Rychard Bouwens

Rychard J. Bouwens is an associate professor at the University of Leiden.[1][2] He is also a former member of the Advanced Camera for Surveys Guaranteed Time Observation team and postdoctoral research astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He obtained his bachelor's degree in physics, chemistry, and mathematics from Hope College. He then went on to earn his Ph.D. in physics at the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Joseph Silk and also worked with Tom Broadhurst.[3][4]

He works on the interpretation of high redshift starbursts.[5][6] He helped create the Bouwens' Universe Construction Set (BUCS), which can simulate arbitrary galaxy fields and calculate any galaxy observables.[7]

Throughout his career, he has broken the record for discovering the most distant galaxy in the universe, including three sources in 2015-2016 with record-breaking spectroscopic redshift measurements at z=7.73 (see EGS-zs8-1),[8][9] z=8.68 (see EGSY8p7),[10] and z=11.1 (see GN-z11).[11][12][13]. In a 2011 Nature paper,[14] his team discovered galaxy UDFj-39546284 with a photometric redshift of ~10[15][16] and was immediately heralded as the most distant source known in the universe.[17][18][19] It was later estimated to have a redshift of 11.9.[20].

In 2013,[21][22][23] he was awarded the Pastoor Schmeitsprijs voor de Sterrenkunde,[24] a prize in the Netherlands given to the researcher (under the age of 40) judged to have made the most significant contribution to astronomy.

Over the course of his career, Bouwens has five published papers in Nature, two as first author,[25] one as second author.[26], and two for Nature News & Views.[27][28].

References
  1. "Leiden Observatory faculty directory". Leiden University. Archived from the original on 2011-03-10.
  2. "Leiden Observatory Personal Page".
  3. "Professional History". LinkedIn.com.
  4. "Professional History" (PDF).
  5. "Description of Rychard Bouwens' Research". Word Press.
  6. "About firstgalaxies.org".
  7. Bouwens, Rychard J.; Illingworth, Garth D.; Magee, Daniel (2006). "BUCS: An Engine For Generating Realistic Imaging Data for Deep Galaxy Fields". arXiv:astro-ph/0605729.
  8. P.A. Oesch; P.D. van Dokkum; G.D. Illingworth; R.J. Bouwens; I. Momcheva; B. Holden; G. W. Roberts-Borsani; R. Smit; M. Franx; I. Labbé; V. González; D. Magee (2015). "A Spectroscopic Redshift Measurement for a Luminous Lyman Break Galaxy at z = 7.730 Using Keck/MOSFIRE". Astrophysical Journal. 804 (2): L30. arXiv:1502.05399. Bibcode:2015ApJ...804L..30O. doi:10.1088/2041-8205/804/2/L30.
  9. "Astronomers set a new galaxy distance record". astronomynow.com.
  10. A. Zitrin; I. Labbe; Belli, S.; R.J. Bouwens; R.S. Ellis; G. Roberts-Borsani; D.P. Stark; P.A. Oesch; R. Smit (2015). "Lymanα Emission from a Luminous z = 8.68 Galaxy: Implications for Galaxies as Tracers of Cosmic Reionization". Astrophysical Journal. 810 (1): L12. arXiv:1507.02679. Bibcode:2015ApJ...810L..12Z. doi:10.1088/2041-8205/810/1/L12.
  11. P. Oesch; G. Brammer; P.G. van Dokkum; G.D. Illingworth; R.J. Bouwens; I. Labbé; M. Franx; I. Momcheva; M.L.N. Ashby; G.G. Fazio; V. Gonzalez; B. Holden; D. Magee; R.E. Skelton; R. Smit; L.R. Spitler; M. Trenti; S.P. Willner (2016). "A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at z=11.1 Measured with Hubble Space Telescope Grism Spectroscopy". Astrophysical Journal. 819 (2): 129. arXiv:1603.00461. Bibcode:2016ApJ...819..129O. doi:10.3847/0004-637X/819/2/129.
  12. "Hubble Team Breaks Cosmic Distance Record". astronomynow.com.
  13. "Hubble Breaks Cosmic Distance Record". Space Telescope.
  14. R.J. Bouwens; G.D. Illingworth; I. Labbe; P.A. Oesch; M. Trenti; C.M. Carollo; P.G. van Dokkum; M. Franx; M. Stiavelli; V. González; D. Magee; L. Bradley (2011). "A candidate redshift z ~ 10 galaxy and rapid changes in that population at an age of 500 Myr". Nature. 469 (7331): 504–507. arXiv:0912.4263. Bibcode:2011Natur.469..504B. doi:10.1038/nature09717. PMID 21270889.
  15. "Astronomers Discover Oldest Galaxy Yet Seen". www.space.com.
  16. "NASA's Hubble Finds Most Distant Galaxy Candidate Ever Seen in Universe". www.nasa.gov.
  17. "Oldest Galaxy is Lone Ranger". Nature News.
  18. "Earliest Galaxy". Scientific American.
  19. "Hubble Finds Galaxy Beyond Key Benchmark".
  20. "Caltech-led astronomers discover galaxies near cosmic dawn". www.caltech.edu.
  21. "Prijs voor Rychard Bouwens van Sterrewacht Universiteit Leiden". omroepwest.nl.
  22. "Pastoor Schmeitsprijs voor de Sterrenkunde toegekend aan Dr. Rychard Bouwens". www.universiteitleiden.nl.
  23. "Science Prize for Dutch Astronomer".
  24. "Pastoor Schmeitsprijs".
  25. "Rapid evolution of the most luminous galaxies during the first 900 million years".
  26. "Rotation in [C II]-emitting gas in two galaxies at a redshift of 6.8".
  27. "Astronomy: Quasars signpost massive galaxies".
  28. "Distant galaxy formed stars only 250 million years after the Big Bang".


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