Dr. Manuel Fernandez

   M.Sc. in Astronomy, 2009, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Ph.D. in Astronomy, 2011, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
CARMA Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Current position: CONICET postdoctoral fellow

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Contact: manferna@iar.unlp.edu.ar

My main interest in Astronomy is the field of massive star formation. I use (sub)millimeter interferometer images for my research. A region in particular has captivated my attention from the beginning of my PhD: GGD27, one of the closest high-mass star-forming regions.
Right now I am also learning some techniques of polarization calibration/imaging in millimeter interferometry. I am involved with two main work-teams leaded by Ian Stephens and Dick Crutcher. The main effort of these works is finding out the roll of magnetic fields in star formation processes. HL Tau, L1527 and W3OH are three of the regions we are studying.
In addition, I am part of the CLASSy (Carma Large Area Star-formation Survey) group. Recently, we sent a letter to the ApJ on the morphology and kinematics of the filamentary structure of Serpens South, a low-mass star-forming cloud. There are two other papers already published in ApJ and three more papers on the go.

http://carma.astro.umd.edu/classy/