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Dr Alis Deason
Associate Professor (Research) - Royal Society URF

Affiliation | Room number | Telephone |
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Associate Professor (Research) - Royal Society URF in the Department of Physics | OCW219 | +44 (0) 191 33 43283 |
Member of the Institute for Computational Cosmology | OCW224 | +44 (0) 191 33 43283 |
Research interests
- Galactic Astronomy
- Local Group Galaxies
- Near Field Cosmology
Research groups
Publications
Journal Article
- Bose, Sownak & Deason, Alis J (2023). The progenitor galaxies of stellar haloes as ‘failed’ Milky Ways. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 522(4): 5013-5021.
- Cooper, Andrew P., Koposov, Sergey E., Allende Prieto, Carlos, Manser, Christopher J., Kizhuprakkat, Namitha, Myers, Adam D., Dey, Arjun, Gänsicke, Boris T., Li, Ting S., Rockosi, Constance, Valluri, Monica, Najita, Joan, Deason, Alis, Raichoor, Anand, Wang, M.-Y., Ting, Y.-S., Kim, Bokyoung, Carrillo, Andreia, Wang, Wenting, Beraldo e Silva, Leandro, Han, Jiwon Jesse, Ding, Jiani, Sánchez-Conde, Miguel, Aguilar, Jessica N., Ahlen, Steven, Bailey, Stephen, Belokurov, Vasily, Brooks, David, Cunha, Katia, Dawson, Kyle, de la Macorra, Axel, Doel, Peter, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Fagrelius, Parker, Fanning, Kevin, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Forero-Romero, Jaime E., Gaztañaga, Enrique, A Gontcho, Satya Gontcho, Guy, Julien, Honscheid, Klaus, Kehoe, Robert, Kisner, Theodore, Kremin, Anthony, Landriau, Martin, Levi, Michael E., Martini, Paul, Meisner, Aaron M., Miquel, Ramon, Moustakas, John, Nie, Jundan J. D., Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Percival, Will J., Poppett, Claire, Prada, Francisco, Rehemtulla, Nabeel, Schlafly, Edward, Schlegel, David, Schubnell, Michael, Sharples, Ray M., Tarlé, Gregory, Wechsler, Risa H., Weinberg, David H., Zhou, Zhimin & Zou, Hu (2023). Overview of the DESI Milky Way Survey. The Astrophysical Journal 947(1): 37.
- Deason, Alis J, Koposov, Sergey E, Fattahi, Azadeh & Grand, Robert J J (2023). Unravelling the mass spectrum of destroyed dwarf galaxies with the metallicity distribution function. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 520(4): 6091-6103.
- Genina, A, Deason, A J & Frenk, C S (2023). On the edge: the relation between stellar and dark matter haloes of Milky Way-mass galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 520(3): 3767-3787.
- Belokurov, Vasily, Vasiliev, Eugene, Deason, Alis J, Koposov, Sergey E, Fattahi, Azadeh, Dillamore, Adam M, Davies, Elliot Y & Grand, Robert J J (2023). Energy wrinkles and phase-space folds of the last major merger. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 518(4): 6200-6215.
- Evans, Tilly A, Fattahi, Azadeh, Deason, Alis J & Frenk, Carlos S (2022). Observing EAGLE galaxies with JWST: predictions for Milky Way progenitors and their building blocks. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 516(3).
- Richstein, Hannah, Patel, Ekta, Kallivayalil, Nitya, Simon, Joshua D., Zivick, Paul, Tollerud, Erik, Fritz, Tobias, Warfield, Jack T., Besla, Gurtina, van der Marel, Roeland P., Wetzel, Andrew, Choi, Yumi, Deason, Alis, Geha, Marla, Guhathakurta, Puragra, Jeon, Myoungwon, Kirby, Evan N., Libralato, Mattia, Sacchi, Elena & Sohn, Sangmo Tony (2022). Structural Parameters and Possible Association of the Ultra-faint Dwarfs Pegasus III and Pisces II from Deep Hubble Space Telescope Photometry. The Astrophysical Journal 933(2): 217.
- Callingham, Thomas M, Cautun, Marius, Deason, Alis J, Frenk, Carlos S, Grand, Robert J J & Marinacci, Federico (2022). The chemo-dynamical groups of Galactic globular clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 513(3): 4107-4129.
- Reina-Campos, Marta, Trujillo-Gomez, Sebastian, Deason, Alis J, Kruijssen, J M Diederik, Pfeffer, Joel L, Crain, Robert A, Bastian, Nate & Hughes, Meghan E (2022). Radial distributions of globular clusters trace their host dark matter halo: insights from the E-MOSAICS simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 513(3): 3925-3945.
- Tacchella, Sandro, Conroy, Charlie, Faber, S. M., Johnson, Benjamin D., Leja, Joel, Barro, Guillermo, Cunningham, Emily C., Deason, Alis J., Guhathakurta, Puragra, Guo, Yicheng, Hernquist, Lars, Koo, David C., McKinnon, Kevin, Rockosi, Constance M., Speagle, Joshua S., van Dokkum, Pieter & Yesuf, Hassen M. (2022). Fast, Slow, Early, Late: Quenching Massive Galaxies at z ∼ 0.8. The Astrophysical Journal 926(2): 134.
- Deason, Alis J, Bose, Sownak, Fattahi, Azadeh, Amorisco, Nicola C, Hellwing, Wojciech & Frenk, Carlos S (2022). Dwarf stellar haloes: a powerful probe of small-scale galaxy formation and the nature of dark matter. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 511(3): 4044-4059.
- Sacchi, Elena, Richstein, Hannah, Kallivayalil, Nitya, van der Marel, Roeland, Libralato, Mattia, Zivick, Paul, Besla, Gurtina, Brown, Thomas M., Choi, Yumi, Deason, Alis, Fritz, Tobias, Geha, Marla, Guhathakurta, Puragra, Jeon, Myoungwon, Kirby, Evan, Majewski, Steven R., Patel, Ekta, Simon, Joshua D., Tony Sohn, Sangmo, Tollerud, Erik & Wetzel, Andrew (2021). Star Formation Histories of Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies: Environmental Differences between Magellanic and Non-Magellanic Satellites?*. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 920(1): L19.
- Gonzalez, Anthony H, George, Tyler, Connor, Thomas, Deason, Alis, Donahue, Megan, Montes, Mireia, Zabludoff, Ann I & Zaritsky, Dennis (2021). Discovery of a possible splashback feature in the intracluster light of MACS J1149.5+2223. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 507(1): 963-970.
- Erkal, Denis, Deason, Alis J, Belokurov, Vasily, Xue, Xiang-Xiang, Koposov, Sergey E, Bird, Sarah A, Liu, Chao, Simion, Iulia T, Yang, Chengqun, Zhang, Lan & Zhao, Gang (2021). Detection of the LMC-induced sloshing of the Galactic halo. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 506(2): 2677-2684.
- Horne, Keith, Rosa, G. De, Peterson, B. M., Barth, A. J., Ely, J., Fausnaugh, M. M., Kriss, G. A., Pei, L., Bentz, M. C., Cackett, E. M., Edelson, R., Eracleous, M., Goad, M. R., Grier, C. J., Kaastra, J., Kochanek, C. S., Krongold, Y., Mathur, S., Netzer, H., Proga, D., Tejos, N., Vestergaard, M., Villforth, C., Adams, S. M., Anderson, M. D., Arévalo, P., Beatty, T G., Bennert, V. N., Bigley, A., Bisogni, S., Borman, G. A., Boroson, T. A., Bottorff, M. C., Brandt, W. N., Breeveld, A. A., Brotherton, M., Brown, J. E., Brown, J. S., Canalizo, G., Carini, M. T., Clubb, K. I., Comerford, J. M., Corsini, E. M., Crenshaw, D. M., Croft, S., Croxall, K. V., Bontà, E. Dalla, Deason, A. J., Dehghanian, M., Lorenzo-Cáceres, A. De, Denney, K. D., Dietrich, M., Done, C., Efimova, N. V., Evans, P. A., Ferland, G. J., Filippenko, A. V., Flatland, K., Fox, O. D., Gardner, E., Gates, E. L., Gehrels, N., Geier, S., Gelbord, J. M., Gonzalez, L., Gorjian, V., Greene, J. E., Grupe, D., Gupta, A., Hall, P. B., Henderson, C. B., Hicks, S., Holmbeck, E., Holoien, T. W.-S., Hutchison, T., Im, M., Jensen, J. J., Johnson, C. A., Joner, M. D., Jones, J., Kaspi, S., Kelly, P. L., Kennea, J. A., Kim, M., Kim, S., Kim, S. C., King, A., Klimanov, S. A., Korista, K. T., Lau, M. W., Lee, J. C., Leonard, D. C., Li, Miao, Lira, P., Lochhaas, C., Ma, Zhiyuan, MacInnis, F., Malkan, M. A., Manne-Nicholas, E. R., Mauerhan, J. C., McGurk, R., McHardy, I. M., Montuori, C., Morelli, L., Mosquera, A., Mudd, D., Müller–Sánchez, F., Nazarov, S. V., Norris, R. P., Nousek, J. A., Nguyen, M. L., Ochner, P., Okhmat, D. N., Pancoast, A., Papadakis, I., Parks, J. R., Penny, M. T., Pizzella, A., Pogge, R. W., Poleski, R., Pott, J.-U., Rafter, S. E., Rix, H.-W., Runnoe, J., Saylor, D. A., Schimoia, J. S., Schnülle, K., Scott, B., Sergeev, S. G., Shappee, B. J., Shivvers, I., Siegel, M., Simonian, G. V., Siviero, A., Skielboe, A., Somers, G., Spencer, M., Starkey, D., Stevens, D. J., Sung, H.-I., Tayar, J., Treu, T., Turner, C. S., Uttley, P., Van Saders, J., Vican, L., Villanueva, S., Weiss, Y., Woo, J.-H., Yan, H., Young, S., Yuk, H., Zheng, W., Zhu, W. & Zu, Y. (2021). Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. IX. Velocity–Delay Maps for Broad Emission Lines in NGC 5548. The Astrophysical Journal 907(2): 76.
- Shao, Shi, Cautun, Marius, Deason, Alis & Frenk, Carlos S (2021). The twisted dark matter halo of the Milky Way. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 504(4): 6033-6048.
- Deason, Alis J, Oman, Kyle A, Fattahi, Azadeh, Schaller, Matthieu, Jauzac, Mathilde, Zhang, Yuanyuan, Montes, Mireia, Bahé, Yannick M, Dalla Vecchia, Claudio, Kay, Scott T & Evans, Tilly A (2021). Stellar splashback: the edge of the intracluster light. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 500(3): 4181-4192.
- Deason, Alis J, Erkal, Denis, Belokurov, Vasily, Fattahi, Azadeh, Gómez, Facundo A, Grand, Robert J J, Pakmor, Rüdiger, Xue, Xiang-Xiang, Liu, Chao, Yang, Chengqun, Zhang, Lan & Zhao, Gang (2021). The mass of the Milky Way out to 100 kpc using halo stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 501(4): 5964-5972.
- Williams, P. R., Pancoast, A., Treu, T., Brewer, B. J., Peterson, B. M., Barth, A. J., Malkan, M. A., Rosa, G. De, Horne, Keith, Kriss, G. A., Arav, N., Bentz, M. C., Cackett, E. M., Bontà, E. Dalla, Dehghanian, M., Done, C., Ferland, G. J., Grier, C. J., Kaastra, J., Kara, E., Kochanek, C. S., Mathur, S., Mehdipour, M., Pogge, R. W., Proga, D., Vestergaard, M., Waters, T., Adams, S. M., Anderson, M. D., Arévalo, P., Beatty, T. G., Bennert, V. N., Bigley, A., Bisogni, S., Borman, G. A., Boroson, T. A., Bottorff, M. C., Brandt, W. N., Breeveld, A. A., Brotherton, M., Brown, J. E., Brown, J. S., Canalizo, G., Carini, M. T., Clubb, K. I., Comerford, J. M., Corsini, E. M., Crenshaw, D. M., Croft, S., Croxall, K. V., Deason, A. J., Lorenzo-Cáceres, A. De, Denney, K. D., Dietrich, M., Edelson, R., Efimova, N. V., Ely, J., Evans, P. A., Fausnaugh, M. M., Filippenko, A. V., Flatland, K., Fox, O. D., Gardner, E., Gates, E. L., Gehrels, N., Geier, S., Gelbord, J. M., Gonzalez, L., Gorjian, V., Greene, J. E., Grupe, D., Gupta, A., Hall, P. B., Henderson, C. B., Hicks, S., Holmbeck, E., Holoien, T. W.-S., Hutchison, T., Im, M., Jensen, J. J., Johnson, C. A., Joner, M. D., Jones, J., Kaspi, S., Kelly, P. L., Kennea, J. A., Kim, M., Kim, S., Kim, S. C., King, A., Klimanov, S. A., Knigge, C., Krongold, Y., Lau, M. W., Lee, J. C., Leonard, D. C., Li, Miao, Lira, P., Lochhaas, C., Ma, Zhiyuan, MacInnis, F., Manne-Nicholas, E. R., Mauerhan, J. C., McGurk, R., McHardy, I. M., Montuori, C., Morelli, L., Mosquera, A., Mudd, D., Müller–Sánchez, F., Nazarov, S. V., Norris, R. P., Nousek, J. A., Nguyen, M. L., Ochner, P., Okhmat, D. N., Papadakis, I., Parks, J. R., Pei, L., Penny, M. T., Pizzella, A., Poleski, R., Pott, J.-U., Rafter, S. E., Rix, H.-W., Runnoe, J., Saylor, D. A., Schimoia, J. S., Scott, B., Sergeev, S. G., Shappee, B. J., Shivvers, I., Siegel, M., Simonian, G. V., Siviero, A., Skielboe, A., Somers, G., Spencer, M., Starkey, D., Stevens, D. J., Sung, H.-I., Tayar, J., Tejos, N., Turner, C. S., Uttley, P., Van Saders, J Vaughan, S. A., Vican, L., Villanueva, S., Villforth, C., Weiss, Y., Woo, J.-H., Yan, H., Young, S., Yuk, H., Zheng, W., Zhu, W. & Zu, Y. (2020). Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. XII. Broad-line Region Modeling of NGC 5548. The Astrophysical Journal 902(1): 74.
- Fattahi, Azadeh, Deason, Alis J, Frenk, Carlos S, Simpson, Christine M, Gómez, Facundo A, Grand, Robert J J, Monachesi, Antonela, Marinacci, Federico & Pakmor, Rüdiger (2020). A tale of two populations: surviving and destroyed dwarf galaxies and the build-up of the Milky Way’s stellar halo. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 497(4): 4459-4471.
- Evans, Tilly A, Fattahi, Azadeh, Deason, Alis J & Frenk, Carlos S (2020). How Unusual is the Milky Way’s Assembly History? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 497(4): 4311-4321.
- Cunningham, Emily C., Garavito-Camargo, Nicolas, Deason, Alis J., Johnston, Kathryn V., Erkal, Denis, Laporte, Chervin F. P., Besla, Gurtina, Luger, Rodrigo & Sanderson, Robyn E. (2020). Quantifying the Stellar Halo's Response to the LMC's Infall with Spherical Harmonics. The Astrophysical Journal 898(1): 4.
- Pakmor, Rüdiger, Marinacci, Federico, Gómez, Facundo A., Fragkoudi, Francesca, Fattahi, Azadeh, Deason, Alis J., Belokurov, Vasily, Kawata, Daisuke & Grand, Robert J.J. (2020). The dual origin of the Galactic thick disc and halo from the gas-rich Gaia-Enceladus-Sausage merger. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 497(2): 1603-1618.
- Pakmor, Ruediger, Marinacci, Federico, Grand, Robert J.J., Frenk, Carlos S., Deason, Alis J., Cautun, Marius & Callingham, Thomas M. (2020). The orbital phase space of contracted dark matter haloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 495(1): 12-28.
- Deason, Alis J., Fattahi, Azadeh, Frenk, Carlos S., Grand, Robert J.J., Oman, Kyle A., Garrison-Kimmel, Shea, Simpson, Christine M. & Navarro, Julio F. (2020). The Edge of the Galaxy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 496(3): 3929-3942.
- Frenk, Carlos S, Belokurov, Vasily, Deason, Alis J & Bose, Sownak (2020). The little things matter: relating the abundance of ultrafaint satellites to the hosts’ assembly history. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 495(1): 743-757.
- Cautun, Marius, Benítez-Llambay, Alejandro, Deason, Alis J., Frenk, Carlos S., Fattahi, Azadeh, Gómez, Facundo A., Grand, Robert J.J., Oman, Kyle A., Navarro, Julio F. & Simpson, Christine M. (2020). The Milky Way total mass profile as inferred from Gaia DR2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 494(3): 4291-4313.
- Grand, Robert J. J., Evans, N. Wyn, Deason, Alis J., Smith, Martin C., Fattahi, Azadeh, Sanders, Jason L. & Belokurov, Vasily (2020). The biggest Splash. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 494(3): 3880-3898.
- Werk, Jessica K., Rubin, K. H. R., Bish, H. V., Prochaska, J. X., Zheng, Y., O’Meara, J. M., Lenz, D., Hummels, C. & Deason, A. J. (2019). The Nature of Ionized Gas in the Milky Way Galactic Fountain. The Astrophysical Journal 887(1): 89.
- Deason, Alis J, Belokurov, Vasily & Sanders, Jason L (2019). The total stellar halo mass of the Milky Way. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 490(3): 3426-3439.
- Simpson, Christine M, Gargiulo, Ignacio, Gómez, Facundo A, Grand, Robert J J, Maffione, Nicolás, Cooper, Andrew P, Deason, Alis J, Frenk, Carlos, Helly, John, Marinacci, Federico & Pakmor, Rüdiger (2019). Simulating cosmological substructure in the solar neighbourhood. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 490(1): L32-L37.
- Bish, Hannah V., Werk, Jessica K., Prochaska, J. Xavier, Rubin, Kate H. R., Zheng, Yong, O’Meara, John M. & Deason, Alis J. (2019). Galactic Gas Flows from Halo to Disk: Tomography and Kinematics at the Milky Way’s Disk–Halo Interface. The Astrophysical Journal 882(2): 76.
- Kriss, G. A., De Rosa, G., Ely, J., Peterson, B. M., Kaastra, J., Mehdipour, M., Ferland, G. J., Dehghanian, M., Mathur, S., Edelson, R., Korista, K. T., Arav, N., Barth, A. J., Bentz, M. C., Brandt, W. N., Crenshaw, D. M., Bontà, E. Dalla, Denney, K. D., Done, C., Eracleous, M., Fausnaugh, M. M., Gardner, E., Goad, M. R., Grier, C. J., Horne, Keith, Kochanek, C. S., McHardy, I. M., Netzer, H., Pancoast, A., Pei, L., Pogge, R. W., Proga, D., Silva, C., Tejos, N., Vestergaard, M., Adams, S. M., Anderson, M. D., Arévalo, P., Beatty, T G., Behar, E., Bennert, V. N., Bianchi, S., Bigley, A., Bisogni, S., Boissay-Malaquin, R., Borman, G. A., Bottorff, M. C., Breeveld, A. A., Brotherton, M., Brown, J. E., Brown, J. S., Cackett, E. M., Canalizo, G., Cappi, M., Carini, M. T., Clubb, K. I., Comerford, J. M., Coker, C. T., Corsini, E. M., Costantini, E., Croft, S., Croxall, K. V., Deason, A. J., De Lorenzo-Cáceres, A., De Marco, B., Dietrich, M., Di Gesu, L., Ebrero, J., Evans, P. A., Filippenko, A. V., Flatland, K., Gates, E. L., Gehrels, N., Geier, S., Gelbord, J. M., Gonzalez, L., Gorjian, V., Grupe, D., Gupta, A., Hall, P. B., Henderson, C. B., Hicks, S., Holmbeck, E., Holoien, T. W.-S., Hutchison, T. A., Im, M., Jensen, J. J., Johnson, C. A., Joner, M. D., Kaspi, S., Kelly, B. C., Kelly, P. L., Kennea, J. A., Kim, M., Kim, S. C., Kim, S. Y., King, A., Klimanov, S. A., Krongold, Y., Lau, M. W., Lee, J. C., Leonard, D. C., Li, Miao, Lira, P., Lochhaas, C., Ma, Zhiyuan, MacInnis, F., Malkan, M. A., Manne-Nicholas, E. R., Matt, G., Mauerhan, J. C., McGurk, R., Montuori, C., Morelli, L., Mosquera, A., Mudd, D., Müller-Sánchez, F., Nazarov, S. V., Norris, R. P., Nousek, J. A., Nguyen, M. L., Ochner, P., Okhmat, D. N., Paltani, S., Parks, J. R., Pinto, C., Pizzella, A., Poleski, R., Ponti, G., Pott, J.-U., Rafter, S. E., Rix, H.-W., Runnoe, J., Saylor, D. A., Schimoia, J. S., Schnülle, K., Scott, B., Sergeev, S. G., Shappee, B. J., Shivvers, I., Siegel, M., Simonian, G. V., Siviero, A., Skielboe, A., Somers, G., Spencer, M., Starkey, D., Stevens, D. J., Sung, H.-I., Tayar, J., Teems, K. G., Treu, T., Turner, C. S., Uttley, P., Van Saders, J Vican, L., Villforth, C., Villanueva Jr., S., Walton, D. J., Waters, T., Weiss, Y., Woo, J.-H., Yan, H., Yuk, H., Zheng, W., Zhu, W. & Zu, Y. (2019). Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. VIII. Time Variability of Emission and Absorption in NGC 5548 Based on Modeling the Ultraviolet Spectrum. The Astrophysical Journal 881(2): 153.
- Cunningham, Emily C., Deason, Alis J., Sanderson, Robyn E., Sohn, Sangmo Tony, Anderson, Jay, Guhathakurta, Puragra, Rockosi, Constance M., van der Marel, Roeland P., Loebman, Sarah R. & Wetzel, Andrew (2019). HALO7D II: The Halo Velocity Ellipsoid and Velocity Anisotropy with Distant Main-sequence Stars. The Astrophysical Journal 879(2): 120.
- Belokurov, Vasily, Deason, Alis J, Erkal, Denis, Koposov, Sergey E, Carballo-Bello, Julio A, Smith, Martin C, Jethwa, Prashin & Navarrete, Camila (2019). The Pisces Plume and the Magellanic wake. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 488(1): L47-L52.
- Grand, Robert J J, Deason, Alis J, White, Simon D M, Simpson, Christine M, Gómez, Facundo A, Marinacci, Federico & Pakmor, Rüdiger (2019). The effects of dynamical substructure on Milky Way mass estimates from the high-velocity tail of the local stellar halo. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 487(1): L72-L76.
- Cunningham, Emily C., Deason, Alis J., Rockosi, Constance M., Guhathakurta, Puragra, Jennings, Zachary G., Kirby, Evan N., Toloba, Elisa & Barro, Guillermo (2019). HALO7D I. The Line-of-sight Velocities of Distant Main-sequence Stars in the Milky Way Halo. The Astrophysical Journal 876(2): 124.
- Lancaster, Lachlan, Koposov, Sergey E, Belokurov, Vasily, Evans, N Wyn & Deason, Alis J (2019). The Halo’s Ancient Metal-Rich Progenitor Revealed with BHB Stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 486(1): 378-389.
- Deason, Alis J, Fattahi, Azadeh, Belokurov, Vasily, Evans, N Wyn, Grand, Robert J J, Marinacci, Federico & Pakmor, Rüdiger (2019). The local high-velocity tail and the Galactic escape speed. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 485(3): 3514-3526.
- Callingham, Thomas M, Cautun, Marius, Deason, Alis J, Frenk, Carlos S, Wang, Wenting, Gómez, Facundo A, Grand, Robert J J, Marinacci, Federico & Pakmor, Ruediger (2019). The mass of the Milky Way from satellite dynamics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 484(4): 5453-5467.
- Fattahi, Azadeh, Belokurov, Vasily, Deason, Alis J, Frenk, Carlos S, Gómez, Facundo A, Grand, Robert J J, Marinacci, Federico, Pakmor, Rüdiger & Springel, Volker (2019). The origin of galactic metal-rich stellar halo components with highly eccentric orbits. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 484(4): 4471-4483.
- Cautun, Marius, Deason, Alis J, Frenk, Carlos S & McAlpine, Stuart (2019). The aftermath of the Great Collision between our Galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 483(2): 2185-2196.
- Grand, R. J. J., Helly, J., Fattahi, A., Cautun, M., Cole, S., Cooper, A. P., Deason, A. J., Frenk, C., Gómez, F. A., Hunt, J. A. S., Marinacci, F., Pakmor, R., Simpson, C. M., Springel, V. & Xu, D. (2018). Aurigaia: mock Gaia DR2 stellar catalogues from the Auriga cosmological simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 481(2): 1726-1743.
- Bose, Sownak, Deason, Alis J. & Frenk, Carlos S. (2018). The Imprint of Cosmic Reionization on the Luminosity Function of Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal 863(2): 123.
- Sohn, Sangmo Tony, Watkins, Laura L., Fardal, Mark A., van der Marel, Roeland P., Deason, Alis J., Besla, Gurtina & Bellini, Andrea (2018). Absolute Hubble Space Telescope Proper Motion (HSTPROMO) of Distant Milky Way Globular Clusters: Galactocentric Space Velocities and the Milky Way Mass. The Astrophysical Journal 862(1): 52.
- Deason, Alis J., Belokurov, Vasily, Koposov, Sergey E. & Lancaster, Lachlan (2018). Apocenter Pile-up: Origin of the Stellar Halo Density Break. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 862(1): L1.
- Shao, S., Cautun, M., Deason, A. J., Frenk, C. S. & Theuns, T. (2018). Evolution of LMC/M33-mass dwarf galaxies in the EAGLE simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 479(1): 284-296.
- Belokurov, V., Erkal, D., Evans, N W., Koposov, S. E. & Deason, A. J. (2018). Co-formation of the disc and the stellar halo★. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 478(1): 611-619.
- Belokurov, V., Deason, A. J., Koposov, S. E., Catelan, M., Erkal, D., Drake, A. J. & Evans, N. W. (2018). Unmixing the Galactic Halo with RR Lyrae tagging. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 477(2): 1472-1483.
- Deason, Alis J., Belokurov, Vasily & Koposov, Sergey E. (2018). To the Galactic Virial Radius with Hyper Suprime-Cam. The Astrophysical Journal 852(2): 118.
- Deason, A. J. Belokurov, V. & Koposo,v S. E. (2018). Cresting the wave: proper motions of the Eastern Banded Structure. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 473(2): 2428-2433.
- Mathur, S., Gupta, A., Page, K., Pogge, R. W., Krongold, Y., Goad, M. R., Adams, S. M., Anderson, M. D., Arévalo, P., Barth, A. J., Bazhaw, C., Beatty, T. G., Bentz, M. C., Bigley, A., Bisogni, S., Borman, G. A., Boroson, T. A., Bottorff, M. C., Brandt, W. N., Breeveld, A. A., Brown, J. E., Brown, J. S., Cackett, E. M., Canalizo, G., Carini, M. T., Clubb, K. I., Comerford, J. M., Coker, C. T., Corsini, E. M., Crenshaw, D. M., Croft, S., Croxall, K. V., Dalla Bontà, E., Deason, A. J., Denney, K. D., De Lorenzo-Cáceres, A., De Rosa, G., Dietrich, M., Edelson, R., Ely, J., Eracleous, M., Evans, P. A., Fausnaugh, M. M., Ferland, G. J., Filippenko, A. V., Flatland, K., Fox, O. D., Gates, E. L., Gehrels, N., Geier, S., Gelbord, J. M., Gorjian, V., Greene, J. E., Grier, C. J., Grupe, D., Hall, P. B., Henderson, C. B., Hicks, S., Holmbeck, E., Holoien, T. W.-S., Horenstein, D., Horne, Keith, Hutchison, T., Im, M., Jensen, J. J., Johnson, C. A., Joner, M. D., Jones, J., Kaastra, J., Kaspi, S., Kelly, B. C., Kelly, P. L., Kennea, J. A., Kim, M., Kim, S., Kim, S. C., King, A., Klimanov, S. A., Kochanek, C. S., Korista, K. T., Kriss, G. A., Lau, M. W., Lee, J. C., Leonard, D. C., Li, M., Lira, P., Ma, Z., MacInnis, F., Manne-Nicholas, E. R., Malkan, M. A., Mauerhan, J. C., McGurk, R., McHardy, I. M., Montouri, C., Morelli, L., Mosquera, A., Mudd, D., Muller-Sanchez, F., Musso, R., Nazarov, S. V., Netzer, H., Nguyen, M. L., Norris, R. P., Nousek, J. A., Ochner, P., Okhmat, D. N., Ou-Yang, B., Pancoast, A., Papadakis, I., Parks, J. R., Pei, L., Peterson, B. M., Pizzella, A., Poleski, R., Pott, J.-U., Rafter, S. E., Rix, H.-W., Runnoe, J., Saylor, D. A., Schimoia, J. S., Schnülle, K., Sergeev, S. G., Shappee, B. J., Shivvers, I., Siegel, M., Simonian, G. V., Siviero, A., Skielboe, A., Somers, G., Spencer, M., Starkey, D., Stevens, D. J., Sung, H.-I., Tayar, J., Tejos, N., Turner, C. S., Uttley, P., Van Saders, J., Vestergaard, M., Vican, L., Villanueva Jr., S., Villforth, C., Weiss, Y., Woo, J.-H., Yan, H., Young, S., Yuk, H., Zheng, W., Zhu, W. & Zu, Y. (2017). Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. VII. Understanding the Ultraviolet Anomaly in NGC 5548 with X-Ray Spectroscopy. The Astrophysical Journal 846(1): 55.
- Deason, Alis J., Belokurov, Vasily, Koposov, Sergey E., Gómez, Facundo A., Grand, Robert J., Marinacci, Federico & Pakmor, Rüdiger (2017). The slight spin of the old stellar halo. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 470(2): 1259-1273.
- Pei, L., Fausnaugh, M.M., Barth, A.J., Peterson, B.M., Bentz, M.C., De Rosa, G., Denney, K.D., Goad, M.R., Kochanek, C.S., Korista, K.T., Kriss, G.A., Pogge, R.W., Bennert, V.N., Brotherton, M., Clubb, K.I., Dalla Bontà, E., Filippenko, A.V., Greene, J.E., Grier, C.J., Vestergaard, M., Zheng, W., Adams, S.M., Beatty, T.G., Bigley, A., Brown, J.E., Brown, J.S., Canalizo, G., Comerford, J.M., Coker, C.T., Corsini, E.M., Croft, S., Croxall, K.V., Deason, A.J., Eracleous, M., Fox, O.D., Gates, E.L., Henderson, C.B., Holmbeck, E., Holoien, T.W.-S., Jensen, J.J., Johnson, C.A., Kelly, P.L., Kim, S., King, A., Lau, M.W., Li, M., Lochhaas, C., Ma, Z., Manne-Nicholas, E.R., Mauerhan, J.C., Malkan, M.A., McGurk, R., Morelli, L., Mosquera, A., Mudd, D., Muller Sanchez, F., Nguyen, M.L., Ochner, P., Ou-Yang, B., Pancoast, A., Penny, M.T., Pizzella, A., Poleski, R., Runnoe, J., Scott, B., Schimoia, J.S., Shappee, B.J., Shivvers, I., Simonian, G.V., Siviero, A., Somers, G., Stevens, D.J., Strauss, M.A., Tayar, J., Tejos, N., Treu, T., Van Saders, J., Vican, L., Villanueva, Jr. S., Yuk, H., Zakamska, N.L., Zhu, W., Anderson, M.D., Arévalo, P., Bazhaw, C., Bisogni, S., Borman, G.A., Bottorff, M.C., Brandt, W.N., Breeveld, A.A., Cackett, E.M., Carini, M.T., Crenshaw, D.M., De Lorenzo-Cáceres, A., Dietrich, M., Edelson, R., Efimova, N.V., Ely, J., Evans, P.A., Ferland, G.J., Flatland, K., Gehrels, N., Geier, S., Gelbord, J.M., Grupe, D., Gupta, A., Hall, P.B., Hicks, S., Horenstein, D., Horne, K., Hutchison, T., Im, M., Joner, M.D., Jones, J., Kaastra, J., Kaspi, S., Kelly, B.C., Kennea, J.A., Kim, M., Kim, S.C., Klimanov, S.A., Lee, J.C., Leonard, D.C., Lira, P., MacInnis, F., Mathur, S., McHardy, I.M., Montouri, C., Musso, R., Nazarov, S.V., Netzer, H., Norris, R.P., Nousek, J.A., Okhmat, D.N., Papadakis, I., Parks, J.R., Pott, J.-U., Rafter, S.E., Rix, H.-W., Saylor, D.A., Schnülle, K., Sergeev, S.G., Siegel, M., Skielboe, A., Spencer, M., Starkey, D., Sung, H.-I., Teems, K.G., Turner, C.S., Uttley, P., Villforth, C., Weiss, Y., Woo, J.-H., Yan, H., Young, S. & Zu, Y. (2017). Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. V. Optical Spectroscopic Campaign and Emission-line Analysis for NGC 5548. The Astrophysical Journal 837(2): 131.
- Deason, A.J., Belokurov, V., Erkal, D., Koposov, S.E. & Mackey, D. (2017). The Clouds are breaking: tracing the Magellanic system with Gaia DR1 Mira variables. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 467(3): 2636-2647.
- Belokurov, V., Erkal, D., Deason, A.J., Koposov, S.E., De Angeli, F., Wyn Evans, D., Fraternali, F. & Mackey, D. (2017). Clouds, Streams and Bridges. Redrawing the blueprint of the Magellanic System with Gaia DR1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 466(4): 4711-4730.
- Deason, A.J., Mao, Y.-Y. & Wechsler, R.H. (2016). The Eating Habits of Milky Way-mass Halos: Destroyed Dwarf Satellites and the Metallicity Distribution of Accreted Stars. The Astrophysical Journal 821(1): 5.
- Cunningham, E.C., Deason, A.J., Guhathakurta, P., Rockosi, C.M., van der Marel, R.P., Toloba, E., Gilbert, K.M., Sohn, S.T. & Dorman, C.E. (2016). Isotropic at the Break? 3D Kinematics of Milky Way Halo Stars in the Foreground of M31. The Astrophysical Journal 820(1): 18.
- Deason, A.J., Wetzel, A.R., Garrison-Kimmel, S. & Belokurov, V. (2015). Satellites of LMC-mass dwarfs: close friendships ruined by Milky Way mass haloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 453(4): 3568-3574.
- Wetzel, A.R., Deason, A.J. & Garrison-Kimmel, S. (2015). Satellite Dwarf Galaxies in a Hierarchical Universe: Infall Histories, Group Preprocessing, and Reionization. The Astrophysical Journal 807(1): 49.
- Deason, A.J., Belokurov, V. & Weisz, D.R. (2015). The progenitors of the Milky Way stellar halo: big bricks favoured over little bricks. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters 448(1): L77-L81.
- Deason, A.J., Belokurov, V., Hamren, K.M., Koposov, S.E., Gilbert, K.M., Beaton, R.L., Dorman, C.E., Guhathakurta, P., Majewski, S.R. & Cunningham, E.C. (2014). TriAnd and its siblings: satellites of satellites in the Milky Way halo. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 444(4): 3975-3985.
- Pillepich, A., Vogelsberger, M., Deason, A., Rodriguez-Gomez, V., Genel, S., Nelson, D., Torrey, P., Sales, L.V., Marinacci, F., Springel, V., Sijacki, D. & Hernquist, L. (2014). Halo mass and assembly history exposed in the faint outskirts: the stellar and dark matter haloes of Illustris galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 444: 237-249.
- Deason, A.J., Belokurov, V., Koposov, S.E. & Rockosi, C.M. (2014). Touching The Void: A Striking Drop in Stellar Halo Density Beyond 50 kpc. The Astrophysical Journal 787: 30.
- Deason, A., Wetzel, A. & Garrison-Kimmel, S. (2014). Satellite Dwarf Galaxies in a Hierarchical Universe: The Prevalence of Dwarf-Dwarf Major Mergers. The Astrophysical Journal 794: 115.
- Deason, A.J., Conroy, C., Wetzel, A.R. & Tinker, J.L. (2013). Stellar Mass-gap as a Probe of Halo Assembly History and Concentration: Youth Hidden among Old Fossils. The Astrophysical Journal 777: 154.
- Deason, A.J., Van der Marel, R.P., Guhathakurta, P., Sohn, S.T. & Brown, T.M. (2013). The Velocity Anisotropy of Distant Milky Way Halo Stars from Hubble Space Telescope Proper Motions. The Astrophysical Journal 766: 24.
- Rashkov, V., Pillepich, A., Deason, A.J., Madau, P., Rockosi, C.M., Guedes, J. & Mayer, L. (2013). A ``Light,'' Centrally Concentrated Milky Way Halo? The Astrophysical Journal Letters 773: L32.
- Deason, A.J., Auger, M.W., Belokurov, V. & Evans, N.W. (2013). The Dark Matter Halo Concentration and Stellar Initial Mass Function of a CASSOWARY Group. The Astrophysical Journal 773: 7.
- Deason, A.J., Belokurov, V., Evans, N.W. & Johnston, K.V. (2013). Broken and Unbroken: The Milky Way and M31 Stellar Halos. The Astrophysical Journal 763: 113.
- Deason, A.J., Belokurov, V., Evans, N.W., Koposov, S.E., Cooke, R.J., Peñarrubia, J., Laporte, C.F.P., Fellhauer, M., Walker, M.G. & Olszewski, E.W. (2012). The cold veil of the Milky Way stellar halo. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 425(4): 2840-2853.
- McCarthy, I.G., Font, A.S., Crain, R.A., Deason, A.J., Schaye, J. & Theuns, T. (2012). Global structure and kinematics of stellar haloes in cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 420(3): 2245-2262.
- Deason, A.J., Belokurov, V., Evans, N.W., Watkins, L.L. & Fellhauer, M. (2012). The stretching of Hercules. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 425: L101-L105.
- Deason, A.J., Belokurov, V., Evans, N.W. & An, J. (2012). Broken degeneracies: the rotation curve and velocity anisotropy of the Milky Way halo. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 424: L44-L48.
- Deason, A.J., Belokurov, V., Evans, N.W. & McCarthy, I.G. (2012). Elliptical Galaxy Masses Out to Five Effective Radii: The Realm of Dark Matter. The Astrophysical Journal 748: 2.
- An, J., Evans, N.W. & Deason, A.J. (2012). Mass estimators in the Gaia era. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 420: 2562-2568.
- Deason, A.J., McCarthy, I.G., Font, A.S., Evans, N.W., Frenk, C.S., Belokurov, V., Libeskind, N.I., Crain, R.A. & Theuns, T. (2011). Mismatch and misalignment: dark haloes and satellites of disc galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 415(3): 2607-2625.
- Deason, A.J., Belokurov, V. & Evans, N.W. (2011). Rotation of halo populations in the Milky Way and M31. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 411: 1480-1494.
- Deason, A.J., Belokurov, V. & Evans, N.W. (2011). The Milky Way stellar halo out to 40 kpc: squashed, broken but smooth. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 416: 2903-2915.
- Evans, N.W., An, J. & Deason, A.J. (2011). Accurate Mass Estimators for Navarro-Frenk-White Halos. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 730: L26.
- Pontzen, A., Deason, A., Governato, F., Pettini, M., Wadsley, J., Quinn, T., Brooks, A., Bellovary, J. & Fynbo, J.P.U. (2010). The nature of HIabsorbers in gamma-ray burst afterglows: clues from hydrodynamic simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 402: 1523-1535.
- Cowley, S.W.H., Deason, A.J. & Bunce, E.J. (2008). Axi-symmetric models of auroral current systems in Jupiter's magnetosphere with predictions for the Juno mission. Annales Geophysicae 26(12): 4051-4074.
Supervision students
Miss Tilly Evans
PGR Student