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Stacy McGaugh

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Stacy McGaugh is an American astronomer and professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. His fields of speciality include low surface brightness galaxies,[1] galaxy formation and evolution, tests of dark matter and alternative hypotheses,[2] and measurements of cosmological parameters.[3]

Stacy McGaugh was an undergraduate student at MIT and a graduate student at the University of Michigan. He held postdoctoral appointments at Cambridge University, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and Rutgers University before coming to the University of Maryland in 1998.

References

  1. ^ Kuzio de Naray, Rachel; McGaugh, Stacy S.; de Blok, W. J. G.; Bosma, A. (2006). "High-Resolution Optical Velocity Fields of 11 Low Surface Brightness Galaxies". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 165, 461-479.
  2. ^ Sanders, Robert H.; McGaugh, Stacy S. (2002). "Modified Newtonian Dynamics as an Alternative to Dark Matter". Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 40, 263-317.
  3. ^ McGaugh, Stacy S. (1999). "Distinguishing between Cold Dark Matter and Modified Newtonian Dynamics: Predictions for the Microwave Background". The Astrophysical Journal, 523, L99-L102.