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Akshat Tripathi

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Contact Information

226 Astronomy
1002 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL
M/C 221

Research Areas

Graduate Student

Biography

I'm a 5th year PhD student working on post-starburst galaxies with Prof. Tony Wong. I'm using near-infrared data from FIRE/Magellan of 50 PSBs to understand star-formation and the state of the molecular gas in these galaxies and how these properties evolve over time. I'm also using mock MaNGA observations of galaxies in TNG50 to determine the origin of a newly discovered class of PSBs called ring post-starburst galaxies.

Research Interests

Galaxy evolution, post-starburst galaxies

Education

BS in Physics and Mathematics, summa cum laude (FWIW), The University of Texas at Arlington, 2020