Anthony M. Flores

I’m a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University. My main focus is studying the evolution of Galaxy Clusters through targeted observations of high redshift systems detected from wide-field multiwavelength surveys.

I’m particularly interested in how cluster environments evolve in the presence of feedback from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and other energetic processes that can affect morphology, thermodynamics, and chemical abundances within the intracluster gas. To study this, I produce spatially-resolved measurements of the Intracluster Medium (ICM) with existing Flagship X-ray telescopes (namely Chandra and XMM-Newton). I complement these observations with data at other wavelengths (e.g. mm and optical) and work to expand the multiwavelength coverage of clusters at the highest redshifts possible in order to probe theories of self-similar evolution and cosmic enrichment.

I’m invested in developing new modeling techniques for our existing instruments to extract the most information possible in the current generation, and I seek to apply these methods generally to the next generation of ground- and space-based missions. In particular, I’m a member of the working groups for the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) a proposed NASA Probe-class mission that will revolutionize how we see the X-ray Universe with it’s high sensitivity and exquisite spatial resolution.