SJSU student research projects
Michael Sandoval and Richard Vo: “Hiding in plain sight: record-breaking compact stellar systems in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”, 2015, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, see also press release, TV coverage, and interview
Brad Thompson, “The AIMSS Project – III. The stellar populations of compact stellar
                           systems”, 2016, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
 
Vakini Santhanakrishnan, “Studying globular clusters in the dwarf galaxy NGC 247 using
                           Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Imaging”, 2016, M.S. Thesis
 
Aaron Deich, “An overmassive dark halo around an ultra-diffuse galaxy in the Virgo
                           cluster”, 2016, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
 
Chris Dixon, “On the formation mechanisms of compact elliptical galaxies”, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
 
Maria Babakhanyan Stone, “Comparative study of broadband photometry relations for
                           ultra-diffuse and normal galaxies in the Coma cluster,” 2017, M.S. Thesis
 
Maria Babakhanyan Stone, “Origins of ultradiffuse galaxies in the Coma cluster – I.
                           Constraints from velocity phase space,” 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
 
Maria Babakhanyan Stone, “Origins of ultradiffuse galaxies in the Coma cluster – II.
                           Constraints from their stellar populations,” 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
 
Andrea Cajucom, “Morphologies, star-forming regions, and star cluster populations
                           of gas-rich ultra-diffuse galaxies,” 2020, American Astronomical Society iPoster, see also interview
 
Jacob Day, “Globular clusters in the dwarf spiral galaxy NGC 2403”, 2020, American Astronomical Society iPoster and "Low-metallicity globular clusters in the low-mass isolated spiral galaxy NGC
                           2403," 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
 
Bitha Salimkumar, “Dark matter classification in simulated galaxies using machine
                           learning,” 2020, M.S. Thesis
 
Alex Colebaugh, “Low-mass compact elliptical galaxies: spatially resolved stellar
                           populations and kinematics with the Keck Cosmic Web Imager,” 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Xavier Mendoza, "Radio and Hubble Space Telescope observations of a candidate isolated gas-poor dwarf galaxy,” 2024, American Astronomical Society iPoster
Alexi Musick, "Mapping out globular clusters in Perseus cluster ultra-diffuse galaxies using the Subaru telescope,” 2024, American Astronomical Society iPoster
Enrique Cabrera, "A candidate dark matter deficient dwarf galaxy in the Fornax cluster identified through overluminous star clusters," 2024, Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society
Lailani Kenoly, "Leveraging DESI spectra to understand ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Coma cluster," 2025, American Astronomical Society iPoster