SJSU student research projects
Michael Sandoval and Richard Vo: “Hiding in plain sight: record-breaking compact stellar systems in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”, 2015, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, see also press release, TV coverage, and interview
Brad Thompson, “The AIMSS Project – III. The stellar populations of compact stellar
systems”, 2016, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Vakini Santhanakrishnan, “Studying globular clusters in the dwarf galaxy NGC 247 using
Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Imaging”, 2016, M.S. Thesis
Aaron Deich, “An overmassive dark halo around an ultra-diffuse galaxy in the Virgo
cluster”, 2016, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Chris Dixon, “On the formation mechanisms of compact elliptical galaxies”, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Maria Babakhanyan Stone, “Comparative study of broadband photometry relations for
ultra-diffuse and normal galaxies in the Coma cluster”, 2017, M.S. Thesis
Maria Babakhanyan Stone, “Origins of ultradiffuse galaxies in the Coma cluster – I.
Constraints from velocity phase space”, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Maria Babakhanyan Stone, “Origins of ultradiffuse galaxies in the Coma cluster – II.
Constraints from their stellar populations”, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Andrea Cajucom, “Morphologies, star-forming regions, and star cluster populations
of gas-rich ultra-diffuse galaxies”, 2020, American Astronomical Society iPoster, see also interview
Jacob Day, “Globular clusters in the dwarf spiral galaxy NGC 2403”, 2020, American Astronomical Society iPoster and "Low-metallicity globular clusters in the low-mass isolated spiral galaxy NGC
2403", 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bitha Salimkumar, “Dark matter classification in simulated galaxies using machine
learning”, 2020, M.S. Thesis
Alex Colebaugh, “Low-mass compact elliptical galaxies: spatially resolved stellar
populations and kinematics with the Keck Cosmic Web Imager”, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society