The HERM33ES Team (This page is read-only.)
PI: Carsten Kramer (IRAM)
Coordinators: Steve Lord (Herschel Science Center, Caltech), Jonathan Braine (Obs. de Bordeaux), Daniela Calzetti (UMass), Gordon Stacey (Cornell)
Co-Investigators: Susanne Aalto, Rainer Beck, Frank Bertoldi, Santiago Garcia-Burillo, Francoise Combes, Michael Dumke, Rolf Guesten, Christian Henkel, Frank Israel, Baerbel Koribalski, Andreas Lundgren, Jesus Martin-Pintado, Bhaswati Mookerjea, Karl Schuster, Kartik Sheth, Markus Roellig, Juergen Stutzki, Floris van der Tak, Fatemeh Tabatabaei, Remo Tilanus, Paul van der Werf, Martina Wiedner, Manolis Xilouris
Associates: Guillermo Quintana-Lacaci, Manuel Gonzalez, Simon Verley, Erik Rosolowsky, Mederic Boquiem, Albrecht Sievers, Monica Relano, Marcus Albrecht, Thomas Nikola
PhD Students: Christof Buchbender, Pierre Gratier, Sibylle Anderl, Stavros Arkas, Jorge Abreu
PI and Coordinators
Carsten Kramer
IRAM, Granada/Spain. Station manager of the 30m observatory. Role: Principal Investigator of HERMES. CK is coordinating this key project, the HERMES key topic Energy balance, and is actively involved in the data reduction, analysis, and interpretation, and the acquiring of complementary submillimeter data. His main expertise is in submillimeter and far-infrared astronomy of interstellar clouds. Use of radiative transfer models and models of photon dominated regions for their interpretation. Observing experience with submillimeter and FIR telescopes: IRAM-30m, JCMT, CSO, HHT, NANTEN2, KOSMA, ISO.
Jonathan Braine
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, Observatoire de Bordeaux, UMR 5804 Universite Bordeaux 1, France, Astronomer. Coordinator of the HERMES key topic Formation of molecular clouds. He has extensive experience with mm/submm mapping of nearby galaxies with single dish telescopes and interferometers. And he designed many tools for mm-wave data reduction. His chief research interests are molecular cloud and star formation and the use of local galaxies such as M33 to help understand these processes at earlier epochs.
Daniela Calzetti
Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA , Professor. Coordinator of the HERMES key topic Star Formation. Deputy PI of the Spitzer Legacy Program SINGS. Extensive experience with multi-wavelength observations from UV to far-infrared. Expertise in star formation and star formation rate indicators; dust absorption and emission from galaxies. DC will help with the SFR indicators the program will be pinning down (e.g., [CII], etc.). She will use them, in conjunction with LMT dust and CO observations, to investigate the scaling laws of star formation (Schmidt-Kennicutt Law).
Gordon Stacey
Cornell University, USA, Professor. Coordinator of the HERMES key topic Phases of the ISM. Supporting spectroscopy in mid-J, CI 2-1, and NII 205 micron (when possible), post-pipeline data reduction and analysis including photoionization, photodissociation, and large velocity gradient modeling. Gordon Stacey has over 27 year experience in far-IR and submm spectroscopy using the KAO, ISO, CSO, JCMT.
Steven D. Lord
NASA Herschel Science Center, Caltech, Pasadena, USA), HIFI Instrument Scientist. Coordinator of the US activities. He will help modelling the PDR balance using the techniques of the models (Wolfire and Kauffman). He has experience doing so in a series of nearby normal galaxies. Moreover, he will help with the spatial-spectral deconvolution, for which he has experience, applying such techniques to M83 and M51.
Co-Investigators
Susanne Aalto
Department of Radio and Space Science and Onsala Space Observatory, Chalmers University of Technology, Onsala, Sweden, Associate Professor. She has extensive experience with mm and submm single dish and interferometric mapping of luminous galaxies - starbursts, interacting, active. Her special interest lies in radiative transport, PDRs and astrochemistry.
Marcus Albrecht
Argelander Institut, Universitaet Bonn. MA will combine PACS and SPIRE photometer maps with longer wavelength continuum data taken at ground based telescopes (LABOCA/APEX, WIDEX/PdB).
Sibylle Anderl
PhD student with F.Bertoldi at the Universitaet Bonn. Expert in shock models and interpretation of FIR line emission. NANTEN2 observer.
Rainer Beck
MPIfR, Bonn, staff astronomer, head of the Continuum Group, formerly led by R. Wielebinski. Experience on radio continuum and magnetic fields in galaxies and wavelet methods for pattern recognition and scale-dependent cross-correlation.
Frank Bertoldi
Argelander Institut, Universitaet Bonn, Full professor. FB leads the radioastronomy group at Bonn University. His expertise is in bolometer and interferometric observations of distant QSOs and starbursts, and in SZ observations of galaxy clusters. He has lead the development of data analysis software for the APEX bolometer cameras.
Médéric Boquien
UMass, USA, PostDoc. Together with Daniela, Médéric is interested in PACS spectroscopy along the strip and photometry of the entire galaxy with PACS and SPIRE.
Christof Buchbender
IRAM, Granada, Spain. PhD student with C. Kramer. Working on the correlation of dense gas and star formation along the major axis of M33.
Jorge Abreu
IRAM, Granada, Spain. PhD student with C. Kramer.
Francoise Combes
Observatoire de Paris, LERMA, Paris, France), Astronomer. Her main research interests are the dynamics of galaxies, and in particular their ISM, molecular clouds as site of star formation, secular evolution and gas flows, the influence of bars and tidal interactions, gas accretion to fuel starbursts, coupling of chemistry with dynamics. She both observes in the millimeter and infrared domains, and carries out numerical simulations.
Michael Dumke
ESO, APEX Project, Santiago, Chile, Astronomer. He is an expert in the reduction and analysis of radio (mainly mm/sub-mm) continuum and spectral line data using existing astronomical software packages and specialized self-written programs. His main research interests include the physical conditions of molecular gas and dust in nearby galaxies. He will contribute to the data analysis process.
Santiago Garcia-Burillo
Observatorio Astronomico Nacional-OAN, Madrid, Spain, Astronomer. His main research interests are the study of the dynamics of galaxy disks through mm mapping in CO lines of nearby galaxies made with interferometers. In particular he is involved in the study of the feeding and the feedback of activity in galaxies. He also studies the chemistry of molecular gas in nearby galaxies, ULIRGs and high-redshift objects.
Pierre Gratier
Observatoire de Bordeaux, France, PhD student with J. Braine. Pierre is working on the CO 2-1 HERA/IRAM 30m and the HI VLA data sets of the entire galaxy.
Manuel Gonzalez
IRAM, Granada. Post-Doc. Experience in developing models of Photon Dominated Regions.
Rolf Guesten
MPIfR, Bonn, Germany, Head of the Division for Submm Technology, and sub system manager for the HIFI local oscillator developments. For the last two decades, his prime research interest has been molecular spectroscopy of star forming regions and the nuclei of nearby galaxies, with special emphasis on the Galactic Center. RG is PI of the HIFI guaranteed time extragalactic key program HEXGAL. He is point-of-contact and responsible for all MPIfR-based PI instrument developments for APEX, including the most competitive submm heterodyne arrays CHAMP+ and LAsMA. He is principal investigator of the German heterodyne instrument GREAT for SOFIA.
Christian Henkel
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany, Scientific Staff. Expertise in galactic and extragalactic star formation, circumstellar shells of late type stars, and research on active galactic nuclei. LVG codes written for about 20 molecular species. Fast access to APEX follow-up measurements. Ready to also contribute to the data reduction process.
Frank Israel
Leiden University, the Netherlands, Full professor (PhD in Astronomy Leiden 1976). His main research interests are gas and dust in galaxy centers, and ISM and star formation in nearby galaxies, in particular Local Group galaxies such as the Magellanic Clouds, M33m and NGC 6822. He is an experienced user of ground-based facilities (SEST, JCMT, IRAM, APEX) as well as airborne and space-based observatories (KAO, IRAS, Spitzer). He was one of the original proposers of FIRST, the precursor to Herschel. He has authored or co-authored over 200 scientific papers, as well as a very large number of popular science articles.
Baerbel Koribalski
CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility, Senior Research Scientist. She is an expert in gas dynamics and evolution of galaxies. She will lead the effort on including \HI\ data to the analysis.
Andreas Lundgren
Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX) ESO, Chile), Staff Astronomer. His main interest is the kinematics and and physical properties of the molecular gas and its relation to the star formation, He has observed galaxies in all possible wavelength bands, but is most focussed on the millimeter and submillimeter range.
Jesus Martin-Pintado
Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, Madrid, Spain.
Bhaswati Mookerjea
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, Reader. Emphasis on energy balance and relative contribution of the carbon bearing species to the overall cooling of M33. Research Interest: star formation, photon dominated regions, and infrared instrumentation. Extensive observing experience in the far-infrared, sub-mm and millimeter wavelengths.
Thomas Nikola
Cornell University, USA,
Guillermo Quintana-Lacaci
IRAM, Granada, Spain, Post-Doc. MAMBO/IRAM-30m pool manager. HERM33ES data processing coordinator.
Karl Schuster
IRAM, Grenoble, Deputy Director. Millimeter and Submillimeter Astronomy and Instrumentation. Work in low mass star formation and shock physics. Molecular clouds and starformation in nearby galaxies. Works on M33 to understand molecular cloud formation as a function of galactic radius. Project leader of the HERA multibeam project.
Stavros Arkas
PhD student with M. Xilouris at Athens Observatory. Expert in modeling the dust emission of galaxies.
Markus Roellig
Universitaet zu Koeln, I. Physikalisches Institut, Post-Doc. Experience in theoretical models of the ISM in molecular clouds and in submm observations. The current main task is the support and further development of the KOSMA-tau PDR code. He is working actively in providing tools for the analysis of clumpy turbulent structures and for modelling the chemical and physical properties and the line radiative transfer in the dense ISM.
Kartik Sheth
Caltech, USA, Research scientist at the Spitzer Science Center with the IRS team. Experienced in molecular gas observations of GMCs in Milky Way, M31 and M33 and general molecular gas properties of nearby spirals. Extensive experience with 3-d spectroscopy as a member of the SINGS team and PI of M51 strip map using low res modules of IRS of M51.
Juergen Stutzki
KOSMA, I. Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet zu Koeln, Full Professor. He is HIFI co-principal investigator. His primary research interests cover astrophysics of the dense ISM (turbulent structure, chemical and physical processes; star formation), numerical modelling (radiation transfer, PDR models) and submm- and FIR-astronomical instrumentation.
Fatemeh Tabatabaei
MPIfR, Bonn, Post-doc, expertise in wavelet analysis and diagnostic tools for thermal and nonthermal emissions from nearby galaxies, member of the Spitzer project groups of M33 and M31, PI of the recent VLA and Effelsberg radio continuum observations of M33, and PI of the APEX submm observations of the nearby galaxies NGC1365, M74, and M100. Her research interests include radio-IR/submm correlation in galaxies and the role of the magnetic field in the ISM energy balance and star formation.
Floris van der Tak
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Groningen, The Netherlands, Submillimeter Scientist. Emphasis on H2O observations of M33, Observational experience with radio and (sub)millimeter single-dish antennas and interferometers. Modeling experience with continuum and line radiative transfer; author of publically available radiative transfer tools and databases for the interpretation of interstellar line spectra. He is member of the WISH GT KP on star-forming regions (PI E.F. van Dishoeck) and of the HIFI ICC in Groningen.
Remo Tilanus
Joint Astronomy Center, Hilo, USA. Emphasis on large scale mapping observations of M33 using HARP and SCUBA2 at the JCMT.
Simon Verley
Universidad de Granada, Spain. Associate of HERMES with focus on the photometric study of the entire galaxy M33.
Paul van der Werf
Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, The Netherlands, Associate Professor of Astronomy. Paul van der Werf is leading a group including several postdocs and PhD students, focussing on starburst galaxies and ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) at low and high redshift, the evolution of dusty galaxies, the interstellar medium of the Milky Way and other galaxies, and infrared instrumentation. He is currently conducting an extensive groundbased molecular line survey of nearby starburst galaxies (using JCMT, APEX, and IRAM 30m), in order to probe systematically density, temperature and chemistry. Within the present program he will focus mostly on the thermal balance of the ISM phases of M33.
Martina Wiedner
Observatoire de Paris, France, Astronomer. She has successfully built and used a state-of-the-art heterodyne receiver for THz frequencies (CONDOR). Her research interests are starburst galaxies, as well as galactic and extragalactic star formation.
Emmanuel Xilouris
Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, National Observatory of Athens, Greece, Astronomer. His main interest is the distribution of dust in galaxies using radiative transfer models combined with optical / infrared / Submm observations.