Dr. Wong studies various topics in high energy X-ray astrophysics, such as galaxies, galaxy clusters, accretion flows toward supermassive black holes, and low-luminosity active galactic nuclei. His recent research projects make use of data taken from space observatories including the Chandra, NuSTAR, Swift, XMM-Newton, and Suzaku observatories. Students working in his group are constantly making important discoveries in the astrophysics computing lab.
Recent Student Research Projects
Heather Flanagan: Hard X-ray Emission from a Gamma-Ray Emitting Radio Galaxy, 2022-present
Allison Blum: Hard X-ray Emission from a Gamma-Ray Emitting Radio Galaxy, 2021-present
Nicole Zhe: Topics in X-ray Astrophysics, 2021
Colin Steiner: NuSTAR Observation of a TeV-Detected Radio Galaxy, 2021-present
Anthony Leo: Hard X-ray Emission from a TeV Radio Galaxy, 2020-2021
Wong, K.-W.; Nemmen, R. S.; Irwin, J. A.; Lin, D., “Hard X-ray Emission from the M87 AGN Detected with NuSTAR,” Astrophysical Journal Letters, 849, L17, 2017.
Wong, K.-W.; Irwin, J. A.; Wik, D. R.; Sun, M.; Sarazin, C. L.; Fujita, Y.; Reiprich, T. H., “Suzaku X-ray Observations of the Nearest Non-Cool Core Cluster, Antlia: Dynamically Young but with Remarkably Relaxed Outskirts X-ray Observations of the Outskirts of the Nearest Non-Cool,” Astrophysical Journal, 829, 49, 2016.
Wong, K.-W.; Irwin, J. A.; Shcherbakov, R. V.; Yukita, M.; Million, E. T.; Bregman, J. N., “The Megasecond Chandra X-Ray Visionary Project Observation of NGC 3115: Witnessing the Flow of Hot Gas within the Bondi Radius,” Astrophysical Journal, 780, 9, 2014.
Wong, K.-W.; Irwin, J. A.; Yukita, M.; Million, E. T.; Mathews, W. G.; Bregman, J. N., “Resolving the Bondi Accretion Flow toward the Supermassive Black Hole of NGC 3115 with Chandra,” Astrophysical Journal Letters, 736, L23, 2011.
Wong, K.-W.; Sarazin, C. L., “Effects of the Non-Equipartition of Electrons and Ions in the Outskirts of Relaxed Galaxy Clusters,” Astrophysical Journal, 707, 1141, 2009
Appointments
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, SUNY Brockport, 2020-present
