Dr Henry Zovaro
Research interests
- Galaxy formation and evolution
- Radio galaxies
- Optical emission line diagnostics
- Photoionisation modelling
- Optical and near-infrared instrumentation
Biography
I grew up in Sydney, where I completed a double degree in science, majoring in physics, and mechatronic engineering, specialising in space engineering, at the University of Sydney in 2015.
After developing an interesting in astronomy during undergraduate research projects at both USYD and ANU, I decided to focus my honours project on evaluating the use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in optical adaptive optics systems for use in small telescopes.
In 2016 I moved to Canberra to start my PhD at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at ANU, where I studied the ways in which jets from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) affect galaxy evolution using some of the world's largest telescopes, including Keck and Gemini North in Hawai'i.
Since submitting my PhD in 2019, I have stayed at ANU. From 2019-2020, I worked as an instrument scientist for the Giant Magellan Telescope Integral Field Spectrograph (GMTIFS), where I devleoped software for simulating and processing observations made with this future instrument.
As of late 2020, I have returned to astrophysics full-time, and am investigating new ways in which we can use optical integral field spectroscopy to determine and distinguish the various sources that generate line emission in galaxies.
Publications
- Zovaro, H, Sharp, R, Nesvadba, N et al. 2020, 'Unravelling the enigmatic ISM conditions in Minkowski's object', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 499, no. 4, pp. 4940-4960.
- Zovaro, H, Nesvadba, N, Sharp, R et al. 2019, 'Searching for signs of jet-driven negative feedback in the nearby radio galaxy UGC 05771', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 489, no. 4, pp. 4944-4961.
- Vaccarella, A, Sharp, R, Ellis, M et al. 2016, 'Avalanche photo diodes in the observatory environment: Lucky imaging at 1-2.5 microns', Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI, ed. C J Evans, L Simard & H Takami, SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Bellingham, USA, pp. 1-8pp.
