Edward Lopez Velazquez

Edward Lopez Velazquez

Born and raised in Austin. During my free time, I enjoy reading and going to the gym where I exclusively listen to a combination of heavy metal and cumbias. Huge God of War and soccer fanatic. I'm also passionate about astronomical phenomena and discussing some of the biggest questions in astronomy. For instance, with a massive cloud of gas at its disposal, how does the Universe decide the amount of supermassive stars and exoplanetary systems that'll result from this cloud?

In the summer of 2023, I worked at the University of Texas at Austin as an undergraduate researcher with Dr. Lauren Biddle. My job was to characterize the H-alpha profiles of young mass-accreting stars such as AB Aurigae or AB Aur through computational analysis techniques.

We know a lot about what happens during the final stages of a star's life, but we know very little about what happens at the beginning of its lifetime. In essence, by increasing our understanding of stellar evolution, this could give us insight into the development of early galaxies and ultimately figure out how the Universe was born.

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Physics, 2024
College of Arts & Sciences
Edward Lopez Velazquez
Characterizing The Accretion Behavior Of AB Aurigae, A Potential Young Planet Host Star
Edward Lopez Velazquez
Characterizing The Accretion Behavior Of AB Aurigae, A Potential Young Planet Host Star