CV – Håkon Dahle
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: Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics
University of Oslo
P.O. Box 1029, Blindern
N-0315 Oslo, Norway
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: hdahle@astro.uio.no
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22 September, 1970.
Oslo, Norway
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Norwegian
Married to Karin-M. Holmberg Dahle, physician, pediatrician
Fredrik Magnus Holmberg Dahle (b. 2007), David Kristian Holmberg Dahle (b. 2010)
Norwegian-native; English-near native; some German, rudimentary French.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT AND FELLOWSHIPS
01.02.08 – present : Researcher,
Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway
15.05.09 – 31.12.09 : Single Point of Contact for Norway,
International Year of Astronomy 2009, University of Oslo, Norway
25.04.07 – 31.01.08 : CNES/CNRS Postdoctoral Researcher,
Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille,
Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille-Provence, France.
19.02.07 – 23.03.07 : Postdoctoral Researcher,
Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute,
University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
01.02.03 – 31.01.07 : Postdoctoral Researcher,
Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway
01.09.00 – 31.01.03 : Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA), Copenhagen, Denmark.
17.08.98 – 20.06.00 : Graduate Research Assistant,
Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, USA.
01.07.96 – 30.06.98 : Doctoral Research Fellowship, funded by the Research Council of Norway
1995 – 1997
: School of Graduate Studies International Student Award and
C.A. Chant, Walter Helm, Carl Reinhardt, and Mary H. Beatty
Fellowships in Astronomy,
University of Toronto, Canada.
1993, 1994
: Summer Research Assistant,
Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway.
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EDUCATION
1995–2000 : Ph.D. in astronomy
Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA; also studies at
Department of Astronomy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada (1995–1997).
1993–1994 : Cand. Scient. in astronomy (M.Sc. equivalent)
Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway
1989–1992 : Cand. Mag. in physics (B.Sc. equivalent)
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway
ADDITIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Centre of Mathematics for Applications (2003–2013), a Norwegian national Centre of Excellence
hosted by the University of Oslo
Associate in the ESA Planck Low Frequency Instrument Consortium.
Co-coordinator of WG5 work packages F (SZ cluster validation) and H (SZ cluster validation follow-up)
within Planck Working Group 5: Clusters and Secondary Anisotropies.
Member of the ESA Euclid Consortium
Contributor to the Athena (Advanced Telescope for High-Energy Astrophysics) proposal addressing the “Hot
and energetic universe” science theme selected by ESA for the second L-class mission in ESA’s Cosmic Vision
science programme.
Member of International Team in Space Science at the International Space Science Institute
(Bern, Switzerland), working on the project Astrophysics and Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters:
The X-ray and Lensing View, 2010–2012
Individual member, International Astronomical Union (2006–)
SERVICES AT INTERNATIONAL LEVEL
Referee for international scientific journals: Astrophysical Journal (main journal and Letters),
Astronomy & Astrophysics and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Chair, Nordic Optical Telescope Observing Programmes Committee (2009–2012);
Norwegian representative (2006– present; substitute member 2003–05)
Referee for the Chilean National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT)
Panel member (three years), Time Allocation Committee of the XMM-Newton satellite, ESA
Leader of organization commitee for the NorFA/NORDITA Nordic Summer School on
Cosmology and the High-Redshift Universe, Abisko 2002
Co-organizer of NORDITA Master Class in Physics (summer school for talented 3rd year
undergraduate students from Northern and Eastern Europe), 2001, 2002.
Co-organizer/Co-I of the Nordic Network of Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2008-2010
SOC member for the conference The mass profile of galaxy clusters from the core to the outskirts:
The need for a multi-wavelength approach, Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, 2013
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TEACHING AND EXAMINATION WORK
I have been responsible for the scientific supervision of 6 Master students at the University of Oslo.
Fall 2013
: Responsible for teaching the masters course
AST4320: Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy, University of Oslo.
Spring 2011 : Member of adjudication committee for PhD thesis of Daniel Johansson,
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Spring 2008 : Administrator of adjudication committee for PhD thesis of Stein Vidar Haugan, University of Oslo.
Fall 2004
: Examinator for the masters course
AST4220: Cosmology I, University of Oslo.
Spring 2004 : Examinator for the undergraduate course
AST2110: The Universe, University of Oslo.
Fall 2003
: Examinator for the masters course
AST4220: Cosmology I, University of Oslo.
Fall 2003
: Guest lecturer for the masters course
A409: Galactic Dynamics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Fall 2002
: External examinator of final exams for the advanced undergraduate course
AST220: Cosmology, University of Oslo.
August 2002 : Lecturer at the Nordic Summer School on ”Cosmology and the High-Redshift Universe”
Abisko, Sweden
Fall 2001
: External examinator of final exams for the advanced undergraduate course
A212: Space Plasma, Galaxies and Cosmology, University of Oslo, Norway.
Fall 1995
: Teaching Assistant (tutorials, office hours and grading of home assignments, mid-term and final exam)
for the undergraduate course Astronomy 201: Stars and Galaxies, University of Toronto, Canada.
RELEVANT REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS 2009-2014
(An ADS link to the full list of publications is available at http://folk.uio.no/hdahle )
Introducing GAMER: A fast and accurate method for ray-tracing galaxies using procedural noise
Groeneboom, N., & Dahle, H., 2014, ApJ, 783, 138
SDSSJ2222+2745: A Gravitationally Lensed Sextuple Quasar with Maximum Image Separation of 15.1” Discovered in the Sloan Giant
Arcs Survey
Dahle, H., Gladders, M. D., Sharon, K., Bayliss, M. B., Wuyts, E., Abramson, L. E., Koester, B. P., Groeneboom, N., Brinckmann, T. E., Kristensen, M. T., Lindholmer, M.O., Nielsen, A., Krogager, J.-K., Fynbo, J.P.U., 2013, ApJ, 773, 146
The Burst Cluster: Dark Matter in a Cluster Merger Associated with the Short Gamma Ray Burst, GRB 050509B
Dahle, H., Sarazin, C.L., Lopez, L., Kouveliotou, C., Patel., S.K., Rol, E., van der Horst, A.J., Fynbo, J.P.U., Wijers, R.A.M.J., Burrows, D.N.,
Gehrels, N., Grupe, D., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., Michalowski, M.J., 2013, ApJ, 772, 23
Searching for Cooling Signatures in Strong Lensing Galaxy Clusters: Evidence Against Baryons Shaping the Matter Distribution in Cluster
Cores
Blanchard, P.K., Bayliss, M.B., McDonald, M., Dahle, H., Gladders, M.D., Sharon, K., Mushotzky, R., 2013, 772, 24
Arc statistics
Meneghetti, M., Bartelmann, M., Dahle, H., Limousin, M., 2013, Space Science Reviews, 177, 31
Masses of Galaxy Clusters from Gravitational Lensing
Hoekstra, H., Bartelmann, M., Dahle, H., Israel, H., Limousin, M., Meneghetti, M., 2013, Space Science Reviews, 177, 75
SGAS 143845.1+145407: A Big, Cool Starburst at Redshift 0.816
Gladders, M.D., Rigby, J.R., Sharon, K., Wuyts, E., Abramson, L.E., Dahle, H., Persson, S.E., Monson, A.J., Kelson, D.D., Benford, D.J., Murphy,
D., Bayliss, M.B., Finkelstein, K.D., Koester, B., Bans, A., Baxter, E.J., Helsby, J.E., 2013, ApJ, 764, 177
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Planck 2013 results. XX. Cosmology from Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster counts
Planck collaboration (incl. Dahle, H.), 2013, A&A, arXiv:1303.5080
Planck 2013 results. XXIX. Planck catalogue of Sunyaev-Zeldovich sources
Planck collaboration (incl. Dahle, H.), 2013, A&A, arXiv:1303.5089
Planck intermediate results. X. Physics of the hot gas in the Coma cluster
Planck collaboration (incl. Dahle, H.), 2013, A&A, 554, A140
Planck intermediate results. VIII. Filaments between interacting clusters
Planck collaboration (incl. Dahle, H.), 2013, A&A, 550, A134
Planck intermediate results. VI. The dynamical structure of PLCKG214.6+37.0, a Planck discovered triple system of galaxy clusters
Planck collaboration (incl. Dahle, H.), 2013, A&A, 550, A132
Planck intermediate results. V. Pressure profiles of galaxy clusters from the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
Planck collaboration (incl. Dahle, H.), 2013, A&A, 550, A131
Planck intermediate results. IV. The XMM-Newton validation programme for new Planck galaxy clusters
Planck collaboration (incl. Dahle, H.), 2013, A&A, 550, A130
Planck intermediate results. III. The relation between galaxy cluster mass and Sunyaev-Zeldovich signal
Planck collaboration (incl. Dahle, H.), 2013, A&A, 550, A129
Planck intermediate results. I. Further validation of new Planck clusters with XMM-Newton
Planck collaboration (incl. Dahle, H.), 2012, A&A, 543, A102
Combined strong and weak lensing analysis of 28 clusters from the Sloan Giant Arcs Survey
Oguri, M., Bayliss, M., Dahle, H., Sharon, K., Gladders, M., Natarajan, P., Hennawi, J.F., Koester, B., 2012, MNRAS, 420, 3213
Planck early results. XXVI. Detection with Planck and confirmation by XMM-Newton of PLCK G266.6−27.3, an exceptionally X-ray
luminous and massive galaxy cluster at z ∼ 1
Planck collaboration (incl. Dahle, H.), 2011, A&A, 536, A26
Planck early results. XII. Cluster Sunyaev-Zeldovich optical scaling relations
Planck collaboration (incl. Dahle, H.), 2011, A&A, 536, A12
Planck early results. XI. Calibrations of the local galaxy cluster Sunyaev-Zeldovich scaling relations
Planck collaboration (incl. Dahle, H.), 2011, A&A, 536, A11
Planck early results. X. Statistical analysis of Sunyaev-Zeldovich scaling relations for X-ray clusters
Planck collaboration (incl. Dahle, H.), 2011, A&A, 536, A10
Planck early results. IX. XMM-Newton follow-up for validation of Planck cluster candidates
Planck collaboration (incl. Dahle, H.), 2011, A&A, 536, A9
Planck early results. VIII. The all-sky early Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster sample
Planck collaboration (incl. Dahle, H.), 2011, A&A, 536, A8
A Highly Magnified Supernova at z = 1.703 behind the Massive Galaxy Cluster A1689
Amanullah, R., Goobar, A., Clement, B., Cuby, J.-G., Dahle, H., Dahlen, T., Hjorth, J., Fabbro, S., Jönsson, J., Kneib, J.-P., Lidman, C.,
Limousin, M., Milvang-Jensen, B., Mörtsell, E., Nordin, J., Paech, K., Richard, J., Riehm, T., Stanishev, V., Watson, D., 2011, ApJL, 742, 7
Triaxiality and non-thermal gas pressure in Abell 1689
Morandi, A., Limousin, M., Rephali, Y., Umetsu, K., Barkana, R., Broadhurst, T., Dahle, H., 2011, MNRAS, 416, 2567
Gemini/GMOS Spectroscopy of 26 Strong-lensing-selected Galaxy Cluster Cores
Bayliss, M., Hennawi, J.F., Gladders, M., Koester, B., Sharon, K., Dahle, H., Oguri, M., 2011, ApJS, 193, 8
The Redshift Distribution of Giant Arcs in the Sloan Giant Arcs Survey
Bayliss, M., Gladders, M., Oguri, M., Hennawi, J.F., Sharon, K., Koester, B., Dahle, H., 2011, ApJL, 727, 26
Two Lensed z ' 3 Lyman Break Galaxies Discovered in the SDSS Giant Arcs Survey
Koester, B., Gladders, M., Hennawi, J.F., Sharon, K., Wuyts, E., Rigby, J.R., Bayliss, M., Dahle, H., 2010, ApJL, 723, 73
Two Lensed Lyman-alpha Emitting Galaxies at z ∼ 5
Bayliss, M., Wuyts, E., Sharon, K., Gladders, M., Hennawi, J.F., Koester, B., Dahle, H., 2010, ApJ, 720, 1559
Subaru Weak Lensing Measurements of Four Strong Lensing Clusters: Are Lensing Clusters Over-Concentrated?
Oguri, M., Hennawi, J.F., Gladders, M., Dahle, H., Natarajan, P., Dalal, N., Koester, B., Sharon, K., Bayliss, M., 2009, ApJ, 699, 1038
The density profiles of the galaxy clusters Abell 1351 and Abell 1995
Holhjem, K., Schirmer, M., and Dahle, H., 2009, A&A, 504, 1
Resolving the discrepancy between lensing and X-ray mass estimates of the complex galaxy cluster Abell 1689
Riemer-Sørensen, S., Paraficz, D., Ferreira, D.D.M., Pedersen, K., Limousin, M., Dahle, H., 2009, ApJ, 693, 1570
Handbook for the GREAT08 Challenge: An image analysis competition for cosmological lensing
Bridle, S., et al. (incl. Dahle, H.), 2009, Annals of Applied Statistics, 3, 6
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