CURRICULUM VITAE

Actualizado: 23 de Febrero de 2010


César Briceño Avila


Investigador Asociado

Fundación Centro de Investigaciones de Astronomía (CIDA)

Apartado Postal 264

Mérida 5101-A

Venezuela

Fax: (274) 2451587

Teléfono: (274) 2450106, 2451450 (ext. 214)

E-mail: briceno@cida.ve

Página Web: http://www.cida.ve/~briceno



Estudios Realizados

Título de la Tesis: "Estrellas T Tauri de muy baja masa y las Post T-Tauri: dos visiones de la población estelar joven en Taurus". Tesis realizada en el Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachussetts, EUA, como Predoctoral Fellow, de Septiembre 1995 a Agosto 1998. Tutor: Dr. Lee Hartmann (actualmente en la Universidad de Michigan, EUA)


Otros cursos:

01/1991: Primera Escuela Mexicana de Astrofísica.

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Astronomía, México.


12/1992: IV Canary Islands Winter School: Infrared Astronomy.

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Tenerife, España, Diciembre 6 al 18 1992.


07/ 1993: IV Vatican Observatory Summer School.

Vatican Observatory, Castelgandolfo, Italia, Junio 7 a Julio 7 de 1993.



Becas

  1. 1992, International Exchange Visitor Program en el Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (Cambridge, Massachusetts). Smithsonian Institution, EUA, Nov.- Dic. 1992.

  2. 1992, Estudiante de Postgrado. CIDA, Mérida, Venezuela. Agosto 1992-Marzo 1993.

  3. 1992, International Exchange Visitor Program en el Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (Cambridge, Massachusetts) Smithsonian Institution, EUA., Nov.-Dic. 1992.

  4. 1994, International Exchange Visitor Program at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (Cambridge, Massachusetts). Smithsonian Institution, EUA, Nov.-Dic. 1994.

  5. 1994, Apoyo financiero del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (CONICIT), Venezuela.

  6. 1995, Pre-Doctoral Fellow: Septiembre1995 - Septiembre 1998. Smithsonian Institution, EUA, para realizar tesis Doctoral bajo la tutoría del Dr. Lee Hartmann.



Cargos Académicos Desempeñados:


Cargos Administrativos Desempeñados



Premios y Distinciones.



Asesoramientos

- The Astrophysical Journal: desde 2003

- The Astronomical Journal: desde 2004

- Evaluador de proyectos para el CONICIT (Venezuela): 1997,2000.

- Evaluador de proyectos para el FONDECYT (Chile): 2008.

- Evaluador de proyectos para el Telescopio Espacial Hubble (NASA, EUA): 2008, 2010



Sociedades Científicas a las cuales pertenezco





Libros y Monografías

  1. Trabajo especial de grado para optar al título de Licenciado en Física: César Briceño Avila, "Estudio de Estrellas Jóvenes en las Nubes Oscuras de Tauro-Auriga", Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Edo. Mérida, Venezuela, Mayo 1992.

  2. Tesis doctoral: César Briceño Avila, "Estrellas T Tauri de muy baja masa y las Post T-Tauri: dos visiones de la población estelar joven en Taurus", Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, Noviembre 1998.

  3. Briceño, C., Preibisch, T., Sherry, W., Mamajek, E., Mathieu, R., Walter, F., Zinnecker, H., "The Low-mass Populations in OB Associations", , capítulo arbitrado en Protostars & Planets V, B. Reipurth, D. Jewitt, and K. Keil eds., University of Arizona Press, Tucson, EUA, 2006. En prensa.

  4. Briceño, C., "The Dispersed Young Population in Orion", capítulo arbitrado en el Handbook of Star Forming Regions, Volume I: The Northern Sky ASP Monograph Publications, Vol. 4. Edited by Bo Reipurth, p.838-869



Artículos en Revistas Arbitradas

  1. 1993 Briceño A., C., Calvet N., Gómez M., Hartmann L., Kenyon S., & Whitney B., "First Results of the CIDA-Schmidt Survey: Selected Zones in Taurus-Auriga", Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 105, pp. 686-692

  2. 1997 Alves, J., Hartmann L., Briceño, C., Lada., C., "Optical Outburst of a Pre-Main Sequence Object", The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 113, pp. 1395-1405

  3. 1997 Briceño C., Hartmann, L.W., Stauffer, J., Gagné, M., Stern, R. & Caillault, J., " X-ray Surveys and the Post-T Tauri Problem", The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 113, pp. 740-752

  4. 1998 Gullbring, E., Hartmann, L.W., Briceño, C. & Calvet, N., "Disk Accretion Rates for T Tauri Stars", The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 492, pp. 323-341

  5. 1998 Luhman, K., Briceño, C., Rieke, G. & Hartmann, L., "A Young Star near the Hydrogen-Burning limit", The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 493, pp. 909-913

  6. 1998 Briceño C., Hartmann, L., Stauffer, J.R. & Martín, E."A Search for Very Low-mass Pre-Main Sequence Stars in Taurus", The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 115, pp. 2074-2091

  7. 1999, Riess, A.G., Kirshner, R.P., Schmidt, B.P., Jha, S., Challis, P., Garnavich, P.M., Esin, A.A., Carpenter, C., Grashius, R., Schild, R.E.., Berlind, P.L.., Huchra, J.P., Prosser, C.F.., Falco, E.E.., Benson, P.J., Briceño, C., Brown, W.R., Caldwell, N., dell'Antonio, I.P., Filippenko, A.V., Goodman, A.A., Grogin, N.A., Groner, T., Hughes, J.P., Green, P.J., Jansen, R.A., Kleyna, J.T., Luu, J.X., Macri, L.M., McLeod, B.A., McLeod, K.K., McNamara, B.R., McLean, B., Milone, A.A.E., Mohr, J.J., Moraru, D., Peng, C., Peters, J., Prestwich, A.H., Stanek, K.Z., Szentgyorgyi, A., Zhao, P., "BVRI Lightcurves for 22 Type Ia Supernovae", The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 117, pp. 707-724.

  8. 1999 Neuhäuser, R., Briceño, C., Comerón, F., Hearty, T., Martín, E.L., Schmitt, J.H.M.M., Stelzer, B., Supper, R., Voges, W. & Zinnecker, H. "Search for X-ray emission from bona-fide and candidate brown dwarfs", Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 343, pp. 883-893.

  9. 1999 Schaefer, B.A., Snyder, J.A., Hernández, J., Roscherer, B., Deng, M., Ellman, N., Bailyn, C., Rengstorf, A., Smith, D., Levine, A., Barthelmy, S., Butterworth, P., Hurley, K., Cline, T., Meegan, C., Kouveliotou, C., Kippen, R.M., Park, H.-S., Williams, G.G., Porrata, R., Bionta, R., Hartmann, D., Band, D., Frail, D., Kulkarni, S., Bloom, J., Djorgovski, S., Harris, F., & the QUEST Collaboration, "Discovery of the Optical Transient of the Gamma Ray Burst 990308". Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 524, pp. L103-L106

  10. 1999 Briceño, C., Hartmann, L. Calvet, N. & Kenyon, S. "A Large Scale Objective-prism and X-ray Survey in Taurus-Auriga", The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 118, pp. 1354-1368

  11. 2000 Muzerolle, J., Calvet, N., Hartmann, L. Briceño, C. & Hillenbrand, L., "Disk Accretion in the 10 Myr Old T Tauri Stars TW Hydrae and Hen 3-600A", Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 535, pp. L47-L50

  12. 2000 Welch, Wm.J, Hartmann, L.W., Helfer, T. & Briceño, C., "High-Resolution, Wide-Field Imaging of the HL Tau Environment in 13CO (1-0)", The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 540, pp. 362-371

  13. 2000 Muzerolle, J., Briceño, C., Calvet, N. & Hartmann, L., "Detection of Disk Accretion at the Substellar Limit", Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 545, pp. L141-L144

  14. 2001 Ferrin, I., Rabinowitz, D., Schaefer, B.; Snyder, J., Ellman, N.; Vicente, B., Rengstorf, A.; Depoy, D., Salim, S.; Andrews, P., Bailyn, C.; Baltay, C., Briceno, C.; Coppi, P., Deng, M.; Emmet, W., Oemler, A.; Sabbey, C., Shin, J.; Sofia, S., van Altena, W.; Vivas, K., Abad, C.; Bongiovanni, A., Bruzual, G.; Della Prugna, F., Herrera, D.; Magris, G., Mateu, J.; Pacheco, R., Sánchez, Ge.; Sánchez, Gu., Schenner, H.; Stock, J., Vieira, K.; Fuenmayor, F., Hernandez, J.; Naranjo, O., Rosenzweig, P.; Secco, C., Spavieri, G.; Gebhard, M., Honeycutt, K.; Mufson, S., Musser, J.; Pravdo, S.; Helin, E., Lawrence, K. "Discovery of the Bright Trans-Neptunian Object 2000 EB173", Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 548, pp. L243-L247

  15. 2001 Vivas, A.K., Zinn, R. Andrews, P., Bailyn, C., Baltay, C., Coppi, P., Ellman, N., Girard, T., Rabinowitz, D., Schaefer, B., Shin, J., Snyder, J., Sofia, S., van Altena, W., Abad, C., Bongiovanni, A., Briceño, C., Bruzual, G., Della Prugna, F., Herrera, D., Magris, G., Mateu, J., Pacheco, R.Sánchez, Ge., Sánchez, Gu., Schenner, H., Stock, J., Vicente, B., Vieira, Ferrin, I., Hernández, J., Gebhard, M., Honeycutt, R., Mufson, S., Musser, J., Rengstorf, A. "The QUEST RR Lyrae Survey I. Confirmation of the Clump at 50 Kpc and Other Over-Densities in the Outer Halo", Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol.554, pp. L33-L36

  16. 2001 Briceño, C., Vivas, A.K., Calvet, N., Hartmann, L. Herrera, D. Romero, L., Berlind, P., Sánchez, Ge., Snyder, J.A. & Andrews, P., "The CIDA-QUEST Large Scale Survey of the Orion OB1 Association: Evidence for Rapid Disk Dissipation in a Dispersed Stellar Population", Science, Vol. 291, No.5501, pp. 93-97

  17. 2001 Barrado y Navascués, D., Stauffer, J., Briceño, C., Patten, B., Hambly, N., C., Adams, J.D., "Very Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs of the Young Open Cluster IC 2391". Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Vol. 134, pp. 103-114

  18. 2002 Baltay, C., Snyder, J.A., Andrews, P.A., Emmet, W., Schaefer, B., Sinnot, J., Bailyn, C., Coppi, P., Oemler, A., Sabbey, C.N., Sofia, S., van Altena, W., Vivas, A.K., Abad, C., Bongiovanni, A., Briceño, C., Bruzual, G., Della Prigna, F., Magris, G., Sánchez, Ge., Sánchez, Gu., Schenner, H., Stock, J., Adams, B., Gebhard, M., Honeycutt, R.K.,  Musser, J., Rensgtorff, A., Ferrín, I., Fuenmayor, F., Hernández, J., Naranjo, O., Rosenzweig, P., Harris, F., Geary, J., "A Large-Area CCD Camera for the Schmidt Telescope at the Venezuelan National Astronomical Observatory", Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 114, pp. 780-794

  19. 2002 Briceño, C., Luhman, K., Hartman, L., Stauffer, J.R., Kirkpatrick, D., "The Initial Mass Function in the Taurus Star Forming Region", The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 530, pp. 317-335

  20. 2003 Muzerolle, J., Hillenbrand, L., Calvet, N., Briceño, C., Hartmann, L., ''Accretion in Young Stellar/Substellar Objects'', The Astrophysical Journal. Vol. 592, pp. 266-281

  21. 2003 Luhman, K., Briceño, C., Stauffer, J.B., Hartmann, L., Barrado y Navascués, D. & Caldwell, N., "New Low-Mass members of the Taurus Star Forming Region", The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 590, pp. 348-356

  22. 2004 Vivas, A.K., Zinn, R., Abad, C., Andrews, P., Bailyn, C., Baltay, C., Bongiovanni, A., Briceño, C., Bruzual, G., Coppi, P., y 25 coautores, "The QUEST RR Lyrae Survey. I. The First Catalog", The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 127, pp. 1158-1175

  23. 2004 Hernández, J., Calvet, N., Briceño, C., Hartmann, L. & Berlind, P., "Spectral Analysis and Classification of Herbig Ae/Be Stars", The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 127, pp. 1682-1701

  24. 2004 A. W. Rengstorf, S. L. Mufson, C. Abad, B. Adams, P. Andrews, C. Bailyn, C. Baltay, A. Bongiovanni, C. Briceño, G. Bruzual, P. Coppi, F. Della Prugna, W. Emmet, I. Ferrin, F. Fuenmayor, M. Gebhard, J. Hernandez, R. K. Honeycutt, G. Magris, J. Musser, O. Naranjo, A. Oemler, P. Rosenzweig, C.N. Sabbey, Ge. Sanchez, Gu. Sanchez, B. Schaefer, H. Schenner, J. Sinnott, J. A. Snyder, S. Sofia, J. Stock. W. van Altena, and A. K. Vivas, "New Quasars Detected Via Variability in the QUEST I Survey", The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 606, pp. 741-748

  25. 2004, Sicilia-Aguilar, A., Hartmann, L., Briceño, C., Contreras, M.E., Muzerolle, J., Calvet, N., “Low-Mass Young Stars in Cep OB2: Ages, Distribution and Accretion Disks”, Astrophysics and Space Science, Vol. 292, pp. 457-463

  26. 2004 Briceño, C., Vivas, A.K., Hernández J., Calvet, N., Hartmann, L., Megeath, T., Berlind, P., Calkins, M. & Hoyer, S., "The McNeil Nebula in Orion: The Outburst History", Astrophysical Journal Letters, May 10, 2004, Vol. 606, pp. L123-L126

  27. 2004 A. Sicilia-Aguilar, L. Hartmann, C. Briceño, J. Muzerolle & N. Calvet, "Low Mass Stars and Accretion at the Ages of Planet Formation in the Cep OB2 Region", Astronomical Journal, Vol. 128, pp.805-821

  28. 2004 N. Calvet, J. Muzerolle, C. Briceño, J. Hernández, L. Hartmann, J.L. Saucedo & K. Gordon, "Mass Accretion Rates of Intermediate Mass T Tauri Stars", Astronomical Journal, Vol. 128, No.3, pp.1294-1318

  29. 2004 Rengstorf, A.W., Mufson, S. L., Andrews, P., Honeycutt, R. K., Vivas, A. K., Abad, C., Adams, B., Bailyn, C., Baltay, C., Bongiovanni, A., Briceño , C. y 24 coautores, "QUEST1 Variability Survey. II. Variability Determination Criteria and 200k Light Curve Catalog", Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 617, pp.184-191

  30. 2005 Briceño, C., Calvet, N., Hernández J., Vivas, A.K., Hartmann, L., Downes, J.J., Berlind, P., "The CIDA Variability Survey of Orion OB1. I: the low-mass population of Ori OB 1a and 1b",  Astronomical Journal, February 2005, Vol. 129, pp.907-926

  31. 2005 Calvet, N., Briceño, C., Hernández, J., Hoyer, S., Hartmann, L., Sicilia-Aguilar, A., Megeath, S.T., D'Alessio, P., "Disk evolution in the Ori OB1 association", Astronomical Journal, February 2005, Vol. 129, pp.935-946

  32. 2005 Hernández J., Calvet, N., Hartmann, L., Briceño, C., Sicilia-Aguilar, A., and Berlind, P., "Herbig Ae/Be stars in nearby OB associations", Astronomical Journal, February 2005, Vol. 129, pp. 856-871

  33. 2005 Muzerolle, J., Luhman, K., Briceño, C., Hartmann, L., Calvet, N., "Measuring Accretion in Young Substellar Objects: Approaching the Planetary Mass Regime" , Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 625, pp.906-912

  34. 2005 Aurora Sicilia-Aguilar, Lee W. Hartmann, Jesus Hernandez, Briceño, C., Calvet, N., "Cep OB2: Disk Evolution and Accretion at 3-10 Myr" , Astronomical Journal, Vol. 130, pp.188-209

  35. 2006 Jha, S., Kirshner, R. P., Challis, P., Garnavich, P. M., Matheson, T., Soderberg, A. M., Graves, G. J. M., Hicken, M., Alves, J. F., Arce, H. G., Balog, Z., Barmby, P., Barton, E. J., Berlind, P., Bragg, A. E., Briceño, C., y 68 coautores, ¨UBVRI Lightcurves of 44 Type Ia Supernovae¨, Astronomical Journal, Vol. 131, pp. 527-554.

  36. 2006 Briceño, C., Calvet, N., Hartmann, L., Muzerolle, J., Quintero, A. ¨Spitzer Observations of the Orion OB1 Association: Second-Generation Dust Disks at 5 - 10 Myr , Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 652, pp. 472-481.

  37. 2007 Briceño, C., Preibisch, T., Sherry, W., Mamajek, E., Mathieu, R., Walter, F., Zinnecker, H., ¨The Low-mass Populations in OB Associations¨, in Protostars & Planets V, B. Reipurth, D. Jewitt, and K. Keil eds., Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas, EUA. pp. 345-360.

  38. 2007 Briceño, C., Hartmann, L., Hernández, J., Calvet, N., Vivas, A.K., Furesz, G., Szentgyorgyi, A. ¨25 Orionis: A kinematically distinct 10 Myr old group in Orion OB1a , Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 661, pp. 1119-1128.

  39. 2007, Ponsot Balaguer, E., Briceño, C., Vivas, A.K., ¨ ¨El Sistema de Colección de Datos Observacionales. Informatización para la Astronomía Venezolana¨ Interciencia, Vol.32, No. 2, pp. 76-84.

  40. 2007, Hernández, J., Hartmann, L., Megeath, T., Gutermuth, R., Muzerolle, J., Calvet, N., Vivas, A. K., Briceño, C., Allen, L., Stauffer, J., Young, E., Fazio, G., ¨ A Spitzer Space Telescope Study of Disks in the Young Sigma Orionis Cluster¨, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 662, pp. 1067-1081.

  41. 2007, Hernández, J., Calvet, N., Briceño, C., Hartmann, L., Vivas, A. K., Muzerolle, J., Downes, J., Allen, L. and Gutermuth, R. ¨ Spitzer Observations of the Orionis OB1 Association: Disk Census in the Low-Mass Stars ¨, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 671, pp. 1784-1799.

  42. 2008, Downes, J.J., Briceño, C., , Hernández, J., Calvet, N., Hartmann, L., Ponsot Balaguer, E. A. ¨"A Large-Scale Optical-Near Survey for Brown Dwarfs and Very Low Mass Stars in the Orion OB1 Association",¨, Astronomical Journal, Vol. 136, pp. 51-66.

  43. 2008, C. Espaillat, J. Muzerolle, J. Hernandez, C. Briceño , N. Calvet, P. D'Alessio, M. McClure, D. M. Watson, L. Hartmann, B. Sargent ¨"A slowly accreting ~10 Myr old transitional disk in Orion OB1a",¨, Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vo. 689, pp. L145-L148

  44. 2009 Rengstorf, A. W., Thompson, D. L., Mufson, S. L., Andrews, P., Honeycutt, R. K., Vivas, A. K., Abad, C., Adams, B., Bailyn, C., Baltay, C., Bongiovanni, A., Briceño, C., & 23 coauthors “QUEST1 Variability Survey. III. Light Curve Catalog Update”, Astrophysical Journal Supplement, Vol. 181, pp. 129-134

  45. 2009 Hicken, M., Challis, P., Jha, S., Kirshner, R.P., Matheson, T. Modjaz, M., Rest, A., Michael Wood-Vasey, W., Bakos, G., Barton, E.J., Berlind, P., Bragg, A., Briceño, C., & 64 coauthors “CfA3: 185 Type Ia Supernova Light Curves from the CfA”, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 700, pp. 331-357

  46. 2009 Ingleby, L., Calvet, N., Bergin, E., Yerasi, A., Espaillat, C., Herczeg, G., Roueff, E., Abgrall, H., Hernández, J., Briceño, C. & 8 coauthors “Far-Ultraviolet H2 Emission from Circumstellar Disks”, Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 703, pp. L137-L141



Otras Publicaciones Especializadas



  1. 1978, MacConnell, D. J., Prato, C. E., Briceno, C. “The Belated Discovery of Nova Cen 1973 and Possible Novae Car 1971 and 1972“ Information Bulletin on Variable Stars, 1476, 1.

  2. 2009, Aspin, C., Briceno, C., Downes, J., Hernandez, F., Rojas, R., Nakano, M. “V1647 Orionis“, IAU Circ., 9079, 1 (2009). Edited by Green, D. W. E



Cinco Trabajos más Importantes

  1. 1997 Briceño C., Hartmann, L.W., Stauffer, J., Gagné, M., Stern, R. & Caillault, J., " X-ray Surveys and the Post-T Tauri Problem", The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 113, pp. 740-752.

  2. 2001 Briceño, C., Vivas, A.K., Calvet, N., Hartmann, L. Herrera, D. Romero, L., Berlind, P., Sánchez, Ge., Snyder, J.A. & Andrews, P., "The CIDA-QUEST Large Scale Survey of the Orion OB1 Association: Evidence for Rapid Disk Dissipation in a Dispersed Stellar Population", Science, Vol. 291, No.5501, pp. 93-97.

  3. 2002 Briceño, C., Luhman, K., Hartman, L., Stauffer, J.R., Kirkpatrick, D., "The Initial Mass Function in the Taurus Star Forming Region", The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 530, pp. 317-335.

  4. 2005 Briceño, C., Calvet, N., Hernández J., Vivas, A.K., Hartmann, L., Downes, J.J., Berlind, P., "The CIDA Variability Survey of Orion OB1. I: the low-mass population of Ori OB 1a and 1b",  The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 129, pp. 907-926.

  5. 2007 Briceño, C., Preibisch, T., Sherry, W., Mamajek, E., Mathieu, R., Walter, F., Zinnecker, H., "The Low-mass Populations in OB Associations,  in Protostars & Planets V, B. Reipurth, D. Jewitt, and K. Keil eds., Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas, EUA., pp. 345-360.



Conferencias Invitadas en Congresos Internacionales

  1. Santa Cruz Workshop: "Star Formation in the Galactic Context". Jul.15-19, 2001, University of California at Sta. Cruz, California, USA. Charla Invitada: "The Formation of Clusters and Associations and its relationship to the ISM''.

  2. 10th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, July 15-19, 1997: ``The ROSAT Field Sources: What Are They?'' - Panelista Invitado en sección de discusión.

  3. OB Associations: new insights from large scale surveys”, XII Reunión Regional Latinoamericana de la IAU, 22-26 de Octubre de 2007, Isla de Margarita, Venezuela.

  4. Moderador de la Sesión de Discusión del taller internacional Recipes for making brownies: theory vs. Observations, Sep.8, 2009, ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, Holanda.




Trabajos Presentados en Congresos Internacionales

  1. 1995, Briceño, C., Calvet, N., The CIDA Schmidt Objective prism Survey: Fields in Taurus-Auriga and Ophiucus. IAU Colloquium No. 148: The future use of Schmidt Telescopes, March 7-11, 1994, Bandung, Indonesia. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, Volume 84; San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP); |c1995; edited by Jessica Chapman, Russell Cannon, Sandra Harrison, and Bambang Hidayat, p.347-352

  2. 1996, Briceño C., Are ROSAT Surveys Detecting Post-T Tauri Stars?, Star Formation Workshop: Star Formation in Clusters, July 22-25, 1996, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA. (no publicado)

  3. 1997, Briceño, C., Very low-mass young stars in Taurus, Gordon Research Conference on Origins of Solar Systems, New England College, Henniker, New Hampshire, June 15-20, 1997. (no publicado)

  4. 1997, Briceño, C., Workshop: Relationship between star formation and planet formation, Santa Cruz, CA, July 23-27, 1997. Poster:Young stars in the stellar-substellar regime;. (no publicado)

  5. 1997, Briceño, C., Star Formation Studies and Searches for Young Brown Dwarfs with the QUEST CCD Mosaic Camera, I QuEST Collaboration Meeting, Mérida, Venezuela, Julio 1997. (no publicado)

  6. 1998 Briceño, C., Hartmann, L., Stauffer, J. & Martín, E, A Deep CCD Survey for Very Low-mass Pre-Main Sequence Stars in Taurus , Brown Dwarf and Extrasolar Planet Workshop, Tenerife, España, March 17-21, 1997, ASP Conference Series #134, edited by Rafael Rebolo; Eduardo L. Martin; Maria Rosa Zapatero Osorio, p. 36

  7. 1998, Briceño, C., New VLM stars in Taurus: young brown dwarfs? , 10th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, July 15-19, 1997, ASP Conf. Ser. 154, The Tenth Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun, Edited by R. A. Donahue and J. A. Bookbinder, p.1846-1853

  8. 1998, Caillault, P., Briceño, C., Martín, E.L., Palla, F., Wichmann, R., The ROSAT Field Sources: What are they?, 10th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, July 15-19, 1997, ASP Conf. Ser. 154, The Tenth Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun, Edited by R. A. Donahue and J. A. Bookbinder, p.237-254

  9. 1998, Gullbring, E., Hartmann, L., Briceño, C., Calvet, N., Muzerolle, J. Color Anomalies of Weak Lined T Tauri stars, 10th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, July 15-19, 1997, ASP Conf. Ser. 154, The Tenth Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun, Edited by R. A. Donahue and J. A. Bookbinder, p.1709-1715

  10. 1998, Alves, J., Hartmann, L., Briceño, C., Lada, C. Optical Outburst of a Young Star, 10th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, July 15-19, 1997, ASP Conf. Ser. 154, The Tenth Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun, Edited by R. A. Donahue and J. A. Bookbinder, p.1673-1683

  11. 1998, Luhman, K.L., Rieke, G.H., Briceño, C., Liebert, J., Hartmann, L. Spectroscopic Observations of Young Brown Dwarf Candidates, 10th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, July 15-19, 1997, ASP Conf. Ser. 154, The Tenth Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun, Edited by R. A. Donahue and J. A. Bookbinder, p.1887-1894

  12. 1998, Briceño, C., Calvet, N., Hartmann, L. Circumstellar disks around VLM T Tauri stars, Protostars & Planets IV. Santa Barbara, CA, July 5-12, 1998. (no publicado)

  13. 1999, Briceño, C., Vivas, A.K., Calvet, N., Hartmann, L. & the QUEST Collaboration, The CIDA-QUEST Large Scale Variability Survey of Orion OB1, 195th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Atlanta, GA, EUA, Jan.12-16, 2000, 78.05

  14. 1999, Briceño, C., The CIDA-QUEST Large Scale Variability Survey of Orion: initial results, II QuEST Collaboration Meeting, Mérida, Venezuela, Julio 1999. (no publicado)

  15. 1999, Briceño, C., Photometric BVI Calibration of the QUEST CCD Mosaic Camera, II QuEST Collaboration Meeting, Mérida, Venezuela, Julio 1999. (no publicado)

  16. 1999, Briceño, C., A Summary of Data Quality and Observing Efficiency with the QUEST CCD Mosaic Camera, II QuEST Collaboration Meeting, Mérida, Venezuela, Julio 1999. (no publicado)

  17. 2000, Briceño, C., Calvet, N., Hartmann, L., Vivas, A.K., Large Scale Variability Survey of Orion II: mapping the young, low-mass stellar populations, 197th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Jan,7-11, 2001, San Diego, CA, USA, 10.06

  18. 2000, Briceño, C., Star Formation and Studies of the Galaxy with the QUEST CCD Mosaic Camera, III QuEST Collaboration Meeting, Mérida, Venezuela, Agosto 2000. (no publicado)

  19. 2000, Briceño, C., “QDBS: The QUEST Database System”, III QuEST Collaboration Meeting, Mérida, Venezuela, Agosto 2000. (no publicado)

  20. 2001, Briceño, C., Vivas, A.K., Calvet, N., Hartmann, L. & the QUEST Collaboration, The CIDA-QUEST Large Scale Variability Survey in the Orion OB Association: Initial Results, 11th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun Cambridge, Pto. de la Cruz, Tenerife, Islas Canarias, España, Oct. 4-8, 1999, ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 223. Edited by Ramon J. Garcia Lopez, Rafael Rebolo, and Maria Rosa Zapaterio Osorio. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, ISBN: 1-58381-055-2, p.484-490

  21. 2001, Barrado y Navascués, D., Stauffer, J., Patten, B., Briceño, C., Hambly, N., Photometry and Spectroscopy of Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in IC 2391, 11th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun Cambridge, Pto. de la Cruz, Tenerife, Islas Canarias, España, Oct. 4-8, 1999, ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 223. Edited by Ramon J. Garcia Lopez, Rafael Rebolo, and Maria Rosa Zapaterio Osorio. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, ISBN: 1-58381-055-2, p.1513-1518

  22. 2001, Briceño, C., Vivas, A.K., Calvet, N., Hartmann, L., A Large Area Variability Survey in Orion OB1: digging into the fossil record of low-mass star formation, 12th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun. Jul. 30 – Aug. 3, 2001, University of Boulder, Colorado, USA. Proceedings: http://origins.colorado.edu/cs12/, poster paper 04.04, p.775

  23. 2001, Muzerolle, J., Hillenbrand, L., Calvet, N., Hartmann, L., Briceño, C., Disk Accretion at 10 Myr: Results from the TW Hydrae Association, Young Stars Near Earth: Progress and Prospects, ASP Conference Series Vol. 244. Edited by Ray Jayawardhana and Thomas Greene. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, ISBN: 1-58381-082-X, 2001., p.245-249

  24. 2001, Briceño, C., The low-mass young stellar population in Orion OB1, X Latin American IAU Meeting. Sep. 17-21, 2001, Córdoba, Argentina. (no publicado)

  25. 2001, Briceño, C., The Next Step: An Equatorial Variability Survey?, IV Reunión Anual de la Colaboración QUEST. Sede CIDA, Mérida, Venezuela, 14 Noviembre 2001. (no publicado)

  26. 2003, Briceño, C., Luhman, K., Hartmann, L., Stauffer, J., Kirkpatick, D., The Brown Dwarf Deficit in Taurus: Evidence for a Non-Universal IMF, IAU Symposium 211: Brown Dwarfs. May 20-24, 2002, Big Island of Hawaii, USA, Edited by Eduardo Martín. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2003, p. 81-82

  27. 2003, Muzerolle, J., Hillenbrand, L., Briceño, C., Calvet, N., Hartmann, L., Accretion in Very Low Mass Objects, IAU Symposium 211: Brown Dwarfs. May 20-24, 2002, Big Island of Hawaii, USA, Edited by Eduardo Martín. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2003, p. 141-142


  1. 2003, Briceño, C., Calvet, N., Vivas, A.K., Hartmann, L., Large Scale Variability Surveys from Venezuela: Orion OB1 and beyond, International Workshop on Variability with Wide-Field Imagers, Sep. 16-20, 2002, Lampedusa, Italia, Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, v.74, p.870-873

  2. 2003, Briceño, C., Disk Evolution in the Orion OB1 Association, Gordon Research Conference on the Origin of Solar Systems, July 6-11, 2003, Roger Williams University, Rhode Island, USA. (no publicado)

  3. 2003, Briceño, C., Massive Variability Surveys from Venezuela, International Symposium on Astrophysics Research and on the Dialogue between Science and Religion, Vatican Observatory, 2003, C.D. Impey & C.E. Petry (eds.), Vatican Press 2004, p. 213-216

  4. 2003, Briceño, C., Calvet, N., D'Alessio, P., Hartmann, L. Disk Evolution in Orion OB1, Open Issues in Local Star Formation and Early Stellar Evolution, Abril 5-10, Ouro Preto, Brazil, en prensa

  5. 2003, Briceño, C., Vivas, A.K., Calvet, N., Hartmann, L., A Large Area Variability Survey in Orion OB1: digging into the fossil record of low-mass star formation, The Future of Cool-Star Astrophysics: 12th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun (2001 July 30 - August 3), eds. A. Brown, G.M. Harper, and T.R. Ayres, (University of Colorado), 2003, p. 775-780.

  6. 2004, Sicilia-Aguilar, A., Hartmann, L., Briceño C., Muzerolle, J., Calvet., N., Low Mass Stars and Accretion at the Ages of Planet Formation, American Astronomical Society Meeting 204, #62.18

  7. 2005, Briceño, C., Calvet, N., Hernández, J., Hartmann, L. & Vivas, A.K., Evolution of Dust in the Orion OB1 Protoplanetary Disks, Gordon Research Conference on Origins of Solar Systems, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, USA, July 26 – August 1, 2005 (no publicado)

  8. 2005, Hernández, J., Calvet, N., Briceño, C., Hartmann, L. Et al., Inner Disk Evolution in Young Intermediate Mass Stars, Gordon Research Conference on Origins of Solar Systems, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, USA, July 26 – August 1, 2005 (no publicado)

  9. 2005, Sicilia-Aguilar A., Hartmann, L., Hernández, J., Briceño C., et al.Dust Evolution in Cepheus OB2, Gordon Research Conference on Origins of Solar Systems, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, USA, July 26 – August 1, 2005 (no publicado)

  10. 2005, Briceño, C., Calvet, N., Hartmann, L., Muzerolle, J., Hernández, J., Vivas, A. K., D'Alessio, P., Allen, L. & Megeath, T., Disk Evolution in the Orion OB1 Association, Star Formation in the Era of 3 Great Observatories: Priorities and Goals”, Cambridge, Massacussets, USA, July 13-15, 2005.

  11. 2006, Hoyer, S., Briceño, C.,, Calvet, N.; Hartmann, L., Muzerolle, J. Observations of protoplanetary disks in Orion OB1, XI IAU Regional Latin American Meeting of Astronomy (Eds. L. Infante & M. Rubio) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 26, pp. 154

  12. 2006, Downes, J.J., Briceño, C.,, Hernández, J. Brown Dwarf and Very Low Mass Stars Search in Orion OB1a and OB1b asociati, XI IAU Regional Latin American Meeting of Astronomy (Eds. L. Infante & M. Rubio) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 26, pp. 154

  13. 2008, Downes, J., Abad, C., Briceño, C. “Astrometric study of the stellar and substellar populations of the Orion star forming region”, IV Reunión sobre Astronomía Dinámica en Latino América (Eds. C. Allen, A. Ruelas, & R. Teixeira) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 34, pp. 60-63

  14. 2008, Briceño, C. , Vivas, A. K., Hernández, J., Hartmann, L., Calvet, N., Furesz, G., Szentgiorgyi, A. “The 25 Orionis Cluster and the fossil record of star formation in Orion OB1”, ESO Worekshop: Star Formation across the Milky Way, Mar. 3-6, 2008, Santiago, Chile.

  15. 2009, Briceño, C. “OB Associations: new insights from large scale surveys”, XII Latin American IAU Regional Meeting (Eds. G. Magris, G. Bruzual, & L. Carigi) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 35, pp. 27-32

  16. 2009, Calvet, N., Espaillat, C., Hernández, J., Muzerolle, J., Briceño, C., D'Alessio, P., Hartmann, L., Watson, D. “CVS0 224: a transitional disk in the 10 Myr 25 Ori aggregate”, XII Latin American IAU Regional Meeting (Eds. G. Magris, G. Bruzual, & L. Carigi) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 35, pp. 56-57

  17. 2009, Downes, J., Briceño, C., Hernández, J., Calvet, N., Hartmann, L. “The Substellar Component of the Orion Dispersed Population”, XII Latin American IAU Regional Meeting (Eds. G. Magris, G. Bruzual, & L. Carigi) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 35, pp. 60-61

  18. 2009, Hernández, J., Calvet, N., Hartmann, L., Briceño, C., Vivas, A. K., Muzerolle, J., Gutermuth, R. “Early stages in the evolution of protoplanetary disks”, XII Latin American IAU Regional Meeting (Eds. G. Magris, G. Bruzual, & L. Carigi) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 35, pp. 68-69

  19. 2009, “Surveying the Substellar Component of the Orion Dispersed Populations” Downes, J.J., Briceño, C., Hernández, J., Calvet, N., & Hartmann,. L. international workshop Recipes for making brownies: theory vs. Observations, Sep.8, 2009, ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, the Netherlands.




Conferencias Dictadas en Instituciones Científicas

  1. 2001, Charla Invitada: ¨The Orion Large Scale Variability Survey"., Dec.5, 2001, Wesleyan University, Astronomy Department, Middletown, Connecticut, USA.

  2. 2001, Charla Invitada: ¨Sondeo de Variabilidad Estelar a Gran Escala en Orion", Nov.1, 2001, Grupo de Física, IVIC, Venezuela.

  3. 2003, Charla Invitada en el Instituto de Estadística Aplicada y Computación (ULA): “El Sondeo de Variabilidad Ecuatorial: Minado masivo de datos en Astronomía”, FACES, ULA, Mérida, 29 Octubre 2003

  1. 2009, Charla Invitada: “Brown Dwarfs: a beginner's guide”, en el marco del taller internacional Recipes for making brownies: theory vs. Observations, Sep.8, 2009, ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, Holanda.




Presentaciones en Congresos Nacionales

  1. 2003, Briceño, C., El Sondeo de Variabilidad Ecuatorial del CIDA: Minado Masivo de Datos en Astronomía”, Charla en el IV Congreso de la Sociedad Venezolana de Física, Noviembre 24-28, 2003, Isla de Margarita, Venezuela.

  2. 2004, Briceño, C., "Estudios de Formación Estelar desde el Observatorio" , Charla en las I Jornadas sobre el Observatorio Astronómico Nacional de Llano del Hato, Sede CIDA, Mérida, 5 y 6 de Mayo 2004. (no publicado)

  3. 2004, Briceño, C., El Sondeo de Variabilidad Ecuatorial del CIDA", Charla en las I Jornadas sobre el Observatorio Astronómico Nacional de Llano del Hato, Sede CIDA, Mérida, 5 y 6 de Mayo 2004. (no publicado)

  4. 2005, Briceño, C., ¨Observatorios Virtuales: El Nuevo Horizonte de la Astronomía¨, Charla Invitada en el Evento E-Ciencia en el marco de la LXV Convención Anual de AsoVAC, Caracas, Venezuela, 25 de Noviembre de 2005.

  5. 2005, Velásquez, R., Briceño, C., Hernández, J., Vivas, A. K., ¨Evolución Fotométrica de la Nebulosa McNeil¨, poster presentado en el V Congreso de la Sociedad Venezolana de Física, LUZ Núcleo Punto Fijo, Edo. Falcón, Venezuela, 28 de Noviembre al 02 de Diciembre de 2005.

  6. 2006, Briceño, C., ¨Evolución de Discos Protoplanetarios en Orión OB1¨, Charla en la Reunión Venezolana de Astronomía 2006 y Simposio de Discos en Estrellas Jóvenes, CIDA, Mérida, Venezuela, 13 al 16 de Marzo de 2006.

  7. 2006 Velásquez, R. (LUZ), Briceño C., Vivas, A.K. Y Hernández, J. (CIDA), "Evolución Fotométrica de la Nebulosa McNeil", presentación en cartel en la Reunión Venezolana de Astronomía 2006, con motivo del 30 aniversario del CIDA. Mérida, 13-16 de Marzo de 2006.

  8. 2006 Hernández, J.,, Briceño C., (CIDA), Calvet, N., Hartmann, L. (U. de Michigan), Muzerolle, J. (U. de Arizona), Quintero, A. (UC), "Discos en Estrellas de Masa Intermedia: Polvo Reprocesado a 10 Millones de Años", presentación oral en el Coloquio "Discos en Estrellas Jóvenes", organizado en el marco de la Reunión Venezolana de Astronomía 2006, con motivo del 30 aniversario del CIDA. Mérida, 16 de Marzo de 2006.

  9. 2006 Downes J.J. (UCV/CIDA), Briceño, C., Hernández J. (CIDA), "Búsqueda de Enanas Marrones en las Asociaciones de Orión desde el Observatorio Astronómico Nacional" presentación oral en el Coloquio "Discos en Estrellas Jóvenes", organizado en el marco de la Reunión Venezolana de Astronomía 2006, con motivo del 30 aniversario del CIDA. Mérida, 16 de Marzo de 2006.

  10. 2009 “Los Nuevos Detectores de la Cámara CCD de Mosaico de 67 megapixeles del Observatorio Astronómico Nacional”, Briceño, C., Sánchez, Ge., Barboza, S., Della Prugna, F. L. VII Congreso de la Sociedad Venezolana de Física, 7-11 Dic. 2009, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela.



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