Erin Kado-Fong
YCAA prize fellow at Yale. PhD from Princeton; headed to Stanford in 2025 as a Kavli fellow.
I use large surveys of dwarf galaxies to disentangle the roles that star formation, stellar pop. assembly, and DM structure play in governing galaxy evolution.
- Around one week left to register for Galactic Frontiers II -- looking forward to discussing low-mass galaxies with a great group this June! #astro #extragalactic
- For the dwarf galaxy enthusiasts in #astro & #extragalactic! Excited to share the conference we'll be hosting June 2025: 🔎 Galactic Frontiers II: Dwarfs in the LV & Beyond 🔎 6/23-6/25 at Dartmouth Note that the conference is NOT region-specific! Register at: sites.dartmouth.edu/galactic-fro...
- Saw this cool work on the arxiv today from Blake Keith & @ferahm.bsky.social! A demonstration of how the 3D shapes of stars trace that of DM in cosmologically simulated dwarfs, including a comparison to observed stellar shapes from my previous work. arxiv.org/abs/2501.16317 🔭 #extragalactic
- Was psyched that Andrew Pace's Local Volume Database of dwarfs & star clusters was on ArXiV the other day! The push for community-facing collation is great to see in the #extragalactic space. (🔭) 📝 arxiv.org/abs/2411.07424 💻 github.com/apace7/local...
- On ApJ now so technically an #extragalactic #astro #paperday! We deconvolve survey selection from evolution of the low-mass SFS at z<0.2. This constrains models of dwarf assembly, and signals how care is needed to use low-z galaxies to contextualize the LV/LG. ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ApJ....
- For the dwarf galaxy enthusiasts in #astro & #extragalactic! Excited to share the conference we'll be hosting June 2025: 🔎 Galactic Frontiers II: Dwarfs in the LV & Beyond 🔎 6/23-6/25 at Dartmouth Note that the conference is NOT region-specific! Register at: sites.dartmouth.edu/galactic-fro...
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- And in the second Merian 🦋 paper out today: Princeton student Abby Mintz develops methods to turn medium-band imaging into Hα maps, and shows that low-mass starbursts tend to be more compact than their more massive counterparts. Read the paper here! arxiv.org/abs/2410.01886
- So excited to share the first two science papers of the Merian medium-band survey! 🦋 We image Hα and [OIII] to measure weak lensing and resolved star formation in low-z dwarfs over ~750 deg^2. Check out the survey paper led by Shany Danieli at: arxiv.org/abs/2410.01884 !
- It's DR3 Paper Day for the SAGA Survey!! 🎉 🌟Mao+ gives a satellite census of 101 MW-like hosts arxiv.org/abs/2404.14498 🌟Geha+ surveys the link btwn environment & star formation arxiv.org/abs/2404.14499 🌟 Wang+ models dwarf quenching with the UniverseMachine arxiv.org/abs/2404.14500
- Excited to see this very nice research highlight of our recent quenched field dwarf paper by @aasnova.bsky.social !
- Paper day! arxiv.org/abs/2401.16469 We use the background galaxies in the SAGA survey to infer the efficiency of winds driven by star formation in low-mass galaxies. We find a mass-loading factor of ~1: consistent with direct observations, but smaller than what some sims predict at these masses.
- A late ArXiV post since I wasn’t active here — we present a field dwarf pair where one is starbursting and the other is *quenched*! VLA data reveal that the non-SF dwarf's HI is in large tidal tails, showing that field dwarfs can temporarily quench even as non-satellites. arxiv.org/abs/2311.09280
