Pauline Barmby, Professor

I'm interested in galaxies: how did they form and change into their current forms? There are many ways to attack this problem: my research involves observational studies of both nearby galaxies and their stellar populations and distant, high-redshift galaxies. I use many telescopes and databases and am interested in applications of statistics and machine learning to astrophysics.

1. Dewsnap, C., Barmby, P., Gallagher, S. C., Urry, C. M., Ghosh, A., and Powell, M. C., “GALFIT-ing AGN Host Galaxies in COSMOS: HST versus Subaru”, The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 944, no. 2, 2023. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac9400.
2. Barmby, P., “Gaia DR3 and nearby galaxies: where do foregrounds matter?”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 518, no. 3, pp. 3746–3753, 2023. doi:10.1093/mnras/stac3289.
3. Kuhn, L., Shubat, M., and Barmby, P., “Comparing NED and SIMBAD classifications across the contents of nearby galaxies”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 515, no. 1, pp. 807–816, 2022. doi:10.1093/mnras/stac1801.
4. Kwik, R. J., Wang, J., Barmby, P., and Holwerda, B. W., “Galactic component mapping of galaxy UGC 2885 by machine learning classification”, Advances in Space Research, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 229–247, 2022. doi:10.1016/j.asr.2022.04.032.

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Undergraduate:
Physics 4999: Honours Research

Graduate:
Astronomy 9403: Galaxies

• Distinguished University Professor, Western University, 2022

• Co-Chair, Canadian Astronomy Long-Range Plan 2020
• Academic Colleague, Council of Ontario Universities