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Leonidas Moustakas

Education
  • B.S., Astronomy, University of Arizona (1991)
  • B.S., Physics, University of Arizona (1991)
  • M.S., Astronomy, UC Berkeley (1994)
  • PhD., Astrophysics, UC Berkeley (1998)
Research Interests
  • Observational Cosmology
  • Galaxy formation and evolution
  • Strong gravitational lensing
  • The nature of dark matter
  • The OMEGA Explorer mission
Projects

CLASH Icon CLASH
Cluster Lensing And Supernova Survey with Hubble (CLASH) - An Innovative Survey to Place New Constraints on the Fundamental Components of the Cosmos using the Hubble Space Telescope

OMEGA Explorer Icon OMEGA Explorer
Using strong lensing to study the nature of Dark Matter

Professional Experience
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Astrophysics & Space Sciences Section
    • Research Scientist (2006 - present)
    • Scientist (2005-2006)
  • Space Telescope Science Institute, Postdoc with the Spitzer/GOODS-Legacy project (2002-2005)
  • University of Oxford, UK, Postdoc with the Observational Cosmology Group (1999-2002)
Selected Publications
  1. J. M. Comerford, L. A. Moustakas,, P. Natarajan 2010, ApJ, 24, L21 (2005)
  2. C. R. Keeton & L. A. Moustakas, 2009, ApJ, 699, 1720, "A New Channel for Detecting Dark Matter Substructure in Galaxies: Gravitational Lens Time Delay"
  3. M. I. Frost, J. Surace, L. A. Moustakas, J. Krick, 2009, ApJ, 698, L68, "A Pilot Search for Population III Supernova Candidates in the Spitzer/IRAC Dark Field"
  4. P. J. Marshall, D. W. Hogg, L. A. Moustakas, et al, 2009, ApJ, 694, 924, "Automated Detection of Galaxy-Scale Gravitational Lenses in High-Resolution Imaging Data"
  5. A. S. Bolton et al 2008, ApJ, 682, 964, "The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. V. The Full ACS Strong-Lens Sample"
  6. L. A. Moustakas, 2007, ApJ, 660, L31, "A Strong-Lens Survey in AEGIS: The Influence of Large Scale Structure"
  7. C. Papovich, L. A. Moustakas, et al 2006, ApJ, 640, 92, "Spitzer Observations of Massive, Red Galaxies at High Redshift"

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