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 at Berkeley
Astronomy, M.A., University of California at Berkeley
Physics and Astronomy, B.A., Harvard University
Awards and Honors
Courses Taught
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Recent Publications
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
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
Kessler, S., Leroy, A., Querejeta, M., Murphy, E., Rebolledo, D., Sandstrom, K., Schinnerer, E., & Wong, T. (2020). Pa, H, and Attenuation in NGC 5194 and NGC 6946. Astrophysical Journal, 892(1), [23]. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab77a8
Dey, B., Rosolowsky, E., Cao, Y., Bolatto, A., Sanchez, S. F., Utomo, D., Colombo, D., Kalinova, V., Wong, T., Blitz, L., Vogel, S., Loeppky, J., & García-Benito, R. (2019). The EDGE-CALIFA survey: Exploring the star formation law through variable selection. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 488(2), 1926-1940. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1777
Harada, R., Onishi, T., Tokuda, K., Zahorecz, S., Hughes, A., Meixner, M., Sewiło, M., Indebetouw, R., Nayak, O., Fukui, Y., Tachihara, K., Tsuge, K., Kawamura, A., Saigo, K., Wong, T., Bernard, J. P., & Stephens, I. W. (2019). Formation of high-mass stars in an isolated environment in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 71(2), [44]. https://doi.org/10.1093/pasj/psz011
