Ronald Mennickent

Ronald Mennickent obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics in the Pontificia Universidad CatÓlica de Chile in 1989 and 1995, respectively. Since 1994, he has been working in the Universidad de ConcepciÓn, Chile, and was promoted to the category of Profesor Titular in 2003. From 1998 to 1999 he worked at the Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, in the Harvard University, USA, supported by a Gemini Fellowship. The main scientific interests of Ronald Mennickent are variable stars and their evolution, especially the topics of interacting binaries and their processes of mass-loss exchange, formation of circumbinary disks, and accretion disks. He also works on cataclysmic variable stars, the formation of gas envelopes in Be stars and the search for variable stars in the local group of galaxies. He is a Researcher of the Chilean Center for Astrophysics FONDAP and the BASAL Centro de Astrof ísica y Tecnolog ías Afines (CATA). He works in observational astronomy, using novel spectroscopic and photometric techniques and is an usual observer in the Paranal, Magellan, and La Silla observatories.

Biography Updated on 27 August 2008

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Optical spectroscopy of the radio pulsar PSR B0656+14
    Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 308, no. 1-4, pp. 545–549, 2007
  2. First high-resolution Chandra LETGS spectrum of the transient supersoft X-ray source RX J0513.9-6951
    Advances in Space Research, vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 1294–1298, 2007
  3. The pre-cataclysmic variable, LTT?560
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 474, no. 1, pp. 205–211, 2007
  4. K-band spectroscopy of pre-cataclysmic variables
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 475, no. 2, pp. 575–583, 2007
  5. A catalogue of Be stars in the direction of the Galactic Bulge
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2007
  6. The Araucaria Project: The Distance to the Local Group Galaxy WLM from Cepheid Variables Discovered in a Wide-Field Imaging Survey
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 134, no. 2, pp. 594–603, 2007
  7. The Araucaria Project: A Wide-Field Photometric Survey for Cepheid Variables in NGC 3109
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 648, no. 1, pp. 366–374, 2006
  8. The Araucaria Project: The Distance to the Sculptor Group Galaxy NGC 55 from a Newly Discovered Abundant Cepheid Population1
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 132, no. 6, pp. 2556–2565, 2006
  9. The Araucaria project. Bright variable stars in NGC?6822 from a wide-field imaging survey
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 450, no. 2, pp. 873–880, 2006
  10. Doppler tomography of the dwarf novae VY?Aquari and WX?Ceti
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 451, no. 2, pp. 613–619, 2006
  11. Blue and yellow long-period variables in the direction of the Small Magellanic Cloud
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 457, no. 3, pp. 949–961, 2006
  12. Spectroscopy of the Candidate Pre-CV LTT 560
    Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 304, no. 1-4, pp. 299–301, 2006
  13. Spectroscopic analysis of tremendous-outburst-nova candidates
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 432, no. 1, pp. 199–205, 2005
  14. TV Corvi revisited: Precursor and superhump period derivative linked to the disk instability model
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 432, no. 1, pp. 261–271, 2005
  15. Revealing the nature of double-periodic blue variables in the Magellanic Clouds
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 357, no. 4, pp. 1219–1230, 2005
  16. Be star candidates in the Large Magellanic Cloud: the catalogue and comparison with the Small Magellanic Cloud sample
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 361, no. 3, pp. 1055–1062, 2005
  17. Multiband optical observations of the old PSR?B0950+08
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 417, no. 3, pp. 1017–1030, 2004
  18. A search for brown dwarf like secondaries in cataclysmic variables - II
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 347, no. 4, pp. 1180–1186, 2004
  19. The Araucaria Project. Variable stars outside the Local Group: NGC 300
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 350, no. 2, pp. 679–684, 2004
  20. Identification of New Eruptive Cataclysmic Variables toward the Galactic Bulge and Magellanic Clouds Using the OGLE-II Database
    Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, vol. 115, no. 804, pp. 193–211, 2003
  21. Double-periodic blue variables in the Magellanic Clouds
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 399, no. 3, pp. L47–L50, 2003
  22. Infrared spectroscopy of the supersoft X-ray source MR Vel
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 402, no. 1, pp. 315–319, 2003
  23. An atlas of line profile studies for SU UMa type cataclysmic variables
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 408, no. 2, pp. 651–661, 2003
  24. Recovery of the old nova V840?Ophiuchi: A carbon rich system
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 410, no. 3, pp. 943–949, 2003
  25. A search for variable stars in Trumpler?24
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 412, no. 1, pp. 97–103, 2003
  26. First detection of the growing humps at the rapidly rising stage of dwarf novae AL Com and WZ?Sge
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 381, no. 3, pp. L41–L44, 2002
  27. On the secondary star of the cataclysmic variable 1RXS?J094432.1+035738
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 383, no. 3, pp. 933–937, 2002
  28. On Be star candidates and possible blue pre-main sequence objects in the Small Magellanic Cloud
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 393, no. 3, pp. 887–896, 2002
  29. On the orbital period of the cataclysmic variable V?592 Herculis
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 395, no. 2, pp. 557–561, 2002
  30. A search for brown dwarf like secondaries in cataclysmic variables
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 336, no. 3, pp. 767–773, 2002
  31. On the nature of V 589 Sagittarii
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 365, no. 2, pp. 115–117, 2001
  32. On the orbital period of the cataclysmic variable RZ Leonis
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 372, no. 2, pp. 563–565, 2001
  33. Identification of the donor in the X-ray binary GRS 1915+105
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 373, no. 3, pp. L37–L40, 2001
  34. Discovery of a cataclysmic variable with a sub-stellar companion
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 376, no. 2, pp. 448–459, 2001
  35. High Spectral Resolution Time-resolved Optical Spectroscopy of V893 Scorpii
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 563, no. 1, pp. 351–360, 2001
  36. Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 276, no. 1suppl, pp. 31–34, 2001
  37. A Direct Distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheid HV 12198 from the Infrared Surface Brightness Technique
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 533, no. 2, pp. L107–L110, 2000
  38. BR Lupi: Evidence for a High-Inclination SU Ursae Majoris Starwith Orbital Period 1.91 Hours
    Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, vol. 110, no. 751, pp. 1032–1039, 1998
  39. Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 262, no. 1, pp. 1–13, 1998
  40. A search for rapid photometric variations in southern Be and Bn stars
    Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 185, no. 1, pp. 79–94, 1991