Sylvana Yelda

Welcome! I am a graduate student in Astrophysics at UCLA working with Professor Andrea Ghez on stellar dynamics in the Galactic center (GC). I am measuring the orbits of individual stars in the dense environment of the GC, which requires high angular resolution imaging obtained with the Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics (LGS-AO) system at Keck Observatory. I use high-precision astrometry of the young stars in the GC in order to understand how stars can form so close to a supermassive black hole. Read more about this here.

Observing at Keck.

Sylvana Yelda
Division of Astronomy & Astrophysics
University of California, Los Angeles
430 Portola Plaza, BOX 951547
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547 (USA)

syelda [at] astro [dot] ucla [dot] edu

Work: (310) 825 3172
Fax: (310) 206 2096