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Most research astronomers fall into 2 categories: theorists and
observers. I fall into the latter category and spend my time designing
experiments that use telescopes to test ideas, mainly about the structure of
galaxies. Currently I am focusing on the behaviour of the gas between
stars in our Milky Way Galaxy.
For example, I lead a team studying a mushroom-shaped cloud,
GW1.23.4-1.5, bursting out
of the disk of our Galaxy with the power of about 20 times that of our
sun. One of the mysteries of our Milky Way is "why does it have a hot
gas halo?" We wonder if clouds like GW123.4-1.5 can transport hot
gas, known to surround both young and dying stars in the disk of the
Galaxy, from the disk (i.e. plane) into the halo.
I also like to study the gas
in galaxies that are interacting
with each other and merging together. This example of a merger is NGC 3256.
The red regions map neutral hydrogen gas, the blue map ionized hydrogen gas,
and the green and yellow areas map the regions with stars.
The data that I use in my research come most frequently from these
telescopes and projects.
Hubble Space Telescope:
Australian Telescopes:
Publications are listed on my CV page.
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