Kaila Ronayne

Third Year Astronomy PhD Candidate at Texas A&M University

About Me

I have a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering with minors in astrophysics and mathematics from Texas A&M University (c/o 2021). I joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M in January of 2022 and have been working with Dr. Casey Papovich on the infrared perspective of galaxies.

I love to take pictures of plants and animals, so enjoy some of my favorites that I've taken recently!

I also have two fur babies that I adore and spend most of my time with (shown below). They even have their own instagram account!

Research

My current research focus is on the infrared perspective of 0 < z < 8 galaxies. I have used the mid-Infrared emission to study dust-obscured star formation in galaxies and stellar clusters with JWST, and am more recently working with dust obscured AGN. Below are my current published work(s)! You can also view these papers in my ADS library.

First Author Papers
More information and graphics will be added once projects are completed

Completed Project(s)

Co-Author Papers

  • A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: A Candidate z ∼ 12 Galaxy in Early JWST CEERS Imaging (Finkelstein et al 2022)

  • A dusty starburst masquerading as an ultra-high redshift galaxy in JWST CEERS observations (Zavala et al 2022)

  • CEERS: Spatially Resolved UV and mid-IR Star Formation in Galaxies at 0.2 < z < 2.5: The Picture from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes (Shen et al 2023)

  • CEERS: Increasing Scatter along the Star-Forming Main Sequence Indicates Early Galaxies Form in Bursts (Cole et al 2023)