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Emily Cunningham, Ph.D.

Flatiron Research Fellow, Center for Computational Astrophysics

Bio

Emily studies the Milky Way stellar halo, and is interested in using the kinematic and chemical properties of halo stars to answer fundamental questions about galaxy formation. She earned her Ph.D. in Astronomy & Astrophysics, with a Designated Emphasis in Statistics, from UC Santa Cruz, working with Raja Guhathakurta, Connie Rockosi and Alis Deason. She earned her B.S. in Physics and Astronomy from Haverford College.

A list of her publications can be found on ADS here.

Publications

Streams on FIRE: Populations of Detectable Stellar Streams in the Milky Way and FIRE

arXiv:2208.02255, August 3, 2022

N. Shipp, N. Panithanpaisal, L. Necib, Robyn Sanderson, D. Erkal, T. S. Li, et al.

Reading the CARDs: The Imprint of Accretion History in the Chemical Abundances of the Milky Way’s Stellar Halo

The Astrophysical Journal, August 1, 2022

Emily Cunningham, Robyn Sanderson, Kathryn Johnston, N. Panithanpaisal, Melissa Ness, A. Wetzel, et al.

On the stability of tidal streams in action space

arXiv:2207.13481, July 27, 2022

A. Arora, Robyn Sanderson, N. Panithanpaisal, A. Wetzel, N. Garavito-Camargo, and Emily Cunningham

The In Situ Origins of Dwarf Stellar Outskirts in FIRE-2

The Astrophysical Journal, June 6, 2022

E. Kado-Fong, Robyn Sanderson, J. E. Greene, Emily Cunningham, C. Wheeler, T. K. Chan, et al.

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