CATA Annual Meeting 2026
CATA Annual Meeting 2026
| Monday October 5th | |||
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| Time | Main Room | Executive Room | Ninoslav Bralic (IA) |
| Welcome Session | |||
| 09:00 | Welcome and Opening Remarks Patricia Tissera, Santiago Prat & Roberto Assef |
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| 09:15 | The State of CATA Patricia Tissera |
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| 10:00 | The exoplanet demographics opportunity of Gaia DR4 Gijs Mulders |
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| 10:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| Plenary Talks Chair: Ezequiel Treister |
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| 11:00 | Updates from The Chilean Cluster Galaxy Evolution Survey (CHANCES) Yara Jaffe |
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| 11:30 | Status of the LCT project Rodrigo Reeves |
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| 12:00 | Mapping plasma temperatures in the Lagoon Nebula reveals the origin of a long-standing chemical abundance discrepancy Amrita Signh |
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| 12:30 | Lunch (Centro Innovación) | ||
| 14:00 | Technology Transfer | ||
| 15:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| Parallel Sessions | |||
| 16:00 | Parallel Session 1 The Local Universe & Cluster Environments Chair: Thomas Puzia |
Parallel Session 2 Protoplanetary Disks, Exoplanets & the Solar System Chair: Laura Pérez |
Parallel Session 3 Supermassive Black Holes & High-Energy Astrophysics Chair: Walter Max-Moerbeck |
| 17:30 | End of day / Cocktail | ||
| Tuesday October 6th | |||
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| Time | Main Room | Executive Room | Ninoslav Bralic (IA) |
| Plenary Talks Chair: Timo Anguita |
Meeting of PIs | ||
| 09:00 | Updates from ORCHIDS Manuel Aravena |
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| 09:30 | Current and future developments at the Millimeter Wave Laboratory (MWL) Ricardo Finger |
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| 10:00 | Even the Smallest Protoplanetary Disks Host Substructures Pietro Curone |
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| 10:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:00 | CATA Townhall | Provoca Activity | |
| 12:30 | Lunch (Centro Innovación) | ||
| Parallel Sessions | |||
| 14:00 | Parallel Session 4 Star Formation, Molecular Clouds & ISM Chair: Evelyn Johnston |
Parallel Session 5 Astronomical Instrumentation, CMB & New Technology Chair: Leonardo Bronfman |
Parallel Session 6 High-Redshift Galaxies, CGM & Galaxy Formation Chair: Lucia Guaita |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 16:00 | Communications and Outreach | ||
| 17:15 | Closing Remarks | ||
| 17:30 | End of day | ||
Parallel Sessions
| Session 1 — The Local Universe & Cluster Environments | |
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| Monday October 5th, 16:00 · Main Room · Chair: Thomas Puzia | |
| 16:00 | Measuring the Impact of the Magellanic Clouds Passing Through the Milky Way Halo Julio Chanamé |
| 16:15 | 12 years of VISCACHA observations with SOAR and Magellanic Clouds studies Bruno Dias |
| 16:30 | Stellar Populations with the SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper Evelyn Johnston |
| 16:45 | Morphological perturbations as a tracer of galaxy evolution and environment Arianna Dolfi |
| 17:00 | From Case Study to Population: Measuring RS–RB Production Rates in Open Clusters with Gaia DR3 Alonso Herrera Urquieta |
| 17:15 | Non-axisymmetric structures in dense environments Paula Denise López |
| Session 2 — Protoplanetary Disks, Exoplanets & the Solar System | |
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| Monday October 5th, 16:00 · Executive Room · Chair: Laura Pérez | |
| 16:00 | Constraining the Solid Mass in Class II Lupus Disks with ALMA and VLA Data Maritza Caballero Cano |
| 16:15 | Nitrogen Chemistry Across Protoplanetary Disks Sidharth Aroli-Veettil |
| 16:30 | Micrometeorites from Monturaqui Impact Crater Millarca Valenzuela Picón |
| 16:45 | The Launch of the Roman Space Telescope Dante Minniti |
| 17:00 | Towards Neural-Network Telluric Correction of High-Resolution Exoplanet Spectra in the NIR Connor Cheverall |
| Session 3 — Supermassive Black Holes & High-Energy Astrophysics | |
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| Monday October 5th, 16:00 · Ninoslav Bralic (IA) · Chair: Walter Max-Moerbeck | |
| 16:00 | Supermassive Black Hole Pairs at separations <1 kpc and their role in black hole growth Macarena Droguett |
| 16:15 | Hidden Monsters with SPHEREx Matthew Stepney |
| 16:30 | Optical variability characterization of changing-state AGN candidates Devikha Mukhi Nilo |
| 16:45 | Characterizing the Extragalactic Background Light Using Secondary Blazars in the Fields of View of CTAO José Ignacio Méndez |
| 17:00 | Very massive star and black hole formation in dense star clusters through stellar collisions Marcelo Cortes Vergara |
| 17:15 | Constraints on Local Little Red Dots Franz Bauer |
| Session 4 — Star Formation, Molecular Clouds & ISM | |
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| Tuesday October 6th, 14:00 · Main Room · Chair: Evelyn Johnston | |
| 14:00 | Hot gas vs. cold gas kinematics of the Flame Nebula: SDSSV-LVM, APEX and ALMA Luciano Vargas |
| 14:15 | The dynamics of formation of the RCW36 star cluster via APEX observations: V-shapes, mass inflow rates, and outflows Giulianni Bernal Mesina |
| 14:30 | N2H+ kinematics analysis in young ALMA-IMF protoclusters Nicolas Castro |
| 14:45 | High-resolution N2H+ kinematic analysis of G351-77-0.53 filamentary molecular cloud Nicolás Sandoval-Garrido |
| 15:00 | Magnetic field morphological diagnostics with ALMA in the G327.29 protocluster: VGT versus dust polarization Atanu Koley |
| 15:15 | The SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper Data Reduction Pipeline Alfredo Mejía |
| Session 5 — Astronomical Instrumentation, CMB & New Technology | |
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| Tuesday October 6th, 14:00 · Executive Room · Chair: Leonardo Bronfman | |
| 14:00 | Toward Low-Noise Superconducting Instrumentation: Parametric Amplifiers and Sub-Kelvin Cryogenics Ryan Berriel |
| 14:15 | Early Advances in the Development of MMIC Technology for High-Precision Millimeter-Wave Astronomical Cameras Miguel Martínez Ledesma |
| 14:30 | Ultra-Wideband Metasurfaces and Reflectarrays for Radio Astronomy Applications Diego Gallardo |
| 14:45 | Development of Ground-Based 22 and 183 GHz Radiometers for Vertical Water Vapor Profiling in Chile Lilian Basoalto Salazar |
| 15:00 | Hovercal: Characterized CMB telescope optics from the air Rolando Dunner |
| 15:15 | The Simons Observatory: Overview and early data analysis Carlos Hervias |
| Session 6 — High-Redshift Galaxies, CGM & Galaxy Formation | |
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| Tuesday October 6th, 14:00 · Ninoslav Bralic (IA) · Chair: Lucia Guaita | |
| 14:00 | Tracing the escape of Lyman alpha photons in the early universe: A case study of CRISTAL-02 Galaxy at z~5.3 Arshi Ali |
| 14:15 | Clustering of Lyman Alfa Emitter at redshift 4.5 Andrea Castaño |
| 14:30 | Radiative shocks in normal high-redshift galaxies Kseniia Telikova |
| 14:45 | Resolving the circumgalactic medium with gravitational arc-tomography Joaquín A. Hernández-Guajardo |
| 15:00 | Tracing galaxy morphology in protoclusters across cosmic time with TNG-Cluster Giannina Stefanoni |
Posters
| Monday October 5th | ||
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| First Name | Last Name(s) | Title of the contribution |
| Franklin Bolivar | Alda’s Garces | X-ray emission maps and scaling relations in IllustrisTNG and MillenniumTNG: Differences between cluster and group regimes |
| Firenze | Asencio | Is Chaos Observer-Dependent? Exploring Numerical and Intrinsic Chaos in Phase-Space via High-Precision Three-Body Simulations |
| Maximiliano | Blanco Flores | Securing the identification of extra-tidal stars around globular clusters |
| Fernando | Delgado Huechepan | Revisiting the Monturaqui Impact Crater: new findings of magnetic microspherules in the crater rim |
| Moisés | Donoso Farías | Characterization of Polarization-Angle Artifacts in a 150 GHz Wire-Grid-Polarized Source |
| Sorya | Lambert | NGC 1365 seen with the Local Volume Mapper |
| Marcela | López | Variable M Dwarfs in Young Open Clusters: Identifying Promising Targets for Exoplanet Searches |
| Benjamín | Merino | Upper limits on black hole candidates in Open Clusters |
| Jorge | Muñoz González | Exploring Formation Pathways of «Little Red Dot» Candidates in the Illustris TNG-50 Simulation |
| Marcelo | Ojeda Cárdenas | Probing Ionized Bubbles: The Relationship between Lyman Alpha Escape Fraction and Luminosity in the IGM at 3 < z < 6 |
| Florencia | Olivares Hermosilla | Timing Analysis of the Vela Pulsar: Characterizing Optical-Radio Delays |
| Scarllet | Ortega Rojas | Thermal instabilities in AGB star winds |
| Bastian | Paredes | Tracing Dense Molecular Gas in a Subsample of Local AGN with ALMA HCN and HCO⁺ Observations |
| Valentín | Peña-Donaire | Hierarchical BH mergers in AGN accretion discs: from protoplanetary migration to GW sources |
| Gabriel | Pichihueche Pérez | H-alpha narrow-band survey on galaxy clusters at intermediate redshifts |
| Pablo | Rodríguez Cuevas | Globular cluster candidates uncovered by VVVX and MUSE |
| Joanne | Rojas | Long-Baseline Radial Velocities and Astrometry for the Characterisation of Substellar Companions |
| Matías | Solís Lara | Drone-based camera calibration for long-range photogrammetric pointing |
| Javiera | Toro Grey | Direct-Method abundance measurements of local analogs of high-z galaxies |
| Aurelie | Torti | Galaxy evolution in dense environment: molecular gas in SPT2349-56 protocluster at z = 4.3 with ALMA |
| Felipe | Vivanco Cádiz | Linking high-mass X-ray binaries to binary compact object mergers in Milky Way-like galaxies |
| Antonella | Zavala Cerda | Characterization of blazar variability in gamma-ray band |
| Marie Madeleine | Rodríguez Sánchez | Disentangling Continuum and Brγ Emission in HD 100546 with VLTI/GRAVITY |
| Tuesday October 6th | ||
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| First Name | Last Name(s) | Title of the contribution |
| Sebastián | Aguilar Castillo | Two-fluid magnetohydrodynamics in accretion disks: the role of ion inertia and ion-neutral drift in weakly ionized plasma |
| Javier | Cabello Cabello | Modeling the formation of the UFD Ursa Major II using AMUSE |
| Alondra | Cardona | Exploring the Structure and Stability of Spiral Galactic Disks |
| Victoria | Catán Valenzuela | The Extended Mapping Obscuration to Reionization with ALMA (Ex-MORA) Survey: A Molecular Gas Line Search |
| Javiera | D’Angelo | HIDING: TRACING GAS AND DUST MORPHOLOGY IN TYPICAL COSMIC NOON GALAXIES WITH ALMA |
| Constanza | Domínguez Cáceres | Simulations of TeV blazar halos for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory |
| Matias | Espinoza | GOLI-net: Gravitational One-dimensional Lensing Inference Network for Deblending |
| María Jesús | Flores Moraga | Refining the Low-Mass End of the IFMR with Gravitational Redshifts in WD + Subgiant Binaries |
| Simone | Gonzalez-Vidal | Modeling of Archean Earth-like aquaplanet atmosphere: the effect of obliquity on climate and observables of exoplanets |
| Aditya | Komanduri | Massive galaxy at the edge of feedback free efficiency |
| Priyatam Kumar | Mahto | NIR Excitation Diagnostics in Local Analogs of High-Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies |
| Matías | Martínez Villalobos | Advanced B-mode purification for power spectra from Small Aperture Telescope |
| Valeska | Molina | From bacteria to exoplanets: a pioneering approach to biosignature detection |
| Raúl | Monsalve | Charting the First Gyr of the Universe with 21-cm Cosmology |
| Mohammad Hossein | Namdar | Moving Objects and Satellite Signals in Simons Observatory Data |
| Aldo Miguel | Panfichi Sanborn | The LMC’s dynamical friction wake characterized with density mapping tools |
| Miguel | Parra Tello | The ubiquity of giant light-echoes associated with luminous AGN |
| Amanda A. | Quitral-Pierart | Constraining the angular momentum evolution of post-mass-transfer systems in the southern hemisphere with time-series photometry |
| Hernán | Salinas Castro | The Chemical Fingerprint of FU Ori with JWST/MIRI and ALMA |
| Roberto | Serafinelli | Catching a long-term obscuration event in the act: Optical and X-ray clues from NGC 1365 |
| Javier | Urrutia | Constraints on the electron pressure profile of RedMapper DES-Y3 galaxy clusters using ACT-DE6 data |
| Victoria | Vásquez Díaz | Spatial coherence and kinematics of the circumgalactic medium: a multi-sightline study of the quadruply lensed quasar HE 0435-1223 |
