Rajib Ganguly

Postdoctoral Research Scientist
AGN Research Group
Department of Physics & Astronomy
The University of Wyoming


CONTACT INFORMATION
phone: (307) 766-3053, (307) 399-6361
fax: (307) 766-2652
email: ganguly at uwyo dot edu
www: http://physics.uwyo.edu/~ganguly

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2005-present Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Wyoming
2002-2005 Postdoctoral Researcher, Space Telescope Science Institute
1996-2002 Ph.D. Student, The Pennsylvania State University
1991-1996 B.S. Physics/Astronomy, Cum Laude, University of Arizona

GRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2000 Hobby-Eberly Telescope Resident Astronomer
2000 JCAM Commissioning Team
1999-2002 Hobby-Eberly Telescope Commissioning,
JCAM spectrograph electronics testing,
Low Resolution Spectrograph software testing
Advisors: Lawrence W. Ramsey, James Beatty
1998-2002 Ph.D. Thesis work: QSO-Intrinsic Narrow Absorption Systems
Thesis Advisors: Jane C. Charlton, Michael Eracleous
1996-1998 Quasar Absorption Line Research
Advisor: Jane C. Charlton

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERTISE
Languages C, Perl, HTML, Latex
Packages PGPlot, Lick Mongo, Super Mongo, Cloudy, IRAF, Numerical Recipes
Operating Systems Unix, Linux, Windows

TEACHING/OUTREACH EXPERIENCE
2003-2005 "Big Explosions & Strong Gravity" Girls Scout Patch Activity
1999-2002 "Seeing the Rainbow" Interactive Spectroscopy Demonstration
1997-1998 Supervised Teaching Assistant
Penn State University
Supervisor: Daniel Weedman
1996-1997 Supervised Teaching Assistant
Penn State University
Supervisors: Robin B. Ciardullo, Jane C. Charlton

AWARDS
1999 The Zaccheus Daniel Fellowship Award
1996 The Oscar J. Roberts Fellowship Award

REFEREED PAPERS
1998 Ganguly, R., Churchill, C.W., Charlton, J.C. - ApJ,498, L103
An Alumininum-Enriched Cloud at z=1.94


1999 Ganguly, R., Eracleous, M., Charlton, J.C., Churchill, C.W. - AJ, 117, 2594
Intrinsic Narrow Absorption Lines in KECK/HIRES Spectra of a Sample of Six Quasars


2001 Ganguly, R., Bond, N.A., Charlton, J.C., Eracleous, M., Brandt, W.N., Churchill, C.W. - ApJ, 549, 133
On the Origin of Narrow Absorption Line Gas Intrinsic to Low Redshift QSOs

Ganguly, R., Charlton, J.C., Bond, N.A. - ApJL, 553101
The Absorbers Toward CSO 118: Superclustering at z~3, or an Intrinsic Absorption Complex

Ganguly, R., Charlton, J.C., Eracleous, M. - ApJL, 556, 7
Variable UV Absorption in the Spectrum of MRC 2251-178


2003 Rosenburg, J. L., Ganguly, R., Giroux, M. L., Stocke, J. T. - ApJ, 591, 677
Probing the Size of Low-Redshift Lyman-alpha Absorbers

Ganguly, R., Masiero, J., Charlton, J. C., Sembach, K. R. - ApJ, 598, 922
An Intrinsic Absorption Complex Toward RX J1230.8+0115


2004 Wise, J. H., Eracleous, M., Charlton, J. C., Ganguly, R. - ApJ, 613, 129
Variability of Narrow Associated Absorption Lines in Nearby Quasars


2005 Tripp, T. M., Jenkins, E. B., Bowen, D. V., Prochaska, J. X., Aracil, B., Ganguly, R. -- ApJ, 619, 714
Discovery of a Primitive Damped Ly-alpha Absorber near an X-Ray-bright Galaxy Group in the Virgo Cluster

Ganguly, R., Sembach, K. R., Tripp, T. M., Savage, B. D. -- ApJS, 157, 251
Highly Ionized Gas in the Galactic Halo and the High-Velocity Clouds toward PG 1116+215


2006 Ganguly, R., Sembach, K. R., Tripp, T. M., Savage, B. D., Wakker, B. P. -- ApJ, 645, 868
High-Resolution Absorption Spectroscopy of Multiphase, High-Metallicity Gas Associated with the Luminous Quasar HE 0226-4110

Narayanan, A., Misawa, T., Charlton, J. C., Ganguly, R. -- AJ, 132, 2099
The Advantage of Increased Resolution in the Study of Quasar Absorption Systems


2007 Ganguly, R., et al. -- AJ, 133, 479
Hubble Space Telescope Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of 14 Low-Redshift Quasars

Misawa, T., Charlton, J. C., Eracleous, M., Ganguly, R., Tytler, D., Kirkman, D., Suzuki, N., Lubin, D. -- ApJ, in press
A Census of Intrinsic Narrow Absorption Lines in the Spectra of Quasars at z = 2 - 4

Ganguly, R., Brotherton, M. S., Cales, S., Scoggins, B., Shang, Z., Vestergaard, M. -- ApJ, in press
Outflows and the Physical Properties of Quasars

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
2001 Ganguly, R.
Properties of QSO-Intrinsic Narrow Ultraviolet Absorption
Mass Outflow in Active Galactic Nuclei: New Perspectives
ASP Conference Series, ed. D.M. Crenshaw, S.B. Kraemer, and I.M. George
2000 Ganguly, R., Bond, N.A., Charlton, J.C., Eracleous, M., Brandt, W.N., Churchill, C.W.
On the Origins of QSO-intrinsic Narrow Absorption Lines
Guillermo Haro Advanced Lectures on the Starburst-AGN Connection
eds. I. Aretxaga, D. Kunth, R. Mújica
Ganguly, R., Bond, N.A., Charlton, J.C., Eracleous, M., Brandt, W.N., Churchill, C.W.
On the Origins of QSO-intrinsic Narrow Absorption Lines
Celebrating 10 Years of HST
Hubble Space Telescope Symposium, ed. M. Livio


AAS ABSTRACTS
197 The Absorbers Toward CSO 118: Heirarchical Clustering at z~3, or an Intrinsic Absorption Complex?
195 On the Origin of Intrinsic UV Narrow Absorption Lines in Low-Redshift QSOs I and II
193 Intrinsic Narrow Quasar Absorption Properties at z~2
191 An Aluminum Enhanced Cloud in a z=1.94 CIV Absorber
188 Dynamics of the Rich Cluster of Galaxies, Abell 2255