{"id":4821,"date":"2024-05-03T18:12:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T18:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/?post_type=researcher&#038;p=4821"},"modified":"2025-08-21T03:09:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:09:35","slug":"kevin-harrington","status":"publish","type":"researcher","link":"https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/en\/researcher\/kevin-harrington\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Harrington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-3\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column profile-column is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border is-style-rounded profile-photo\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Kevin_Harrington.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6215\" style=\"border-radius:10px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Kevin_Harrington.png 400w, https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Kevin_Harrington-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Kevin_Harrington-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Kevin_Harrington-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:55%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kevin Harrington<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Former ESO Postdoctoral Fellow<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a former ESO Research Postdoctoral fellow and observational astrophysicist working on galaxy evolution and star formation,  based at Universidad Diego Portales in my last year of the European Southern Observatory fellowship program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Projects<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>I study the molecular gas and dust, the cool star-forming regions within the most active galaxies in the early Universe (the first half of the ~13.8 Gyr) in order to understand the physical processes of creating stars and roles in which the interstellar medium shapes the growth and evolution of galaxies. I focus a lot of attention on gravitationally lensed star-forming galaxies in the early Universe, as this phenomenon provides a natural microscope to magnify the light from distant galaxies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Highlights<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>The Planck All-Sky Survey to Analyze Gravitationally lensed Extreme Starbursts (PASSAGES) collaboration is one that I am co-founder of and project manager, and it grew from having discovered some of the most luminous galaxies ever observed. These galaxies appear on the sky with more than 100 trillion solar luminosities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/search\/fq=%7B!type%3Daqp%20v%3D%24fq_database%7D&amp;fq_database=(database%3Aastronomy%20OR%20database%3Aphysics)&amp;q=%20author%3A%22harrington%2C%20kevin%22&amp;sort=date%20desc%2C%20bibcode%20desc&amp;p_=0\"><strong>NASA ADS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Extracurricular activities<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>I play all types of percussion and other instruments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former ESO Research Postdoctoral fellow, studying the cool star-forming regions in active galaxies in the early Universe, to understand the influence of ISM in the growth and evolution of galaxies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4824,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"researcher-category":[259],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/researcher\/4821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/researcher"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/researcher"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/researcher\/4821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7860,"href":"https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/researcher\/4821\/revisions\/7860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"researcher-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomia.udp.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/researcher-category?post=4821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}