Eric F. Bell

Eric F. Bell
EducationGlasgow University (BSc)
Durham University (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsObservational astronomy
ThesisExploring the star formation histories of galaxies (1999)
Richard Bower and Bernard Rauscher
Websitesites.lsa.umich.edu/ericbell/

Eric Findlay Bell[1] is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Astronomy at the University of Michigan.[2]

Formerly a staff scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Bell was a 2007 awardee of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize from the German Research Foundation for his work on galaxy formation.[3][4]

He was part of the team that discovered Andromeda XXXV, a satellite galaxy of Andromeda, in 2025.[5]

Selected publications

  • Bell, E. F.; de Jong, R. S. (2001). "Stellar mass-to-light ratios and the Tully–Fisher relation". The Astrophysical Journal. 550 (1): 212–229. arXiv:astro-ph/0011493.
  • ———; McIntosh, D. H.; Katz, N.; Weinberg, M. D. (2003). "The Optical and Near-Infrared Properties of Galaxies: I. Luminosity and Stellar Mass Functions". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 149 (2): 289–312. arXiv:astro-ph/0302543.
  • ———; Wolf, C.; Meisenheimer, K.; Rix, H.-W.; Borch, A.; Dye, S.; Kleinheinrich, M.; Wisotzki, L.; McIntosh, D. H. (2004). "Nearly 5000 Distant Early-Type Galaxies in COMBO-17: a Red Sequence and its Evolution since z~1". The Astrophysical Journal. 608 (2): 752–767. arXiv:astro-ph/0303394.
  • ———; Zucker, D. B.; Belokurov, V.; Sharma, S.; Johnston, K. V.; Bullock, J. S.; Hogg, D. W.; Jahnke, K.; de Jong, J. T. A.; Beers, T. C.; Evans, N. W. (2008). "The accretion origin of the Milky Way's stellar halo". The Astrophysical Journal. 680 (1): 295–311. arXiv:0706.0004.

References

  1. ↑ "Eric Findlay Bell". AstroGen. American Astronomical Society. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
  2. ↑ "Eric Bell". University of Michigan Department of Astronomy. University of Michigan. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
  3. ↑ "The GHOSTS Team". Galaxy Halos, Outer disks, Substructure, Thick disks and Star clusters (GHOSTS). Space Telescope Science Institute. 2007. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
  4. ↑ Streier, Eva-Maria (16 March 2007). "30 Jahre Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis". Informationsdienst Wissenschaft. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
  5. ↑ Lea, Robert (12 March 2025). "Scientists discover smallest galaxy ever seen: 'It's like having a perfectly functional human being that's the size of a grain of rice'". Space. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
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