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
Courses Taught
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Recent Publications
Finn, M. K., Indebetouw, R., Johnson, K. E., Costa, A. H., Chen, C. H. R., Kawamura, A., Onishi, T., Ott, J., Sewiło, M., Tokuda, K., Wong, T., & Zahorecz, S. (2022). Structural and Dynamical Analysis of the Quiescent Molecular Ridge in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Astronomical Journal, 164(2), [64]. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac7aa1
O'Neill, T. J., Indebetouw, R., Bolatto, A. D., Madden, S. C., & Wong, T. (2022). Effects of CO-dark Gas on Measurements of Molecular Cloud Stability and the Size-Linewidth Relationship. Astrophysical Journal, 933(2), [179]. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac745f
Wong, T., Oudshoorn, L., Sofovich, E., Green, A., Shah, C., Indebetouw, R., Meixner, M., Hacar, A., Nayak, O., Tokuda, K., Bolatto, A. D., Chevance, M., De Marchi, G., Fukui, Y., Hirschauer, A. S., Jameson, K. E., Kalari, V., Lebouteiller, V., Looney, L. W., ... Tielens, A. G. G. M. (2022). The 30 Doradus Molecular Cloud at 0.4 pc Resolution with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array: Physical Properties and the Boundedness of CO-emitting Structures. The Astrophysical journal, 932(1), [47]. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac723a
Yim, K., Wong, T., & Rand, R. J. (2022). The Volumetric Star Formation Law in the Almost Edge-on Galaxy NGC 4302 Revealed by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. Astrophysical Journal, 940(2), [118]. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac9c55
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
