Recent UCSC Press Releases
UC Santa Cruz Physicist Joel Primack wins 2024 AAAS Abelson Prize February 2024
Physicist Joel Primack honored by American Physical Society September 2019
Face Recognition for Galaxies April 2018
Physicist Joel Primack to serve as president of scientific honor society Sigma Xi January 2017
Physicist Joel Primack honored by American Physical Society October 2015
Books
- Joel R. Primack and Frank von Hippel, Advice and Dissent: Scientists in the Political Arena (New York: Basic Books, 1974; New American Library, 1976) http://physics.ucsc.edu/~joel/Advice_and_Dissent.pdf
- Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams, The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos (New York: Riverhead/Penguin, 2006; London: HarperCollins, 2006; Paris: Laffont, 2008; and other foreign editions) http://viewfromthecenter.com/
- Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel R. Primack, The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World (Yale University Press, 2011; Barcelona: Bosch, 2013) http://new-universe.org/; http://www.el-nuevo-universo.com
Recent Magazine Articles
Why Do Galaxies Start Out As Cosmic Pickles?, American Scientist, September-October 2018
Dark Matter Is Our Friend, Nautilus, February 2017
How Can Physicists Help the Public Make Better Decisions About Science and Technology?, APS Newsletter: The Back Page, July 2016
How Physicists Can Help the Public Make Better Decisions About Science and Technology – Historical Background, Physics and Society, July 2016
All the Light There Ever Was, Scientific American, June 2015
Staring Back to Cosmic Dawn, Sky and Telescope cover article, June 2014
The Universe in a Supercomputer, IEEE Spectrum, October 2012
Universe in a Box: From the Big Bang to Now, Sky&Telescope cover article, July 2012
Publications with Nancy Abrams
Papers on Cosmology and Culture by Nancy Abrams and Joel Primack
Dwight H. Terry Lectures: Cosmic Society: The New Universe and the Human Future by Nancy Abrams and Joel Primack
Joel R. Primack (with Google Scholar citation numbers as of February 2024, h-index: 104)
Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications (in chronological order)
Supersymmetry, cosmology, and new physics at teraelectronvolt energies 1982, Phys. Rev. Letters 48, 223. Pagels, Heinz, and Primack, Joel R. (960 citations)
Formation of galaxies and large-scale structure with cold dark matter 1984, Nature 311, 517. Blumenthal, G. R., Faber, S. M., Primack, J. R., Rees, M. J. (2457)
Contraction of dark matter galactic halos due to baryonic infall 1986, ApJ 301, 27. Blumenthal, G. R., Faber, S. M., Flores, R., Primack, J. R. (1516)
Detection of cosmic dark matter 1988, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Phys. 38, 751. Primack, J. R., Seckel, D., Sadoulet, B. (755)
Dynamical effects of the cosmological constant 1991, MNRAS 251, 128. Lahav, Ofer, Lilje, Per B., Primack, Joel R., Rees, Martin J. (1012)
Observational and theoretical constraints on singular dark matter halos 1994, ApJ 427, 1. Flores, Ricardo A., Primack, Joel R. (1097) *
Semi-analytic modeling of galaxy formation: the local Universe 1999, MNRAS 310, 1087. Somerville, Rachel S., Primack, Joel R. (1454) *
The nature of high-redshift galaxies 2001, MNRAS 320, 504. Somerville, Rachel S.; Primack, Joel R., Faber, S. M. (873) *
Profiles of dark haloes: evolution, scatter and environment 2001, MNRAS 321, 559. Bullock, J. S., Kolatt, T. S., Sigad, Y., Somerville, R. S., Kravtsov, A. V., Klypin, A. A., Primack, J. R., Dekel, A. (2627) *
A Universal Angular Momentum Profile for Galactic Haloes 2001, ApJ 555, 240. Bullock, J. S., Dekel, A. Kolatt, T. S., Kravtsov, A. V., Klypin, A. A., Porciani, C., Primack, J. R. (1068) *
Concentrations of dark halos from their assembly histories 2002, ApJ 568, 52. Wechsler, R. H., Bullock, J. S., Primack, J. R., Kravtsov, A. V., Dekel, A. (1367) *
A New Non-Parametric Approach to Galaxy Morphological Classification 2004, AJ 128, 163-182. Jennifer M. Lotz, Joel Primack, and Piero Madau (905)
The shape of dark matter halos 2006, MNRAS 367, 1781. Allgood, B., Flores, R., Primack, J., Kravtsov, A., Wechsler, R., Faltenbacher, A., Bullock, J. (629) *
Feedback in Simulations of Disk Galaxy Major Mergers 2006, MNRAS 373, 1013. T. J. Cox, Patrik Jonsson, Joel R. Primack, and Rachel S. Somerville (415) *
Galaxy merger morphologies and timescales from simulations of equal-mass gas-rich disc mergers 2008, MNRAS 391, 1137. Lotz, J. M., Jonsson, P., Cox, T. J., Primack, J. R. (469)
The major and minor galaxy merger rates at z< 1.5 2011, ApJ 742, 103. J.M. Lotz, P. Jonsson, T.J. Cox, D. Croton, J.R. Primack, R.S. Somerville, et al. (527)
Extragalactic background light inferred from AEGIS galaxy-SED-type fractions 2011, MNRAS 410, 2556, A. Dominguez, J. R. Primack, et al. (1010) *
Dark matter halos and galaxies in the standard cosmological model: results from the Bolshoi simulation 2011, ApJ 740, 102. A. Klypin, S. Trujillo-Gomez, J. Primack (1170)
Semi-analytic modelling of the extragalactic background light and consequences for extragalactic gamma-ray spectra 2012, MNRAS 422, 3189. R. C. Gilmore, R. S. Somerville, J. R. Primack, A. Domínguez (582) *
Halo concentrations in the standard Λ cold dark matter cosmology 2012, MNRAS 423, 3018. F. Prada, A.A. Klypin, A.J. Cuesta, J.E. Betancort-Rijo, J. Primack (754)
Gravitationally consistent halo catalogs and merger trees for precision cosmology 2012, ApJ 763, 18. P.S. Behroozi, R.H. Wechsler, H.Y. Wu, M.T. Busha, A.A. Klypin, J.R. Primack (621)
Toy models for galaxy formation versus simulations 2013, MNRAS 435, 999. A. Dekel, A. Zolotov, D. Tweed, M. Cacciato, D. Ceverino, J.R. Primack (297)
Detection of the cosmic γ-ray horizon from multiwavelength observations of blazars 2013, ApJ 770, 77. A. Domínguez, J.D. Finke, F. Prada, J.R. Primack, et al. (131) *
Understanding the structural scaling relations of early-type galaxies 2014, MNRAS 444, 942. L.A. Porter, R.S. Somerville, J.R. Primack, P.H. Johansson (130) *
The population of giant clumps in simulated high-z galaxies: in situ and ex situ migration and survival 2014, MNRAS 443, 3675. N. Mandelker, A. Dekel, D. Ceverino, D. Tweed, C.E. Moody, J. Primack (167)
Formation of elongated galaxies with low masses at high redshift 2015, MNRAS 453, 408. D. Ceverino, J. Primack, A. Dekel (65)
Compaction and quenching of high-z galaxies in cosmological simulations: blue and red nuggets 2015, MNRAS 450, 2327. A. Zolotov, A. Dekel, N. Mandelker, D. Tweed, S. Inoue, C. DeGraf, J. Primack (508)
Four phases of angular-momentum buildup in high-z galaxies: from cosmic-web streams through an extended ring to disc and bulge 2015, MNRAS 449, 2087. M. Danovich, A. Dekel, O. Hahn, D. Ceverino, J. Primack (289)
Is main-sequence galaxy star formation controlled by halo mass accretion? 2016, MNRAS 455, 2592. A. Rodríguez-Puebla, J.R. Primack, P. Behroozi, S.M. Faber (114)
Halo and subhalo demographics with Planck cosmological parameters: Bolshoi–Planck and MultiDark–Planck simulations 2016, MNRAS 462, 893. A. Rodríguez-Puebla, P. Behroozi, J. Primack, A. Klypin, C. Lee, D. Hellinger (245)
Constraining the galaxy–halo connection over the last 13.3 Gyr: star formation histories, galaxy mergers and structural properties 2017, MNRAS 470, 651. A. Rodríguez-Puebla, J.R. Primack, V. Avila-Reese, S.M. Faber (231)
Quenching as a contest between galaxy halos and their central black holes 2020, ApJ 897, 102. Z. Chen, S.M. Faber, D.C. Koo, R.S. Somerville, J.R. Primack, A. Dekel, et al. (95)
The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. VI. Similarities and Differences in the Circumgalactic Medium 2024, ApJ in press. C. Strawn, S. Roca-Fàbrega, J.R. Primack, J. Kim, et al. *
* These papers are based on PhD dissertation research supervised by Joel Primack