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Riley Thai

About

I'm a graduate student at Monash University working with Amanda Karakas and Alexander Heger.

I'm interested in single and binary stellar evolution and galactic chemical evolution. I work on stellar models for AGB stars, their dust/chemistry, and rapid/detailed binary population synthesis. Before that, I worked with Andy Casey and Alex Ji on metal-poor stars and stellar spectroscopy with SDSS.

I was the lead developer of the dataview component of SDSS DR19's new web interface, zora.

(email at "riley [dot] thai [at] monash.edu")

(github)

Latest papers

(full list)

Nat. Astron

Apr. 2026 ADS

A Nearly Pristine Star from the Large Magellanic Cloud

Alexander P. Ji et al. (including R. Thai)


AJ

Apr. 2026 ADS

Evaluating Classifications of Extremely Metal-poor Candidates Selected from Gaia XP Spectra

Riley Thai, Andrew R. Casey, Alexander P. Ji, Vedant Chandra, Hans-Walter Rix.


AJ

Jan. 2026 ADS

Sloan Digital Sky Survey. V. Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy

Juna A. Kollmeier et al. (including R. Thai)