Ray Wang

Ray Wang studies the hot baryonic gas that threads its way through clusters of galaxies with Professor Megan Donahue. He uses the Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect to investigate the thermal pressure support of the most massive clusters in the local universe (z ~ 0.1).

He is part of the Local Volume Complete Cluster Survey (LoVoCCS), the largest census to date of galaxy clusters in the z ~ 0.1 local Universe. Using measurements of the thermal Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect from the Planck satellite and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, he explores the thermal pressure that helps bind these vast cosmic structures. 

Ray is broadly interested in multi-wavelength analyses of galaxy clusters, seeking to pin down their mass, temperature, density, and the subtle links among these key properties. His current work also includes measuring the velocity dispersion of LoVoCCS clusters and examining Chandra X-ray data from the ACCEPT 2.0 (Archive of Chandra Cluster Entropy Profile Tables) sample.

**Education:**
* B.S. with Honors in Astronomy and Astrophysics: University of Michigan–Ann Arbor (2023)
* B.S. in Interdisciplinary Physics: University of Michigan–Ann Arbor (2023)