91ÁÔĆć student research projects

Michael Sandoval and Richard Vo:  â€śHiding in plain sight: record-breaking compact stellar systems in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”, 2015, , see also , , and

Brad Thompson, “The AIMSS Project – III. The stellar populations of compact stellar systems”, 2016,
 
Vakini Santhanakrishnan, “Studying globular clusters in the dwarf galaxy NGC 247 using Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Imaging”, 2016,
 
Aaron Deich, “An overmassive dark halo around an ultra-diffuse galaxy in the Virgo cluster”, 2016,
 
Chris Dixon, “On the formation mechanisms of compact elliptical galaxies”, 2018,
 
Maria Babakhanyan Stone, “Comparative study of broadband photometry relations for ultra-diffuse and normal galaxies in the Coma cluster,” 2017,
 
Maria Babakhanyan Stone, “Origins of ultradiffuse galaxies in the Coma cluster – I. Constraints from velocity phase space,” 2018,
 
Maria Babakhanyan Stone, “Origins of ultradiffuse galaxies in the Coma cluster – II. Constraints from their stellar populations,” 2018,
 
Andrea Cajucom, “Morphologies, star-forming regions, and star cluster populations of gas-rich ultra-diffuse galaxies,” 2020, , see also
 
Jacob Day, “Globular clusters in the dwarf spiral galaxy NGC 2403”, 2020, and "Low-metallicity globular clusters in the low-mass isolated spiral galaxy NGC 2403," 2022,
 
Bitha Salimkumar, “Dark matter classification in simulated galaxies using machine learning,” 2020,
 
Alex Colebaugh, “Low-mass compact elliptical galaxies: spatially resolved stellar populations and kinematics with the Keck Cosmic Web Imager,” 2021,

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,

Xavier Mendoza, "Radio and Hubble Space Telescope observations of a candidate isolated gas-poor dwarf galaxy,” 2024,

Alexi Musick, "Mapping out globular clusters in Perseus cluster ultra-diffuse galaxies using the Subaru telescope,” 2024,

Enrique Cabrera, "A candidate dark matter deficient dwarf galaxy in the Fornax cluster identified through overluminous star clusters," 2024,

Lailani Kenoly, "Leveraging DESI spectra to understand ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Coma cluster," 2025,