Harvard University Department of Astronomy

	Douglas Finkbeiner, Assistant Professor of Astronomy

Selected Publications of Douglas Finkbeiner

• "Detecting Dark Matter Annihilation with CMB Polarization : Signatures and Experimental Prospects"
  Nikhil Padmanabhan and D. P. Finkbeiner July 2005, Phys. Rev. D72 023508 and astro-ph/0503486

• "WMAP Microwave Emission Interpreted as Dark Matter Annihilation in the Inner Galaxy"
  D. P. Finkbeiner 2005, astro-ph/0409027

• "Microwave Interstellar Medium Emission in the Green Bank Galactic Plane Survey: Evidence for Spinning Dust,"
  D. P. Finkbeiner, G. I. Langston, & A. H. Minter Dec 2004, ApJ, 617, 350 and astro-ph/0408292

• "Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging of Low Galactic Latitude Fields: Technical Summary and Data Release"
  D. P. Finkbeiner, N. Padmanabhan, D. J. Schlegel, and 86 coauthors, Nov 2004, AJ, 128, 2577

• "Determining Foreground Contamination in CMB Observations:
  Diffuse Galactic Emission in the MAXIMA-I Field," A. H. Jaffe, et al. Nov 2004 ApJ, 615, 55 and astro-ph/0301077
  
  
• "Microwave ISM Emission Observed by WMAP,"
  D. P. Finkbeiner Oct 2004, ApJ, 614, 186 and astro-ph/0311547

• "A Composite H-alpha Template for Microwave Foreground Prediction,"
  D. P. Finkbeiner June 2003, ApJS, 146, 407

• "A New Spin on Galactic Dust,"
  A. de Oliveira-Costa, M. Tegmark, D. P. Finkbeiner, R. D. Davies, C. M. Gutierrez,
  L. M. Haffner, A. W. Jones, A. N. Lasenby, R. Rebolo, R. J. Reynolds, S. L. Tufte, and R. A. Watson, March 2002,
  ApJ, 567, 363 and astro-ph/0010527

• "Tentative Detection of Electric Dipole Emission from Rapidly Rotating Dust Grains,"
  D. P. Finkbeiner, D. J. Schlegel, Curtis Frank, & Carl Heiles, February 2002, ApJ, 566, 898 and astro-ph/0109534
  
  
• "Detection of a Far IR Excess with DIRBE at 60 and 100 Microns,"
  D. P. Finkbeiner, Marc Davis, and D. J. Schlegel, ApJ, 544, 81 (20 Nov 2000), also astro-ph/0004175

• "Extrapolation of Galactic Dust Emission at 100 Microns to CMBR Frequencies Using FIRAS,"
  D. P. Finkbeiner, Marc Davis, and D. J. Schlegel, ApJ, 524, 867 (20 October 1999), also astro-ph/9905128
  
  
• "Maps of Dust IR Emission for Use in Estimation of Reddening and CMBR Foregrounds,"
  D. J. Schlegel, D. P. Finkbeiner, and Marc Davis, ApJ, 500, 525 (20 June, 1998), also astro-ph/9710327
  
  
• "The Origin of the Galactic 1/4 keV Diffuse X-Ray Background,"
  S. L. Snowden, R. Egger, D. P. Finkbeiner, M. J. Freyberg, and P. P. Plucinsky 1998,
  ApJ, 493, 715 or Click Here
  
  
• "A Limit on Galactic Extinction Not Correlated with Far IR Emission,"
  D. P. Finkbeiner, D. J. Schlegel, and Marc Davis 1997,
  in Proceedings of the IAU Colloquium No. 166 ``The Local Bubble and Beyond'',
  eds. D. Breitschwerdt, M.J. Freyberg, J. Trümper, Lecture Notes in Physics 506, 367 Click here

  
  Recent SDSS Publications:

• SDSS Publication 55: "Colors of 2625 Quasars at 0 < z < 5 Measured in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Photometric System"
  Gordon T. Richards, et al. May 2001, AJ, 121, 2308

• SDSS Publication 54: "The Luminosity Function of Galaxies in SDSS Commissioning Data"
  Michael Blanton, et al. May 2001, AJ, 121, 2358

• SDSS Publication 73: "Composite Quasar Spectra from the SDSS"
  Daniel Vanden Berk, et al. August 2001, AJ, 122, 549

• SDSS Publication 82: "A Photometricity and Extinction Monitor at the Apache Point Observatory"
  David W. Hogg, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, David Schlegel and James E. Gunn, October 2001, AJ, 122, 2129, also astro-ph/0106511

• SDSS Publication 95: "Galaxy Clustering in Early Sloan Digital Sky Survey Redshift Data"
  Idit Zehavi, et al. May 2002, ApJ, 571, 172

• SDSS Publication 110: "Early-type galaxies in the SDSS"
  Mariangela Bernardi, R. K. Sheth, J. Annis, S. Burles, D. Eisenstein, D. P. Finkbeiner, D. W. Hogg, R. H. Lupton, D. J. Schlegel..., submitted to AJ

• SDSS Publication 133: "Optical and Radio Properties of Extragalactic Sources Observed by the FIRST Survey and SDSS"
  Zeljko Ivezic, et al. November 2002, AJ, 124, 2364

• SDSS Publication 183: "Average Spectra of Massive Galaxies in the SDSS"
  Daniel J. Eisenstein, et al. 2003, ApJ in press astro-ph/0212087

• "Fiber Mapper Software for the SDSS Fiber Spectrograph"
  D. P. Finkbeiner and D. J. Schlegel, in prep.