Kevin McCarthy
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Pasadena, CA 91109Curriculum Vitae:
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Structure of the UniverseNASA Postdoc
Biography
Kevin received his Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Florida State University, 2008 and Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Florida, 2015. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Utah, 2021.
Education
- University of Utah, August 2015-May 2021, Doctor of Philosophy, Physics
- Thesis Title: Improving Cosmological Growth-Rate Constraints with Galaxy Clustering, Thesis Advisor: Zheng Zheng
- University of North Florida, May 2015, Bachelor of Science, Physics, Summa Cum Laude
- Florida State University, December 2008, Bachelor of Science, Marketing
Community Service
- Lunar Eclipse Stargazing Event, South Physics Observatory, January 2019, Salt Lake City, UT
- Astronomy Festival, Bryce Canyon National, June 2017, Bryce, UT
- Science Day at the U., South Physics Observatory Assistant, 2016 October, Salt Lake City, UT
- Astronomy Presentation for Girl Scout Troop 660, 2015 March, Callahan, FL
- Astronomy Information Table at Durbin Creek Elementary Space Night, 2015 February, St. Johns, FL
Research Interests
Galaxy clustering, measuring the spatial distribution of galaxies across cosmic time, is one of the premier tools of precision cosmology. Precisely determining how galaxies are spatially clustered and how that clustering evolves over cosmic time enables the direct measurement of the cosmic expansion history through baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the growth history of cosmic large-scale structure through redshift-space distortions (RSD). Measuring both BAO and RSD from the three-dimensional distribution of galaxies probes fundamental cosmological parameters, and is a key goal of multiple on-going and near-term projects, including the ESA/NASA Euclid mission and NASA's Roman Space Telescope. We seek to exploit this technique for the missions and surveys mentioned above.
Selected Awards
- Senior Astronomy Graduate Student Grant: $11500. 2019
- First-Year Astronomy Graduate Research Grant: $6000. 2016
- Outstanding Graduate TA Award: $3000. 2015
Selected Publications
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS:
3) McCarthy, K.S., Zheng, Z. Guo, H., Luo, W., Lin, Y.T., MNRAS, Submitted 2021 On the constraints of galaxy assembly bias in velocity space.
2) McCarthy, K.S., Zheng, Z., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., 2020, MNRAS, 499, 5220 Constraining Delay Time Distribution of Binary Neutron Star Mergers from Host Galaxy Properties.
1) McCarthy, K.S., Zheng, Z., Guo, H., 2019, MNRAS, 487, 2424 The effects of galaxy assembly bias on the inference of growth rate from redshift-space distortions.