Created: March 16, 2013

Last update: March 5, 2019

NEW!

• The GALEX/S4G Galaxies Surface Brightness Contours Explorer DEMO web-app (with JS9)
• Thesis and scripts

CV

• CV (January 2019)

DATA

→ DATA products page (OFFICIAL PAGE)

→ SINGLESEARCHPLUS2 (UNOFFICIAL PAGE) (Now with scatter plot feature!)

→ GTC/OSIRIS MOS (internal use)

→ GTC/MEGARA Exposure Time Calculator (official - hosted at the GTC)

→ NEW interactive visual comparator of DSS, GALEX FUV, and Spitzer IRAC images

International conferences participations (*=public)

• 2017 October: Spectroscopic Surveys with the ELT: A Gigantic Step into the Deep Universe, Toledo, Spain (LOC)
• 2017 September: RIA meeting: Proposing and processing MEGARA observations with GTC, Madrid, Spain (talk)
• 2016 March: IAU Symposium 321 Formation and evolution of galaxy outskirts, Toledo, Spain (talk)
• 2016 February: Jornada abierta sobre el instrumento MEGARA para GTC, Instituto de Óptica "Daza de Valdés” (CSIC, Madrid) (talk)
• 20150622-26, EWASS, Tenerife, Spain. Poster presentation.
• 20150416, IAC Tenerife, Spain, Journal Club Talk
• 20150323-27, MPIA Heidelberg, Germany, 3rd annual DAGAL meeting (talk)
• 20141211, Madrid, Spain, Jornadas de Doctorandos (talk)
• 20141019-25, Leiden, The Netherlands, workshop "Decoding the Assembly History of Galaxies at the Lorentz Center" (talk)
• 20140913-21, Bologna, Italy, Evolving Galaxies in Evolving Environments, 15-19 September 2014 (link) (poster)
• 20140802*, St Jean-le-Blanc, France, Observatoire Municipal de St Jean-le-Blanc "Les Nuits des étoiles". Stargazing volunteer on 200mm Dobson.
• 20140521, Groningen, The Netherlands, Kapteyn Institute Lunch Talk
• 20140506, Leiden, The Netherlands, Lorentz Center@Snellius The Passage of Light within Spiral Galaxies - Workshop
• 20140320, Madrid, Spain, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Journal Club
• 20140203, Tenerife, Spain, DAGAL 2nd annual meeting
• 20131218*: Tokyo, Japan, Mitaka Network University Skype Public Outreach talk (click here)
• 20131209*: HI, U.S.A., University of Hawai'i at Hilo (link)
• 20131206: HI, U.S.A., Subaru Telescope Journal Club (link)
• 20131120, Santiago, Chile: MORPH2013 Deconstructing Galaxies;.
• 20130814, Arkansas, U.S.A., Structure and Dynamics of Disk Galaxies; Talk Title and Abstract: here. PDF (14MB).
• 20130719*: St Jean-le-Blanc, France, Observatoire Municipal de St Jean-le-blanc Public Outreach talk. Pictures
• 20130304, Oulu, Finland, DAGAL 1st annual meeting.PDF (17MB)

Observations

• 2013 Dec.1 to Dec.3 (3 nights): Subaru/SuprimeCam observations with Jin Koda (PI), David Thilker, and Masafumi Yagi
• 2013-2014 Oct.-Mar. (semester 2013B): GTC/OSIRIS TF observations (20 hours) (PI); Proposal (Phase1 accepted). Phase 2. Download GTC OSIRIS Tools (TF setup tool, SNR Calculator). Data not obtained as requested due to instrument failures & bad weather (5/18 OBs).
• 2014 Jan.30 to Feb.01 (2 nights): Isaac Newton Telescope with DAGAL and Johan Knapen (P.I.)
• 2014-2015 Oct.-Mar. (semester 2014B): GTC/OSIRIS TF observations (28 hours) (PI); Proposal (Phase1 accepted)(Phase 2 accepted, with 28.23 hours).
• 2015 Mar.-Aug. (semester 2015A): GTC/OSIRIS MOS observations (1.5 hours) (Director Discretionary Time (PI: Johan Knapen)). Target selection, observing run preparations, data reduction (with some help), mask design (for MOS).
• 2015-2016 Oct.-Mar. (semester 2015B): GTC/OSIRIS MOS observations (15 hours awarded).
• 2016-2017 Oct.-Mar. (semester 2016B): GTC/OSIRIS MOS observations (4 hours awarded).

Trainings

• 2013 Sept.: Fifth European Radio Interferometry School ERIS 2013 link
• 2014 Jan.27, 28: Project Management Course (by Marisa), IAC, Spain
• 2014 Jan.30 to Feb.01: Observational hands-on training with the Isaac Newton Telescope, El Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Canarias, Spain.
• 2014 Jun.2-6: "Simulations as a tool for observers", Marseille, France
• 2015 Mar.23: "Training on Scientific Writing (for Outreach)", Heidelberg, Germany

Refereed and Non-refereed Publications (Up-to-date: NASA ADS link)

• Bouquin, Alexandre Y. K.; Gil de Paz, Armando; Muñoz-Mateos, Juan Carlos; Boissier, Samuel; Sheth, Kartik; Zaritsky, Dennis; Peletier, Reynier F.; Knapen, Johan H.; Gallego, Jesús, 2018, ApJS, 234, 18
  "The GALEX/S4G Surface Brightness and Color Profiles Catalog - I. Surface Photometry and Color Gradients of Galaxies"
• Bouquin, Alexandre Y. K.; Gil de Paz, Armando 2016, ASPC
  "UV-IR color profiles of the outer regions of 2K nearby S4G galaxies"
• Munoz-Mateos, Juan Carlos; Sheth, Kartik; Regan, Michael; Kim, Taehyun; Laine, Jarkko; Erroz-Ferrer, Santiago; Gil de Paz, Armando; Comeron, Sebastien; Hinz, Joannah; Laurikainen, Eija; Salo, Heikki; Athanassoula, E.; Bosma, Albert; Bouquin, Alexandre Y. K.; Schinnerer, Eva; Ho, Luis; Zaritsky, Dennis; Gadotti, Dimitri; Madore, Barry; Holwerda, Benne; Menendez-Delmestre, Karin; Knapen, Johan H.; Meidt, Sharon; Querejeta, Miguel; Mizusawa, Trisha; Seibert, Mark; Laine, Seppo; Courtois, Helene, 2015, ApJS, 219, 3
  "The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G): Stellar Masses, Sizes and Radial Profiles for 2352 Nearby Galaxies"
• Koda, Jin; Yagi, Masafumi; Komiyama, Yutaka; Boissier, Samuel; Boselli, Alessandro; Bouquin, Alexandre Y. K.; Donovan Meyer, Jennifer; Gil de Paz, Armando; Imanishi, Masatoshi; Madore, Barry F.; Thilker, David A., 2015, ApJL, 802, 24
  "Discovery of New Dwarf Galaxy Near the Isolated Spiral Galaxy NGC 6503"
• Bouquin, Alexandre Y. K.; Gil de Paz, Armando; Boissier, Samuel; Muñoz-Mateos, Juan-Carlos; Sheth, Kartik; Zaritsky, Dennis; Laine, Jarkko; Gallego, Jesús; Peletier, Reynier F.; Röck, Benjamin R.; Knapen, Johan H., 2015, ApJL, 800, 19
  "The GALEX/S4G UV-IR Color-Color Diagram: Catching Spiral Galaxies Away from the Blue Sequence"
• Zaritsky, Dennis; Gil de Paz, Armando; Bouquin, Alexandre Y. K., 2015, MNRAS, 446, 2030
  "The connection between the UV colour of early-type galaxies and the stellar initial mass function revisited"
• Zaritsky, Dennis; Gil de Paz, Armando; Bouquin, Alexandre Y. K., 2014, ApJL, 780, 1
• Bouquin, A. Y. K.; Gil de Paz, A.; Boissier, S.; Muñoz-Mateos, J. C., 2014, ASPC, 480, 221
  "Gas Accretion and Consumption in Disks in the Local Universe from the S4G/DAGAL Survey"

Press Releases and Outreach

• Público, May 26, 2015
  Descubren una galaxia oscura cerca de la Vía Láctea
• Ibercampus, May 26, 2015
  Hallan la punta de una población de galaxias enanas
• IAC Results Gallery, 2015
  The GALEX/S4G UV-IR color-color diagram: catching Spiral Galaxies away from the Blue Sequence
• DAGAL outreach in Japanese, December 18, 2013
• Subaru Telescope Topics, December 5, 2013
  Subaru Telescope's Image Captures the Intricacy of Comet Lovejoy's Tail
• Ka Lono Hanakahi, Vol.16, No.8, April 2001 (UHH)
  UH Hilo astronomy professor awarded time on Subaru Telescope; students assist with research

Useful Links

• DAGAL official page
• DAGAL WIKI (login page)
• HyperLeda "Extract mean data for a list of objects"
• GALEXview (to obtain GALEX data)
• Staralt, Startrack, Starobs, Starmult (to prepare observing runs)
• Units conversions and important spectral lines
• Vizier (for Fornax cluster and group)
• Galaxy On Line Database Milano Network GOLD Mine (for Virgo Cluster)
• OSIRIS at GTC blog
• GTC Preferred Spectrophotometric Standards
• Manuscript Preparation: AJ & ApJ Author Instructions
• MAST Portal
• Hubble Legacy Archive
• IRAF task help
• Python Cheatsheet

Useful softwares

• TOPCAT
• UREKA
• GAIA
• MRT format tablemaker for online data

Public Outreach

• See Warpcore