MARIANGELA BERNARDI
Assistant Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
209 South 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6396
(215) 573-6251
bernardm@physics.upenn.edu
Mariangela Bernardi is currently an assistant professor in the
Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania.
Early-type galaxies are her main research interest. She assembled,
maintained and analyzed the ENEAR database used for peculiar velocity
studies; it is still the only all-sky early-type galaxy database.
She demonstrated that chemical compositions of early-type galaxies in
the ENEAR sample show little dependence on environment.
She also used the SDSS database to assemble and analyze the largest
catalog of early-type galaxies to date.
She used it to analyze the Fundamental Plane at ~ 0.1;
to demonstrate that velocity dispersion is the key physical parameter
which determines galaxy properties;
and to make the first direct measurements of the distribution of
galaxy sizes, masses and velocity dispersions.
She has also published work on the IGM and quasars at intermediate
and high redshift and is acknowledged as an SDSS builder.
Links
Publications and CV
Research Areas
Observational Cosmology
Early-type Galaxies: formation, evolution, and environmental dependence
Large-scale structures and peculiar motions
QSOs and Ly-alpha forest
Galaxy structure
Projects I am involved in
SDSS: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
ENEAR: Redshift-Distance Survey of Early-Type Galaxies