Instituto de Física y Astronomía

M. Sc. in Astrophysics student, Universidad de Valparaísoo
Research Area: planets around Post Common Envelope Binaries (PCEBs).
email: guillermo.retamales at uv.cl

About my research: I'm a M.Sc. Astrophysics student, working within the Compact Binary Group in the Institute. I'm currently doing my thesis on "Testing the third body explanation for eclipse timing variations in PCEBs" with the aim of explaining the origin of the variations observed in this system. The specific goal of my thesis is to obtain the orbital parameters of possible planetary orbits around the binary star system RR Cae, via statistical methods (specifically MCMC), and determining the stability of the orbit of this possible planet.