Contact Information
1002 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Research Interests
Molecular Clouds
Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies
Evolution of Disk Galaxies
Research Description
Prof. Wong's research group uses observations of interstellar gas in galaxies to understand their structure and evolution. We study primarily CO, an abundant tracer of molecular gas in galaxies, and investigate the links between molecular clouds, their surrounding galaxies, and the rate of star formation. We also use gas as a probe of the dynamics of galaxy disks.
Education
Astrophysics, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Astronomy, M.A., University of California, Berkeley
Physics and Astronomy, B.A., Harvard University
Awards and Honors
Courses Taught
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Recent Publications
Barrera-Ballesteros, J. K., Sanchez, S. F., Heckman, T., Wong, T., Bolatto, A., Ostriker, E., Rosolowsky, E., Carigi, L., Vogel, S., Levy, R. C., Colombo, D., Luo, Y., & Cao, Y. (2021). The edge-califa survey: Self-regulation of star formation at kpc scales. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 503(3), 3643-3659. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab755
Colditz, S., Looney, L. W., Bigiel, F., Fischer, C., Fischer, J., Hailey-Dunsheath, S., Herrera-Camus, R., Krabbe, A., Leduc, H., Wong, T., & Zmuidzinas, J. (2021). Upgrading the field-imaging far-infrared line spectrometer for the stratospheric observatory for infrared astronomy with kinetic inductance detectors: Enabling large sample (extragalactic) surveys. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 7(2), [025002]. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.7.2.025002
Ellison, S. L., Wong, T., Sánchez, S. F., Colombo, D., Bolatto, A., Barrera-Ballesteros, J., García-Benito, R., Kalinova, V., Luo, Y., Rubio, M., & Vogel, S. N. (2021). The EDGE-CALIFA survey: Central molecular gas depletion in AGN host galaxies - A smoking gun for quenching? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 505(1), L46-L51. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slab047
Finn, M. K., Indebetouw, R., Johnson, K. E., Costa, A. H., Chen, C. H. R., Kawamura, A., Onishi, T., Ott, J., Tokuda, K., Wong, T., & Zahorecz, S. (2021). Physical Conditions in the LMC's Quiescent Molecular Ridge: Fitting Non-LTE Models to CO Emission. Astrophysical Journal, 917(2), [106]. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac090c
Barrera-Ballesteros, J. K., Utomo, D., Bolatto, A. D., Sánchez, S. F., Vogel, S. N., Wong, T., Levy, R. C., Colombo, D., Kalinova, V., Teuben, P., García-Benito, R., Husemann, B., Mast, D., & Blitz, L. (2020). The EDGE-CALIFA survey: Using optical extinction to probe the spatially resolved distribution of gas in nearby galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(2), 2651-2662. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3553
