 | Carla J. Baldovin Saavedra |  |
E-mail | Carla.Baldovin@unige.ch |
| Address | ISDC Chemin d'Ecogia 16 CH-1290 Versoix Switzerland |
| Phone | +41 22 379 2167 |
| Fax | +41 22 379 2133 |
I started my PhD thesis in March 2007 under the supervision of Prof. Marc Audard in the Disks around young stellar objects group at
ISDC: Data Centre for Astrophysics.
The ISDC was born as data centre for the INTEGRAL mission, a gamma-ray space telescope of the European Space Agency (ESA) launched in 2002. Now ISDC has become a research institute involved in several future missions like Gaia, Planck and Polar.
At
the ISDC the data from the INTEGRAL telescope arrive within
seconds where they are monitored by a scientist on duty. ISDC also
develops the software for INTEGRAL data reduction and analysis.
My
research work consits in the study of Star Formation Regions at different
wavelengths. I started my research with X-ray and infra-red observations of
young stellar objects with the space telescopes Chandra and Spitzer.
Recently
I have obtained millimeter continuum measurements (@ 1.2 mm) for a
group of young stars candidates of the Taurus Molecular Cloud (TMC).
With continuum millimeter observations we can get an estimate of the
cold dust in the circumstellar disks.
Using the millimeter data plus
Spitzer IRS (high resolution spectroscopy) observations we will obtain
the Spectral Energy Distribution of these sources.
Furthermore, we have obtained near infrared spectroscopy of young stars of the TMC (at the Nordic Optical Telescope, NOT).
These sources were discovered with XEST the XMM-Newton
extended survey of the TMC. The near-infrared spectroscopy will allow
us to determine the spectral types of these young stars and confirm
their membership to the star forming region.
As part of my activities as PhD student at ISDC, I am part of the staff of scientists on duty. Our task is to monitor the data flow arriving in real time from the INTEGRAL spacecraft. This hard work somethimes pay off ! (See below)
Here, you can see a recent presentation of my work based on Chandra and Keck observations of the Weak-lined T Taury HDE 245059 made at the Geneva Observatory.
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