Gary Wegner

Gary Wegner is currently Margaret Anne and Edward Leede '49 Distinguished Professor and Professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College where he has been a member of the faculty since 1982. He studied mathematics at Washington State University and received the B.S. degree in astronomy from the University of Arizona in 1967 and the Ph.D. degree in astronomy from the University of Washington in 1971. In 1971-1972, Wegner was a Fulbright Fellow at Mount Stromlo Observatory of the Australian National University. In 1972–1975, he was the Departmental Demonstrator in astrophysics at the University of Oxford and 1975–1978 served on the staff of the South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town. In 1978–1979, he was the Annie J. Cannon fellow in the Physics Department of the University of Delaware and in 1979–1982, an Assistant Professor of astronomy at the Pennsylvania State University. In addition, Wegner has been a Visiting Astronomer at several institutions including the University of Cambridge, 1977, Kitt Peak National Observatory, 1987, Cornell University, 1992, Oxford, 1992-1993 and 2002, the European Southern Observatory, 1997, and receipient of a research prize from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung at the Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, 1993-1994. He was director of the Michigan-Dartmouth-MIT Observatory on Kitt Peak, 1991-1999. Wegner's earlier work concentrated on spectroscopic observations of Ap stars and in particular, white dwarf stars, atmospheric abundances in their atmospheres, and measurement of the gravitational redshift. More recently his work has been concerned with extra-galactic astronomy. He was a member of the Seven Samurai group, 1987, that discovered the Great Attractor and large-scale galaxy motions and contributed to the EFAR, ENEAR, and SFI studies of galaxy motions and the Century redshift survey. Currently, Wegner is working on problems of galaxy evolution and dynamics.

Biography Updated on 11 December 2007

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. The NOAO Fundamental Plane Survey - III. Variations in the stellar populations of red-sequence galaxies from the cluster core to the virial radius
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 369, no. 3, pp. 1419–1436, 2006
  2. Regularized orbit models unveiling the stellar structure and dark matter halo of the Coma elliptical NGC 4807
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 360, no. 4, pp. 1355–1372, 2005
  3. NOAO Fundamental Plane Survey. II. Age and Metallicity along the Red Sequence from Line-Strength Data
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 632, no. 1, pp. 137–156, 2005
  4. The Oxford-Dartmouth Thirty Degree Survey - II. Clustering of bright Lyman break galaxies: strong luminosity-dependent bias at z= 4
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 360, no. 4, pp. 1244–1256, 2005
  5. Spectroscopy of KISS Emission-Line Galaxy Candidates. III. A Second Set of MDM Observations
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 130, no. 2, pp. 496–505, 2005
  6. The Oxford-Dartmouth Thirty Degree Survey - I. Observations and calibration of a wide-field multiband survey
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 352, no. 4, pp. 1255–1272, 2004
  7. NOAO Fundamental Plane Survey. I. Survey Design, Redshifts, and Velocity Dispersion Data
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 128, no. 4, pp. 1558–1569, 2004
  8. Structural properties of discs and bulges of early-type galaxies
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 355, no. 4, pp. 1155–1170, 2004
  9. Spectroscopy of KISS Emission-Line Galaxy Candidates. I. MDM Observations
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 125, no. 5, pp. 2373–2392, 2003
  10. Redshift-Distance Survey of Early-Type Galaxies: Circular-Aperture Photometry
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 125, no. 5, pp. 2307–2324, 2003
  11. Redshift-Distance Survey of Early-Type Galaxies: Spectroscopic Data
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 126, no. 5, pp. 2268–2280, 2003
  12. An Estimate of m without Conventional Priors
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 596, no. 2, pp. L131–L134, 2003
  13. Mass Profile of the Infall Region of the Abell 2199 Supercluster
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 124, no. 3, pp. 1266–1282, 2002
  14. Redshift-Distance Survey of Early-Type Galaxies. II. The [ITAL]D[/ITAL][TINF][CLC][ITAL]n[/ITAL][/CLC][/TINF]-s Relation
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 123, no. 5, pp. 2159–2182, 2002
  15. The WARPS Survey. VI. Galaxy Cluster and Source Identifications from Phase I
    The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 140, no. 2, pp. 265–301, 2002
  16. Redshift-Distance Survey of Early-Type Galaxies. I. The ENEAR[CLC]c[/CLC] Cluster Sample
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 123, no. 6, pp. 2990–3017, 2002
  17. X-Ray–emitting Groups in the Infall Region of Abell 2199
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 555, no. 2, pp. 558–562, 2001
  18. Redshifts for 2410 Galaxies in the Century Survey Region
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 122, no. 6, pp. 2893–2900, 2001
  19. Large-scale power spectrum and structures from the ENEAR galaxy peculiar velocity catalogue
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 326, no. 1, pp. 375–386, 2001
  20. The peculiar motions of early-type galaxies in two distant regions - VI. The maximum-likelihood Gaussian algorithm
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 324, no. 2, pp. 389–419, 2001
  21. Comparing the SFI peculiar velocities with the PSCz gravity field: a VELMOD analysis
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 326, no. 3, pp. 1191–1204, 2001
  22. Comparison of the ENEAR peculiar velocities with the PSCz gravity field
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 320, no. 3, pp. L21–L24, 2001
  23. The peculiar motions of early-type galaxies in two distant regions - VII. Peculiar velocities and bulk motions
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 321, no. 2, pp. 277–305, 2001
  24. The WARPS survey - IV. The X-ray luminosity-temperature relation of high-redshift galaxy clusters
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 315, no. 4, pp. 669–678, 2000
  25. Redshift-Distance Survey of Early-Type Galaxies: Dipole of the Velocity Field
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 537, no. 2, pp. L81–L84, 2000
  26. Redshift-Distance Survey of Early-Type Galaxies. I. Sample Selection, Properties, and Completeness
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 120, no. 1, pp. 95–109, 2000
  27. The WARPS Survey. III. The Discovery of an X-Ray Luminous Galaxy Cluster at [ITAL]z[/ITAL]?=?0.833 and the Impact of X-Ray Substructure on Cluster Abundance Measurements
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 534, no. 1, pp. 133–145, 2000
  28. ENEAR Redshift-Distance Survey: Cosmological Constraints
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 537, no. 1, pp. L1–L4, 2000
  29. The Infall Region of Abell 576: Independent Mass and Light Profiles
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 120, no. 5, pp. 2338–2354, 2000
  30. Correlation Analysis of SFI Peculiar Velocities
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 119, no. 1, pp. 102–110, 2000
  31. The [ITAL]I[/ITAL]-Band Tully-Fisher Relation for S[CLC]c[/CLC] Galaxies: Optical Imaging Data
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 117, no. 4, pp. 1668–1687, 1999
  32. The [ITAL]I[/ITAL]-Band Tully-Fisher Relation for S[CLC]c[/CLC] Galaxies: 21 Centimeter H [CSC]i[/CSC] Line Data
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 117, no. 5, pp. 2039–2051, 1999
  33. Large-Scale Power Spectrum and Cosmological Parameters from SFI Peculiar Velocities
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 523, no. 1, pp. 1–15, 1999
  34. The peculiar motions of early-type galaxies in two distant regions -- II. The spectroscopic data
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 305, no. 2, pp. 259–296, 1999
  35. The X-ray evolution of clusters of galaxies
    Astronomische Nachrichten: News in Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 319, no. 1-2, pp. 87–90, 1998
  36. The UK ROSAT Deep Survey
    Astronomische Nachrichten: News in Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 319, no. 1-2, pp. 51–54, 1998
  37. A Photometric and Kinematic Study of AWM 7
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 116, no. 5, pp. 2108–2118, 1998
  38. Flows on Scales of 150 M[CLC]pc[/CLC]?
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 507, no. 2, pp. L105–L108, 1998
  39. Cluster versus Field Elliptical Galaxies and Clues on Their Formation
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 508, no. 2, pp. L143–L146, 1998
  40. The Motions of Clusters of Galaxies and the Dipoles of the Peculiar Velocity Field
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 116, no. 6, pp. 2632–2643, 1998
  41. The Tully-Fisher Relation and [ITAL]H[/ITAL][TINF]0[/TINF]
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 477, no. 1, pp. L1–L4, 1997
  42. The Quadruple Gravitational Lens PG 1115+080: Time Delays and Models
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 475, no. 2, pp. L85–L88, 1997
  43. Using Fundamental Plane Distances to Estimate the Total Binding Mass in Abell 2626
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 114, p. 25, 1997
  44. The Peculiar Motions of Early-type Galaxies in Two Distant Regions. IV. The Photometric Fitting Procedure
    The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 109, no. 1, pp. 79–102, 1997
  45. Peculiar Velocities of Clusters in Cold Dark Matter Models
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 482, no. 2, pp. L121–L124, 1997
  46. The Century Survey: A Deeper Slice of the Universe
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 114, p. 2205, 1997
  47. The I Band Tully-Fisher Relation for Cluster Galaxies: a Template Relation, its Scatter and Bias Corrections.
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 113, p. 53, 1997
  48. 21 CM H1 Line Spectra of Galaxies in Nearby Clusters
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 113, p. 1197, 1997
  49. The I band Tully-Fisher relation for cluster galaxies: data presentation.
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 113, p. 22, 1997
  50. Spectral types for objects in the KISO survey. X. Data for 156 objects.
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 111, p. 865, 1996
  51. A Dynamical Analysis of the Poor Galaxy Clusters Abell 2626 and Abell 2440
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 112, p. 1816, 1996
  52. The Peculiar Motions of Early-Type Galaxies in Two Distant Regions. I. Cluster and Galaxy Selection
    The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 106, p. 1, 1996
  53. An Optical and X-Ray Study of Abell 576, a Galaxy Cluster with a Cold Core
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 470, p. 724, 1996
  54. A Test of the Lauer-Postman Bulk Flow
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 464, no. 2, pp. L99–L102, 1996
  55. The Mass Distribution in the Nearby Universe
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 468, no. 1, pp. L5–L8, 1996
  56. Determination of Malmquist Bias and Selection Effects from Monte Carlo Simulations
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 110, p. 920, 1995
  57. Redshifts for Fainter Galaxies in the First CFA Slice. III. To the Zwicky Catalog Limit
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 109, p. 2368, 1995
  58. Hubble Space Telescope observations of cool white dwarf stars: Detection of new species of heavy elements
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 109, p. 1231, 1995
  59. Dependence on Luminosity of Photometric Properties of Disk Galaxies: Surface Brightness, Size, and Internal Extinction
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 110, p. 1059, 1995
  60. The nova-like cataclysmic variable star: KUV 0859+415
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 108, p. 214, 1994
  61. Spectral types for objects in the KISO survey. 9: Data for 121 objects
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 108, p. 2025, 1994
  62. Extinction in SC galaxies
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 107, p. 2036, 1994
  63. Distribution of galaxies around Abell 262 and the NGC 383 and NGC 507 groups
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 108, p. 33, 1994
  64. A survey of the Pisces-Perseus supercluster. V - The declination strip +33.5 deg to +39.5 deg and the main supercluster ridge
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 105, p. 1251, 1993
  65. A study of the rich cluster of galaxies A 119
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 105, p. 788, 1993
  66. Spectral types for objects in the KISO survey. VII - Data for 118 stars
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 105, p. 660, 1993
  67. Spectral types for objects in the KISO survey. VIII - Data for 144 stars
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 106, p. 390, 1993
  68. Spectroscopy and spectral types for 387 stellar objects from the large, bright QSO survey
    The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 78, p. 409, 1992
  69. A spectrophotometric atlas of white dwarfs compiled from the IUE archives
    The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 75, p. 507, 1991
  70. UV observations of the cool DBQA5 white dwarf LDS 678A - Limits on the atmospheric composition, pressure shift, and gravitational redshift derived from C I 2479
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 101, p. 583, 1991
  71. Gravitational redshift determinations for white dwarfs in common proper-motion binaries
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 375, p. 674, 1991
  72. Gravitational redshift for the Pleiad white dwarf LB 1497
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 376, p. 186, 1991
  73. Redshifts for fainter galaxies in the first CfA survey slice. II
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 100, p. 1405, 1990
  74. Spectral types for objects in the KISO survey. VI - Data for 143 stars
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 100, p. 1274, 1990
  75. Photoelectric photometry for 106 objects in the KISO survey
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 99, p. 1907, 1990
  76. Spectral types for objects in the KISO survey. V - Data for 110 stars
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 99, p. 330, 1990