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Jorge Pineda's Picture
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Jorge Pineda

Education
  • Ph.D., Astronomy, AngelanderInstitutfuerAstronomie(University ofBonn) and Max Planck Institute fuer Radioastronomie (2007)
  • M.S., Astronomy, University of Chile (2002)
  • B.S., Physics and Astronomy, University of Chile (1996)
Research Interests
  • Initial conditions of high/low mass star formation: Internal structure and chemistry in prestellar cores
  • (Sub) millimeter line observations of low-metallicity molecular gas in the Magellanic Clouds
  • Astrochemistry
Professional Experience
  • Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,California Institute of Technology (2010–Present)
  • NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow,NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (2008–2010)
  • Postdoctoral Researcher,AngelanderInstitutfuerAstronomie(University of Bonn)(2007-2008)
Selected Awards
  • NASA Group Achievement Award (2010)
  • NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow (2008-2010)
  • Grant MECESUP UCH0118 from Chilean Ministry of Education (2002-2003)
Selected Publications
  1. Langer, W. D., Velusamy,T., J. L. Pineda, Goldsmith, P. F., Li. D. & Yorke, H.W. C+ Detection of Warm Dark Gas in Diffuse Clouds, 2010. A&A, 521, L17
  2. Velusamy,T., Langer, W. D., J. L. Pineda, Goldsmith, P. F., Li. D. & Yorke, H.W., [CII] Observations of H2 Molecular Layers in Transition Clouds, 2010. A&A, 521, L18
  3. J. L. Pineda, Velusamy,T., Langer, W. D., Goldsmith, P. F., Li. D. & Yorke, H.W. 2010. A Sample of [CII] Clouds Tracing Dense Clouds in Weak FUV Fields. A&A, submitted.
  4. Pineda, J.L., Goldsmith, P.F., Chapman, N.L., Li, D., Snell, R., Cambr´esy, L. & Brunt, C. 2010. The Relation Between Dust and Gas in the Taurus Molecular Cloud. ApJ, submitted.
  5. Whittet D.C.B., Goldsmith, P.F., Pineda, J.L., 2010. The Uptake of Interestellar Gaseous CO Into Icy Grain Mantles in a Quiescent Dark Cloud. ApJ, submitted
  6. Tassis, K.; Christie, D. A.; Urban, A.; Pineda, J. L.; Mouschovias, T. Ch.; Yorke, H. W.; Martel, H. 2010. Do Lognormal Column-Density Distributions in Molecular Clouds Imply SupersonicTurbulence? MNRAS, in press
  7. Desai, K. M.; Chu, Y. -H.; Gruendl, R. A.; Dluger, W.; Katz, M.; Wong, T.; Chen, C. -H. R.; Looney, L. W.; Hughes, A.; Muller, E.; Ott, J.; Pineda, J. L. 2010. Supernova Remnants and Star Formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud. AJ, in press
  8. Roman-Duval, J. [21 authors], Pineda, J.L., [2 authors] 2010. Dust/gas correlations from Herschel Observations. A&A, in press.
  9. Hughes, A.; Wong, T.; Ott, J.; Muller, E.; Pineda, J. L. et al. 2010. Physical properties of giant molecular clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud. MNRAS, 873.
  10. Muller, E., Ott, J., Hughes, A., Pineda, J. L., & Wong, T. 2009. Characterizing the Low-Mass Molecular Component in the Northern Small Magel- lanic Cloud. ApJ, submitted.
  11. Mizuno, Y., [9 authors], Pineda, J.L., [21 authors], 2009. Warm and Dense Molecular Gas in the N159 Region: 12CO J=4-3 and 13CO J=3-2 Observations with NANTEN2 and ASTE. PASJ submitted.
  12. Pineda, J. L., Ott, J., Klein, U., Wong, T., Muller, E., & Hughes, A. 2009. The Influence of Far-Ultraviolet Radiation on the Properties of Molecular Clouds in the 30 Dor Region of the Large Magellanic Cloud. ApJ, 703, 736
  13. Wong, T., [6 authors], Pineda, J.L., [5 authors], Molecular and Atomic Gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud. I. Conditions for CO Detection. ApJ, 696, 370
  14. Ott, J, Wong, T, Pineda, J.L. et al. The Molecular Ridge Close to 30 Doradus in the Large Magellanic Cloud, PASA, 25, 129.
  15. Pineda, J.L., Mizuno,N., Stutzki, J., Cubick,M., et al. 2008. Submillimeter Line Emission from LMC N159W: a Dense, Clumpy PDR in a Low Metal licity Environment. A&A , 482, 197.
  16. Pineda, J. L., & Bensch, F. 2007. Photon-dominated region modeling of the CO and [C i] line emission in Barnard 68. A&A, 470, 615.
  17. Hitschfeld, M. [22 authors], Pineda, J.L., [9 authors] 2008. 12 CO 4-3 and [CI] 1-0 at the centers of NGC 4945 and Circinus. A&A, 479, 75.
  18. Kramer, C. [24 Authors], Pineda, J. L., [7 authors] 2008, Clumpy Photon-Dominated Regions in Carina. I. [C I] and Mid-J CO Lines in Two 4’4’ Fields, A & A, 477, 547.
  19. Minamidani, T., [14 authors], Pineda, J. L., [12 authors], 2006. Sub-millimeter Observations of Giant Molecular Clouds in the LMC: Temperature and Density as Determined from J = 3 → 2 and J = 1 → 0 Transitions, Ap. JS, S, 175, 485.
  20. Dickinson, C., Casassus, S., Pineda, J. L., Pearson, T. J., Readhead, A. C. S., & Davies, R. D. 2006. An Upper Limit on Anomalous Dust Emission at 31 GHz in the Diffuse Cloud [LPH96] 201.663+1.643. ApJL, 643, L111.

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