Manuel Pichardo Marcano (IA-UNAM)

A Time Variable Sky

  • Fit (e.g. CVs, AM CVns, GCs, X-rays, Multi-messenger)
  • Values (e.g. Representation, Mentoring, Outreach, ...)
  • Future (e.g. Multi-messenger, GCs, Bulge, Outreach, ...)
  • Miscellaneous (e.g. Zooniverse, ADS Ambassador, Teaching, Cenca, Chess, Salsa, Merengue, etc)

Outline

1- SCOVaS: Survey for Compact Objects and Variables

Pichardo Marcano et al. (2021a,2023, 2025a)

 

2- TACOS: TESS AM CVn Outbursts Survey

Pichardo Marcano et al. (2021b)

NASA

4- MARES: Magnetic Remnants in Symbiotics

Pichardo Marcano et al. (2026)

 

3- LILA: Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna

Pichardo Marcano et al. (2025b)

 

5- SAINT-EX: Exoplanets around Brown Dwarfs

Current Work

 

Photometry/GCs Variability Search

1- SCOVaS: Survey for Compact Objects and Variables

Pichardo Marcano et al. (2021a,2023, 2025a)

 

a) Daophot crowded field photometry a la Galactic bulge but in Globular Cluster

b) Differential Photometry for Exoplanet Transit Search

c) Optical Ground Base Surveys analysis like  ZTF and Atlas

d) OPTICAM (like ULTRACAM) data analysis

5- SAINT-EX: Exoplanets around Brown Dwarfs

Current Work

 

2- TACOS: TESS AM CVn Outbursts Survey

Pichardo Marcano et al. (2021b)

Multi-Messenger/Wavelength Work

4- MARES: Magnetic Remnants in Symbiotics

Pichardo Marcano et al. (2026)

 

3- LILA: Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna

Pichardo Marcano et al. (2025b)

 

a) Multi-Messenger Science Case for proposed Lunar Gravitational Wave Observatories

c) MUSE IFU analysis of Globular Cluster

d) Gemini follow-up of Transient sources  

Misc: Spectroscopy and IFU work

b) X-ray variability of Symbotioc System 

WDs binaries as contaminant

1- SCOVaS: Survey for Compact Objects and Variables

Pichardo Marcano et al. (2021a,2023, 2025a)

 

a) Goal to find predicted population of X-ray faint CVs in GCS.  Found "redback' pulsar orbital period, cousing of black widow.

OGLE-UCXB-01 as a Intermediate Polar

Peng et al. (2021)

 

2- TACOS: TESS AM CVn Outbursts Survey

Pichardo Marcano et al. (2021b)

b) TESS for follow-up and outburst. 

Observing Work and Propals

5- SAINT-EX: Exoplanets around Brown Dwarfs

Current Work

 

a) Bi-weekly remote observations with SAINT-EX

b) Weekly Scheduling work

c) OPTICAM (like ULTRACAM) proposal and observation at San Pedro Martir

d) Observatory Maintence Trip to San Pedro Martir

Misc: Proposal Work

a) Part of Gemini TAC

b) >5 Co-I on photometry and Spectroscopy Proposals

What I'm Looking For — and What I Bring

I'm looking for…

…and what I bring

a) A group to bounce ideas off

b) A place to keep learning

c) A place to mentor 

d) A group that looks after its people

e) Keep doing Outreach

a) Projects like MARES and the LILA began as conversations

b) Worked on radio, optical/UV, X-ray and gravitational waves — accreting WDs, Exoplanets, Brown Dwarfs, millisecond pulsars, globular clusters, symbiotics and the Sun

c) Co-lead CENCA Bridge ($1.5M Simons Foundation remote internship program)

d) Establishing Multimessenger Astronomy Inclusive Training: two years where the people and the science were the same priority.

e) Ciencia Pal Barrio; Zooniverse; SciX Ambassador; Amateur Astronomy Society Talks

Future Work in GCs

Credits: NASA/Rivera Sandoval

Magnetic CVs and AM CVns!?

UCXB

Symbiotics?

Globular Clusters. Galactic (I have worked on) and Extragalactic

Other transients

Future Work (Galactic field) Multi-messenger and transients

a) UCXBs among (magnetic) CVs

b) GWs + EM:

  • Pdot

  • Winds?

  • A la HM Cancri? (Seto 2023)

c) Photometric missions for transients:

  • Roman

  • LSST

  • TESS

 

 

Armas Padilla et al. 2023

Miscellaneous

Ask me about:

  1. Values
  2. Cenca Bridge: Remote Internship  
  3. Teaching Experience
  4. ADS/SciX Ambassador
  5. Zooniverse Ambassador
  6. Ciencia Pal Barrio
  7. Other Outreach Experience
  8. Being a Bad Chess player
  9. Being a Bad Salsa Dancer

 

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