Research Interests

I am involved in a number of projects to observe the early stages of massive star formation. My work is generally multi-wavelength, including optical, near-infrared, millimeter, and radio spectroscopy and imaging. I played an integral role in the Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey , which was released to the public via IPAC in June 2009 (I wrote the data reduction pipeline and reduced the data). My first accepted paper was a NIR/mm study of the high-mass star forming region IRAS 05358+3543. We identified additional outflows and suggested that there may be a ~10 MO binary in the system. I am engaged in ongoing studies of the W5 and L111 massive star forming complexes in the outer galaxy and pilot programs to directly measure the densities of inner galaxy massive clumps. I am using the CSO, JCMT, GBT, and eVLA for these studies. I have also become interested in software development for public use. My personal software page lists some of my projects. I have a google code page on which I've released some useful codes, the most important being readcol. I now participate in APLpy development, working on ds9 region inclusion.



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