Karina Maucó

During my research career, I have accumulated substantial observational experience from the optical (including UV from the ground) to cm wavelength range. I have been the PI of observing proposals granted with the ALMA/ACA, VLA, GTC, and Magellan telescopes. For the latter, I have been the PI observer using the MIKE/M2FS and MagE instruments.

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Additionally, I have participated as a second observer at Paranal/VLT using the NACO instrument (PDI mode) and as part of the Chilean observer staff in one of the APEX telescope (single dish) observing runs in 2019. During this run, I had the opportunity to acquire astronomical data using multiple instruments with different observing modes that included bolometer arrays like LABOCA, ARTEMIS (PI proposal), as well as Heterodynes like SEPIA and PI230. I have also worked with ALMA high-angular resolution observations of transition disks as well as with ALMA/ACA observations of a disk population in Orion (PI granted proposal, fully observed) and VLT/NACO high-contrast and polarimetric differential imaging in the NIR. 

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On the theoretical counterpart, I use the D’alessio Irradiated Accretion Disk (DIAD) models (D’Alessio+1999, 2001, 2006), which are one of the most physically complete and self-consistent models available in the literature, which allow us to calculate the detailed vertical and radial structure of irradiated accretion disks around low-mass stars in a self-consistent way. On the other hand, to inquire about the origin of gap-opening mechanisms and the formation and evolution of pressure bumps in disk with substructures, I have also used the radiative transfer code MCFOST to characterize the polarized light emission in the young transition disk Sz91 in Lupus.