Hector Canovas

    Research Fellow

     

    Main Research Fields

    Protoplanetary discs are large structures of dust and gas that naturally form around young stars. They are the birth-sites of planets and therefore their study is key to understand how our Solar System was born. I study protoplanetary discs using a variety of tools including imaging polarimetry at near-infrared wavelengths with the VLTs, sub-millimeter interferometric with ALMA, and radiative transfer models with MCFOST. In the past I have focussed in discs showing (in?)direct evidences of planet-disc interaction, such as dust-depleted inner cavities and/or spiral structures. Currently I aim to combine the measurements provided by Gaia (distances and stellar properties) with the disc properties (e.g., disc masses) to better understand the star+disc system.


    Keywords

    • T Tauri & Herbig Ae/Be stars.
    • Protoplanetary discs.
    • Planet-disc interactions.
    • Imaging Polarimetry
    • Interferometry

    Ongoing collaborations

    • Carlos Eiroa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
    • Benjamín Montesinos, Centro de Astrobiologia, Spain.
    • Lucas Cieza, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile.
    • Matthias Schreiber, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile.
    • Francois Menard, IPAG, Grenoble, France.

    Publications

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    Project/mission at ESA

    I joined ESAC since October 2017 as a Research Fellow, as part of the Gaia science group.

     

    Research Group at ESAC