Elise Darragh-Ford

First-authored papers

1. [2511.02031] Shaping the Milky Way. II. The dark matter halo's response to the LMC's passage in a cosmological context (Nov 3, 2025)
   Elise Darragh-Ford, Nicolas Garavito-Camargo, Arpit Arora, Risa H. Wechsler, Phil Mansfield, Gurtina Besla, Michael S. Petersen, Martin D. Weinberg, Silvio Varela-Lavin, Deveshi Buch, Emily C. Cunningham, Kathryne J. Daniel, Facundo A. Gomez, Kathryn V. Johnston, Chervin F. P. Laporte, Yao-Yuan Mao, Ethan O. Nadler, Robyn Sanderson
   
   
2. [2302.10931] The Concentration-Mass Relation of Massive, Dynamically Relaxed Galaxy Clusters: Agreement Between Observations and $Λ$CDM Simulations (Feb 21, 2023)
   Elise Darragh-Ford, Adam B. Mantz, Elena Rasia, Steven W. Allen, R. Glenn Morris, Jack Foster, Robert W. Schmidt, Guillermo Wenrich
   
   
3. [2302.09086] $\texttt{ESCARGOT}$: Mapping Vertical Phase Spiral Characteristics Throughout the Real and Simulated Milky Way (Feb 17, 2023)
   Elise Darragh-Ford, Jason A. S. Hunt, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Kathryn V. Johnston
   
   
4. [2212.07433] Target Selection and Sample Characterization for the DESI LOW-Z Secondary Target Program (Dec 14, 2022)
   Elise Darragh-Ford, John F. Wu, Yao-Yuan Mao, Risa H. Wechsler, Marla Geha, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, ChangHoon Hahn, Nitya Kallivayalil, John Moustakas, Ethan O. Nadler, Marta Nowotka, J. E. G. Peek, Erik J. Tollerud, Benjamin Weiner, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen, D. Brooks, A. P. Cooper, A. de la Macorra, A. Dey, K. Fanning, A. Font-Ribera, S. Gontcho A Gontcho, K. Honscheid, T. Kisner, Anthony Kremin, M. Landriau, Michael E. Levi, P. Martini, Aaron M. Meisner, R. Miquel, Adam D. Myers, Jundan Nie, N. Palanque-Delabrouille, W. J. Percival, F. Prada, D. Schlegel, M. Schubnell, Gregory Tarlé, M. Vargas-Magaña, Zhimin Zhou, H. Zou
   
   
5. [2012.00099] Searching for Dwarf Galaxies in ${\it Gaia}$ DR2 Phase-Space Data Using Wavelet Transforms (Nov 30, 2020)
   Elise Darragh-Ford, Ethan O. Nadler, Sean McLaughlin, Risa H. Wechsler
   
   

Co-authored papers

1. [2504.20133] Shaping the Milky Way: The interplay of mergers and cosmic filaments (Apr 28, 2025)
   Arpit Arora, Nicolás Garavito-Camargo, Robyn E. Sanderson, Martin D. Weinberg, Michael S. Petersen, Silvio Varela-Lavin, Facundo A. Gómez, Kathryn V. Johnston, Chervin F. P. Laporte, Nora Shipp, Jason A. S. Hunt, Gurtina Besla, Elise Darragh-Ford, Nondh Panithanpaisal, Kathryne J. Daniel
   
   
2. [2408.01487] EDEN: Exploring Disks Embedded in N-body simulations of Milky-Way-mass halos from Symphony (Aug 2, 2024)
   Yunchong Wang, Philip Mansfield, Ethan O. Nadler, Elise Darragh-Ford, Risa H. Wechsler, Daneng Yang, Hai-Bo Yu
   
   
3. [2406.10456] A Generative Model for Realistic Galaxy Cluster X-ray Morphologies (Jun 15, 2024)
   Maya Benyas, Jordan Pfeifer, Adam B. Mantz, Steven W. Allen, Elise Darragh-Ford
   
   
4. [2308.10926] Symfind: Addressing the Fragility of Subhalo Finders and Revealing the Durability of Subhalos (Aug 21, 2023)
   Philip Mansfield, Elise Darragh-Ford, Yunchong Wang, Ethan O. Nadler, Risa H. Wechsler
   
   
5. [2209.02675] Symphony: Cosmological Zoom-in Simulation Suites over Four Decades of Host Halo Mass (Sep 6, 2022)
   Ethan O. Nadler, Philip Mansfield, Yunchong Wang, Xiaolong Du, Susmita Adhikari, Arka Banerjee, Andrew Benson, Elise Darragh-Ford, Yao-Yuan Mao, Sebastian Wagner-Carena, Risa H. Wechsler, Hao-Yi Wu
   
   
6. [2206.06125] Multiple phase spirals suggest multiple origins in Gaia DR3 (Jun 13, 2022)
   Jason A. S. Hunt, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Kathryn V. Johnston, Elise Darragh-Ford
   
   
7. [2203.07491] Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Prospects for obtaining Dark Matter Constraints with DESI (Mar 14, 2022)
   Monica Valluri, Solene Chabanier, Vid Irsic, Eric Armengaud, Michael Walther, Connie Rockosi, Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde, Leandro Beraldo e Silva, Andrew P. Cooper, Elise Darragh-Ford, Kyle Dawson, Alis J. Deason, Simone Ferraro, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Antonella Garzilli, Ting Li, Zarija Lukic, Christopher J. Manser, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Corentin Ravoux, Ting Tan, Wenting Wang, Risa Wechsler, Andreia Carrillo, Arjun Dey, Sergey E. Koposov, Yao-Yuan Mao, Paulo Montero-Camacho, Ekta Patel, Graziano Rossi, L. Arturo Urena-Lopez, Octavio Valenzuela
   
   
8. [2203.00690] From Images to Dark Matter: End-To-End Inference of Substructure From Hundreds of Strong Gravitational Lenses (Mar 1, 2022)
   Sebastian Wagner-Carena, Jelle Aalbers, Simon Birrer, Ethan O. Nadler, Elise Darragh-Ford, Philip J. Marshall, Risa H. Wechsler