Rafael Millan-Gabet

My main research interests are in high spatial resolution studies of pre-planetary environments in young stellar objects, using optical long baseline interferometers. While I currently do much of this work at the Infrared-Optical Telescope Array (IOTA, located on Mount Hopkins, Arizona), I have recently become a collaborator of the Palomar Testbed Interferometer (PTI, located at the Palomar Observatory, California), and in one of the groups of shared-risk Keck Interferometer users (KI, atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii). In addition, I am involved in instrumentation work to enhance the capabilities of the IOTA and CHARA (Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy, Mount Wilson, California) arrays. Sometimes, I study stars that are not young, but instead are very old; and utilize other high resolution techniques such as adaptive optics.