New physics from space: formation and evolution of structures in the universe

• Grant number: 06/56213-9
• Support type: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• Duration: December 01, 2007 - November 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Astronomy - Extragalactic Astrophysics
• Principal Investigator: Claudia Lucia Mendes de Oliveira
• Grantee: Claudia Lucia Mendes de Oliveira
• Home Institution: Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas (IAG). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Co-Principal Investigators: Jacques Raymond Daniel Lépine ; Reuven Opher ; Thyrso Villela Neto
• Associated grant(s): 11/11417-4 - BTFI pos-comissioning activities and the construction of the cameras for the JPAS/Pau Brazil project, AV.EXT
• Associated scholarship(s): 12/17223-0 - Instrument control and data cube reduction of planetary nebula N2440, BP.IC; 10/08005-3 - Numerical simulations of galaxy cluster collisions, BP.IC; 09/05176-4 - Analysis of the influence of magnetic fields and cold dark matter in the formation and evolution of galaxies, BP.PD; + associated scholarships 09/05181-8 - Determination of the Spatial Orientation of Galaxies Using Spiral Arms and Velocity Fields, BP.PD; 08/57331-0 - Probing the properties of stellar populations in galaxies with environment and redshift using large-scale surveys, BP.PD; 08/05970-0 - Galaxy cluster collisions and their astrophysical consequences, BP.DR; 08/01608-4 - Physical properties of the brightest cluster galaxies, BP.MS; 08/04318-7 - Intracluster gas enrichment and star formation efficiency in clusters of galaxies, BP.PD - associated scholarships

Abstract

The Big Bang model is the theoretical scenario for understanding the manner in which the universe evolved from extreme uniformity to the rich structural diversity observed today in stars, galaxies and clusters of galaxies. The objective of this project is to make theoretical observational analysis of the problems related to the formation of the different structures in the universe in order to allow us to better understand the physical phenomena involved. In order to do this, we will study the relevant phenomena, using analytic theory, numerical simulations and optical and x-ray observations of galaxies and clusters of galaxies, as well as observations of the cosmic microwave background. The project is a continuation of the research supported by FAPESP (00/06770-2) since 2000, "Cosmic microwave background and formation of structures in the universe". The financial support requested is similar to that of the previous project. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

BARBOSA, C. E.; MENDES DE OLIVEIRA, C.; AMRAM, P.; FERRARI, F.; RUSSEIL, D.; EPINAT, B.; PERRET, V.; ADAMI, C.; MARCELIN, M. GHASP: an H alpha kinematic survey of spiral galaxies - X. Surface photometry, decompositions and the Tully-Fisher relation in the R-c band. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 453, n. 3, p. 2965-2981, NOV 1 2015. Web of Science Citations: 5.

HERNANDEZ-FERNANDEZ, JONATHAN D.; MENDES DE OLIVEIRA, C. Star-forming compact groups (SFCGs): an ultraviolet search for a local sample. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 453, n. 2, p. 1965-1980, OCT 21 2015. Web of Science Citations: 1.

PROCTOR, ROBERT N.; DE OLIVEIRA, CLAUDIA MENDES; AZANHA, LUIZ; DUPKE, RENATO; OVERZIER, RODERIK. A derivation of masses and total luminosities of galaxy groups and clusters in the maxBCG catalogue. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 449, n. 3, p. 2345-2352, MAY 21 2015. Web of Science Citations: 4.

ZANDIVAREZ, ARIEL; DIAZ-GIMENEZ, EUGENIA; DE OLIVEIRA, CLAUDIA MENDES; GUBOLIN, HENRIQUE. Are compact groups hostile towards faint galaxies?. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 572, DEC 2014. Web of Science Citations: 3.

URRUTIA-VISCARRA, F.; ARNABOLDI, M.; MENDES DE OLIVEIRA, C.; GERHARD, O.; TORRES-FLORES, S.; CARRASCO, E. R.; DE MELLO, D. A census of Ha emitters in the intergalactic medium of the NGC 2865 system. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 569, SEP 2014. Web of Science Citations: 2.

TORRES-FLORES, S.; AMRAM, P.; MENDES DE OLIVEIRA, C.; PLANA, H.; BALKOWSKI, C.; MARCELIN, M.; OLAVE-ROJAS, D. The H alpha kinematics of interacting galaxies in 12 compact groups. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 442, n. 3, p. 2188-2201, AUG 11 2014. Web of Science Citations: 9.

PROCTOR, ROBERT N.; DE OLIVEIRA, CLAUDIA MENDES; EIGENTHALER, PAUL. Spatially resolved stellar population parameters in the BCGs of two fossil groups. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 439, n. 3, p. 2281-2290, APR 2014. Web of Science Citations: 2.

HERNANDEZ-FERNANDEZ, JONATHAN D.; HAINES, C. P.; DIAFERIO, A.; IGLESIAS-PARAMO, J.; MENDES DE OLIVEIRA, C.; VILCHEZ, J. M. Star formation activity and gas stripping in the Cluster Projected Phase-Space (CPPS). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 438, n. 3, p. 2186-2200, MAR 2014. Web of Science Citations: 19.

ZANDIVAREZ, A.; DIAZ-GIMENEZ, E.; MENDES DE OLIVEIRA, C.; ASCASO, B.; BENITEZ, N.; DUPKE, R.; SODRE, JR., L.; IRWIN, J. Assessing the reliability of friends-of-friends groups on the future Javalambre Physics of the Accelerating Universe Astrophysical Survey. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 561, JAN 2014. Web of Science Citations: 10.

TORRES-FLORES, S.; MENDES DE OLIVEIRA, C.; PLANA, H.; AMRAM, P.; EPINAT, B. The Tully-Fisher relations for Hickson compact group galaxies star. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 432, n. 4, p. 3085-3096, JUL 2013. Web of Science Citations: 11.

MACHADO, U. D.; OPHER, R. Conceptual problem for noncommutative inflation and the new approach for nonrelativistic inflationary equation of state. Physical Review D, v. 87, n. 12 JUN 17 2013. Web of Science Citations: 1.

DE OLIVEIRA, CLAUDIA MENDES; TAYLOR, KEITH; QUINT, BRUNO; ANDRADE, DENIS; FERRARI, FABRICIO; LAPORTE, RENE; RAMOS, GISELI DE A.; DANI GUZMAN, CHRISTIAN; CAVALCANTI, LUIZ; DE CALASANS, ALVARO; FERNANDEZ, JAVIER RAMIREZ; GUTIERREZ CASTANEDA, EDNA CAROLINA; JONES, DAMIEN; FONTES, FERNANDO LUIS; MOLINA, ANA MARIA; FIALHO, FABIO; PLANA, HENRI; JABLONSKI, FRANCISCO J.; REITANO, LUIZ; DAIGLE, OLIVIER; SCARANO, JR., SERGIO; AMRAM, PHILIPPE; BALARD, PHILIPPE; GACH, JEAN-LUC; CARIGNAN, CLAUDE. The Brazilian Tunable Filter Imager for the SOAR Telescope. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, v. 125, n. 926, p. 396-408, APR 2013. Web of Science Citations: 7.

DE MELLO, D. F.; URRUTIA-VISCARRA, F.; MENDES DE OLIVEIRA, C.; TORRES-FLORES, S.; CARRASCO, E. R.; CYPRIANO, E. Star formation in H I tails: HCG 92, HCG 100 and six interacting systems. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 426, n. 3, p. 2441-2451, NOV 2012. Web of Science Citations: 13.

TORRES-FLORES, S.; MENDES DE OLIVEIRA, C.; DE MELLO, D. F.; SCARANO, JR., S.; URRUTIA-VISCARRA, F. NGC 2782: a merger remnant with young stars in its gaseous tidal tail. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 421, n. 4, p. 3612-3621, APR 2012. Web of Science Citations: 15.

MACHADO, U. D.; OPHER, R. Generalized non-commutative inflation. Classical and Quantum Gravity, v. 29, n. 6 MAR 21 2012. Web of Science Citations: 6.

LAGANA, TATIANA F.; ZHANG, YU-YING; REIPRICH, THOMAS H.; SCHNEIDER, PETER. XMM-NEWTON/SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: STAR FORMATION EFFICIENCY IN GALAXY CLUSTERS AND CONSTRAINTS ON THE MATTER-DENSITY PARAMETER. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, v. 743, n. 1 DEC 10 2011. Web of Science Citations: 30.

DE SOUZA, RAFAEL S.; OPHER, REUVEN. Origin of intense magnetic fields near black holes due to non-minimal gravitational-electromagnetic coupling. Physics Letters B, v. 705, n. 4, p. 292-293, NOV 17 2011. Web of Science Citations: 6.

ZHANG, Y. -Y.; LAGANA, T. F.; PIERINI, D.; PUCHWEIN, E.; SCHNEIDER, P.; REIPRICH, T. H. Star-formation efficiency and metal enrichment of the intracluster medium in local massive clusters of galaxies. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 535, NOV 2011. Web of Science Citations: 26.

TORRES-FLORES, S.; EPINAT, B.; AMRAM, P.; PLANA, H.; MENDES DE OLIVEIRA, C. GHASP: an H alpha kinematic survey of spiral and irregular galaxies - IX. The near-infrared, stellar and baryonic Tully-Fisher relations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 416, n. 3, p. 1936-1948, SEP 2011. Web of Science Citations: 33.

DE SOUZA, R. S.; RODRIGUES, L. F. S.; ISHIDA, E. E. O.; OPHER, R. The effect of a single supernova explosion on the cuspy density profile of a small-mass dark matter halo. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 415, n. 3, p. 2969-2973, AUG 2011. Web of Science Citations: 30.

DURRET, F.; LAGANA, T. F.; HAIDER, M. The merging cluster Abell 1758 revisited: multi-wavelength observations and numerical simulations. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 529, MAY 2011. Web of Science Citations: 22.

DE SOUZA, RAFAEL S.; RODRIGUES, LUIZ FELIPPE S.; OPHER, REUVEN. Random primordial magnetic fields and the gas content of dark matter haloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 410, n. 4, p. 2149-2155, FEB 2011. Web of Science Citations: 1.

DE SOUZA, RAFAEL S.; OPHER, REUVEN. Are the magnetic fields of millisecond pulsars similar to 10(8) G?. ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE, v. 330, n. 2, p. 267-271, DEC 2010. Web of Science Citations: 0.

TORRES-FLORES, S.; MENDES DE OLIVEIRA, C.; AMRAM, P.; PLANA, H.; EPINAT, B.; CARIGNAN, C.; BALKOWSKI, C. Kinematics of galaxies in compact groups Studying the B-band Tully-Fischer relation. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 521, OCT 2010. Web of Science Citations: 9.

RODRIGUES, LUIZ FELIPPE S.; DE SOUZA, RAFAEL S.; OPHER, REUVEN. Suppression of small baryonic structures due to a primordial magnetic field. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 406, n. 1, p. 482-485, JUL 21 2010. Web of Science Citations: 7.

DURRET, F.; LAGANA, T. F.; ADAMI, C.; BERTIN, E. The clusters Abell 222 and Abell 223: a multi-wavelength view. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 517, JUL 2010. Web of Science Citations: 11.

DE SOUZA, RAFAEL S.; OPHER, REUVEN. Origin of 10(15)-10(16) G magnetic fields in the central engine of gamma ray bursts. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, n. 2 FEB 2010. Web of Science Citations: 9.

LAGANA, T. F.; ANDRADE-SANTOS, F.; LIMA NETO, G. B. Spiral-like structure at the centre of nearby clusters of galaxies. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 511, FEB-MAR 2010. Web of Science Citations: 29.

MOUSSAOUI, N.; CLEMESHA, B. R.; HOLZLOEHNER, R.; SIMONICH, D. M.; CALIA, D. BONACCINI; HACKENBERG, W.; BATISTA, P. P. Statistics of the sodium layer parameters at low geographic latitude and its impact on adaptive-optics sodium laser guide star characteristics. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 511, FEB-MAR 2010. Web of Science Citations: 22.

RODRIGUES, LUIZ FELIPPE S.; OPHER, REUVEN. Large change in the predicted number of small halos due to a small amplitude oscillating inflaton potential. Physical Review D, v. 82, n. 2, p. 023501, 2010. Web of Science Citations: 0.

TORRES-FLORES, S.; DE OLIVEIRA, C. MENDES; DE MELLO, D. F.; AMRAM, P.; PLANA, H.; EPINAT, B.; IGLESIAS-PARAMO, J. Star formation in the intragroup medium and other diagnostics of the evolutionary stages of compact groups of galaxies. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 507, n. 2, p. 723-746, NOV 2009. Web of Science Citations: 25.

PELINSON, ANA. REVISITING THE MODIFIED STAROBINSKY MODEL WITH A COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS D, v. 18, n. 9, p. 1355-1366, SEP 2009. Web of Science Citations: 1.

MENDES DE OLIVEIRA, CLAUDIA L.; CYPRIANO, EDUARDO S.; DUPKE, RENATO A.; SODRE, JR., LAERTE. AN OPTICAL AND X-RAY STUDY OF THE FOSSIL GROUP RX J1340.6+4018. ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, v. 138, n. 2, p. 502-509, AUG 2009. Web of Science Citations: 17.

COELHO, P.; DE OLIVEIRA, C. MENDES; FERNANDES, R. CID. An analysis of the composite stellar population in M32. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 396, n. 2, p. 624-634, June 2009. Web of Science Citations: 29.