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
Kollmeier, J. A., Rix, H. W., Aerts, C., Aird, J., Alfaro, P. V., Almeida, A., Anderson, S. F., Arseneau, S. M., Assef, R. J., Aviram, S., Aydar, C., Badenes, C., Bandyopadhyay, A., Barger, K., Barkhouser, R. H., Bauer, F. E., Behmard, A., Bender, C., Besser, F., ... de J. Zermeño, R. (2026). Sloan Digital Sky Survey. V. Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy. Astronomical Journal, 171(1), Article 52. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ae0576
Krahm, G., Leroy, A. K., Sun, J., Yim, K., Koch, E. W., Wong, T., Fisher, D., Rosolowsky, E., Sandstrom, K., Utomo, D., van de Sande, J., Martig, M., Fraser-McKelvie, A., & Hayden, M. R. (2026). The Radial and Vertical Structure of Molecular Gas in the Edge-on Galaxy NGC 4565. Astronomical Journal, 172(1), Article 50. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ae710b
Starecheski, S., French, K. D., Villanueva, V., Sánchez, S. F., Wong, T., Verrico, M. E., Green, A., Tripathi, A., & Donaghue, K. (2026). Selecting Post-starburst Galaxies Based on Star Formation History. Astrophysical Journal, 1000(1), Article 110. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae4484
Traficante, A., Jiménez-Donaire, M. J., Indebetouw, R., Wong, T., Nucara, A., Klessen, R. S., Hennebelle, P., Lebreuilly, U., Mininni, C., Molinari, S., Sabbi, E., & Soler, J. D. (2026). The fragmentation properties of massive star-forming regions in 30Dor-10 at 2000 au resolution. Nature communications, 17(1), Article 3567. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-71515-8
Yamada, R. I., Tokuda, K., Fukui, Y., Adachi, D., Sewiło, M., Indebetouw, R., Chen, C. H. R., Tsuge, K., Nishioka, T., Sano, H., Tamashiro, M., Neelamkodan, N., Wong, T., Carlson, L. R., Oliveira, J. M., Kawamura, A., Tachihara, K., & Onishi, T. (2026). A Multiscale Molecular and Atomic Gas View on the HiiRegion N113 in the Large Magellanic Cloud: Evidence for High-mass Star Formation Triggered by Supersonically Colliding HiFlows. Astrophysical Journal, 1003(1). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae58ab