Will Armentrout

At my core, I am an observational astronomer, and I have been primary investigator for projects on three telescopes—Very Large Array (VLA), Green Bank Telescope (GBT), and Gemini Observatory North. I have nearly 200 hours of hands-on observing experience with the GBT, and I have prepared target lists for 13 distinct projects in graduate school comprising ~940 total hours of observations.

Though the bulk of my training is in radio astronomy, I actively sought out involvement with optical and infrared instruments in an effort to broaden my research horizons and study Galactic star formation across many wavelengths. From single-dish mapping and individual pointings with the GBT to interferometric observations with the VLA to optical observations on Maunakea, I have a breadth of experience across astronomy.

My work focuses mainly on Galactic high-mass star formation. Throughout graduate school, I have worked with several teams to provide a complete census of Galactic HII regions. I have quite a bit of observational experience with radio recombination line and molecular gas observations of Galactic star forming regions. This work spans from the most distant areas of high-mass star formation in our Galaxy (the Outer Scutum-Centaurus Arm, OSC) to the faintest population of B-stars still able to produce a detectable HII region. Since high-mass stars form preferentially in spiral arms and have exceedingly short lifetimes compared to the age of our Galaxy, completing the census of Galactic HII regions also gives us a global picture of the current structure and high-mass star formation within the Milky Way.

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