Richard J. Rand

Address

Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
University of New Mexico
1919 Lomas Blvd, NE
MSC07 4220
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

Phone: (505) 277-2073
FAX:   (505) 277-1520
E-mail: rjr@phys.unm.edu

Research

• A brief summary of my current research interests

Recent Papers

• CHANG-ES IX: Radio scale heights and scale lengths of a consistent sample of 13 spiral galaxies seen edge-on and their correlations Krause, M. et al. 2017, arXiv:1712.03780

• Survey of Water and Ammonia in Nearby galaxies (SWAN): Resolved Ammonia Thermometry, Water and Methanol Mases in the Nuclear Starburst of NGC 253 Gorski, M. et al. 2017, arXiv:1705.07103

• HALOGAS Observations of NGC 4559: Anomalous and Extra-planar HI and its Relation to Star Formation Vargas, C. J. et al. 2017, arXiv:1703.09345

• CHANG-ES VIII: Uncovering Hidden AGN Activity in Radio Polarization Irwin, J. et al. 2016, MNRAS, 464, 1333

• CHANG-ES VI: Probing Supernova Energy Deposition in Spiral Galaxies Through Multi-Wavelength Relationships Li, J.-T. et al. 2016, MNRAS, 456, 1723

• Molecular Gas and Star Formation in the Cartwheel Higdon, J. L., Higdon, S. J. U., Ruiz, S. M., & Rand, R. J. 2015, ApJ, 814, 1

• CHANG-ES IV: Radio continuum emission of 35 edge-on galaxies observed with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in D-configuration, Data Release 1 Wiegert, T. et al, 2015, AJ, 150, 81.

• The HI Kinematics of NGC 4013: a Steep and Radially Shallowing Extra-planar Rotational Lag Zschaechner, L. K., Rand, R. J. 2015, ApJ, 808, 153.

• Investigating Disk-halo Flows and Accretion: A Kinematic and Morphological Analysis of Extraplanar H I in NGC 3044 and NGC 4302 Zschaechner, L. K., Rand, R. J., & Walterbos, R. A. M., 2015, ApJ, 799, 61.

• The Interstellar Medium and Star Formation in Edge-On Galaxies. II. NGC 4157, 4565, and 5907 Yim, K., Wong, T., Xue, R., Rand, R. J., Rosolowsky, E., van der Hulst, J. M., Benjamin, R., Murphy E. J. 2014, AJ, 148, 127.

• HALOGAS observations of NGC 4414: fountains, interaction, and ram pressure de Blok, W. J. G., Jozsa, G. I. G., Patterson, M., Gentile, G., Heald, G. H., Juette, E., Kamphuis, P., Rand, R. J., Serra, P., Walterbos, R. A. M. 2014, A&A, 566, 80

• CHANG-ES III. UGC 10288---An Edge-on Galaxy with a Background Double-lobed Radio source Irwin, J., Krause, M., English, J., Beck, R., Murphy, E. , Wiegert, T., Heald, G., Walterbos, R., Rand, R. J., Porter, T. 2013, AJ, 146, 164

• HALOGAS observations of NGC 5023 and UGC 2082: modelling of non-cylindrically symmetric gas distributions in edge-on galaxies Kamphuis, P., Rand, R. J., Jozsa, G. I. G., Zschaechner, L. K., Heald, G. H., Patterson, M. T., Gentile, G., Walterbos, R. A. M., Serra, P., de Blok, W. J. G. 2013, MNRAS, 434, 2069

• HALOGAS: H I Observations and Modeling of the Nearby Edge-on Spiral Galaxy NGC 4565 Zschaechner, L. K., Rand, R. J., Heald, G. H., Gentile, G., & Josza, G., 2012, ApJ, 760, 37

• Continuum Halos in Nearby Galaxies: An EVLA Survey (CHANG-ES). II. First Results on NGC 4631 Irwin, J. et al. 2012, AJ, 144, 44

• Continuum Halos in Nearby Galaxies: An EVLA Survey (CHANG-ES). I. Introduction to the Survey Irwin, J. et al. 2012, AJ, 144, 43

• Wheels of Fire. IV. Star Formation and the Neutral Interstellar Medium in the Ring Galaxy AM0644-741 Higdon, J. L., Higdon, S. J. U., & Rand, R. J. 2011, ApJ, 739, 97

• HALOGAS: H I Observations and Modeling of the Nearby Edge-on Spiral Galaxy NGC 4244 Zschaechner, L. K., Rand, R. J., Heald, G. H., Gentile, G., & Kamphuis, P., 2011, ApJ, 740, 35

• The Westerbork Hydrogen Accretion in LOcal GAlaxieS (HALOGAS) survey. I. Survey description and pilot observations Heald, G., Jozsa, G., Serra, P., Zschaechner, L., Rand, R., Fraternali, F., Oosterloo, T., Walterbos, R., Juette, E., Gentile, G. 2011, A&A, 526, 118

• Infrared Spectroscopy of Halos of Edge-on Galaxies Rand, Richard J., Wood, Kenneth, Benjamin, Robert A., Meidt, Sharon E. 2011, ApJ, 728, 163

• Uncovering the Origins of Spiral Structure by Measuring Radial Variation in Pattern Speeds Meidt, S. E., Rand, R. J., & Merrifield, M. R. 2009, ApJ, 702, 277.

• Radial Dependence of the Pattern Speed of M51 Meidt, S. E., Rand, R. J., Merrifield, M. R., Shetty, R., & Vogel, S. N. 2008, ApJ, 688, 224.

• Infrared Spectroscopy of the Diffuse Ionized Halo of NGC 891 Rand, R. J., Wood, K., & Benjamin, R. A. 2008, ApJ, 680, 263

• Vertically Extended Neutral Gas in the Massive Edge-on Spiral NGC 5746 Rand, R. J., Benjamin, R. A. 2008, ApJ, 676, 991

• Tests of the Radial Tremaine-Weinberg Method Meidt, S. E., Rand, R. J., Merrifield, M. R., Debattista, V. P., Shen, J. 2008, ApJ, 676, 899

• Integral Field Unit Observations of NGC 4302: Kinematics of the Diffuse Ionized Gas Halo Heald, G. H., Rand, R. J., Benjamin, R. A., Bershady, M. A. 2007, ApJ, 663, 933

• Integral Field Unit Observations of NGC 891: Kinematics of the Diffuse Ionized Gas Halo Heald, G. H., Rand, R. J., Benjamin, R. A., Bershady, M. A. 2006, ApJ, 647, 1018

• 74 MHz Discrete HII Absorption Regions Towards The Inner Galaxy Nord, M. E., Henning, P. A., Rand, R. J., Lazio, T. J. W., Kassim, N. E., 2006 AJ, 132, 242

• The Lifetime of Grand Design, Merrifield, M. R., Rand, R. J., Meidt, S. E. 2006, MNRAS, 366, 17

• Imaging Fabry-Perot Spectroscopy of NGC 5775: Kinematics of the Diffuse Ionized Gas Halo Heald, George H., Rand, Richard J., Benjamin, Robert A., Collins, Joseph A., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss 2006, ApJ, 636, 181

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