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My research involves the dynamics of galaxies. My latest work relates to determing how well we can estimate the masses of supermassive black hole in galaxies from the kinematical properties of stars in the nuclei that surround them. In a recent paper with my collaborators David Merritt (Rutgers) and Eric Emsellem (University de Lyon), we showed that most estimates to-date probably severly underestimate the errors on the masses of measured black holes ( Valluri, Merritt & Emsellem 2004 ).
My other interests include the study of how chaotic phenomena in galaxies are responsible for sculpting elliptical galaxies as we see them today (e.g. Valluri & Merritt 1999) how the effects of envioronment (especially in dense clusters and groups of galaxies) affect the observed properties of galaxies, and how we may use these phenomena to understand the properties of nearby galaxies and our own Milky Way.
All my publications are available from NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS).
PhD Astrophysics, December 1993
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
BSc & MSc Physics, May 1987
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India
Monica Valluri
Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
The University of Chicago
Laboratory for Astrophysics & Space Research (LASR), 221
5640 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: (773) 702-5817 • Fax: (773) 834-8279
E-mail: valluri AT oddjob.uchicago.edu
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