Phone: (773) 702-1653
Location: LASR 226
Email: rreyeskicp.uchicago.edu
WWW: Web Site

My research centers on weak gravitational lensing in galaxy surveys, namely SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) and DES (Dark Energy Survey). Galaxy - galaxy lensing is a powerful and versatile tool that can illuminate many problems in cosmology and galaxy formation. Recent and ongoing work focus on observational constraints on disk galaxy formation and evolution from combined photometry, lensing, and kinematics.

Ongoing Scientific Projects:

• Dark Energy Survey (DES)
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)

• KICP Postdocs Symposium, Winter 2013 Postdocs Symposium (organizer)
• KICP Postdocs Symposium, Fall 2012 Postdocs Symposium (organizer)
• KICP Postdocs Symposium, Fall 2011 Postdocs Symposium

• Friday Seminar committee

2013 | 2012 | 2011


Latest Journal Publications

1. "Cosmological parameter constraints from galaxy-galaxy lensing and galaxy clustering with the SDSS DR7", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 432, Issue 2, p.1544-1575 (Jun 2013)
2. "First SN Discoveries from the Dark Energy Survey", The Astronomer's Telegram, #4668 (Dec 2012)
3. "Optical-to-virial velocity ratios of local disc galaxies from combined kinematics and galaxy-galaxy lensing", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 425, Issue 4, pp. 2610-2640 (Oct 2012)
4. "Tully-Fisher relation for SDSS galaxies (Reyes+, 2011)", VizieR On-line Data Catalog: J/MNRAS/417/2347. Originally published in: 2011MNRAS.417.2347R (May 2012)
5. "The 2010 Very High Energy γ-Ray Flare and 10 Years of Multi-wavelength Observations of M 87", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 746, Issue 2, article id. 151, 18 pp. (2012) (Feb 2012)
6. "Optical-to-virial velocity ratios of local disk galaxies from combined kinematics and galaxy-galaxy lensing", arXiv:1110.4107 (Oct 2011)

Past Visitors:

1. Alyson Brooks, U Wisconsin Madison (2013)
2. Austin Joyce, University of Pennsylvania (2013)
3. Emmanouil Papastergis, Cornell University (2013)
4. Morag Scrimgeour, University of Western Australia (2013)
5. Ann Zabludoff, University of Arizona/Steward Observatory (2013)
6. Sarah Miller, Oxford / Caltech (2012)