My Research
Current Research
Correcting Telluric Emissions
I recently started working for the ENIGMA group at UCSB, and my first project is to speed up a technique that uses synthetic transmission spectra for telluric absorption correction using Machine Learning.
Past Research
Modeling MWC 297's circumstellar structure
MWC 297 is a Herbig Be star that possesses a complex circumstellar structure. For my undergraduate honors thesis, I adapted a Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer (MCRT) code combined with magnetically supported outflows to model MWC 297’s Spectral Energy Distribution (SED). I also developed a simple algorithm that uses the output from the MCRT code to reconstruct images in the Near Infra-Red (NIR). The results showed that magnetically driven outflows could greatly help explain parts of the circumstellar structures around higher luminosity stars that have a SEDs with NIR excess.
Searching for new members of Star Forming Regions
Using a dataset from Disk Detective, I found new members belonging to 36 known Star Forming Regions. We made further studies in the variability of these objects using TESS and Kepler data when available.
