Structures in Disk Galaxies,'' Peter Erwin and Linda S. Sparke, 1999. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 521: L37-40. (astro-ph/9906262) (ADS link)
``Vertical Instabilities and Off-Plane Orbits in Circumbinary Disks,'' Peter Erwin and Linda S. Sparke, 1999. The Astrophysical Journal 521: 798. (Text available as gzipped PostScript [116k] or uncompressed PostScript [312k]; figures available as gzipped PostScript [1.8mb]) (ADS link)
``Near-Infrared and Ultraviolet Spectrophotometry of Symbiotic Novae,'' R.J. Rudy, S.R. Meier, G.S. Rossano, D.K. Lynch, R.C. Puetter, and Peter Erwin, 1999. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement 121: 533. (ADS link)

Conference Proceedings

``Double-Barred Galaxies,'' Peter Erwin, 2011. In Tumbling, Twisting, and Winding Galaxies: Pattern Speeds along the Hubble Sequence, eds. E. M. Corsini & V. P. Debattista (Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana Supplement, vol. 18), 145. (arXiv:0908.0909)
``Barred Galaxies in the Coma Cluster,'' Irina Marinova et al., 2010. In New Horizons in Astronomy: Frank N. Bash Symposium 2009, eds. L. M. Stanford, J. D. Green, L. Hai, & Y. Mao (San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific), 219. (arXiv:1002.4611)
``Do Nuclear Star Clusters and Supermassive Black Holes Follow the Same Host-Galaxy Correlations?'' Peter Erwin and Dimitri Gadotti, 2010. In Hunting for the Dark: The Hidden Side of Galaxy Formation, eds. V.P. Debattista & C.C. Popescu (AIP Conference Proceedings), 223. (arXiv:1002.1461)
``The Coexistence of Classical Bulges, Pseudobulges, and Supermassive Black Holes,'' Peter Erwin, 2009. In The Monster's Fiery Breath: Feedback in Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters, eds. S. Heinz & E. Wilcots (Melville, NY: AIP Conference Proceedings), 104. (arXiv:1002.1445)
``Where Have All the Bulges Gone?'' L. Gutiérrez, A. Tamm, J. E. Beckman, L. Abrahamson, P. Erwin, and M. Guittet, 2009. In IAU Symposium 254: The Galaxy Disk in Cosmological Context, eds. J. Andersen, J. Bland-Hawthorn, & B. Nordstroöm (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 24. (arXiv:0810.2609)
``Black holes in low-mass bulges and pseudobulges,'' N. Nowak, R. P. Saglia, J. Thomas, P. Erwin, and R. Bender, 2008. In Mem.S.A.It., Proc. of Crete Conference, in press.
``Trends for Outer Disk Profiles,'' Peter Erwin, Michael Pohlen, Leonel Gutiérrez, and John E. Beckman, 2008. In Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Disks, eds. J. G. Funes & E. M. Corsini (San Francisco: ASP Conference Series), in press. (arXiv:0712.1473)
``The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Three Types of Disks,'' M. Pohlen, J. E. Beckman, R. Aladro, R.-J. Dettmar, P. Erwin, L. Gutiérrez, R. F. Peletier, I. Trujillo, & S. Zaroubi, 2008. In Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Disks, eds. J. G. Funes & E. M. Corsini (San Francisco: ASP Conference Series), in press.
``Extended UV (XUV) Emission in Nearby Galaxy Disks,'' Armando Gil de Paz and 20 co-authors, 2008. In Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Disks, eds. J. G. Funes & E. M. Corsini (San Francisco: ASP Conference Series), in press. (arXiv:0801.2255)
``The Coexistence of Classical Bulges and Disky Pseudobulges in Early-Type Disk Galaxies,'' Peter Erwin, 2008. In IAU Symposium 245: Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Bulges, eds. M. Bureau, E. Athanassoula, & B. Barbuy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 113. (arXiv:0709.3793)
``Black Holes in Low-Mass Bulges and Pseudobulges,'' Nina Nowak, Roberto P. Saglia, Jens Thomas, Peter Erwin, and Ralf Bender, 2008. In IAU Symposium 245: Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Bulges, eds. M. Bureau, E. Athanassoula, & B. Barbuy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 253.
``The Edges of the Stellar Populations of Early Type Spirals as Probed by Their Radial Brightness Profiles,'' J. Beckman, L. Gutiérrez, R. Aladro, P. Erwin, and M. Pohlen, 2007, in IAU Symposium 241: Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 495.
``Optical and near IR galaxy number counts in the GOYA survey. The ages of Ellipticals,'' M. Prieto, M. C. Eliche-Moral, M. Balcells, C. E. García-Dabó, D. Cristóbal-Hornillos, and P. Erwin, 2007, First Light Science with the GTC, RevMexAA (SC), 29, eds. R. Guzmán, C. Packham, J. M. Rodríguez-Espinosa, & S. Torres-Peimbert, 173.
``GOYA Survey: Mergers up to z = 1 in B- and K_{s}-selected samples,'' C. López-Sanjuan, M. Balcells, M. Prieto, D. Cristóbal-Hornillos, M. C. Eliche-Moral, P. Erwin, D. Abreu, C. E. García-Dabó, L. Domínguez-Palmero, and J. Zumsteg, 2007, First Light Science with the GTC, RevMexAA (SC), 29, eds. R. Guzmán, C. Packham, J. M. Rodríguez-Espinosa, & S. Torres-Peimbert, 172.
``Colors of intermediate z bulges in the GOYA survey,'' L. Domínguez-Palmero, M. Balcells, and P. Erwin, 2007, First Light Science with the GTC, RevMexAA (SC), 29, eds. R. Guzmán, C. Packham, J. M. Rodríguez-Espinosa, & S. Torres-Peimbert, 169.
``GOYA: K_s-Selected Galaxy Catalog 0 < z < 5,'' D. Abreu, M. Balcells, C. E. García-Dabó, M. Prieto, P. Erwin, and M. C. Eliche-Moral, 2007, First Light Science with the GTC, RevMexAA (SC), 29, eds. R. Guzmán, C. Packham, J. M. Rodríguez-Espinosa, & S. Torres-Peimbert, 165.
``The Outer Structure of Galactic Disks: Connections Between Bars, Disks, and Environments,'' Peter Erwin, Michael Pohlen, John E. Beckman, Leonel Gutiérrez, and Rebeca Aladro, 2008. In Pathways through an Eclectic Universe, eds. J. H. Knapen, T. J. Mahoney, & A. Vazdekis (San Francisco: ASP Conference Series), 251.
``Three Types of Galaxy Disks,'' M. Pohlen, P. Erwin, I. Trujillo, and J. E. Beckman, 2008. In Pathways through an Eclectic Universe, eds. J. H. Knapen, T. J. Mahoney, & A. Vazdekis (San Francisco: ASP Conference Series), 247.
``Classification of Galaxies by Their Radial Profiles: Unbarred Early Types'' Rebeca Aladro, L. Gutiérrez, Peter Erwin, and J. E. Beckman, 2008. In Pathways through an Eclectic Universe, eds. J. H. Knapen, T. J. Mahoney, & A. Vazdekis (San Francisco: ASP Conference Series), 288.
``The External Zones of Spiral Galaxies: Truncations, No Truncations and Antitruncations,'' J. E. Beckman, P. Erwin, M. Pohlen, L. Gutiérrez, R. Aladro, and I. Trujillo, 2008. In Mapping the Galaxy and Nearby Galaxies, ed. K. Wada (Springer), 310.
``Finding Double-Barred Galaxies with HST,'' T. Lisker, V. P. Debattista, I. Ferreras, and P. Erwin, 2007. In Galaxy Evolution Across the Hubble Time, IAU Symposium No. 235, eds. F. Combes and J. Palous (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), p. 117.
``Models of Galaxy Number Counts in the Groth-Westphal Strip of the GOYA Survey,'' M. Prieto, M. C. Eliche-Moral, C. E. García-Dabó, M. Balcells, D. Cristóbal-Hornillos, P. Erwin, L. Domínguez-Palmero, and D. Abreu, 2005. In Proceedings of SEA/JENAM 2004, The Many Scales of the Universe, Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting, ed. J. C. del Toro Iniesta et al. (Kluwer), in press.
``The Bulges of Intermediate Redshift Galaxies,'' L. Domínguez-Palmero, M. Balcells, M. Prieto, D. Cristóbal-Hornillos, P. Erwin, and M. C. Eliche-Moral, 2005. In Proceedings of SEA/JENAM 2004, The Many Scales of the Universe, Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting, ed. J. C. del Toro Iniesta et al. (Kluwer), in press.
``Stellar Masses of Star-Forming Galaxies at $0.3 < z < 1.2$ in the COSMOS Survey,'' D. Cristóbal-Hornillos, M. Balcells, M. Prieto, R. Guzmá'an, M. C. Eliche-Moral, P. Erwin, and L. Domínguez-Palmero, 2005. II International GTC Workshop: Science with GTC First-Light Instruments and the LMT, RevMexAA (SC), 24, eds. A. M. Hidalgo-Gámez, J. J. González, J. M. Rodríguez Espinosa, & S. Torres-Peimbert, 227.
``The Central Bulges of Galaxies at $0.3 < z < 1.2$,'' Lilian Domínguez-Palmero, M. Balcells, M. Prieto, D. Cristóbal-Hornillos, P. Erwin, and M. C. Eliche-Moral, 2005. II International GTC Workshop: Science with GTC First-Light Instruments and the LMT, RevMexAA (SC), 24, eds. A. M. Hidalgo-Gámez et al., 233.
``The EROs at $z < 1.5$ in the Groth-Westphal field of the GOYA Survey,'' M. Prieto, M. Balcells, L. Domínguez-Palmero, D. Cristóbal-Hornillos, P. Erwin, M. C. Eliche-Moral, and D. Abreu, 2005. II International GTC Workshop: Science with GTC First-Light Instruments and the LMT, RevMexAA (SC), 24, eds. A. M. Hidalgo-Gámez et al., 270.
``Pseudobulges in Barred S0 Galaxies,'' Peter Erwin, John E. Beckman, and Juan Carlos Vega Beltrán, 2004. In Penetrating Bars through Masks of Cosmic Dust, ed. D. L. Block, I. Puerari, K. C. Freeman, R. Groess, and E. K. Block (Dordrecht: Springer), 775. (astro-ph/0409103 )
``Stellar Disk Truncations: Where Do We Stand?'' M. Pohlen, J. E. Beckman, S. Hüttemeister, J.H. Knapen, P. Erwin, and R.-J. Dettmar, 2004. In Penetrating Bars through Masks of Cosmic Dust, ed. D. L. Block, I. Puerari, K. C. Freeman, R. Groess, and E. K. Block (Dordrecht: Springer), 731. (astro-ph/0405541 )
``The Correlation Between Supermassive Black Hole Mass and the Structure of Ellipticals and Bulges,'' Peter Erwin, N. Caon, and Alister W. Graham, 2003. In Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series, Vol. 1: Coevolution of Black Holes and Galaxies, ed. L. C. Ho (Pasadena: Carnegie Observatories, http://www.ociw.edu/ociw/symposia/series/symposium1/proceedings.html) (astro-ph/0212335 )
``Inner and Outer Photometric Structure of Elliptical Galaxies,'' Alister W. Graham, Peter Erwin, I. Trujillo, and A. Asensio Ramnos. In Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series, Vol. 1: Coevolution of Black Holes and Galaxies, ed. L. C. Ho (Pasadena: Carnegie Observatories, http://www.ociw.edu/ociw/symposia/series/symposium1/proceedings.html)
``A Photometric Method to Determine Supermassive Black Hole Masses,'' Alister W. Graham, Peter Erwin, N. Caon, and I. Trujillo, 2003. In Galaxy Evolution: Theory and Observations, eds., V. Avila-Reese, C. Firmani, C.S. Frenk, and C. Allen, RevMexAA (SC) 17, 196. (astro-ph/0206248)
``Double Bars and Inner Disks in Barred Galaxies,'' Peter Erwin, 2002. In Disks of Galaxies : Kinematics, Dynamics and Perturbations, eds. E. Athanassoula, A. Bosma, and R. Mujica (San Francisco: ASP Conference Series), 271.
``Double Bars, Inner Disks, and Nuclear Rings in Barred Galaxies,''Peter Erwin, L.S. Sparke, J.C. Vega Beltrán, and J.E. Beckman, 2001. In The central kpc of starbursts and AGN: the La Palma connection, eds. J.H. Knapen, J.E. Beckman, I. Shlosman and T.J. Mahoney (San Francisco: ASP Conference Series), 85. (astro-ph/0107141)
``Stellar Nuclear Rings in Barred Galaxies: Fossils of Past Circumnuclear Starbursts?'' Peter Erwin, Juan Carlos Vega Beltrán, and John E. Beckman, 2001. In The central kpc of starbursts and AGN: the La Palma connection, op cit., 171. (astro-ph/0112056)
``Kinematics and photometry as complementary tools in the study of barred galaxies,'' J.C. Vega Beltrán, P. Erwin, J. Beckman, A. Pizzella, E. M. Corsini, F. Bertola, and W. W. Zeilinger, 2001. In Galaxy Disks and Disk Galaxies, eds. J. G. Funes and E. M. Corsini (San Francisco: ASP Conference Series), 245. (astro-ph/0010593)
``NGC 4340: Double Bar + Fossil Nuclear Ring,'' Peter Erwin, J.C. Vega Beltrán, and J. Beckman, 2001. Astrophysics and Space Science Supplement 277: 457. (astro-ph/0009178)

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