Jaron Kurk's home page

Welcome to my web page. Do not expect it to be up-to-date, finished or final. It may still be useful, though.

I am currently a junior scientist working at the Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik in Garching bei Münich, in the Infrared and Submillimeter Astronomy group led by Reinhard Genzel. I am involved in the LUCIFER project, the multi-object near-infrared spectrograph at the 2x8m Large Binocular Telescope, and maintain a page about the operation of the instrument which may be useful for observers. I am also project coordinator within the project office at MPE for MICADO, one of the two first-light instruments under design for the European Extremely Large Telescope.

Until July 2009, I used to be at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie in Heidelberg, in the group of Fabian Walter and paid by Sonderforschungsbereich 439 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The title of this collaborative research center 439 is "Galaxies in the young Universe", which quite accurately describes what I was and am working on (see research).

From April 2003 to July 2005, I was a Post-Doc at Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri in Florence, Italy and, from October 1998 to May 2003, a PhD student at Sterrewacht Leiden in the Netherlands. I was also born in the Netherlands.

Some Publications (that were recent when I started at MPE)

"NIR spectroscopy of SDSS J0303-0019: a low luminosity, high Eddington ratio quasar at z~6 "
J.D. Kurk, F. Walter, X. Fan, L. Jiang, S. Jester, H.-W. Rix, D.A. Riechers
2009, ApJ 702, 833

"GMASS Ultradeep Spectroscopy of Galaxies at z~2. V: Witnessing the assembly of a galaxy cluster at z = 1.6"
J. Kurk, A. Cimatti, G. Zamorani, C. Halliday, M. Mignoli, L. Pozzetti, E. Daddi, P. Rosati, M. Dickinson, M. Bolzonella, P. Cassata, A. Renzini, A. Franceschini, G. Rodighiero, S. Berta
2009, A&A 504, 331

"Bright Ly-alpha emitters at z ~ 9: constraints on the LF from HizELS"
D. Sobral, P.N. Best, J.E. Geach, I. Smail, J. Kurk, M. Cirasuolo, M. Casali, R.J. Ivison, K. Coppin, G.B. Dalton
2009, MNRAS 398, L68

"The growth and assembly of a massive galaxy at z~2"
N.A. Hatch, R.A. Overzier, J.D. Kurk, G.K. Miley, H.J.A. Röttgering, A.W. Zirm
2009, MNRAS 395, 114

"GMASS Ultradeep Spectroscopy of Galaxies at z~2. IV: The variety of dust populations"
S. Noll, D. Pierini, A. Cimatti, E. Daddi, J.D. Kurk, M. Bolzonella, P. Cassata, C. Halliday, M. Mignoli, L. Pozzetti, et al.
2009, A&A 499, 69

"GMASS Ultradeep Spectroscopy of Galaxies at z~2. III: The emergence of the color bimodality at z~2"
P. Cassata, A. Cimatti, J. Kurk, G. Rodighiero, L. Pozzetti, M. Bolzonella, E. Daddi, M. Mignoli, S. Berta, M. Dickinson, et al.
2008, A&A 483, L39

"GMASS ultradeep spectroscopy of galaxies at z ~ 2. II. Superdense passive galaxies: how did they form and evolve?"
A. Cimatti, P. Cassata, L. Pozzetti, J. Kurk, M. Mignoli, A. Renzini, E. Daddi, M. Bolzonella, M. Brusa, G. Rodighiero, et al.
2008, A&A 482, 21

A more complete list can be found here or via an ADS search