In an effort to compare observer and theorist's different methods of measuring galaxies size-mass relationship, I have been creating mock observation FIRE dwarf galaxies and measuring them in various different methods. This project has two main goals: to identify any discremancies between different methods of measuring size and mass of galaxies, and to compare the dwarf galaxies produced in FIRE simulations to observed dwarf galaxies.

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To suplement Anna Yu et al. work on The bursty origin of the Milky Way thick disc, I investigated the effects galaxy mergers had on transition of galaxy's transition from bursty to steady star formation. As expected we found the late time massive mergers cause a burst of starformation. However, in general the merger events are not what triggered the bursty to steady transition. Yu et al. found that the transition from steady to bursty starformation occurs when the gas cool which also is what leads to galaxy disc formation.