Publications 2007

• Prescott, Kennicutt, et al. 2007, 
  The Incidence of Highly Obscured Star-forming Regions in SINGS Galaxies
  ApJ, 668, 182 (Extragalactic, Observational)
  
  Kennicutt, R. et al. (M. Prescott 12th author) 2007, 
  Star Formation in NGC 5194 (M51a). II. The Spatially Resolved Star Formation Law
  ApJ, 671, 333   (Extragalactic, Observational)
  
  Calzetti, D. et al. (M. Prescott 21st author) 2007, 
  The Calibration of Mid-Infrared Star Formation Rate Indicators
  ApJ, 666, 870 (Extragalactic, Observational)
  
  

Ongoing Research

M. Prescott, in collaboration with N. Kashikawa (NAOJ), A. Dey (NOAO), and Y.
Matsuda (Kyoto University; NAOJ), is studying the environment of a large Lya
nebula at z~2.7 using deep intermediate-band Lya imaging from Subaru/SuprimeCam.
 (Extragalactic, Observational)

M. Prescott, in collaboration with A. Dey (NOAO) and the MIPS Bootes Team, is
investigating the multi-wavelength properties of a large Lya nebula at z~2.7 to
understand the underlying power source, finding that an obscured AGN and
spatially extended star formation both may play a role.  (Extragalactic,
Observational)

M. Prescott, in collaboration with A. Dey (NOAO) and B. Jannuzi (NOAO), is
conducting a systematic search for large Lya nebulae in the NDWFS Bootes field 
in order to put better constraints on the space density of these rare sources. 
The survey relies deep broadband imaging and follow-up spectroscopy on the MMT.
 One new large Lya nebula has already been found.  (Extragalactic, Observational)

M. Prescott, in collaboration with A. Dey (NOAO) and N. Reddy (NOAO), is
conducting a search for the lowest redshift sample of Lya-emitting galaxies
(z~1.9) in order to study the properties/evolution of this population which is
used as an important probe of the reionization epoch.  (Extragalactic,
Observational)

M. Prescott, in collaboration with A. Dey (NOAO), G. Schmidt (Steward), and P.
Smith (Steward), is using imaging polarimetry to investigate whether large Lya
nebulae could be powered by scattering processes.
(Extragalactic, Observational)

M. Prescott, in collaboration with N. Kashikawa (NAOJ), A. Dey (NOAO), and Y.
Matsuda (Kyoto University; NAOJ), is studying the properties of low redshift
Lya-emitting galaxies at z~2.7 using deep intermediate-band Lya imaging from
Subaru/SuprimeCam.  The survey will provide one of the largest uniform samples
of Lya-emitting galaxies.  (Extragalactic, Observational)