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Tony Wong

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Contact Information

227 Astronomy Building, MC-221
1002 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801
Chair, Professor

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

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor, Astronomy
Chair, Astronomy

Recent Publications

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

Green, A., Wong, T., Indebetouw, R., Nayak, O., Bolatto, A., Tarantino, E., Rubio, M., Madden, S. C., & Hirschauer, A. S. (2024). The Size-Linewidth Relation and Signatures of Feedback from Quiescent to Active Star Forming Regions in the LMC. Astrophysical Journal, 966(1), Article 51. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad31a4

Indebetouw, R., Wong, T., Madden, S., Sewilo, M., Roman-Duval, J., Chevance, M., & Rubio, M. (2024). A Radial Decrease in Kinetic Temperature Measured with H2CO in 30 Doradus. Astrophysical Journal, 969(2), Article 143. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad47bf

Kreckel, K., Egorov, O. V., Egorova, E., Blanc, G. A., Drory, N., Kounkel, M., Méndez-Delgado, J. E., Román-Zúñiga, C. G., Sánchez, S. F., Stringfellow, G. S., Stutz, A. M., Zari, E., Barrera-Ballesteros, J. K., Bizyaev, D., Brownstein, J. R., Congiu, E., Fernández-Trincado, J. G., García, P., Hillenbrand, L. A., ... Wong, T. (2024). SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM): A glimpse into Orion. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 689, Article A352. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202449943

Villanueva, V., Bolatto, A. D., Vogel, S. N., Wong, T., Leroy, A. K., Sánchez, S. F., Levy, R. C., Rosolowsky, E., Colombo, D., Kalinova, V., Cronin, S., Teuben, P., Rubio, M., & Bazzi, Z. (2024). The EDGE-CALIFA Survey: Molecular Gas and Star Formation Activity across the Green Valley. Astrophysical Journal, 962(1), Article 88. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad1387

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