About me

Hello!, welcome to my personal webpage. I am Miguel Vioque and since January 2024 I am working as an ESO Fellow at the European Southern Observatory in Munich, Germany.

Born in Sevilla (Spain), I did my bachelor studies in Physics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) and at the University of Calgary (Canada). I obtained my master in Astrophysics and Cosmology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). In October 2020, I received my PhD from the University of Leeds (UK) with a thesis titled "A census of Herbig Ae/Be stars. New candidates and analysis from a Gaia perspective" in which I studied and characterized the intermediate- to high-mass star formation regime, using data from the Gaia mission and machine learning techniques. During my PhD, I had the privilege of doing an 18 month secondment at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Madrid and the adjacent Centro de Astrobiología.

After my PhD, I moved to Chile for 3 years with an ALMA Fellowship at the Joint ALMA Observatory, which allowed me to do over 200 observing shifts at the ALMA telescope. Currently, at ESO-Garching, I am part of the User Support Department, and I dedicate 25% of my time to providing scientific support for the X-Shooter instrument.

My research interests focus on star and planet formation, with a particular emphasis on intermediate-mass star formation and their protoplanetary disks. I study the accretion mechanisms of forming stars, and the evolution of their dust and gas disks. This is key to understand how planets form in these disks. I am also interested in the clustering and environmental properties of forming stars. My technical expertise is varied, covering different techniques and a broad wavelength range. Mainly, I have worked with Gaia astrometry, optical and IR spectroscopy and photometry, mm-wavelength interferometry, and high-contrast imaging. I find it very useful to use machine learning techniques in my research, which I often apply to Gaia data and other large-scale surveys.

Science keywords: star formation, Herbig Ae/Be stars, T Tauri stars, young stellar objects, pre-main sequence accretion, clusters and associations, Galactic structure, protoplanetary and debris disks, planet formation, variable stars, emission-line stars, Be stars.

Technical keywords: UV to mid-IR spectroscopy and photometry, astrometry, Gaia, ALMA, VLT, machine learning, statistics, big data, large-scale surveys, mm/sub-mm interferometry, high-contrast imaging.

You can find my list of publications here.

Curriculum Vitae

You can download my complete CV here.

You can download my PhD thesis here.

Publications

Please find the link to my publication record in ADS here.

Refereed publications

  1. Lillo-Box J., Morales-Calderón M., Barrado D., Balsalobre-Ruza O., Castro-González A., Mendigutía I., Huélamo N., Montesinos B., Vioque M., The AstraLux-TESS high-spatial resolution imaging survey. Search for stellar companions of 215 planet candidates from TESS, accepted for publication in A&A
  2. Miley J. M., Carpenter J., Booth R., Jennings J., Haworth T. J., Vioque M., Andrews S., Wilner D., Benisty M., Huang J., Perez L., Guzman V., Ricci L., Isella A., High-resolution ALMA observations of compact discs in the wide-binary system Sz 65 and Sz 66, 2024, A&A, 682, A55
  3. Dodd J. M., Oudmaijer R. D., Radley I. C., Vioque M., Frost A. J., Gaia uncovers difference in B and Be star binarity at small scales: evidence for mass transfer causing the Be phenomenon, 2024, MNRAS, 527, 3076
  4. Vioque M., Cavieres M., Pantaleoni González M., Ribas Á., Oudmaijer R. D., Mendigutía I., Kilian L., Cánovas H., Kuhn M., Clustering properties of intermediate and high-mass Young Stellar Objects, 2023, AJ, 166, 183
  5. Grant S. L., Stapper L. M., Hogerheijde M. R., van Dishoeck E. F., Brittain S., Vioque M., The Mdot–Mdisk relationship for Herbig Ae/Be stars: a lifetime problem for disks with low masses?, 2023, AJ, 166, 147
  6. Pascucci I., Skinner B. N., Deng D., Ruaud M., Gorti U., Schwarz K. R., Chapillon E., Vioque M., Miley J., Large Myr-old Disks Are Not Severely Depleted of Gas-phase CO or Carbon, 2023, ApJ, 953, 183
  7. France K., Arulanantham N., Maloney E., Cauley P. W., Ábrahám P., Alcalá J. M., Campbell-White J., Fiorellino E., Herczeg G. J., Nisini B., Vioque M., The Radial Distribution and Excitation of H2 around Young Stars in the HST-ULLYSES Survey, 2023, AJ, 166, 67
  8. Arulanantham N., Gronke M., Fiorellino E., Gameiro J. F., Frasca A., Green J., Chang S. J., Claes R. A. B., Espaillat C., France K., Herczeg G. J., Manara C. F., Venuti L., Ábrahám P., Alexander R., Bouvier J., Campbell-White J., Eislöffel J., Fischer W. J., Kóspál A., Vioque M., Lyα Scattering Models Trace Accretion and Outflow Kinematics in T Tauri Systems, 2023, ApJ, 944, 185
  9. Guzmán-Díaz J., Montesinos B., Mendigutía I., Kama M., Meeus G., Vioque M., Oudmaijer R. D., Villaver E., Relation between metallicities and spectral energy distributions of Herbig Ae/Be stars. A potential link with planet formation, 2023, A&A, 671, A140
  10. Shoko J., Trager S. C., Dalton G. B., and et al. (with Vioque M.), The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation, 2023, accepted for publication in MNRAS
  11. Iglesias D. P., Panić O., van den Ancker M., Petr-Gotzens M., Siess L., Vioque M., Pascucci I., Oudmaijer R. D., Miley J., X-shooter survey of young intermediate-mass stars - I. Stellar characterization and disc evolution, 2023, MNRAS, 519, 3958
  12. Oudmaijer R. D., Jones E. R. M., Vioque M., A census of post-AGB stars in Gaia DR3: Evidence for a substantial population of Galactic post-RGB stars, 2022, MNRAS Letters, 516, L61-L65
  13. Mendigutía I., Solano E., Vioque M., Balaguer-Nuñez L., Ribas Á., Huélamo N., Rodrigo C., Gaia EDR3 comparative study of protoplanetary disk fractions in young stellar clusters, 2022, A&A, 664, A66
  14. Vioque M., Oudmaijer R. D., Wichittanakom C., Mendigutía I., Baines D., Panić O., Iglesias D., Miley J., Pérez-Martínez R., Identification and spectroscopic characterization of 128 new Herbig stars, 2022, ApJ, 930, 39
  15. Koumpia E., de Wit W.-J., Oudmaijer R. D., Frost A. J., Lumsden S., Caratti o Garatti A., Goodwin S. P., Stecklum B., Mendigutía I., Ilee J. D., Vioque M., The first interferometric survey in the K-band of massive YSOs. Hot dust, ionised gas, and binarity at au scales, 2021, A&A, 654, A109
  16. Marcos-Arenal P., Mendigutía I., Koumpia E., Oudmaijer R. D., Vioque M., Guzmán-Díaz J., Wichittanakom C., de Wit W. J., Montesinos B., Ilee J. D., K-band GRAVITY/VLTI interferometry of "extreme" Herbig Be stars. The size-luminosity relation revisited, 2021, A&A, 652, A68
  17. van den Ancker M. E., Gentile Fusillo N. P., Haworth T. J., Manara C. F., Miles-Páez P. A., Oudmaijer R. D., Panić O., Petit dit de la Roche D. J. M., Petr-Gotzens M. G., Vioque M., First detection of a disk free of volatile elements around a young A-type star: A possible sign of collisions between rocky planets, 2021, A&A, 651, L11
  18. Guzmán-Díaz J., Mendigutía I., Montesinos B., Oudmaijer R. D., Vioque M., Rodrigo C., Solano E., Meeus G., Marcos-Arenal P., Homogeneous study of Herbig Ae/Be stars from spectral energy distributions and Gaia EDR3, 2021, A&A, 650, A182
  19. Panić O., Haworth T. J., Petr-Gotzens M. G., Miley J., van den Ancker M., Vioque M., Siess L., Parker R., Clarke C. J., Kamp I., Kennedy G., Oudmaijer R. D., Pascucci I., Richards A. M. S., Ratzka T., Qi C., Planet formation in intermediate-separation binary systems, 2021, MNRAS, 501, 4317
  20. Vioque M., Oudmaijer R. D., Schreiner M., Mendigutía I., Baines D., Mowlavi N., Pérez-Martínez R., Catalogue of new Herbig Ae/Be and classical Be stars: A machine learning approach to Gaia DR2, 2020, A&A, 638, A21
  21. Wichittanakom C., Oudmaijer R. D., Fairlamb J. R., Mendigutía I., Vioque M., Ababakr K. M., The accretion rates and mechanisms of Herbig Ae/Be stars, 2020, MNRAS, 493, 234
  22. Vioque M., Oudmaijer R. D., Baines D., Mendigutía I., Pérez-Martínez R., Gaia DR2 study of Herbig Ae/Be stars, 2018, A&A, 620, A128

Non-refereed publications

  1. Mendigutía I., Marcos-Arenal P., Koumpia E., Oudmaijer R. D., Vioque M., Guzmán-Díaz J., Wichittanakom C., de Wit W. J., Montesinos B., Ilee J. D., What determines the inner sizes of protoplanetary disks?, 2023, Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics XI, Proceedings of the XV Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society held on September 4--9, 2022, in La Laguna, Spain
  2. Mendigutía I., Solano E., Vioque M., Balaguer-Nuñez L., Ribas Á., Huélamo N., Rodrigo C., Gaia-based comparative study of protoplanetary disk frequencies in young stellar clusters, 2023, Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics XI, Proceedings of the XV Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society held on September 4--9, 2022, in La Laguna, Spain
  3. Vioque M., Accretion on populations of intermediate and high-mass YSOs, 2022, Accretion/Ejection Processes in Star Formation: In Theory and in Practice (accrete2022), held 30 November – 2 December, 2022 at ESO Santiago, Chile, id.3
  4. Mendigutía I., Solano E., Vioque M., Ribas A., Gaia EDR3 comparison of disk fractions from different spatial scales around young stellar clusters, 2021, Star Clusters: the Gaia Revolution. Online workshop, organised by the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICCUB-IEEC), id.6
  5. Vioque M., Wichittanakom C., Oudmaijer R. D., Schreiner M., Mendigutía I., Baines D., Mowlavi N., Pérez-Martínez R., Cataloguing new high-mass Pre-Main Sequence and Classical Be stars using Machine Learning and Gaia, 2020, Contributions to the XIV.0 Scientific Meeting (virtual) of the Spanish Astronomical Society, id. 192
  6. Vioque M., Oudmaijer R. D., Baines D., Pérez-Martínez R., New catalogue of intermediate mass Pre-Main Sequence objects in Gaia DR2 using Machine Learning, 2019, 53rd ESLAB Symposium: The Gaia Universe, id. 52
  7. Vioque M., Oudmaijer R. D., Baines D., Mendigutía I., Pérez-Martínez R., Gaia study on the formation of intermediate mass stars, 2019, Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics X, Proceedings of the XIII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society, p. 437-437
  8. Vioque M., Oudmaijer R. D., Baines D., Herbig Ae/Be stars with TGAS parallaxes in the HR diagram, 2018, Astrometry and Astrophysics in the Gaia sky, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, Volume 330, pp. 277-278
  9. Vioque M., Oudmaijer R. D., Baines D., HR diagram of Herbig Ae/Be stars and their infrared excesses, 2017, Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, v.88, p.824

Miscellaneous

IDEEA association

I am a member of the IDEEA association – Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in European Astronomy. IDEEA is an open forum for discussion and activities on all topics related to ethics and inclusion in astronomy (and also outside astronomy). I encourage interested colleagues to contact me or another IDEEA member to participate in the association. Anyone is welcome to join and more information can be found here.

Historical overview of star formation and Herbig Ae/Be stars

I wrote this (very) brief overview of the history of star formation and Herbig Ae/Be stars for the introduction of my PhD thesis. Those interested in the history of science might find it worth-reading. I compiled literature information and nothing in it is original research.

Conference talks and seminars

  1. 2023 – Seminar (University of Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile): On the distribution of massive forming stars in the Galaxy
  2. 2023 – Seminar (Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Florence, Italy): Clustering properties of intermediate and high-mass Young Stellar Objects
  3. 2023 – Seminar (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy): Clustering properties of intermediate and high-mass Young Stellar Objects
  4. 2023 – Gaia XPloration: Discovery and measurement with low-resolution spectroscopy (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom): Clustering properties and Galactic distribution of intermediate and high-mass YSOs using Gaia DR3 and unsupervised machine learning
  5. 2022 – Accretion/Ejection Processes in Star Formation: In Theory and in Practice (ESO, Santiago, Chile): Accretion on populations of intermediate and high-mass YSOs
  6. 2022 – Seminar (Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva): On the distribution of massive forming stars in the Galaxy
  7. 2022 – Seminar (Spanish Group of Massive Stars, online): The dearth of O-stars close to the ZAMS. Link with the measured accretion rates in high-mass YSOs
  8. 2022 – XV Reunión Científica de la Sociedad Española de Astronomía (La Laguna, Spain): A new perspective on the intermediate- to high-mass star formation
  9. 2022 – European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting (Valencia, Spain): Revisiting the intermediate- to high-mass star formation with machine learning
  10. 2022 – From Stars to Galaxies II. Connecting our Understanding of Star and Galaxy Formation (Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden): Revisiting the intermediate- to high-mass star formation
  11. 2022 – Seminar (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Granada, Spain): Revisiting the intermediate- to high-mass star formation
  12. 2022 – Joint Observatories Kavli Science Forum (ESO, Santiago, Chile): Revisiting the intermediate- to high-mass star formation
  13. 2021 – Machine Learning in Astronomy, from classical to physics-informed (virtual workshop): Member of the discussion session and of the round table
  14. 2021 – Seminar (Núcleo Milenio for Planet Formation, Valparaíso, Chile): Finding new forming high-mass stars
  15. 2021 – Invited talk, Workshop en ciencia de datos (Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile): Machine learning en astronomía y resolución de problemas con muchas incógnitas
  16. 2020 – Seminar (University of Leeds, Leeds, UK): Catalogue of new high-mass Pre-Main Sequence and Classical Be stars. A Machine Learning approach to Gaia data
  17. 2020 – Seminar (Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile): Catalogue of new high-mass Pre-Main Sequence and Classical Be stars. A Machine Learning approach to Gaia data
  18. 2020 – Seminar (ESO, Santiago, Chile): Catalogue of new high-mass Pre-Main Sequence and Classical Be stars. A Machine Learning approach to Gaia DR2
  19. 2019 – Seminar (Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia): Machine Learning techniques in Astronomy
  20. 2019 – The UX Ori Type Stars and Related Topics (St. Petersburg, Russia): New UX Ori type candidates detected using Gaia DR2 and Machine Learning
  21. 2019 – Seminar (ESAC, Madrid, Spain): New Herbig Ae/Be and Classical Be candidates using Gaia and Machine Learning
  22. 2019 – Workshop: Artificial Intelligence in Astronomy (ESO, Garching, Germany): New catalogue of Pre-Main Sequence objects using AI
  23. 2019 – Gaia’s view of Pre-Main Sequence Evolution (Leeds, UK): New catalogue of Pre-Main Sequence objects using Gaia
  24. 2018 – Seminar (Centro de Astrobiología, Madrid, Spain): Machine Learning Algorithms and its applications to Astronomy
  25. 2018 – A Revolution in Stellar Physics with Gaia and Large Surveys (Warsaw, Poland): Gaia Study on the Formation of Intermediate Mass Stars
  26. 2018 – Spring Symposium: The 21st Century H-R Diagram: The Power of Precision Photometry (STScI, Baltimore, USA): Gaia Study on the Formation of Intermediate Mass Stars
  27. 2018 – Seminar (Centro de Astrobiología, Madrid, Spain): Gaia study of Herbig Ae/Be stars
  28. 2017 – Star Cluster Formation: Mapping the First Few Myrs (Madrid, Spain): Herbig Ae/Be stars with TGAS parallaxes in the HR diagram
  29. 2017 – Seminar (University of Leeds, Leeds, UK): Herbig Ae/Be stars with TGAS parallaxes in the HR diagram