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Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (Brasil). Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
She is a researcher at the Astrophysics Division of Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) since 1994. She has got her bachelor's at Physics in Universidade de São Paulo (USP, 1989), her master at Astronomy in USP (1992) and her doctorate at Astronomy in USP (1997). Her work focuses on stellar astrophysics, acting on the following subjects: cataclysmic variables and interstellar medium. She has a considerable experience in instrumentation to astronomical polarimetry and presently coordinates the development of the instrument SPARC4 - Simultaneous Polarimeter And Rapid Camera in 4 bands -, which is in operation at Observatório do Pico dos Dias. Presently, she is Head of the Astrophysics Division and was formerly Coordinator of the Astrophysical Graduate Studies at INPE. She is member of SOAR Consortium Director Board and was also President of the National Time Allocation Committee of the SOAR Telescope. She was member of Technical and Scientific Committees of INPE and Laboratório Nacional de Astrofísica (LNA). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The objective of this project is to investigate magnetic cataclysmic variables (MCVs), which are interacting binaries in which a magnetic white dwarf accretes matter from a main sequence star or a slightly evolved star. MCVs can be used as natural laboratories to investigate binary formation and evolution, accretion processes, supernova Ia progenitors, interactions between high-density pl…
Soft Gamma Repeaters (SGR) and Anomalous X-Ray Pulsars (AXP) are considered by a large fraction of the scientific community as magnetars: neutron stars having a huge magnetic field (10^13 to 10^15 G). However, because of this giant magnetic field, greater than the critical limit imposed by the quantum mechanics, other possibilities are also studied: the white-dwarf model is one of them. I…
Intermediate polars are cataclysmic variables, binary systems in which mass transfer occurs from a low-mass star onto a white dwarf. The white-dwarf magnetic field partially controls the accretion geometry, however it is not strong enough to synchronize the rotational periods of the white dwarf with the orbital period. Some systems may evolve to synchronization. Accretion onto the white d…
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The objective of this project is to investigate binary star pathways that may lead to type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) explosions. SN Ia represent a very, perhaps even the most, important step on the extra-galactic distance ladder, and they have led to ground-breaking discoveries such as dark energy. Despite their outstanding importance, we still struggle to understand the details of the evolut…
Magnetic cataclysmic variables are compact binary systems in which mass transfer occurs from a low-mass star onto a magnetic white dwarf. In polars and intermediate polars subclass, the magnetic field of the white dwarf is strong enough to disrupt the inner accretion disk or even completely prevent disk formation. SW~Sextantis stars are a type of novalike cataclysmic variable, which show …
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