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Aeree Chung - Curriculum Vitae (last update Sep 21, 2008)
NRAO Jansky Postdoctoral Fellow Office: LGRT-B 517J
Department of Astronomy Phone: +1 (413) 545-3665
University of Massachusetts Fax: +1 (413) 545-4223
710 North Pleasant Street Email:achung@astro.umass.edu
Amherst, MA 01003, USA http://www.astro.umass.edu/~achung/
Education
Ph.D. Astronomy, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, 2007
M.Ph. Astronomy, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, 2005
M.A. Astronomy, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, 2004
M.S. Astronomy, Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea), 2000
B.S. Astronomy, Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea), 1998
Research Experience
Gas evolution along the redshift, 2006-current, with LMT Group at UMass
Virgo, A Laboratory for Studying Galaxy Evolution, 2004-current, with J. H. van Gorkom et al.
VIVA, VLA Imaging of Virgo in Atomic gas, 2004-06, PhD Thesis, advisor: J. H. van Gorkom
HI Imaging of Counter-Rotating Disks, 2003-current, with M. Bureau et al.
Stellar Kinematics of Edge-on Spirals, 2001-04, 2nd year project (Columbia), with M. Bureau
LSB Galaxies and their TF-Relation, 2000-02, 1st year project at (Columbia), with J. H. van Gorkom et al.
A z=0 Calibration of CO Tully-Fisher Relation, 1999-2001, with M. A. W. Verheijen, M.-H. Rhee, M. S. Yun
CO OTF Mapping of UMa Cluster Galaxies, 1998-2000, MS Thesis (Yonsei) M.-H. Rhee et al.
Teaching Experience
Astronomy 101 for non majors at UMass, Fall 2006, Spring 2008 (Substitute Lecturer) Earth, Moon, and
Planets at Columbia University, Fall 2002 (Lab Instructor)
Summer of Stars at Biosphere2 (AZ), Summer 2002 (Visiting TA)
Beyond the Solar System at Columbia University, Spring 2002 (Lab Instructor)
Earth, Moon, and Planets at Columbia University, Fall 2001 (Lab Instructor)
Overview of the Universe at Yonsei University, Fall 1999 (Teaching Assistant)
General Astronomy & Lab I at Yonse University, Spring 1999 (Teaching Assistant)
Overview of the Universe at Yonsei University, Fall 1998 (Teaching Assistant)
Exploring of the Universe at Yonsei University, Spring 1998 (Teaching Assistant)
Observational Experience
ASTE: AzTEC Bolometer observations of galaxy clusters (Sep08-current)
FCRAO 14m: CO survey of HI rich systems at z≈0.1 using Reshift Search Receiver (RSR, Apr-May08)
FCRAO 14m: Molecular line survey of nearby galaxies using RSR (Mar-May07, Apr-May08)
FCRAO 14m: CO survey of local ULIRGs using RSR (Mar-May07, Apr-May08)
VLA: HI Imaging of Counter-Rotating Disks (Feb04-Aug05)
VLA: HI Imaging of Virgo Spiral Galaxies (Feb05)
MDM 2.4m: H-alpha & R-band Imaging of UMa Spirals (Feb04)
ATCA: HI Synthesis Imaging of NGC 1596 field (Oct03)
Kitt Peak 12m: CO Line Obs. of Perseus-Pisces Spirals (Oct99, Mar00)
Kitt Peak 12m: CO On-The-Fly Mapping of UMa Spirals (Jun99, Mar00)
FCRAO 14m: CO On-The-Fly Mapping of Virgo Spirals (Feb01)
TRAO 14m: CO Observations of UMa Spirals (Dec98-Feb99)
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Aeree Chung - Curriculum Vitae (last update Sep 21, 2008)
Computational Backgrounds
OS : UNIX, LINUX, MAC, WINDOWS
Languages : FORTRAN, LATEX, HTML (comfortable), C (basic level)
Astronomical Softwares:
AIPS (Astronomical Image Processing System)
GIPSY (Gronigen Image Processing SYstem)
IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility)
MIRIAD (Multichannel Image Reconstruction, Image Analysis and Display)
GILDAS (Grenoble Image and Line Data Analysis Software)
KARMA (a package for signal and image processing applications)
SPA (or SPECTRA), SPAPY (SPA+Python)
SM (Super Mongo), IDL (basic level)
Awards, Scholarships & Grants
2007 : $78,845.00 Spitzer/JPL as PI of Cluster Environmental Effects on Galaxy Evolution at z=0.2
2006-current: NRAO Jansky Postdoctoral Fellowship
2005 : First Prize in the First NRAO/AUI Image Contest
2000-2006 : Columbia Full Faculty Fellowship
1998-1999 : Yonsei Teaching Assistantship
Fall 1997 : Yonsei Undergraduate Scholarship
1994-1995 : Yonsei Undergraduate Scholarship
Talks
Building a Career as an Astronomer: Undergrad/Grad Student Life in Astronomy
- UMass, Summer Undergrad Internship Program, Amherst, MA, USA (Jun 2008)
12CO Survey of Local ULIRGs using the Redshift Search Receiver
- NRAO Postdoctoral Symposium, Charlottesville, VA, USA (Apr 2008)
Commissioning of the Redshift Search Receiver on the FCRAO 14m
- Columbia University Thursday Seminar, New York, NY, USA (Apr 2008)
HI Stripping and Color Evolution in Virgo Cluster Galaxies
- Contributed Talk for “The Evolution of Galaxies through HI Window”, Puerto Rico (Feb 2008)
12CO (J=1-0) Survey of Local ULIRGs using the Redshift Search Receiver
- NRAO AOC Colloquium talk, Socorro, NM, USA (Dec 2007)
The Evolution of the HI Gas on the Disk in the Cluster Environment
- Contributed Talk for “Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Disks”, Rome, Italy (Oct 2007)
Tracing Gas Evolution of Cluster Galaxies
- LMT/GTM Workshop (GH2007, INAOE), Puebla, Mexico (Aug 2007)
VIVA (VLA Imaging of Virgo in Atomic gas): HI Stripping in Virgo Galaxies
- Contributed Talk for “HI Survival Through Cosmic Times”, Siena, Italy (Jun 2007)
Galaxy Clusters: Now And Then
- NRAO Postdoctoral Symposium, Green Bank, WV (Apr 2007)
VIVA, VLA Imaging of Virgo spirals in Atomic gas
- Yonsei University, Colloquium Talk, Seoul, Korea (Mar 2007)
VIVA, VLA Imaging of Virgo spirals in Atomic gas
- UMass Colloquium Talk, Amherst, MA, USA (Nov 2006)
VIVA, the Art telling the Galaxy Evolution
- NRAO AOC Wednesday Lunch Talk, USA (Oct 2006)
VIVA, VLA Imaging of Virgo spirals in Atomic gas
- Columbia University, Colloquium Talk, USA (May 2006)
Virgo, A Laboratory for Studying Galaxy Evolution
- ASTRON Colloquium Talk, Dwingloo, the Netherlands (January 2006)
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Aeree Chung - Curriculum Vitae (last update Sep 21, 2008)
Virgo, A Laboratory for Studying Galaxy Evolution
- AAS 207 Thesis Talk, Washington DC, USA (January 2006)
The Origin of Counter-Rotating Gas in NGC 1596
- Kapteyn Institue, Wednesday Lunch Talk, Groningen, the Netherlands (June 2004)
A Study of Star-Gas Counter-Rotating Disks
- NRAO AOC Pizza Lunch Talk, Socorro, NM, USA (April 2004)
Stellar Kinematics of Edge-on Spirals with B/PS Bulges
- Yonsei University Astronomy Colloquium Talk, Seoul, Korea (December 2003)
Stellar Kinematics of Edge-on Spirals with B/PS Bulges
- Kapteyn Insitute, Groningen, the Netherlands (June 2003)
HI and CO Observations of Spiral Galaxies in the Ursa Major group
- AIP Extragalactic Science Club Talk, Potsdam, Germany (June 2003)
Publications
Refereed
Environmental Effects in Clusters: Modified Far-Infrared–Radio Relations within Virgo Cluster Galaxies
- Murphy, E. J., Kenney, J. D. P., Helou, G., Chung, A., & Howell, J. H., 2008, Submitted to ApJ
Pre-peak ram pressure stripping in the Virgo cluster spiral galaxy NGC 4501
- Vollmer, B., Soida, M., Chung, A., van Gorkom, J. H., Otmianowska-Mazur, K., Beck, R., Urbanik, M.,
& Kenney, J. D. P. 2008, A&A, 483, 89
Virgo Galaxies with Long One-sided H I Tails
- Chung, A., van Gorkom, J. H., Kenney, J. D. P., & Vollmer, B. 2007, 659, 115L
Origin of the Counter-Rotating Gas in NGC 1596
- Chung, A., Koribalski, B., Bureau, M., & van Gorkom, J. H. 2006, MNRAS, 370, 1565
Discovery of counter-rotating gas in NGC 1596 and 3203 and the incidence of gas counter-rotation in S0s
- Bureau, M. & Chung, A. 2006, MNRAS, 366, 182
Stellar Kinematics of Boxy Bulges: Large-Scale Bars and Inner Disks
- Chung, A., & Bureau, M. 2004, AJ, 127, 3192
Low Surface Brightness Galaxies and the Tully-Fisher Relation
- Chung, A., van Gorkom, J. H., O’Neil, K., & Bothun, G. D. 2002, AJ, 123, 2387
Conference Proceedings & etc
The Evolution of HI disks in the Virgo Cluster
- Chung, A., J. H. van Gorkom, Kenney, J., Crowl, H., Vollmer, B., & Schiminovich, D. 2008 eds. Jose G.
Funes, S.J. & Enrico M. Corsini, ASP Conf Series
HI Stripping and Color Evolution of the VIVA Galaxies
- Chung, A., Crowl, H., van Gorkom, J. H., Schiminovich, D., & Kenney, J. D. P. 2008, “The Evolution of
Galaxies through the Neutral Hydrogen Window”, eds. R. Minchin, & E. Momjian, AIP Conf Proceedings,
vol. 1035, pp. 195-200
VIVA (VLA Imaging of Virgo in Atomic gas): H I Stripping in Virgo Galaxies
- Chung, A., van Gorkom, J. H., Crowl, H., Kenney, J. D. P. & Vollmer, B. 2008, “Frontiers of Astrophysics:
A Celebration of NRAO’s 50th Anniversary”, eds. Alan H. Bridle, James J. Condon, & Garteh C. Hunt, ASP
Conf Series, vol. 395, p.364
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How the Intracluster Medium Affects the Far-Infrared–Radio Correlation within Virgo Cluster Galaxies
- Murphy, E. J., Kenney, J. D. P., Helou, G., Chung, A., & Howell, J. H. 2008, “The Evolving ISM in the
Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies”
A High Resolution HI Study of Selected Virgo Galaxies:
Preliminary Results on Gas Morphology & Extra-Planar Gas
-Chung, A., van Gorkom, J. H., Kenney, J. D. P., & Vollmer, B. 2005, “Extra-Planar Gas”, eds. R. Braun,
ASP Conf Series, vol. 331, pp. 275-280
Peanut-Shaped Structures in Edge-On Galaxies
- Bureau, M., Athanassoula, E., Chung, A., & Aronica, G. 2004, “Penetrating Bars Through Masks of
Cosmic Dust: The Hubble Tuning Fork Strikes a New Note”, eds. D. L. Block, I. Puerari, K. C. Freeman, R.
Gross, & E. K. Block (Springer: Dordrecht), 139
Posters
NRAO 50 Anniversary Symposium (2007), VIVA (VLA Imaging of Virgo in Atomic gas): HI Stripping in Virgo
- Chung, A., van Gorkom, J. H., Crowl, H., Kenney, J. D. P. & Vollmer, B.
AAS 209 (2006), Where in the Virgo Cluster are Galaxies Stripped?
- Crowl, H. H., Kenney, J. D., van Gorkom, J. H., Chung, A., & Rose, J. A.
A Pan-Chromatic View of Clusters of Galaxies and the Large Scale Structure (2005), An Uni-Chromatic View
of Virgo Spirals and the Small Scale Structure
- Chung, A., van Gorkom, J. H., Kenney, J. D. P., Crowl, H., Vollmer, B., Schiminovich, D.
Extra-Planar Gas (2004), A High Resolution HI study of Selected Virgo Cluster Galaxies
- Chung, A., van Gorkom, J. H., Kenney, J. D. P., & Vollmer, B.
AAS 201 (2003), The Stellar Kinematics of Spiral Galaxies with a B/PS Bulge
- Chung, A. & Bureau, M.
AAS 199 (2002), Graduate Students as Professional Educators in Undergraduate Astronomy Laboratories
- Noel-Storr, J., Chung, A., and 11 coauthors
IAU 205 (2000), CO Mapping of Spiral Galaxies in the Ursa Major Cluster: An Atlas
-Rhee, M.-H., Chung, A., Verheijen, M., et al.
KAS/KSSS 1999 Annual meeting (1999), CO Mapping of Spiral Galaxies in the UMa Cluster
-Chung, A., Rhee, M.-H., Verheijen, M., Yun, M. S., & Byun, Y. I.
IAU 197 (1999), OTF CO Mapping of Spiral Galaxies in the Ursa Major Cluster
-Chung, A., Rhee, M.-H., Verheijen, M., Yun, M. S., & Byun, Y. I.
Misc
Referee for ApJ, A&A, MNRAS (2006-present)
Postdoctoral Fellow Selection Committee, UMass (2007)
Member of American Astronomical Society (AAS, 2001-present)
Member of All United States Kendo Federation (2005-present, achieved 2 dan in Iaido, 2008)
Created/maintained various webpages in astronomy
- Dept. of Astronomy, Columbia http://www.astro.columbia.edu
- AstroLab, Columbia http://www.astro.columbia.edu/ archung/labs/astrolab.html
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