|
Jayender Kumar recently joined CSIRO Space and Astronomy,
taking up a Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on
the GASKAP-OH Project.
Jay completed a PhD in VLBI Spectral Line Astrometry at the University
of Tasmania earlier this year. The aim of his PhD project was to map
the scale and structure of the Milky Way and its spiral arms in the
3rd and 4th Galactic quadrant from the Southern hemisphere using the
VLBI spectral line astrometry. During his research work, he has
measured trigonometric parallaxes and proper motions to class II 6.7
GHz methanol masers and 22 GHz water masers, which are associated with
High Mass Star Forming Regions (HMSFRs) within the 4 kpc region of the
Galactic centre. Using these measurements, he developed a model for
the long bar of the Milky Way. He is also interested in flaring
phenomenon in astronomical masers, specially 6.7 GHz class II methanol
masers, and has also studied the internal motions of different maser
features in their parent gas cloud.
|
