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
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Astronomy
Chair, Astronomy
External Links
Recent Publications
Barrera-Ballesteros, J. K., Cruz-González, I., Colombo, D., Sánchez, S. F., Levy, R. C., Villanueva, V., Wong, T., Bolatto, A., & Alonso Hernández, D. (2025). Central versus Global Quenching Traced by the APEX-CALIFA Survey. Astrophysical Journal, 978(1), Article 23. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad85d1
Bazzi, Z., Colombo, D., Bigiel, F., Kalinova, V., Villanueva, V., Sanchez, S. F., Bolatto, A. D., & Wong, T. (2025). The EDGE-CALIFA survey: The effect of active galactic nucleus feedback on the integrated properties of galaxies at different stages of their evolution. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 697, Article A149. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202453437
Colombo, D., Kalinova, V., Bazzi, Z., Sanchez, S. F., Bolatto, A. D., Wong, T., Villanueva, V., Rosolowsky, E., Weia, A., French, K. D., Leroy, A., Barrera-Ballesteros, J., Garay-Solis, Y., Bigiel, F., Tripathi, A., & Rodriguez, B. (2025). The EDGE-CALIFA survey: Star formation relationships for galaxies at different stages of their evolution. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 699, Article A367. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202453217
Colombo, D., Kalinova, V., Bazzi, Z., Sanchez, S. F., Bolatto, A. D., Wong, T., Villanueva, V., Mudivarthi, N., Rosolowsky, E., Weiã, A., French, K. D., Leroy, A., Barrera-Ballesteros, J., Garay-Solis, Y., Bigiel, F., Tripathi, A., & Rodriguez, B. (2025). The EDGE-CALIFA Survey: An integral field unit-based integrated molecular gas database for galaxy evolution studies in the Local Universe. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 699, Article A366. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202453179
Drory, N., Blanc, G. A., Kreckel, K., Sánchez, S. F., Mejía-Narváez, A., Johnston, E. J., Jones, A. M., Pellegrini, E. W., Konidaris, N. P., Herbst, T., Sánchez-Gallego, J., Kollmeier, J. A., de Almeida, F., Barrera-Ballesteros, J. K., Bizyaev, D., Brownstein, J. R., Saguer, M. C., Cherinka, B., Cioni, M. R. L., ... Wofford, A. (2024). The SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM): Scientific Motivation and Project Overview. Astronomical Journal, 168(5), Article ad6de9. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad6de9