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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

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arXiv

Jul. 2026 ADS

The Best Guess: Testing New and Old Formalisms for the Common Envelope against Observations

Riley Thai, Amanda Karakas, Zara Osborn, Robert Izzard, Ryosuke Hirai, Alex Kemp, Simon Campbell.


ApJS

Jul. 2026 ADS

The Nineteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

SDSS Collaboration et al. (including R. Thai)


Nat. Astron

Apr. 2026 ADS

A Nearly Pristine Star from the Large Magellanic Cloud

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