Research Projects
Circumgalactic Medium (CGM)
My graduate school resarch focuses on the distribution of ions in the CGM. I currently use yt to upack Enzo based simulations. These sets of simulations have been tailored by the FOGGIE collarboration to finely resolve the circumgalactic medium in Milky Way like galaxies. I have been studying the kinematics and distrubution of hot and cold gas to uncover how these different phases interact and my current investiagations use OVI and MgII as tracers for this hot and cold gas.
Me with one of the VERITAS telescopes at Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona
Stellar Intensity Interferometry (SII)
My undergraduate work of nearly 3 years focused on the implementation of intensity interferometry on the VERITAS telescopes. I worked on developing a novel analysis pipeline which would allow us to measure squared visibilites and obtain angular diameters of approximately spherical sources. This work spawned my first publication of which I am corresponding author where I perform an angular diameter meausurment of bet UMa assuming spherical symmetry of the star.