Massimo Stiavelli's Home Page

• Massimo Stiavelli

Space Science Telescope Institute
3700 San Martin Drive
Baltimore, MD 21218 USA

 

• E-mail: mstiavel@stsci.edu
• Phone: 1-410-338-4835
• FAX: 1-410-338-4796

Professional Interests:

• Galaxy dynamics, evolution, nuclear properties. 

This is an example of cosmological simulation run with a version of Hydra (Couchman et al. 1995, ApJ 452, 797). The model is Omega=1 CDM Omega_b=0.06 with Schmidt law star formation, seen at the present time. The displayed box size is 12.5 Mpc. The simulation was run on a Sun Ultrasparc 30. A few groups of galaxies are visible. Dark matter is shown in black, gas in red and stars in blue. The upper right diagram shows radial velocities with respect to a point at the center of the region.

• Internal dynamics of globular clusters.
• Hubble Deep Field South
• Next Generation Space Telescope

Curriculum Vitae:

Recent papers: click here

Click here for a recent ESO press release based on VLT data on the HDFS: "An Extremely Red Galaxy".

NGST documents:

• Draft of NGST ASWG Visible and Near-IR Camera subcommittee report

  The draft is also available in postscript and in pdf format.

• NGST Interim Science Working Group
• Internal Structure of high-z Galaxies with NGST (Proceedings of the 34th Liege International Astrophysics Colloquium "Next Generation Space Telescope: Science Drivers and Technological Challenges"), Postscript version 8 MB
• Design Reference Mission (ST-ECF Newsletter Summer 97 p 10): HTML version, PostScript version(2.2MB)
• NGST Performance for studying the internal dynamics of high-z galaxies
• STScI NGST Pages

Duties at STScI

• I am Wide Field Camera 3
Instrument Scientist. WFC3 is scheduled to be installed on Hubble in 2003.
• In the past I have been an instrument scientist for Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2
.
• My Division/branch is the New Instruments and Servicing Dept. within the Hubble Division