Monica Cardaci

FPU-MEC Research Fellow

I obtained my degree in Astronomy at the Facultad de Ciencias 
Astronomicas de La Plata, Argentina, with a research project
titled  "Analisis de imagenes Br\gamma (Gemini) de regiones de
formacion estelar en M101". This work was a photometric
infrared/optical study of a couple of giant star forming regions
of M101. Then I moved to Madrid and started my PhD studies at the
Universidad Autonoma, not in star forming regions in the IR but in 
AGNs in X-rays, under the supervision of Maria Santos Lleo (ESAC)
and Angeles Diaz Beltran (UAM).

My PhD project "Gas altamente ionizado en galaxias Seyfert 1: 
interpretacion de sus huellas en espectros de rayos X de alta 
resolucion"  is based on the spectral analysis of AGN type 1
objects.  The aim of this project is to study the absorption and
emission features in the high resolution spectra of this kind of
source to infer the physical conditions (such as electronic
density, temperature, distance from the continuum source) of the
gas in which they are produced.

On the other hand, in collaboration with G. Hagele, A. Diaz
Beltran, E. Terlevich, R. Terlevich and E. Perez Montero, I'm also
involved in the study of the kinematics of gas and stars in
circumnuclear star forming regions of early type spiral galaxies,
and in the abundance analysis and ionisation structure of bright
HII galaxies. 
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