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
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
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
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. (2020). Upgrading the field-imaging far-infrared line spectrometer for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) with KIDs: Enabling large sample (extragalactic) surveys. In J. Zmuidzinas, & J-R. Gao (Eds.), Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X [1145334] (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 11453). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560120
Colombo, D., Sanchez, S. F., Bolatto, A. D., Kalinova, V., Weiß, A., Wong, T., Rosolowsky, E., Vogel, S. N., Barrera-Ballesteros, J., Dannerbauer, H., Cao, Y., Levy, R. C., Utomo, D., & Blitz, L. (2020). The EDGE-CALIFA survey: Exploring the role of molecular gas on galaxy star formation quenching. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 644, [A97]. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202039005
Indebetouw, R., Wong, T., Chen, C. H. R., Kepley, A., Lebouteiller, V., Madden, S., & Oliveira, J. M. (2020). Structural and Dynamical Analysis of 0.1 pc Cores and Filaments in the 30 Doradus-10 Giant Molecular Cloud. Astrophysical Journal, 888(2), [56]. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab5db7
