Eric F. Bell

Eric F. Bell
Alma mater	Glasgow University (BSc) Durham University (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields	Observational astronomy
Thesis	Exploring the star formation histories of galaxies  (1999)
Doctoral advisor	Richard Bower and Bernard Rauscher
Website	sites.lsa.umich.edu/ericbell/

Eric Findlay Bell ^[1] is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Astronomy at the University of Michigan. ^[2]

Formerly a staff scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Bell was a 2007 awardee of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize from the German Research Foundation for his work on galaxy formation. ^{[3] [4]}

He was part of the team that discovered Andromeda XXXV, a satellite galaxy of Andromeda, in 2025. ^[5]

Selected publications

• Bell, E. F.; de Jong, R. S. (2001). "Stellar mass-to-light ratios and the Tully–Fisher relation". The Astrophysical Journal. 550 (1): 212–229. arXiv: astro-ph/0011493 .
• Bell, E. F.; McIntosh, D. H.; Katz, N.; Weinberg, M. D. (2003). "The Optical and Near-Infrared Properties of Galaxies: I. Luminosity and Stellar Mass Functions". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 149 (2): 289–312. arXiv: astro-ph/0302543 .
• Bell, E. F.; Wolf, C.; Meisenheimer, K.; Rix, H.-W.; Borch, A.; Dye, S.; Kleinheinrich, M.; Wisotzki, L.; McIntosh, D. H. (2004). "Nearly 5000 Distant Early-Type Galaxies in COMBO-17: a Red Sequence and its Evolution since z~1". The Astrophysical Journal. 608 (2): 752–767. arXiv: astro-ph/0303394 .
• Bell, E. F.; Zucker, D. B.; Belokurov, V.; Sharma, S.; Johnston, K. V.; Bullock, J. S.; Hogg, D. W.; Jahnke, K.; de Jong, J. T. A.; Beers, T. C.; Evans, N. W. (2008). "The accretion origin of the Milky Way's stellar halo". The Astrophysical Journal. 680 (1): 295–311. arXiv: 0706.0004 .

References

1. "Eric Findlay Bell". AstroGen. American Astronomical Society . Retrieved 6 May 2025.
2. "Eric Bell". University of Michigan Department of Astronomy. University of Michigan . Retrieved 6 May 2025.
3. "The GHOSTS Team". Galaxy Halos, Outer disks, Substructure, Thick disks and Star clusters (GHOSTS). Space Telescope Science Institute. 2007. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
4. Streier, Eva-Maria (16 March 2007). "30 Jahre Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis". Informationsdienst Wissenschaft . Retrieved 6 May 2025.
5. Lea, Robert (12 March 2025). "Scientists discover smallest galaxy ever seen: 'It's like having a perfectly functional human being that's the size of a grain of rice'". Space. Retrieved 6 May 2025.

External links

• Eric F. Bell publications indexed by Google Scholar