----------------------------------------------------------- Publications: * Fernandez, Jose Miguel; Minniti, Dante; Pietrzynski, Grzegorz; Gieren, Wolfgang; Ruiz, Maria Teresa; Zoccali, Manuela; Udalski, Andrzej; Szeifert, Thomas "Millimagnitude Optical Photometry for the Transiting Planetary Candidate OGLE-TR-109" 2006, ApJ, 647, 587 * Diaz, Rodrigo F.; Ramirez, Sebastian; Fernandez, Jose Miguel; Gallardo, Jose; Gieren, Wolfgang; Ivanov, Valentin D.; Mauas, Pablo; Minniti, Dante; Pietrzynski, Grzegorz; Perez, Felipe; Ruiz, Maria Teresa; Udalski, Andrzej; Zoccali, Manuela "Millimagnitude Photometry for Transiting Extrasolar Planetary Candidates: II. Transits of OGLE-TR-113-b in the Optical and Near-IR" 2007, ApJ, 660, 850 * Minniti, Dante; Fernandez, Jose Miguel; Diaz, Rodrigo F.; Udalski, Andrzej; Pietrzynski, Grzegorz; Gieren, Wolfgang; Rojo, Patricio; Ruiz, Maria Teresa; Zoccali, Manuela "Millimagnitude Photometry for Transiting Extrasolar Planetary Candidates III: Accurate Radius and Period for OGLE-TR-111-b" 2007, ApJ, 660, 858 * Beatty, Thomas G.; Fernandez, Jose Miguel; Latham, David W.; Bakos, Gaspar A.; Kovac, Geza; Noyes, Robert W.; Stefanik, Robert P.; Torres, Gillermo; Everett, Mark E.; Hergenrother, Carl W. "The Mass and Radius of the Unseen M-Dwarf Companion in the Single-Lined Eclipsing Binary HAT-TR-205-013" 2007, ApJ, 663, 573 * Holman, Matthew J.; Winn, Joshua N.; Latham, David W.; O'Donovan, Francis T.; Charbonneau, David; Torres, Gillermo; Sozzetti, A.; Fernandez, Jose. M.; Everett, Mark E. "The Transit Light Curve Project. VI. Three Transits of the Exoplanet TrES-2" 2007, ApJ, 664, 1185 * Bakos, G.; Kovacs, G.; Torres, G.; Fischer, D.; Latham, D.; Noyes, R.; Sasselov, D.; Mazeh, T.; Shporer, A.; Butler, P.; Stefanik, R.; Fernandez, J. M.; Sozzetti, A.; Pal, A.; Johnson, J.; Marcy, G.; Sipocz B.; Lazar, J.,;Papp, I. & Sari, P. "HAT-P-2b: A Super-Massive Planet in an Eccentric Orbit Transiting a Bright Star" 2007, accepted, astro-ph/0705.0126 * Hoyer, S.; Ramirez, S.; Ivanov, V.; Minniti, D.; Pietrzynski, G.; Ruiz, M.T.; Gieren, W.; Udalski, A.; Zoccali, M.; Carrasco, R.; Diaz, R.F.; Fernandez, J.M.; Gallardo, J.; Rejkuba, M.; Perez, F. "Millimagnitude Photometry for Transiting Extrasolar Planetary Candidates IV: The Puzzle of the Extremely Red OGLE-TR-82 Primary Solved" 2007, accepted, astro-ph/0707.1248 * Winn, J.; Holman, M.; Bakos, G.; Andras Pal, A.; Johnson, J.; Williams, P.; Shporer, A.; Mazeh, T.; Fernandez, J.M.; Latham, D. "The Transit Light Curve Project. VII. The Not-So-Bloated Exoplanet HAT-P-1b" 2007, accepted, astro-ph/0707.1908 * Torres, G.; Bakos, G.A.; Kovacs, G.; Latham, D.W.; Fernandez, J.M.; Noyes, R.W.; Esquerdo, G.A.; Sozzetti, A.; Fischer, D.A.; Butler, R.P.; Marcy,G.W.; Stefanik, R.P.; Sasselov, D.D.; Lazar, J.; Papp, Sari, I.P. "HAT-P-3b: A heavy-element rich planet transiting a K dwarf star" 2007, accepted, astro-ph/0707.4268 * Mandushev, G.; O'Donovan, F.; Charbonneau, D.; Torres, G.; Latham, D.; Bakos, G.; Dunham, E.; Sozzetti, A.; Fernandez, J.M.; Esquerdo, G.; Everett, M.; Brown, T.; Rabus, M.; Belmonte, J.; Hillenbrand, L. "TrES-4: A Transiting Hot Jupiter of Very Low Density" 2007, accepted, astro-ph/0708.0834 * Kovacs, G.; Bakos, G.A.; Torres, G.; Sozzetti, A.; Latham, D.W.; Noyes, R.; Butler, R.; Marcy, G.; Fischer, D.; Fernandez, J.M.; Esquerdo, G.; Sasselov, D.D.; Stefanik, R. P.; Pal, A.; Lazar, J.; Papp, I.; Sari, P. "HAT-P-4b: A Metal-Rich Low-Density Transiting Hot Jupiter" 2007, accepted, astro-ph/0710.0602 * Noyes, R.; Bakos, G.; Torres, G.; Pal, A.; Kovacs, G.; Latham, D.; Fernandez, J.M.; Fischer, D.;, Butler, R.; Marcy, G.; Sipocz, B.; Esquerdo, G.; Kovacs, Gabor; Sasselov, D.; Sato, B.; Stefanik, R.; Holman, M.; Lazar, J.; Papp, I.; Sari, P. "HAT-P-6b: A Hot Jupiter transiting a bright F star" 2007, accepted, astro-ph/0710.2894 * Winn, J.N.; Holman, M.J.; Shporer, A.; Fernandez, J.; Mazeh, T.; Latham, D.W.; Charbonneau, D.; Everett M.E. "The Transit Light Curve Project. VIII. Six Occultations of the Exoplanet TrES-3" 2008, accepted, astro-ph/0804.2479 ----------------------------------------------------------- Observational Experience: * CTIO (AURA), Jan 2000 (3 nights), Telescope: 4-meter Blanco Telescope Project: High-z cluster of galaxies imaging With: Felipe Barrientos (barrientos at astro puc cl) * La Silla (ESO), Oct 2002 (2 nights) Telescope: 1.5 Danish Telescope Project: CCD Variability Survey for NGC 2808 With: Marcio Catelan (mcatelan at astro puc cl) * La Silla (ESO), Jun 2003 (6 nights) Telescope: 1.5 Danish Telescope Project: Sagittarius Dwarf globular clusters With: Marrcio Catelan (mcatelan at astro puc cl) * Las Campanas (Carnegie,CfA), Nov 2003 (3 nights) Telescope: Clay 6.5-m Magellan II Telescope, MagIC Project: SX Phoenicis and RR Lyrae Variables in Two Dense Globular Clusters of the Fornax dSph Galaxy With: Marcio Catelan (mcatelan at astro puc cl) * Las Campanas (Carnegie,CfA), Oct 2004 (1 night) Telescope: Baade 6.5-m Magellan I Telescope, PANIC Project: Infrared observations of Type Ia Suernovae With: Alejandro Clocchiatti (aclocchi at astro puc cl) * Cerro Paranal (ESO), Apr 2005 (4 nights) Telescope: VLT UT-3 Melipal 8.2-m, VIMOS Project: Millimagnitude photometry for OGLE transiting extrasolar planetary candidates. With: Dante Minniti (dante at astro puc cl) * FLWO, Mnt Hopkins (SAO), Mar 2006 (12 nights) Telescope: Tillinghast 1.5-m, Echelle instrument Project: High res. radial velocities for binary stars and planetary candidate systems. With: Robert Stefanik (rstefanik at cfa harvard edu) * MMT, Mnt Hopkins (SAO), Apr 2006 (5 nights) Telescope: MMT 6.5-m, Hectoechelle Project: Hectochelle queue: PA-06A-0162, SAO-11, UAO-S69 * FLWO, Mnt Hopkins (SAO), Sep 2006 (7 nights) Telescope: 1.2-m, Keplercam Project: High precision photometric follow up of transiting extra solar planets and low mass stars. * FLWO, Mnt Hopkins (SAO), Oct 2006 (5 nights) Telescope: 1.2-m, Keplercam Project: High precision photometric follow up of transiting extra solar planets and low mass stars. * FLWO, Mnt Hopkins (SAO), Dec 2006 (9 nights) Telescope: 1.2-m, Keplercam Project: High precision photometric follow up of transiting extra solar planets and low mass stars. * FLWO, Mnt Hopkins (SAO), Jan 2007 (6 nights) Telescope: 1.2-m, Keplercam Project: High precision photometric follow up of transiting extra solar planets and low mass stars. * FLWO, Mnt Hopkins (SAO), Apr 2007 (10 nights) Telescope: 1.2-m, Keplercam Project: High precision photometric follow up of transiting extra solar planets and low mass stars. * FLWO, Mnt Hopkins (SAO), Jul 2007 (7 nights) Telescope: 1.2-m, Keplercam Project: High precision photometric follow up of transiting extra solar planets and low mass stars. * FLWO, Mnt Hopkins (SAO), Oct 2007 (2 nights) Telescope: 1.2-m, Keplercam Project: High precision photometric follow up of transiting extra solar planets and low mass stars. * FLWO, Mnt Hopkins (SAO), Oct 2007 (6 nights) Telescope: 1.5-m, TRES Project: High resolution spectroscopic follow up of extra solar planets systems and pulsating stars. * FLWO, Mnt Hopkins (SAO), 2007-2008 30+ nights Telescope: 1.2-m, Keplercam. remote observing. Project: High precision photometric follow up of transiting extra solar planets and low mass stars. ----------------------------------------------------------- Scientific Meetings: Jan 2003: 2nd annual meeting of the Chilean Society of Astronomy, SOCHIAS Jan 2004: 3rd annual meeting of the Chilean Society of Astronomy, SOCHIAS May 2004: ESO Topical Meeting "Current Supernova Research", Santiago Dec 2004: 2nd Advanced Chilean School of Astrophysics, "First Large Scale Structures in the Universe and their Evolution", PUC, Santiago, Chile Jan 2005: 4th annual meeting of the Chilean Society of Astronomy, SOCHIAS Concepcion, Chile. (Poster) Jun 2005: Vatican Observatory Summer School, "Astrobiology", Castel Gandolfo (Rome), Italy Dec 2005: Latin American Astromomy Summer School, ESO, Santiago, Chile Dec 2005: 11th Latin American Regional IAU Meeting, Pucon, Chile. (Oral Present. + Poster) Sep 2006: Transiting Extrasolar Planet Workshop, Max-Plank fuer Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany, (Poster) Mar 2007: Observing Planetary Systems, ESO Workshop, Santiago, Chile. (Poster) Jul 2007: Michelson Summer Workshop "Planetary Transits: Detection to Characterization" NASA Ames Conference Center, Moffett Field, California, USA Nov 2007: 6th annual meeting of the Chilean Society of Astronomy, SOCHIAS, Valparaiso, Chile. (Oral Present.) May 2008: IAU Symposium No.253, "Transiting Planets", Cambridge, MA, USA (Poster) ----------------------------------------------------------- Computational knowledge: Operating systems: Unix-Linux, Windows Softwares: IRAF, SExtractor, ISIS, SuperMongo, GNUplot Programming languages: C, perl, Fortran, Python ----------------------------------------------------------- Teaching Experience: Analytical Geometry T.A. (2000) Stellar Astrophysics T.A. (2002) Experimental Astronomy T.A. (2003) Astronomy Workshop T.A. (2004) Introduction to Astronomy T.A. (2005)