Elena D'Onghia
Associate Professor
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Ph: (608) 263-4622
Office: 3504 Sterling Hall
Research Interests:
My research combines unique analytic models and high-resolution numerical simulations to get new insights into the dynamical processes that form the stellar skeleton of our Galaxy. While the study of our Solar System is captivating, I am more interested in what happens outside of it. There are 300 billion stars in our Milky Way. Thanks to the GAIA satellite launched in 2013, for the first time in human history, we will know for 1 billion of those stars their location, distance from us, proper motions and in some cases whether they have planets around them. In a future when we might become a space-faring civilization, I believe it is inspiring to have a detailed knowledge of the environment outside of the Solar System.
Biography:
HONORS & AWARDS
2018-2019 Visiting Scholar at CCA, Flatiron Institute, NYC
2018-2019 Visting Scholar at Harvard University
2018-2020 Vilas Associate Professor Research Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2018 Stromlo Distinguished Visiting Professor, Canberra, Australia (November)
2018 Jesus Sierra Foundation Visiting Professor, IAC, Tenerife (June 1 – Aug. 31)
2017 Visiting Scholar at CCA, Flatiron Institute, NYC (Sept 1-Dec 31)
2016 SFB Scholarship, University of Heidelberg
2014 Madison Teaching Learning Excellence Fellow, UW-Madison
2013-2017 Alfred P. Sloan Reserach Fellow
2013 Kavli...read more
My Publications
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Cannibalization and Rebirth in the NGC 5387 System. I. The Stellar Stream and Star-forming Region
Beaton, R., Martínez-Delgado, D., Majewski, S., D'Onghia, E., Zibetti, S., et al., 2014
The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 790, Pages 117
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The Effect of Radial Migration on Galactic Disks
Vera-Ciro, C., D'Onghia, E., Navarro, J., Abadi, M., 2014
The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 794, Pages 173
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Detectability of Free Floating Planets in Open Clusters with the James Webb Space Telescope
Pacucci, F., Ferrara, A., D'Onghia, E., 2013
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 778, Pages L42
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Not Dead Yet! Completing Spitzer's Legacy with Early Type Galaxies
Sheth, K., Armus, L., Athanassoula, E., Bosma, A., Gadotti, D., et al., 2013
Spitzer Proposal, Vol. , Pages 10043
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Self-perpetuating Spiral Arms in Disk Galaxies
D'Onghia, E., Vogelsberger, M., Hernquist, L., 2013
The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 766, Pages 34
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