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kalatalo@stsci.edu


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Papers

a link to my ADS page is here. first author & students here.
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1st and significant author Refereed Journal Publications

  1. Alatalo, Katherine; Petric, Andreea O; Lanz, Lauranne; Rowlands, Kate; U, Vivian; Larson, Kirsten L. and 15 co-authors “Characterizing the Molecular Gas in Infrared Bright Galaxies with CARMA” 2024, the Astrophysical Journal, 975, 241
  2. Otter, Justin*; Alatalo, Katherine; Rowlands, Kate; McDermid, Richard; Davis, Timothy; Federrath, Christoph and 18 co-authors “Pulling back the curtain on shocks and star-formation in NGC1266 with Gemini-NIFS” 2024, the Astrophysical Journal, 975, 142
  3. Sazonova, Elizaveta*; Morgan, Cameron; Balogh, Michael; Alatalo, Katherine; Benavides, Jose A. and 10 co-authors “RMS Asymmetry: A Robust Metric of Galaxy Shapes in Images with Varied Depth and Resolution” 2024, The Open Journal of Astrophysics, 7E, 77
  4. Luo, Yuanze*; Petric, Andreea 0.; Janssen, Reinier M.; Fadda, Dario; Flagey, Nicolas; Omont, Alain; Jacob, Arshia; Rowlands, Kate; Alatalo, Katherine; Billot, Nicolas and 10 co-authors “Measuring the ISM Content of Nearby, Luminous, Type 1 and Type 2 QSOs through CO and [C II]” 2025, the Astrophysical Journal, 981, 194
  5. Otter, Justin*; Rowlands, Kate; Alatalo, Katherine; Leung, Ho-Hin; and 23 co-authors “Resolved Molecular Gas Observations of MaNGA Post-Starbursts Reveal a Tumultuous Past” 2022, the Astrophysical Journal 941, 93
  6. Luo, Yuanze*; Rowlands, Kate; Alatalo, Katherine; Sazonova, Elizaveta; and 13 co-authors “A Multiwavelength view of IC 860: What Is in Action inside Quenching Galaxies” 2022, the Astrophysical Journal, 938, 63
  7. Sazonova, Elizaveta*; Alatalo, Katherine; Rowlands, Kate; Deustua, Susana; and 11 co-authors “Are all post-starbursts mergers? HST reveals hidden disturbances in the majority of PSBs” 2021, the Astrophysical Journal, 919, 134
  8. Sazonova, Elizaveta*; Alatalo, Katherine; Boone, Kyle; Brodwin, Mark; Hayden, Brian; Lanz, Lauranne; Lotz, Jennifer; Perlmutter, Saul; Rodriguez-Gomez, Vicente; Rowlands, Kate & Snyder, Gregory F. “The Morphology-Density Relationship in 1 <z <2 Clusters”, 2020, the Astrophysical Journal, 899, 85
  9. Salim, Diane M. ; Alatalo, Katherine; Federrath, Christoph; Groves, Brent & Kewley, Lisa J. “’Spinning Bar and a Star-formation Inefficient Repertoire: Turbulence in Hickson Compact Group NGC 7674”, 2020, the Astrophysical Journal, 893, 26
  10. Pitchford, L. K.*; Farrah, D.; Alatalo, K.; Afonso, J.; Efstathiou, A.; Hatziminaogluo, E.; Lacy, M.; Urrutia, T. & Violino, G “No evidence that AGN-driven winds expel the cold gas reservoir in a star-forming FeLoBAL quasar”, 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 487, 3130
  11. Ardila, Felipe*; Alatalo, Katherine; Lanz, Lauranne; Appleton, Philip N.; Beaton, Rachael L.; Bitsakis, Theodoros; Cales, Sabrina L. and 7 co-authors "Shocked POststarburst Galaxy Survey. III. The Ultraviolet Properties of SPOGs”, 2018, the Astrophysical Journal, 863, 28
  12. Alatalo, Katherine; Lacy, Mark; Bitsakis, Theodoros; Brown, Michael J.I.; Ciesla, Laure and 14 co-authors "Welcome to the Twilight Zone: The Mid-Infrared Properties of Poststarburst Galaxies", 2017, The Astrophysical Journal, 843, 9
  13. Alatalo, Katherine; Aladro, Rebeca; Nyland, Kristina; Aalto, Susanne; Bitsakis, Theodoros; Gallagher, John S. & Lanz, Lauranne "After the Interaction: an efficiently star-forming molecular disk in NGC 5195", 2016, the Astrophysical Journal, 830, 137
  14. Alatalo, Katherine; Lisenfeld, Ute; Lanz, Lauranne; Appleton, Philip N.; Cales, Sabrina L.; Kewley, Lisa J.; Lacy, Mark; Medling, Anne M.; Nyland, Kristina; Rich, Jeffery A. & Urry, C. Meg "Shocked POststarbust Galaxy Survey II: The Molecular Gas Content and Properties of a Subset of SPOGs", 2016, the Astrophysical Journal, 827, 106
  15. Alatalo, Katherine; Cales, Sabrina L.; Rich, Jeffery A.; Appleton, Philip N.; Kewley, Lisa J.; Lacy, Mark; Lanz, Lauranne; Medling, Anne M. & Nyland, Kristina "Shocked POststarbust Galaxy Survey I: Candidate Poststarbust Galaxies with Emission Line Ratios Consistent with Shocks", 2016, the Astrophysical Journal Supplements, 224, 38
  16. Alatalo, K.; Appleton, P.N.; Lisenfeld, U.; Bitsakis, T.; Lanz, L.; Lacy, M. and 13 co-authors "Star Formation Suppression in Compact Groups: a New Path to Quenching?", 2015, the Astrophysical Journal, 812, 117
  17. Alatalo, Katherine; Crocker, Alison F.; Aalto, Susanne; Davis, Timothy A.; Nyland, Kristina; Bureau, Martin; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Krajnovic, Davor & Young, Lisa M. "Evidence of boosted 13CO/12CO ratio in early-type galaxies in dense environments", 2015, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 450, 3874
  18. Alatalo, Katherine"Escape, Accretion or Star Formation? The Competing Depleters of Gas in the Quasar Markarian 231", 2015, the Astrophysical Journal Letters, 801, L17
  19. Alatalo, Katherine; Lacy, Mark; Lanz, Lauranne; Bitsakis, Theodoros; Appleton, Philip N. and 9 co-authors "Suppression of star formation in NGC 1266.", 2015, the Astrophysical Journal, 798, 31
  20. Alatalo, Katherine; Appleton, Philip N.; Lisenfeld, Ute, Bitsakis, Theodoros; Guillard, Pierre and 12 co-authors "Strong Far-Infrared Cooling, Peculiar CO Kinematics and Possible Star-formation Suppression in Hickson Compact Group 57.", 2014, the Astrophysical Journal, 795, 159
  21. Alatalo, Katherine; Cales, Sabrina L.; Appleton, Philip N.; Kewley, Lisa J.; Lacy, Mark; Lisenfeld, Ute; Nyland, Kristina & Rich, Jeffrey A. "Catching Quenching Galaxies: The Nature of the WISE Infrared Transition Zone", 2014, the Astrophysical Journal, 794, L13
  22. Alatalo, Katherine; Nyland, Kristina; Graves, Genevieve; Deustua, Susana; Shapiro Griffin, Kristen and 25 co-authors "NGC 1266 as a Local Candidate for Rapid Cessation of Star Formation." 2014, the Astrophysical Journal, 780, 186
  23. Alatalo, Katherine; Davis, Timothy A.; Bureau, Martin; Young, Lisa M.; Blitz, Leo and 21 co-authors "The ATLAS3D project -- XVIII. CARMA CO imaging survey of early-type galaxies", 2013, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 432, 1796
  24. Alatalo, K.; Blitz, L.; Young, L. M.; Davis, T. A.; Bureau, M.; Lopez, L. A. and 23 co-authors "Discovery of an AGN-Driven Molecular Outflow in the Local Early-Type Galaxy NGC 1266", 2011, the Astrophysical Journal, 735, 88
  25. Lisenfeld, U.; Alatalo, K.; Zucker, C.; Appleton, P.N.; Gallagher, S.; Guillard, P. & Johnson, K. "The role of molecular gas in galaxy transition in compact groups", 2017, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 607, 110
  26. Roberts-Borsani, G.W.; Jiménez-Donaire, M.J.; Daprà, M.;Alatalo, K.; Aretxaga, I.; Álvarez-Márquez, J.; and 16 co-authors "Multiwavelength Characterisation of an ACT-Selected, Lensed Dusty Star-forming Galaxy at z=2.64", 2017, the Astrophysical Journal, 844, 110
  27. Lanz, Lauranne; Ogle, Patrick; Alatalo, Katherine& Appleton, Philip N. "Star Formation Suppression Due to Jet Feedback in Radio Galaxies with Shocked Warm Molecular Gas", 2016, the Astrophysical Journal, 826, 29
  28. McBride, James*; Alatalo, Katherine& Nyland, Kristina "Observations of Hydroxyl in Early-type Galaxies", 2015, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447, 392
  29. Nyland, Kristina; Alatalo, Katherine; Wrobel, J. M.; Young, Lisa M.; Morganti, Raffaella; Davis, Timothy A.; de Zeeuw, P. T. and Deustua, Susana "Detection of a High Brightness Temperature Radio Core in the AGN-Driven Molecular Outflow Candidate NGC 1266.", 2013, the Astrophysical Journal, 779, 173
  30. Davis, Timothy A.; Alatalo, Katherine; Bureau, Martin; Cappellari, Michele; Scott, Nicholas and 21 co-authors "The ATLAS3D project. -- XIV. The extend and kinematics of the molecular gas in early-type galaxies.", 2013, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 429, 534
  31. Davis, Timothy A.; Alatalo, Katherine; Sarzi, Marc; Bureau, Martin and 21 co-authors "The ATLAS3D project -- X. On the origin of the molecular and ionised gas in early-type galaxies", 2011, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 417, 882
  32. Yost, S. A.; Alatalo, K.; Rykoff, E. S.; Aharonian, F.; Akerlof, C. W. and 27 co-authors "Optical Light Curve and Cooling Break of GRB 050502A", 2006, the Astrophysical Journal, 636, 959

All other co-authored papers are presented in this pdf