The MagneticYSO project (ERC, PI: A. Maury) aims to understand the influence of magnetic fields in the formation of protostellar cores and in the redistribution of angular momentum during the early phase of star formation. The project is carrying analysis of polarisation observations taken with ground-based interferometers (SMA, ALMA) to confront them with predictions from magneto-hydrodynamic simulations. You can access to the Magnetic YSOs website here.
The collaboration gathers researchers from 6 institutes: Cardiff, Athens, Ghent, Arcetri, Paris IAS and CEA and aims to use the Herschel and Planck database to perform one of the most extensive modelling of the dust emission in the Nearby Universe. The team analysis are based on the evolutionary dust model THEMIS (developped at IAS), the SED model of Galliano HERBIE (developped at CEA) and the radiative transfer code SKIRT (developped in Ghent). You can access to the Dustpedia archive here.
I am the PI of the DeGaS-MC project surveying star forming regions toward the large and Small Magellanic Clouds. With more than 50h of single pointings and about 100h of mapping observations of the HCN and HCO+(2−1) obtained on the APEX antenna with the SEPIA Band-5 instrument, we will build a catalogue of properties of dense clouds in order to analyse the star formation efficiency as a function of the dense gas fraction. You can access to the DeGaS-MC website here.
The KINGFISH is a Herschel open time
key programme (PI: R. Kennicutt). The sample covers a wide range of
environments: nearly two orders of magnitude in oxygen abundance and
star formation rates distributed from 10-3 to 7 M⊙yr-1. The KINGFISH Legacy website is hosted
here.
The SPIRE Special Specialist Astronomy Group
SAG2 also observed
nearby galaxies using the instruments on-board Herschel and includes
three guarantee time key programs: the Herschel Reference Survey
(PI: S. Eales), the Very Nearby Galaxy Survey (PI: C. Wilson) and
the Dwarf Galaxy Survey (PI: S. Madden) in which I am involved.
The DGS sample includes 55 low-metallicity galaxies that can be studied
as a proxy for high redshifts galaxies.
The HERITAGE consortium (PI: Margaret Meixner) is dedicated to the
observation of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC) and the
Magellanic Bridge observed with Herschel. The Magellanic Clouds are
low-metallicity environments (~1/2 solar
for the LMC, ~1/5 for the SMC). Their nearness (50-60 kpc) allows us
to resolve the thermal dust emission in individual regions of up to
10 pc. HERITAGE is part of MEGA-SAGE, a consortium that gathers the
Spitzer SAGE and Herschel HERITAGE projects.
ESO receives 25% of the observing time on APEX, an antenna
in the Atacama Desert of Chile.
As part of my fellowship at ESO, Garching, I was part of the fantastic APEX
observing team. In San Pedro de Atacama or on the Chajnantor plateau,
I was performing the observations for the community and
participating in the commissioning of new instruments. Link to the Website of the
APEX telescope here.
... allocated (PI) on ground-based facilities since 2014
ALMA (normal call & ACA)... of some astronomical sites around the world
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