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
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Education:
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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
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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4) Class Project for radio class, Fall 2004 (unpublished): Monte Carlo Simulation of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, 707, 1141 (astro-ph
arXiv:0910.5227)
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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.
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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
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Hobbies:
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Soccer, hiking, wild camping, star-gazing, archery, sleeping, reading,
softball ...
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Pictures: something I like beyond my
research. (coming sooo0o0n)
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Links: (I am buzy (lazy) now ...)
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