Dr. Kristina Monsch
I'm a Postdoc based at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) in Cambridge/USA. I'm working with Jeremy J. Drake and Cecilia Garraffo on the effect of the dispersal phase of circumstellar disks on the subsequent rotational spin-down of their parent stars.
I obtained my PhD at the University Observatory of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich/Germany, where I worked together with Barbara Ercolano, Thomas Preibisch & Giovanni Picogna on modeling X-ray driven photoevaporation in protoplanetary disks and how this effect can shape the architecture of exoplanet systems. During this time, I had been part of the priority program 'Exploring the Diversity of Extrasolar Systems' (DFG SPP1992) as well as the Research Unit 'Planet Formation Witnesses and Probes: Transition Disks' (FOR 2634/1), both recently established by the German Research Foundation.
I am also very interested in using astrochemistry as a tool, especially in the context of star and planet formation!
My recent publications:
Kristina Monsch, Joshua B. Lovell, Ciprian T. Berghea, Gordian Edenhofer, Garrett K. Keating, Sean M. Andrews, Ammar Bayyari, Jeremy J. Drake, David J. Wilner
submitted to ApJL, preprint is available on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01941
Kristina Monsch, Jeremy J. Drake, Cecilia Garraffo, Giovanni Picogna, Barbara Ercolano
published in ApJ, Vol. 959, 140; available here: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ApJ...959..140M/abstract
Barbara Ercolano, Giovanni Picogna, Kristina Monsch
published in MNRAS, Vol. 526, 105; available here: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023MNRAS.526L.105E/abstract
Ofer Cohen, Cecilia Garraffo, Jeremy J. Drake, Kristina Monsch, Igor V. Sokolov, Julián D. Alvarado-Gómez, Federico Fraschetti
published in ApJ, Vol. 949, 54; available here: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ApJ...949...54C/abstract
Alexandre Emsenhuber, Remo Burn, Jesse Weder, Kristina Monsch, Giovanni Picogna, Barbara Ercolano, Thomas Preibisch
published in A&A, Vol. 673, id. A78; available here: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023A%26A...673A..78E/abstract
Barbara Ercolano, Giovanni Picogna, Kristina Monsch, Jeremy J. Drake, Thomas Preibisch
published in MNRAS, Vol. 508, 1675; available here: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021MNRAS.508.1675E/abstract
Kristina Monsch, Giovanni Picogna, Barbara Ercolano, Thomas Preibisch
published in A&A, Vol. 650, id. A199; available here: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021A%26A...650A.199M/abstract
Kristina Monsch, Giovanni Picogna, Barbara Ercolano, Wilhelm Kley
published in A&A; Vol. 646, id.A169; available here: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021arXiv210101179M/abstract
Hans Moritz Günther, David A. Principe, Carl Melis, Kristina Monsch, P. Christian Schneider, S. Czesla, Nicholas J. Wright, Vinay L. Kashyap, J.H.M.M. Schmitt, E.R. Newton, Jeremy J. Drake, D. P. Huenemoerder
part of a Chandra observing proposal; available here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01547
Kristina Monsch, Barbara Ercolano, Giovanni Picogna, Thomas Preibisch, Markus Michael Rau
published in MNRAS, Vol. 483, 3448; available here: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019MNRAS.483.3448M
The catalog "planetsXstars" that is presented in this paper is available for download here: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FPXFA5.
Kristina Monsch, Jaime E. Pineda, Hauyu Baobab Liu, Catherine Zucker, Hope How-Huan Chen, Kate Pattle, Stella S. R. Offner, James Di Francesco, Adam Ginsburg, Barbara Ercolano, Héctor G. Arce, Rachel Friesen, Helen Kirk, Paola Caselli and Alyssa A. Goodman
published in ApJ, Vol. 861, 77; available here: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018ApJ...861...77M
The combined VLA+GBT data cubes of the NH3 (1,1) and (2,2) lines are available for download here: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QLD7TC .
All of my publications can be browsed on NASA ADS.
Selected Talks:
Connecting the disk dispersal phase to magnetic morphology-driven stellar spin down
Fifty years of the Skumanich relations, March 8-11, 2022 @ Boulder, USAGiant planet migration during the disc dispersal phase
Five years after HL Tau: a new era in planet formation, December 7-11, 2020 (online)The imprint of X-ray photoevaporation onto the orbital distribution of giant planets
Exoplanets IV, May 1-6, 2022 @ Las Vegas, USAExoplanets III, July 27-31, 2020 (online)
Great Barriers in Planet Formation, July 22-26, 2019 @ Palm Cove, Queensland, Australia
3rd Advanced School on Exoplanetary Science: Demographics of Exoplanetary Systems, May 27-31, 2019 @ Vietri Sul Mare, Italy
Theoretical and Computational Challenges in Planet Formation Workshop, May 20-22, 2019 @ CCA, Flatiron Institute, New York City, USA
Take a Closer Look: The innermost region of protoplanetary discs and its connection to the origin of planets, October 15-19, 2018 @ ESO Garching (near Munich), Germany
Dense gas kinematics and a narrow filament in the Orion A OMC1 region using NH3
Interstellar filament paradigm: On their formation, evolution, and role in star formation, November 05-09, 2018 @ Nagoya, JapanMountains and deserts in the demographics of giants
Exoplanet Diversity, SPP 1992 Kick-Off Meeting, February 27 - March 01, 2018 @ Berlin, GermanyExoplanet Diversity, SPP 1992 All Hands on Deck-Meeting, September 04-06, 2019 @ Hamburg, Germany
Poster Presentations:
Exoplanets IV, May 1-6, 2022 @ Las Vegas, USAPlanet Formation and Evolution 2019, February 27-March 01, 2019 @ Rostock, Germany
SPF2: Star and Planet Formation in the Southwest, March 12-16, 2018 @ Biosphere 2, Oracle, Arizona
Exoplanets and Planet Formation, December 11-15, 2017 @ Shanghai, China
Planet Formation and Evolution 2017, September 25-27, 2017 @ Jena, Germany
Contact
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO)
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
kristina.monsch [at] cfa [dot] harvard [dot] edu