21 Dicembre

Eric Giunchi
Project title: Gas in galaxies: the effects of environmental and feedback processes on galaxy evolution
Supervisor: Bianca Maria Poggianti

Giorgia Peluso
Project title: Evolution of ram-pressure stripping and star formation quenching in jellyfish galaxies
Supervisor: Bianca Maria Poggianti

Guglielmo Volpato
Project title: Core Helium Burning in Intermediate-Mass and Massive Stars: Effects of Chemical Mixing and Rotation
Supervisor: Paola Marigo

14 Dicembre

Francesco Sinigaglia
Project title: The role of HI in galaxy formation and evolution: on the way to the SKA
Supervisor: Giulia Rodighiero

Marco Dall'Amico
Project title: The impact of chaotic dynamics on the formation of compact binary systems
Supervisor: Michela Mapelli

Giacomo Mantovan
Project title: Validation of candidate exoplanets discovered by TESS
Supervisor: Giampaolo Piotto

30 Novembre

Vito Squicciarini
Article title: Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus
Authors: Greaves et al. (2020)
Link: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2009/2009.06593.pdf

Chiara Buttitta
Article title: Faint Stars in a Faint Galaxy: I. Ultra Deep Photometry of Bootes I Ultra Faint Dwarf Galaxy
Authors: Filion, C. et al. 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06089

Andrea Pavan
Article title: The impact of stellar rotation on the black hole mass-gap from pair-instability supernovae
Authors: Marchant, P. and Moriya, T. J. 2020
Link: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202038902

23 Novembre

Giorgio Valerin
Article title: Stellar Flares from the First Tess Data Release: Exploring a New Sample of M dwarfs
Authors: Gunther, M. et al., 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.00443.pdf

Jose Schiappacasse
Article title: Pōniuā'ena: A Luminous z = 7.5 Quasar Hosting a 1.5 Billion Solar Mass Black Hole
Authors: Yang, J. et al. 2020
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab9c26/pdf

Camilla Pianta
Article title: Thin accretion disk around the distorted Schwarzschild black hole
Authors: Faraji, S. and Hackmann, E., 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02786

16 Novembre

Filippo Santoliquido
Article title: Which stars can see Earth as a transiting exoplanet?
Authors: Kaltenegger, L. and Pepper, J., 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.09766.pdf

Nicolas Estrada
Article title: Constraint on the matter-antimatter symmetry-violating phase in neutrino oscillations
Authors: The T2K Collaboration, 2020
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2177-0

9 Novembre

Stefano Torniamenti
Article title: Deflection of the hypervelocity stars by the pull of the Large Magellanic Cloud on the Milky Way
Authors: Boubert, D. et al., 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.00633.pdf

Yanrong Zhang
Article title: A three-dimensional laser interferometer gravitational-wave detector
Authors: Liu, M. and Gong, B., 2020
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72850-6

13 Luglio

Camilla Pianta
Article title: Gravitational waves from fast-spinning white dwarfs
Authors: Sousa, M. F. et al., 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08534

Filippo Santoliquido
Article title: An emission spectrum for WASP-121b measured across the 0.8-1.1 µm wavelength range using the Hubble Space Telescope
Authors: Mikal-Evans, T. et al., 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.06326.pdf

6 Luglio

Vito Squicciarini
Article title: Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter and the LIGO/Virgo observations
Authors: Jedamzik, K., 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11172

Yanrong Zhang
Article title: An in-depth investigation of 11 pulsars discovered by FAST
Authors: Cameron, A. D. et al., 2020
Link: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/495/3/3515/5837094?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Stefano Torniamenti
Article title: Gaseous dynamical friction under radiative feedback: do intermediate-mass black holes speed up or down?
Authors: Toyouchi, D. et al., 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.08017.pdf
 

29 Giugno

Chiara Buttitta
Article title: Formation of massive black holes in ultra-compact dwarf galaxies: migration of primordial intermediate-mass black holes in N-body simulation
Authors: Henriette Wirth, H. and Bekki, K., 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.02517 

Giacomo Cordoni
Article title: Morpheus: A Deep Learning Framework for the Pixel-level Analysis of Astronomical Image Data
Authors:Hausen, R., Robertson, B. E., 2020
Link: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ApJS..248...20H/abstract

Andrea Franchetto
Article title: On the Impact of Satellite Constellations on Astronomical Observations with ESO telescopes in the Visible and Infrared Domains
Authors: Hainaut, O. R., Williams, A. P. et al., 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01992

22 Giugno

José Schiappacasse
Article title: Betelgeuse Just Is Not That Cool: Effective Temperature Alone Cannot Explain the Recent Dimming of Betelgeuse
Authors: Levesque, E. M. et al., 2020
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab7935/pdf

Camilla Pianta
Article title: AGB winds in interacting binary stars
Authors: Bermúdez-Bustamante, L. C. et al., 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02570

Giovanni Munaretto
Article title: ALMA reveals the coherence of the magnetic field geometry in OH 231.8+4.2
Authors: Sabin, L. et al., 2020
Link: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/495/4/4297/5843298?redirectedFrom=fulltext

15 Giugno

Andrea Pavan
Article title: Magnetic fields and cosmic rays in M 31 - I. Spectral indices, scale lengths, Faraday rotation, and magnetic field pattern
Authors: Beck, R. et al., 2020
Link: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/01/aa36481-19/aa36481-19.html

Giorgio Valerin
Article title: Identifying Multiple Populations in M71 using CN
Authors: Gerber, J. M. et al., 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.11887.pdf

Camilla Pianta
Article title: AGB winds in interacting binary stars
Authors: Bermúdez-Bustamante, L. C. et al., 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02570

8 Giugno

Martina Baratella
Article title: Discovery of a nearby 1700 km/s star ejected from the Milky Way by Sgr A*
Authors: Koposov, S. E. et al., 2019
Link: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/491/2/2465/5612212

Nicolas Estrada
Article title: The Phlek Survey: A new determination of the primordial helium abundance
Authors: Hysiu, T. et al., 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.12290.pdf

Vito Squicciarini
Article title: Two examples of how to use observations of terrestrial planets orbiting in temperate orbits around low mass stars to test key concepts of planetary habitability
Authors: Turbet, M. et al., 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.06512.pdf

3 Giugno

Simone Di Filippo
Article title: X-ray irradiation and evaporation of the four young planets around V1298 Tau
Authors: Poppenhaeger, K. et al., 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10240

Yanrong Zhang
Article title: On the origin of GW190425
Authors: Isobel M Romero-Shaw, I. M. H. et al., 2019
Link: https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article-abstract/496/1/L64/5835715?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Chiara Buttitta
Article title: The Structure of Tidal Disruption Event Host Galaxies on Scales of Tens to Thousands of Parsecs
Authors: French, K. D. et al., 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02498

25 Maggio

Eleni Evangelia Manthopoulou
Article title: A Habitable-Zone Earth-Sized Planet Rescued from False Positive Status
Authors: Vanderburg, A. et al., 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06725

José Schiappacasse
Article title:The Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy VCC 848 Formed by Dwarf–Dwarf Merging
Authors: Zhang, H. et al., 2020
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab7825/pdf

18 Maggio

Michael Romano
Article title: NGC 6240: A triple nucleus system in the advanced or final state of merging
Authors: Kollatschny, W. et al., 2020
Link: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/01/aa36540-19/aa36540-19.html

Filippo Santoliquido
Article title: Effects of radius and gravity on the inner edge of the habitable zone
Authors: Young, H. et al., 2019
Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.12267.pdf

Stefano Torniamenti
Article title: Type II migration strikes back – An old paradigm for planet migration in discs
Authors: Scardoni, C. E. et al., 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.07313.pdf

11 Maggio

Alessandro Mazzi
Article title: Corona-Australis DANCe - I. Revisiting the census of stars with Gaia-DR2 data
Authors: Galli, P. et al., 2020
Link: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/02/aa36708-19/aa36708-19.html

Gaia Lacedelli
Article title: Is the High-Resolution Coronal Imager Resolving Coronal Strands? Results from AR 12712
Authors: Williams, T. et al., 2020
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab6dcf 

Giorgio Valerin
Article title: Reverse engineering the Milky Way
Authors: Forbes, D. A. et al., 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01512

4 Maggio

Davide De Grandis
Article title: Death or serious injury from dark matter
Authors: Sidhu, J. S. et al., 2020
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269320301040?via%3Dihub#!

Alessia Spolon
Article title: The X-Ray Cavity Around Hotspot E in Cygnus A: Tunneled by a Deflected Jet
Authors: Snios, B. et al., 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02978 

Simone di Filippo
Article title: Joint XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observations of the reflection spectrum of III Zw 2
Authors: Chamani, W. et al., 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/<wbr />2002.04454.pdf

27 Aprile

Ruyuan Zhang
Article title: Fundamental Parameters of ∼30,000 M dwarfs in LAMOST DR1 Using Data-driven Spectral Modeling
Authors: Galagano, B. et al., 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.06648.pdf

Maria Jose Rain
Article title: The Li-age correlation: the Sun is unusually Li deficient forits age
Authors: Carlos, M. et al., 2019
Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.02735.pdf

Giacomo Cordoni
Article title: Multiple retrograde substructures in the Galactic halo: A shattered view of Galactic history
Authors: Koppelman, H. H. et al., 2019
Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.08924.pdf

20 Aprile

Jimin Peng
Article title: A type Ia supernova at the heart of superluminous transient SN 2006gy
Authors: Jerkstrand, A. et al., 2020
Link: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6476/415/tab-article-info

Eleni-Evangelia Manthopoulou
Article title: Long-term evolution of the Galilean satellites: the capture of Callisto into resonance
Authors: Lari, G. et al., 2020
Link: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020arXiv200101106L/abstract

Andrea Pavan
Article title: Lense-Thirring dragging induced by a fast-rotating white dwarf in a binary pulsar system
Authors: Venkatraman Krishnan, V. et al., 2020
Link: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6477/577

15 Aprile

Giovanni Munaretto
Article title: A measurement of water vapour amid a largely quiescent environment on Europa
Authors: Paganini, L. et al., 2019
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0933-6

Nicolas Estrada
Article title: Simultaneous precision spectroscopy of pp, 7 Be, and pep solar neutrinos with Borexino Phase-II
Authors: Agostini, M. et al., 2019
Link: https://journals.aps.<wbr />org/prd/abstract/10.1103/<wbr />PhysRevD.100.082004

17 Febbraio

Alessandro Mazzi
Article title: The long-lived Type IIn SN 2015da: Infrared echoes and strong interaction within an extended massive shell
Authors: Tartaglia, L. et al., 2019
Link: https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051/0004-6361/201936553

Gaia Lacedelli
Article title: The Secular Dynamics of TNOs and Planet Nine Interactions
Authors: Li, G. et al., 2018
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aae83b

10 Febbraio

Davide De Grandis
Article title: The Interplay of Magnetically Dominated Turbulence and Magnetic Reconnection in Producing Nonthermal Particles
Authors: Comisso, L. and Sironi, L., 2019
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab4c33/pdf

Alessia Spolon
Article title: Peering into the Dark Side: Magnesium Lines Establish a Massive Neutron Star in PSR J2215+5135
Authors: Linares, M. et al., 2018
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aabde6/pdf

Giacomo Cordoni
Article title: Tracing the formation of the Milky Way through ultra metal-poor stars
Authors: Sestito, F. et al., 2019
Link: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/484/2/2166/5281288

03 Febbraio

Ruyuan Zhang
Article title: Reconstructing Functions and Estimating Parameters with Artificial Neural Networks: A Test with a Hubble Parameter and SNe Ia
Authors: Wang, G.J., 2020
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ab620b

Andrea Franchetto
Article title: The first spectroscopic dust reverberation programme on active galactic nuclei: the torus in NCG 5548
Authors: Landt, H. et al., 2019
Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2212

27 Gennaio

Martina Baratella
Article title: The strange case of the peculiar spiral galaxy NGC5474. New pieces of a galactic puzzle
Authors: Bellazzini, M. et al., 2020
Link: 2020arXiv200102413B

Jimin Peng
Article title: Evolution of giant molecular clouds across cosmic time
Authors: Guszejnov, D. et al., 2019
Link: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/492/1/488/5679905

20 Gennaio

Michael Romano
Article title: Discovery of a sub-Keplerian disk with jet around a 20 Msun young star
Authors: Sanna, A. et al., 2019
Link: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/03/aa33411-18/aa33411-18.html

Maria Jose Rain
Article title: The First Habitable Zone Earth-Sized Planet From TESS II: Spitzer Confirms TOI-700 d
Authors: Rodriguez, J. E. et al., 2020
Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.00954.pdf

13 Gennaio

Vito Squicciarini
PhD project title: The impact of stellar mass on the formation of planets
Supervisor: Raffaele Gratton

Yanrong Zhang
PhD project title: High Energy Emission Mechanism in Mode Changing Pulsars
Supervisor: Luca Zampieri