Cristóbal Sifón Andalaft cjsifon@astro.puc.cl Departamento de Astronomía y Astrofísica Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago, Chile Phone: (56-2) 354-7052 Curriculum Vitae ADS List of Publications ACT reports the first detection of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (Princeton) See press release about "El Gordo" by Chandra and ESO!

I have recently finished my MSc in astrophysics at PUC, and will start my PhD in Leiden under the supervision of Prof. Henk Hoekstra in September 2012, working with data from the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS). My MSc thesis was on the Dynamical mass-SZE signal scaling relations of SZE-detected clusters found with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). A paper specifically about this work has recently been submitted to ApJ.

Some python codes you might find useful:

pygmos

A Python/PyRAF pipeline to reduce GMOS spectra.
(You can also download a quick guide through the GMOS reduction process.)

plotspec

A simple tool to plot 1d spectra along the corresponding 2d spectrum.

readfile.py

A versatile module for reading ASCII table files.

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