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Ka-Wah Wong, Graduate Student

Email: kw6k@virginia.edu
Phone: (434) 924-7935
Fax: (434) 924-3104
Office: 222 Astronomy Building
Address:
   Department of Astronomy
   PO Box 400325
   Charlottesville, VA 22904-4325

Where is my meat?In my third year, I grow some meat.

Welcome to my simple and boring homepage! You are probably too bored(see Note1), so that you entered here.
Since I think the layout of the department's homepage is very beautiful, I decided to keep using it.
I hope this homepage can become more and more interesting from time to tim ...e (or the other way round???)

Note1: Thanks Ricardo Schiavon for pointing out a grammatical mistake. Previously, I was writing "You are probably too boring...", and he told me that I should use "You are probably too bored ...".


Ka-Wah is a third-year graduate student.

What's new on this homepage?

1) Not much.

Education:

2003-present, Astronomy, University of Virginia (Advisor: Prof. C. L. Sarazin)
2001-2003, MPhil, Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Advisor: Prof. M. -C. Chu)
1998-2001, BSc, Physics, (with Minor in Math.), The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Research Interests:

Theoretical and Observational Astrophysics
Numerical Simulations
Non-Thermal, Non-Equilibrium, and Kinetic Processes in Astrophysics
X-ray and Radio Astronomy
Clusters of Galaxies, Large Scale Structures, and Cosmology
Compact objects -- neutron stars, strange stars
Formation of Compact Stars
Tubulence Experiment in Rayleigh Benard Cell

Publications:

1) Signatures of QCD Phase Transition in a Newborn Compact Star, K. -W. Wong, M. -C. Chu, MNRAS 350 (2004) L42 (or astro-ph/0304515).
2) Cooling of a New Born Compact Star with QCD Phase Transition, K. -W. Wong, M. -C. Chu, Phys. Rev. D 70, 063004 (2004) (or astro-ph/0405601 ).
3) Master Thesis: Properties of Strange Stars, CUHK (2003), K. -W. Wong.
4) Class Project for radio class, Fall 2004 (unpublished): Monte Carlo Simulation of CHVC Distributions (Advisor: Prof. W. B. Burton).
5) XMM-Newton and Chandra Observations of Abell 2626: Interacting Radio Jets and Cooling Core with Jet Precession?, Ka-Wah Wong, Craig L. Sarazin, Elizabeth L. Blanton, and Thomas H. Reiprich, 2008, ApJ, 682, 155 (astro-ph arXiv:0803.1772).
6) Effects of the Non-Equipartition of Electrons and Ions in the Outskirts of Relaxed Galaxy Clusters, Ka-Wah Wong, and Craig L. Sarazin, 2009, ApJ, in press (astro-ph arXiv:0910.5227)

Recent Professional Presentations:

1) 207th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, poster presentation: XMM-Newton and Chandra Observations of Abell 2626, Washington, DC, 8-12 January 2006.
2) 10th High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) Meeting, poster presentation: XMM-Newton and Chandra Observations of Abell 2626: Interacting Radio Jets and Cooling Core with Jet Precession?, Los Angeles, CA, 31 March - 3 April 2008.
3) The Warm & Hot Universe, poster presentation: Electron and Ion Equilibration by Coulomb Collisions in the Envelopes of Galaxy Clusters, Columbia University, New York City, NY, May 7-9, 2008.
4) Physics Seminar, oral presentation: Effect of Non-Equipartition of Electrons and Ions in Envelopes of Galaxy Clusters on SZ Measurements, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 5 May 2009.
5) Chandras First Decade of Discovery, poster presentation: Effects of the Non-Equipartition of Electrons and Ions in the Outskirts of Relaxed Galaxy Clusters, Boston, MA, 21-25 September 2009.
6) 215th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, oral presentation: X-ray and SZ Signatures of the Non-Equipartition between Electrons and Ions in the Envelopes of Relaxed Galaxy Clusters, Washington, DC, 3-7 January 2010.

Talks:

1) Cooling of a New Born Compact Star with QCD Phase Transition, UVa Research Symposium, Feb 4, 2005.
2) XMM-Newton and Chandra Observations of Abell 2626: Interaction of Cooling Flow and Radio Sources and Future Directions, UVa Research Symposium, Feb 3, 2006
3) Anomalous Effects in Envelopes of Clusters of Galaxies, UVa Research Symposium, Feb 2, 2007
4) Calculation of Electron and Ion Equilibration by Coulomb Collisions in Envelopes of Galaxy Clusters, UVa Research Symposium, Jan 25, 2008
5) Evolution of SZ Signatures due to Nonequipartition between Electrons and Ions, UVa Research Symposium, Jan 23, 2009
6) Effect of Non-Equipartition of Electrons and Ions in Envelopes of Galaxy Clusters on SZ Measurements, Physics Seminar, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, May 5, 2009
7) X-ray and SZ Signatures of the Non-Equipartition between Electrons and Ions in the Envelopes of Relaxed Galaxy Clusters, 215th AAS Meeting, Washington, DC, Jan 3-7, 2010

Hobbies:

Soccer, hiking, wild camping, star-grazing, archery, sleeping, reading, softball ...

Pictures: something I like beyond my research. (coming sooo0o0n)

1) Friend's hedgehog.
2) My third* vehicle. (* If my memory is correct, my first vehicle should be a tricycle, while I had a bicycle several years ago for sure.)
3) Llama (the white one), a (non-?)linear combination of camel and horse? There are some other animals behind as well.

Links: (I am buzy (lazy) now ...)


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