Research Group
Aurora de los Ángeles 'Gely' Durán
Gely is a PhD student at UNAM working on the overall structure of the L1551 IRS5 protostars from ALMA observations obtained as part of the large ALMA program FAUST. She is particularly interested in the effect of the outflow activity from the central binary on the structure of the inner envelope.
Brissa Gómez Miller
Brissa is a PhD student at UNAM working on EHT observations of the blazar PKS1335-127 which recently underwent a strong gamma-ray flare. The EHT images she will obtain of PKS1337-127 will be the highest resolution observations ever made of that target. She is also interested in the correlation of EHT data and regularly spends time at the correlation center of the Max Planck Institute in Bonn, Germany.
Ricardo Hernández Garnica
Ricardo is a PhD student at UNAM focusing on the analysis of orbital motions in young stellar systems using VLA and ALMA archival and proprietary observations. He has obtained the best characterization to date of the orbit of the well-known Class I object L1551 IRS5 in Taurus.
Karla Noemí Moo Herrera
Karla is a bachelor student at the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatan in Merida, Mexico, majoring in physical engineering. For her undergraduate thesis, she is working on a reanalysis of a large body of astrometric observations of young stars in the Orion region to obtain their distance through an MCMC fitting of their annual parallax.
Jazmín Ordoñez Toro
Jazmín is a PhD student at UNAM specializing in the analysis of young, compact, multiple stellar system using multi-epoch VLBA observations. She has recently shown that the brightest and most massive stellar system in Ophiuchus, S1, is about 20% less massive than theoretical evolutionary models would predict.
Dante Peñaloza
Dante is a Masters' student at UNAM studying the broadening mechanisms of hydrogen recombination lines in the high-mass young star MWC 349A. Using observations obtained with the 100-m radiotelescope in Germany, he recently demonstrated that, for quantum numbers between 50 and 100, the linewidths increase monotonically as expected from pressure broadening.
Eduardo Quiros
Eduardo is a physics bachelor student at the Universidad Mayor de San Simon en Cochabamba, Bolivia. His undergraduate thesis is devoted to the identification of radio-bright nearby stars in the FIRST VLA survey. He has developed a novel technique to search for stars directly the radio images which proved more effective than using catalogs.
Adriana Vazquez Barrios
Adriana is a physics bachelor student at the Universidad Mayor de San Simon en Cochabamba, Bolivia. She is working on identifying radio-bright nearby stars in the VLA Sky Survey by cross-matching the VLASS Quick Look and Gaia catalogs. She is also investigating the relationship between stellar radio brightness and location on the HR diagram.
José Armando Yucra
José is a physics bachelor student at the Universidad Mayor de San Simon en Cochabamba, Bolivia. His undergraduate thesis is devoted to the study of the correlation between radio and X-ray emission in nearby radio-bright stars. He is revising a correlation initially identified by Güdel and Benz in the 1990s using greatly larger samples and modern X-ray observations.