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Wen-fai Fong is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their academic work is primarily situated within the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a strong focus on subfields such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Instrumentation, Biomedical Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The researcher's publication record features a concentration on topics including Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, and Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing.

Fong has contributed to frequent publication venues including arXiv (Cornell University), The Astrophysical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, and Nature Astronomy.

They have collaborated frequently with several researchers, including C. D. Kilpatrick, Anya E. Nugent, J. X. Prochaska, Tarraneh Eftekhari, and Jillian Rastinejad.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Wen-fai Fong include:

  • A kilonova following a long-duration gamma-ray burst at 350 Mpc (2022, Nature)
  • Characterizing the Fast Radio Burst Host Galaxy Population and its Connection to Transients in the Local and Extragalactic Universe (2022, The Astronomical Journal)
  • Heavy-element production in a compact object merger observed by JWST (2023, Nature)
  • Short GRB Host Galaxies. I. Photometric and Spectroscopic Catalogs, Host Associations, and Galactocentric Offsets (2022, The Astrophysical Journal)
  • The Demographics, Stellar Populations, and Star Formation Histories of Fast Radio Burst Host Galaxies: Implications for the Progenitors (2023, The Astrophysical Journal)

Best Publications

  • A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese;F. Acernese

  • The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-infrared Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models

    P. S. Cowperthwaite;E. Berger;V. A. Villar;B. D. Metzger

  • The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/VIRGO GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-IR Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models

    P. S. Cowperthwaite;E. Berger;V. A. Villar;B. D. Metzger

  • A Decade of Short-duration Gamma-ray Burst Broad-band Afterglows: Energetics, Circumburst Densities, and Jet Opening Angles

    Wen-fai Fong;Edo Berger;Raffaella Margutti;B. Ashley Zauderer

  • An r-process Kilonova Associated with the Short-hard GRB 130603B

    Edo Berger;W Fong;R Chornock

  • A Decade of Short-duration Gamma-ray Burst Broadband Afterglows: Energetics, Circumburst Densities, and jet Opening Angles

    W. Fong;E. Berger;R. Margutti;R. Margutti;B. A. Zauderer

  • The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. I. Dark Energy Camera Discovery of the Optical Counterpart

    M. Soares-Santos;D. E. Holz;J. Annis;R. Chornock

  • The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. I. Discovery of the Optical Counterpart Using the Dark Energy Camera

    M. Soares-Santos;M. Soares-Santos;D. E. Holz;J. Annis;R. Chornock

  • The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/VIRGO GW170817. IV. Detection of Near-infrared Signatures of r-process Nucleosynthesis with Gemini-South

    R. Chornock;E. Berger;D. Kasen;P. S. Cowperthwaite

  • The combined ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared light curves of the kilonova associated with the binary neutron star merger gw170817: unified data set, analytic models, and physical implications

    V. A. Villar;J. Guillochon;E. Berger;B. D. Metzger

  • The Combined Ultraviolet, Optical, and Near-Infrared Light Curves of the Kilonova Associated with the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817: Unified Data Set, Analytic Models, and Physical Implications

    V. Ashley Villar;James Guillochon;Edo Berger;Brian D. Metzger

  • The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. VI. Radio Constraints on a Relativistic Jet and Predictions for Late-time Emission from the Kilonova Ejecta

    K. D. Alexander;E. Berger;Wen-fai Fong;P. K.G. Williams

  • The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/VIRGO GW170817. V. Rising X-ray Emission from an Off-Axis Jet

    Raffaella Margutti;E. Berger;W. Fong;C. Guidorzi

  • The binary neutron star event ligo/virgo gw170817 a hundred and sixty days after merger: Synchrotron emission across the electromagnetic spectrum

    Raffaella Margutti;K. D. Alexander;X. Xie;L. Sironi

  • The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. V. Rising X-Ray Emission from an Off-axis Jet

    Raffaella Margutti;E. Berger;Wen-fai Fong;C. Guidorzi

  • Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Short Gamma-Ray Burst Host Galaxies: Morphologies, Offsets, and Local Environments

    Wen-fai Fong;Edo Berger;Derek B. Fox

  • The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. IV. Detection of Near-infrared Signatures of r-process Nucleosynthesis with Gemini-South

    R. Chornock;E. Berger;D. Kasen;D. Kasen;P. S. Cowperthwaite;P. S. Cowperthwaite

  • The Locations of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts as Evidence for Compact Object Binary Progenitors

    Wen-Fai Fong;Edo Berger

  • Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Short GRB Host Galaxies: Morphologies, Offsets and Local Environments

    Wen-fai Fong;E. Berger;D. Fox

Frequent Co-Authors

Edo Berger
Edo Berger Harvard University
Raffaella Margutti
Raffaella Margutti Northwestern University
Ryan Chornock
Ryan Chornock Northwestern University
Brian D. Metzger
Brian D. Metzger Columbia University
Ryan J. Foley
Ryan J. Foley University of California, Santa Cruz
Marcelle Soares-Santos
Marcelle Soares-Santos Brandeis University
Daniel E. Holz
Daniel E. Holz University of Chicago
Nial R. Tanvir
Nial R. Tanvir University of Leicester
Nathan Smith
Nathan Smith University of Arizona
Joshua A. Frieman
Joshua A. Frieman University of Chicago

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