Katey Alatalo

Assistant Astronomer
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Katey is an Assistant Astronomer working on the NIRISS Team for JWST. Her research interests include understanding how galaxies quench their star formation and become (and remain) quiescent from a multiwavelength observational perspective. Specifically, Katey follows the gas, and pays attention to the supermassive black holes. She is the Principle Investigator of the Shocked POststarburst Galaxy Survey.

Science Interests:

  • AGN feedback
  • Understanding all pathways to galaxy transformation
  • Extragalactic star formation
  • Turbulence and shocks
  • The origin and fate of molecular gas
  • The first quenched galaxies

 

Research Topics: AGN and Quasars, Galaxy Formation and Evolution

 

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