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Publications

Refereed Publications

  1. Young Globular Clusters in an old S0: Clues to the Formation History of NGC 4570
    Ralf Kotulla, Uta Fritze, Peter Anders
    MNRAS 387, 1149 (2008) - arXiv:0804.1257
  2. New active galactic nuclei detected in ROSAT All Sky Survey galaxies
    II. The complete dateset

    W. Kollatschny, Ralf Kotulla, W. Pietsch, K. Bischoff
    A&A 484, 897 - 915 (2008) - arXiv:0804.1917
  3. Rescuing the Initial Mass Function for Arp78
    Ralf Kotulla, Uta Fritze & John S. Gallagher III
    ApJ Letters 688, 65 (2008) - arXiv:0810.1748
  4. Impact of sub-solar metallicities on photometric redshifts
    Ralf Kotulla & Uta Fritze
    MNRAS Letters 393, 55 (2009) - arXiv:0811.3217
  5. GALEV evolutionary synthesis models - I. Code, input physics and web-interface
    Ralf Kotulla, Uta Fritze, Peter Weilbacher & Peter Anders
    MNRAS 396, 462 (2009) - arXiv:0903.0378
  6. The role of E+A and post-starburst galaxies - I. Models and model results
    Marie A. Falkenberg, Ralf Kotulla & Uta Fritze
    MNRAS 397, 1940 (2009) - arXiv:0901.1665
  7. The role of E+A and post-starburst galaxies - II. Spectral Energy Distributions and comparison with observations
    Marie A. Falkenberg, Ralf Kotulla & Uta Fritze
    MNRAS 397, 1954 (2009) - arXiv:0905.0909
  8. The first generation of Virgo cluster dwarf elliptical galaxies?
    Thorsten Lisker, Joachim Janz, Gerhard Hensler, Suk Kim, Soo-Chang Rey, Chiara Mastroprieto, Oliver Hielscher, Simone Weinmann, Sanjaya Paudel, Ralf Kotulla
    ApJ Letters, 706, 124 (2009) - arXiv:0910.3209
  9. Galaxies to the redshift desert and beyond - I. Chemically consistent modeling
    Ralf Kotulla
    submitted to MNRAS
  10. Galaxies to the redshift desert and beyond - II. Comparison to observations
    Ralf Kotulla
    submitted to MNRAS

Publications in preparation

  1. Galaxies to the redshift desert and beyond
    III. Stellar mass functions and the evolution of star formation activity since z=4

    Ralf Kotulla
    in prep
  2. Galaxies to the redshift desert and beyond
    IV. Mass assembly histories and the formation of the Hubble sequence

    Ralf Kotulla
    in prep

Conference Proceedings

  1. Detecting metal-rich intermediate-age Globular Clusters in NGC 4570 using K-band photometry
    Ralf Kotulla, Uta Fritze, Peter Anders
    to appear in "Young Massive Star Clusters", eds. E. Perez, R. de Grijs, R. Gonzalez Delgado
    ADS - arXiv:0801.2318
  2. A new investigation of the luminosity-metallicity relation for star-forming dwarf galaxies
    Hagen T. Meyer, Ralf Kotulla, Polychronis Papderos, Yuri Izotov, Klaus J. Fricke
    to appear in "Star-forming Dwarf Galaxies: Ariadne’s Thread in the Cosmic Labyrinth", Crete, 2008,
    eds P. Papaderos, N. Bergvall, T. Marquart and G. Östlin
    ADS - astro-ph
  3. GALEV evolutionary synthesis models on the web - current status and future plans
    Ralf Kotulla, Peter Anders, Peter Weilbacher & Uta Fritze
    to appear in "Proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 262: Stellar Populations - Planning for the next decade"
    eds. G. Bruzual & S. Charlot
    ADS - astro-ph

Conference Posters

  1. Granada 2007 & AG Meeting 2007
    Using globular clusters to derive the formation history of the Virgo Lenticular NGC 4570 - Preliminary Results
    Ralf Kotulla, Uta Fritze, Peter Anders & Richard de Grijs
  2. JENAM 2008:
    Impact of sub-solar metallicities and evolutionary corrections on photometric redshifts (pdf)
    Ralf Kotulla & Uta Fritze
  3. JENAM 2008:
    GALEV evolutionary synthesis models on the web (pdf)
    Ralf Kotulla, Uta Fritze, Peter Weilbacher & Peter Anders
  4. JENAM 2008:
    Impact of stochastic attenuation on photometric redshifts
    Thorsten Tepper Garcia, Ralf Kotulla, Akio Inoue & Ikuru Iwata
  5. JENAM 2008:
    Revisiting the luminosity-metallicity relation for star-forming dwarf galaxies
    Hagen Thilo Meyer, Ralf Kotulla, Polychronis Papaderos & Yuri Izotov
  6. European Weak of Astronomy and Space Sciences (EWASS/NAM/JENAM) 2009:
    Photometric redshifts from chemically consistent templates (pdf)
    Ralf Kotulla
  7. European Weak of Astronomy and Space Sciences (EWASS/NAM/JENAM) 2009:
    GALEV evolutionary synthesis models: The ideal tool to model high-redshift galaxies (pdf)
    Ralf Kotulla, Uta Fritze, Peter Weilbacher & Peter Anders
  8. European Weak of Astronomy and Space Sciences (EWASS/NAM/JENAM) 2009:
    Modelling galaxy transformation scenarios at z~0.4 with GALEV (pdf)
    Ralf Kotulla, Marie-Aylin Falkenberg & Uta Fritze
  9. European Weak of Astronomy and Space Sciences (EWASS/NAM/JENAM) 2009:
    Arp 78 and the Universality of the Stellar Initial Mass Functions (pdf)
    Ralf Kotulla, John S. Gallagher III & Uta Fritze
  10. VIIth Marseille International Cosmology Conference:
    Harvesting the desert: The Universe between redshift 1 and 3
    A unified approach to modelling galaxies not only in the redshift desert (pdf)
    Ralf Kotulla

Talks at conferences and seminars

JENAM 2008:
Revealing the formation history of NGC 4570 via the age distribution of its globular clusters

Introduction
Data and models - GALEV and NTT observations
Results - Ages, Metallicities and masses
Summary and outlook

JENAM 2008:
GALEV goes High-Redshift

What is GALEV
Applications: Star clusters, galaxies
How to run your GALEV model

CAR/UH Post-Grad student talks 2009:
Observational cosmology: From the Big-Bang to the Milky Way

Introduction: GALEV as tool for observational cosmology
Why we need photometric redshifts
Physical parameters instead of just colour criteria
What's next: Summary and outlook

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