Title：A Panoptic View of Massive Star Forming Regions in the Milky Way

Speaker：Pablo Garcia（NAOC）

Time：9: 00 am, May 29th, Wednesday

Tencent Meeting：371-150-025

Location: Middle conference room 3rd floor

Abstract：

The mechanical and radiative feedback of massive stars on the environment regulates the physical conditions in the surrounding interstellar medium, while it also impacts the star formation activity through negative (molecular cloud dissolution) and positive (cloud compression) feedback processes. The nearby RCW 36 (bipolar) and RCW 120  H II regions, at distances of  ~0.90 and ~1.68 kpc respectively, have been the target of several heterodyne observations in mm/sub-mm wavelengths, tracing the physical conditions of the gas exposed to photons below the Lyman limit, in their so-called Photon-Dominated Regions (PDRs). In particular, their [CII] 158 um emission revealed blue-shifted expanding shells, that seem to be common in young (~ a few Myr) massive star forming regions

CV：From 2001-2004 he carried out his undergraduate studies at the “Universidad de Chile”, in Chile;

From 2005-2007, he obtained a Master of Science, major in Astronomy, at the “Universidad de Chile”, in Chile. - In 2015, he finished a PhD in Experimental Physics at the “I. Physikalisches Institute” of the University of Cologne, in Germany. 

From 2016-2017 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the “Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique” (IRAM), in Spain.;

From 2018- present he has been a NAOC researcher and project assistant at the Chinese Academy of Science South America Center for Astronomy (CASSACA) in Chile as well as Professor Extraordinaire at the “Universidad Católica del Norte” (UCN) in Antofagasta - Chile. 

His main line of research focusses on massive star formation processes in Galactic environments, from the Galactic disk to the Central Molecular Zone of the Milky Way. His observational background includes mm/submm/FIR and optical astronomy. He is experienced in the commissioning of mm/submm instrumentation, site-testing activities in optical and radio wavelengths domains, and in the development of astronomical observatories in Chile.