Associate Professor of Astrophysics at Universidade de Sao Paulo. PhD in astrophysics (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul). Previously: Junior Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (until 2019), NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Research areas: astrophysics, black holes, high-energy astrophysics, high-performance computing. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Black Holes (BH) are key actors in astronomy. They behave as engines that convert the gravitational energy of infalling gas into intense, high-energy radiation, thus powering the most luminous objects in the universe: Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and gamma-ray bursts. Furthermore, BHs operate as extreme particle accelerators through ill-understood processes and produce outflows of particl…
X-ray binaries (XRBs) undergo state transitions during which their spectral and timing properties change dramatically. The nature of these state transitions is a long-standing open question in black hole (BH) astrophysics. Moreover, the details of the hard state and how a colder thin accretion disk coexists with a much hotter corona are not well-understood. One leading idea is that they a…
An unresolved question in black hole astronomy is how active galactic nuclei (AGN) spectra respond to the changing SMBH accretion rate as galaxies evolve over cosmic time. A better understanding of this topic will shed light on the universality of BH accretion physics across the mass scale. The goal of this project is to study the dependence of observed, multiwavelength AGN spectral energ…
Black hole binaries (BHBs) undergo state transitions during which their spectral and timing properties change dramatically. The nature of these state transitions is a long-standing open question. One leading idea is that they are associated with modulations in the mass accretion rate $\dot{M}$ which affect the amount of radiative cooling in the accretion flow. The goal of this project is …
In order to investigate the incidence of gamma-ray emitting outflows in nearby galaxies similar to the Fermi bubbles, we will search for gamma-emission from all Milky Way-like galaxies in the Palomar sample and the 100 brightest quasars - which can host powerful quasar outflows - in the nearby universe selected from the SDSS, using 8 years of Fermi LAT observations. We will perform the an…
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Accreting black holes (BHs) produce relativistic jets which are behind a wide variety of astronomical phenomena and provide fascinating sources of electromagnetic radiation from radio to gamma-rays, cosmic rays and neutrinos. Despite the importance of jets for multimessenger astronomy, our understanding of how they are born from a black hole magnetosphere and subsequently sustained is sti…
Black hole binaries (BHBs) undergo state transitions during which their spectral and timing properties change dramatically. The nature of these state transitions is a long-standing open question. One leading idea is that they are associated with modulations in the mass accretion rate $\dot{M}$ which affect the amount of radiative cooling in the accretion flow. The goal of this project is …
About one-third of the gamma-ray sources listed in the third Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalog have no firmly established counterpart at lower energies and so are classified as unidentified gamma-ray sources (UGSs). Identifying the low energy counterpart of the UGSs is one of the major scientific challenges faced by the Fermi-LAT Collaboration and is being inspected in many differe…
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