Astrophysics

Dr. Yalia Divakara Mayya

Office: 1317

E-mail: ydm@inaoep.mx

Education

• PhD, "Star formation in Giant Extragalactic HII Regions", Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore India, 1993.

• BSc, Mangalore University, India, 1986.

• BSc, Mangalore University, India, 1984.

Research Interests

• compact star clusers

• Ring glaxies

• Galactic and extragalactic star forming regions

• star formation histories and morphology of nearby galaxies

• Lenticular galaxies

Recent Publications

Venkatapathy, Y.; Bravo-Alfaro, H.; Mayya, Y. D.; Lobo, C.; Durret, F.; Gamez, V.; Valerdi, M.; Granados-Contreras, A. P.; Navarro-Poupard, F., "Environmental effects on galaxy evolution. II: quantifying the tidal features in NIR-images of the cluster Abell 85", The Astronomical Journal, 2017

Carrasco, L.; Hernández Utrera, O.; Vázquez, S.; Mayya, Y. D.; Carrasco, E.; Pedraza, J.; Castillo-Domínguez, E.; Escobedo, G.; Devaraj, R. (est.); Luna, A., CANICA: The Cananea Near-Infrared Camera at the 2.1 m OAGH Telescope, Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica, 2017

Rosa-Gonzalez, D.; Coutiño de Leon, S.; Mayya, Y. D.; Carramiñana, A.; Aretxaga, I.; Becerra Gonzalez, J.; Furniss, A.; Terlevich, E.; Vega, O.; Mendez-Abreu, J.; and 3 coauthors, "On the Redshifts of the BL Lac 3FGL J0909.0+2310 and its Close Companion", MNRAS, 2017

Wong, O. Ivy; Vega, O.; Sánchez-Argüelles, D.; Narayanan, G.; Wall, W. F.; Zwaan, M. A.; Rosa González, D.; Zeballos, M.; Bekki, K.; Mayya, Y. D.; and 2 coauthors, "Early Science with the Large Millimeter Telescope: discovery of the 12CO(1-0) emission line in the ring galaxy, VIIZw466" MNRAS, 2017

Retes-Romero, R.; Mayya, Y. D. ; Luna, A.; Carrasco, L., The Star-formation Law in Galactic High-mass Star-forming Molecular Clouds", ApJ, 2017

Gómez-González, V. M. A., Mayya, Y. D., Rosa-González, D., "Wolf-Rayet stars in M81: detection and characterization using GTC/OSIRIS spectra and HST/ACS images", MNRAS 460, 1555-1566, 8/2016.

Dewangan, L. K., Ojha, D. K., Luna, A., Anandarao, B. G., Ninan, J. P., Mallick, K. K., Mayya, Y. D., "A Multi-wavelength Study of Star Formation Activity in the S235 Complex", ApJ 819, 66-, 3/2016.

Arellano-Córdova, K. Z., Rodríguez, M., Mayya, Y. D., Rosa-González, D., "The oxygen abundance gradient in M81 and the robustness of abundance determinations in H II regions", MNRAS 455, 2627-2643, 1/2016.

Dewangan, L. K., Luna, A., Ojha, D. K., Anandarao, B. G., Mallick, K. K., Mayya, Y. D., "The Physical Environment of the Massive Star-forming Region W42", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 811, Issue 2, article id. 79,22 pp. (2015). 811, 79-, 10/2015.

Dewangan, L. K., Mayya, Y. D., Luna, A., Ojha, D. K., "Massive Young Stellar Object W42-MME: the Discovery of an Infrared Jet Using VLT/NACO Near-infrared Images", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 803, Issue 2, article id. 100, 7 pp. (2015). 803, 100-, 4/2015.