Narenrit Thananusak, PhD Student

Narenrit (Boom) is a PhD student in the Thailand Academy of Science program at Mahidol University and is based at NARIT. His research focuses on galaxy evolution, particularly in low-density environments. His current work investigates whether the H I 21-cm line width, a tracer of galaxy kinematics, is connected to large-scale galaxy clustering in the local Universe (z < 0.05). He combines observations from the ALFALFA and FASHI H I surveys with cosmological simulations based on SAGE and the MultiDark Planck simulation. He is also developing a data-reduction pipeline for GTC/MEGARA integral-field spectroscopy to study the internal kinematics of galaxies.

He holds a BSc in Physics and an MSc in Astronomy from Chiang Mai University. For his master's thesis, he studied galaxies at z ≳ 6 during the Epoch of Reionization using imaging data from the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Strategic Survey Program (HSC-SSP) and UltraVISTA. He selected high-redshift galaxy candidates using optical-dropout and photometric-redshift techniques, constructed the rest-frame UV luminosity function, and used it to estimate the cosmic star-formation-rate density.

Projects

ARRAKIHS

ARRAKIHS mission simulations

Mission simulations and mock observations for ESA's ARRAKIHS dark-matter space telescope; NARIT is the first Thai institute in an approved ESA mission.

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JWST-SF

Bursty star formation at z > 6 in the JWST era

How large-scale structure formation enhances or quenches star formation on the main sequence at z > 6, toward the epoch of first assembly and reionization.

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IFU-SPIN

Star formation, spin, and environment with IFUs

Integral-field study of star formation, the spin parameter, and local matter density in galaxies with MEGARA/GTC, MaNGA/SDSS, and Hector/AAT.

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