ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø student research projects
Zac Coustier: “Star clusters around Local Group dwarf galaxy NGC 6822: spectroscopic follow-up of Euclid imaging with the Keck Cosmic Web Imager,� 2026,
Brittney Shavor and Yash Bains: “Euclid study of a dwarf ring galaxy,� 2026,
Michael Sandoval and Richard Vo: “Hiding in plain sight: record-breaking compact stellar systems in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey�, 2015, , see also , , and
Brad Thompson, “The AIMSS Project – III. The stellar populations of compact stellar
systems�, 2016,
Vakini Santhanakrishnan, “Studying globular clusters in the dwarf galaxy NGC 247 using
Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Imaging�, 2016,
Aaron Deich, “An overmassive dark halo around an ultra-diffuse galaxy in the Virgo
cluster�, 2016,
Chris Dixon, “On the formation mechanisms of compact elliptical galaxies�, 2018,
Maria Babakhanyan Stone, “Comparative study of broadband photometry relations for
ultra-diffuse and normal galaxies in the Coma cluster,� 2017,
Maria Babakhanyan Stone, “Origins of ultradiffuse galaxies in the Coma cluster – I.
Constraints from velocity phase space,� 2018,
Maria Babakhanyan Stone, “Origins of ultradiffuse galaxies in the Coma cluster – II.
Constraints from their stellar populations,� 2018,
Andrea Cajucom, “Morphologies, star-forming regions, and star cluster populations
of gas-rich ultra-diffuse galaxies,� 2020, , see also
Jacob Day, “Globular clusters in the dwarf spiral galaxy NGC 2403�, 2020, and "Low-metallicity globular clusters in the low-mass isolated spiral galaxy NGC
2403," 2022,
Bitha Salimkumar, “Dark matter classification in simulated galaxies using machine
learning,� 2020,
Alex Colebaugh, “Low-mass compact elliptical galaxies: spatially resolved stellar
populations and kinematics with the Keck Cosmic Web Imager,� 2021,
Bitha Salimkumar and Vakini Santhanakrishnan, "Low-density star cluster formation: discovery of a young faint fuzzy on the outskirts of the low-mass spiral galaxy NGC 247," 2023,
Xavier Mendoza, "Radio and Hubble Space Telescope observations of a candidate isolated gas-poor dwarf galaxy,� 2024,
Alexi Musick, "Mapping out globular clusters in Perseus cluster ultra-diffuse galaxies using the Subaru telescope,� 2024,
Enrique Cabrera, "A candidate dark matter deficient dwarf galaxy in the Fornax cluster identified through overluminous star clusters," 2024,
Lailani Kenoly, "Leveraging DESI spectra to understand ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Coma cluster," 2025,