PHANGS-ML: dissecting multiphase gas and dust in nearby galaxies using machine learning
Baron, Sandstrom, Rosolowsky, Egorov, Klessen et al. accepted by ApJ (2024).
Ionized nebulae are key to understanding the chemical evolution of the universe.
My research activity is centered on understanding the internal physical phenomena of ionized nebulae and their links with global galactic properties. My work has a direct connection to studies on the formation and evolution of galaxies, being also part of my scientific interests.
Currently, I am investigating the physical conditions (density and temperature) and chemical composition of the Galactic and extragalactic star-forming regions and planetary nebulae as part of several scientific collaborations: DEep Spectra of Ionized REgions Data base (DESIRED), SDSS-V/Local Volume Mapper (LVM) and Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS).
I am a member of the Emmy Noether Research Group led by Dr. Kathryn Kreckel.
Brief profile
I was born in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico in 1994. I received basic education from public schools in my hometown. I studied high school at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (UMSNH). I continued my professional studies with a degree in physics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), in Mexico City. During my studies, I worked for three years as a research assistant to the emeritus professor, Dr. Manuel Peimbert. In 2014, I received the Youth Merit Award of the State of Michoacán for my outstanding academic achievements. After graduating as a physicist with honors, I obtained the only scholarship from the Fundación Carolina for all of Latin America to study the master's degree in astrophysics at the Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) in the Canary Islands, Spain. A year and a half later, I competed internationally and obtained a position as a resident astrophysicist at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) , Spain to study my PhD in astrophysics. I obtained my PhD with honors in September 2022. Since October of the same year, I have been working as a postdoctoral researcher at Heidelberg University , Germany.
Recent articles
PHANGS-JWST: Data Processing Pipeline and First Full Public Data Release
Williams, Lee, Larson, Kirsten, Leroy et al. under review by ApJS (2024).
Effects of density and temperature variations on the metallicity of Mrk 71
Méndez-Delgado, Esteban, García-Rojas, Kreckel et al. Nature Astronomy (2024).
Investigating the Drivers of Electron Temperature Variations in HII Regions with Keck-KCWI and VLT-MUSE
Rickards Vaught, Sandstrom, Belfiore, Kreckel et al. accepted by ApJ (2023).
Temperature inhomogeneities cause the abundance discrepancy in H II regions
Méndez-Delgado, Esteban, García-Rojas, Kreckel et al. Natur, 618, 249 (2023).
Quantifying the energy balance between the turbulent ionised gas and young stars
Egorov, Kreckel, Glover, Groves et al. A&A, 678, A153 (2023).
Density biases and temperature relations for DESIRED H II regions
Méndez-Delgado, Esteban, García-Rojas, Arellano-Córdova et al. MNRAS, 523, 2952 (2023).
The Eighteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Targeting and First Spectra from SDSS-V
Almeida, Anderson, Argudo-Fernández, Badenes et al. ApJS, 267, 44 (2023).
Quantifying the energetics of molecular superbubbles in PHANGS galaxies
Watkins, Kreckel, Groves, Glover et al. A&A, 676, A67 (2023).
Atomic Data Assessment with PyNeb: Radiative and Electron Impact Excitation Rates for [Fe II] and [Fe III]
Mendoza, Méndez-Delgado, Bautista, García-Rojas et al. Atoms, 11, 63 (2023).
Backscattering and Line Broadening in Orion
O'Dell, Ferland, and Méndez-Delgado AJ, 165, 21 (2023).
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