
Toph
This is my pet turtle, Toph. She's a sassy red-eared slider.
Research Interests: Cosmology -- Galaxy Formation, Dwarf Galaxies in Hydrodynamic Simulations -- HI gas kinematics, galaxy-halo connection
I'm interested in how galaxies grow and evolve as dark matter and gas influence each other. Dwarf galaxies are more sensitive to gas processes because of their low masses, so they are the perfect laboratories to explore this! HI is the most abundant gas in the ISM, and extends further out than stars in galaxies. My research focuses on the galaxy-halo connection through HI observables. From simulated dwarf galaxies, I generate HI rotation curves, velocity moment maps, emission profiles, and velocity dispersions to compare with observations. My advisor is Dr. Alyson Brooks, and I am part of the N-Body Shop Collaboration which makes astrophysical simulations with the code Gasoline and ChaNGa.
Software/packages that I have worked with: Pynbody, TIPSY, MARTINI, pyBBAROLO, emcee, GALA, lensmodel, pyGRAVLENS, AIPS
Here's a list of my publications on ADS, and here are some of my selected publications:
Random things I'd like to share.
This is my pet turtle, Toph. She's a sassy red-eared slider.
At Rutgers, Busch campus is known for its many wildlife sightings of deer, hawks, and (notoriously) geese, but groundhogs too!
What are the chances that an annular eclipse happens at the same time as NM's hot air balloon fiesta?! I took these photos with my phone and solar glasses over the lens, and surprisingly they came out okay!
If you're ever in Albuquerque, NM, look east and you'll see the Sandia Mountains!