History
The Astrophysics Group at the UAM was founded in 1987 around a small stable core of researchers, including Prof. Rosa Domínguez and Prof. Ángeles Díaz, working in the broad topic of the formation and evolution of galaxies in different environments and the build-up of large-scale structure in the universe.
When Dr. Carlos Eiroa joined the group in 1991, this topic extended to star formation on Galactic scales, protoplanetary nebulae, and, more recently, exoplanetary systems.
To carry out its research, the group has been financially supported by different public organizations, both national and international, over the past years.
We have formed many young astronomers through the realization of Ph.D. theses, and several international workshops have been organized by group members.
A summary of such past activities is provided below.
For a list of ongoing projects, see Research.
Research projects
- July 1994 - July 1997: "Formación y evolución de galaxias, cúmulos de galaxias y estructura a gran escala del Universo"
PI: Angeles I. Díaz Beltrán (DGICyT, Spain)
- July 1995 - July 1998: "Formación estelar: objetos jóvenes PMS. Discos y pérdida de masa"
PI: Carlos Eiroa de San Francisco (DGICyT, Spain)
- 1998: "Acción especial para la renovación del material informático del Observatorio de la UAM"
PI: Carlos Eiroa San Francisco (SEUID, Spain)
- January 1998 - December 1999: "Acción Integrada Hispano-Alemana: "Origen y Formación de Cúmulos de Galaxias"
PI: Fernando Atrio Barandela (SEUID, Spain)
- January 1998 - December 1999: "Planetary Systems: Their formation and properties"
PI: Carlos Eiroa de San Francisco (DGES, Spain)
- January 1999 - December 2000: "Study for the ESA SMART2 mission"
PI: CASA, with Carlos Eiroa de San Francisco as a member of the scientific team (ESA, EU)
- July 1997 - July 2000: "Estudio de la formación y evolución de galaxias en diferentes entornos y de la estructura a gran escala del Universo"
PI: Rosa María Domínguez Tenreiro (DGICyT, Spain)
- July 1998 - July 2001: "Programa de Profesores Visitantes de Ciencia y Tecnología IBERDROLA"
PI: Ángeles Isabel Díaz Beltrán (IBERDROLA, Spain)
- October 1998 - September 2001: "Colaboración científica a la misión de interferometría infrarroja espacial"
PI: Carlos Eiroa de San Francisco (DGESIC, Spain)
- November 1999 - November 2001: "From late type giants to dwarf galaxies"
PI: Federico Ferrini - Ángeles Isabel Díaz Beltrán (NATO)
- January 1999 - December 2001: "NGC 604: Laboratorio para el estudio de la formación estelar violenta"
PI: Enrique Pérez Jiménez (Convenio CSIC-CONACYT, Mexico)
- January 2001 - December 2002: "Acción Integrada Hispano-Alemana: "Formación y Evolución de Cúmulos de Galaxias en diferentes marcos cosmológicos"
PI: Gustavo Yepes Alonso (MCyT, Spain)
- December 2000 - December 2003: "Estudio de la Formación y Evolución de Galaxias en Diferentes Epocas Cosmológicas y de la Estructura a gran Escala del Universo"
PI: Ángeles I. Díaz Beltrán (DGICyT, Spain)
- December 2001 - December 2003: "Potenciación de la participación española en el interferómetro ALMA"
PI: J. M. Torrelles (DGICyT, Spain)
- December 2001 - December 2003: "Astrofísica de alta resolución espacial. Formación y Evolución de sistemas planetarios"
PI: Carlos Eiroa de San Francisco (MCyT, Spain)
- The MareNostrum Numerical Cosmology Project: A virtual Laboratory of the evolution of the Universe
MICINN, Spain (AYA2009-13875-C03-02)
- Formación y Evolución de Galaxias en un Contexto Cosmológico desde las Simulaciones Numéricas
MICINN, Spain (AYA2009-12792-C03-03)
- Astrofísica y desarrollos tecnológicos en la Comunidad de Madrid
CAM, Spain (P2009/ESP-1496)
- Multimessenger Approach for Dark Matter Detection
MICINN, Spain (Consolider-Igenio CSD2009-00064)
- Estallidos y su huella en la evolución cósmica de las galaxias
MICINN, Spain (AYA 2010-21887-C04-03)
- Real and Virtual Galaxies
MICINN, Spain (AYA 2010-21322-C03-02)
- Unfolding the evolution of Planetary Systems
EU (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRG 268111)
- Sobre discos (proto-)planetarios y planetas
MINCIN, Spain (AYA2011-26202)
- INVISIBLES International Training Network
EU Marie Curie Actions (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-ITN-289442)
- The MareNostrum Numerical Cosmology Project II: A virtual Laboratory of the evolution of the Universe
MINECO, Spain (AYA2012-31101)
- Mecanismos de dispersión y evolución en discos protoplanetarios
MINECO, Spain (AYA2012-35008)
- The chemical and dynamical structure of disk galaxies
DAAD, Germany (PPP-Spain-57050803)
- El papel de los estallidos de formación estelar en la formación y evolución de galaxias: Estallidos 5
MINECO, Spain (AYA2013-47742-C4-3-P)
- Study of Emission Line Galaxies with
Integral Field Spectroscopy (SELGIFS)
EU Marie Curie Actions (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES-612701)
- Simulando el Universo: desde las estructuras a grandes escalas hasta nuestro entorno local
MINECO/FEDER (AYA2015-63810-P)
- Estallidos de formación estelar y evolución de galaxias
MINECO, Spain (AYA2016-79724-C4-1-P)
Ph.D. Theses
Supervised by members of the Astrophysics group
- Un análisis crítico de las relaciones entre los indicadores observacionales de viento y discos en estrellas pre-secuencia principal
Elena Ortiz García, 1998 (advisor: Carlos Eiroa de San Francisco)
- A comprehensive study of giant extragalactic high metallicity HII regions
Marcelo Castellanos Beltrán, 2001 (advisor: Ángeles I. Díaz Beltrán)
- Estructuras circunnucleares de formación estelar en galaxias
Mar Alvarez Alvarez, 2002 (advisor: Ángeles I. Díaz Beltrán)
- A Theoretical Perspective on Galaxy on Galaxy Clusters: Physical Properties of the Dark Matter and Baryons
Yago Ascasibar Sequeiros, 2003 (advisor: Gustavo Yepes Alonso)
- Galaxy Assembly in Self Consistent Hydrodynamical Simulations: Comparison with Observations
Alejandro Saiz Rivera, 2003 (advisor: Rosa Mª Domínguez Tenreiro)
- Diagnóstico de galaxias HII en el rojo lejano
Enrique Pérez Montero, 2003 (advisor: Ángeles I. Díaz Beltrán)
- On the nature of Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies
Carlos de Hoyos Fernández de Córdova, 2006 (advisors: Angeles Díaz, Rafael Guzmán)
- A comparative study of Star Formation processes in different environments
Guillermo Federico Hägele, 2008 (advisors: Angeles Díaz, Elena Terlevich)
- Metal Enrichment and Cooling in Cosmological Simulations: A New Paralell Code and Some Applications.
Francisco Jesus Martinez Serrano, 2009 (advisor: Rosa Mª Domínguez Tenreiro)
- Structure, kinematics and evolution of elliptical galaxies from hydrodynamical simulations.
José Oñorbe Bernis, 2009 (advisor: Rosa Mª Domínguez Tenreiro)
- Gas altamente ionizado en galaxias Seyfert 1: interpretación de sus marcas en espectros de rayos X de alta resolución
Mónica Cardaci, 2009 (advisors: Angeles Díaz, María de Santos)
- A spatially resolved study of ionized regions in galaxies at different scales
Rubén García-Benito, 2009 (advisors: Angeles Díaz, Enrique Pérez)
- Evolución de Galaxias Enanas Aisladas
Marta Gavilán Bouzas, 2009 (advisors: Mercedes Mollá, Angeles Díaz)
- Emission-line star forming dwarf galaxies: self-consistent evolutionary models
Mariluz Martín Manjón, 2009 (advisors: Ángeles Díaz, Mercedes Mollá)
- El Proyecto CLUES: Simulando el Universo Local
Luis Alberto Martinez Vaquero, 2010 (advisor: Gustavo Yepes)
- The MareNostrum Universe: a numerical study of galaxy clusters
Raul Sevilla Gonzalez, 2010 (advisor: Gustavo Yepes)
- Multi-messenger constraints and pressure from dark matter annihilation
into electron-positron pairs
Wechakama, Maneenate, 2013 (advisors: Yago Ascasibar, Volker Müller)
- The MUSIC of Galaxy Clusters
Sembolini, Federico, 2014 (advisor: Gustavo Yepes)
- Constrained Local Universe Simulations
Di Cintio, Arianna, 2014 (advisor: Alexander Knebe)
- Coupled Dark Matter-Dark Energy Models
Carlesi, Edoardo, 2014 (advisor: Alexander Knebe)
- The Maker and the Mask: Cosmic Web and Dust Effects in the Formation
and Emission of Galaxies
Obreja, Aura Catalina, 2015 (advisor: Rosa Domínguez)
- Dark matter distribution in the universe with gravitational
lensing - the distribution of Einstein radii as cosmological probes
Vega Ferrero, Jesús, 2015 (advisor: Gustavo Yepes)
- The Large-Scale Halo Distribution and its Clustering Properties
Avila-Perez, Santiago, 2016 (advisor: Alexander Knebe)
- A new perspective on the evolution of galaxies: from global to local scales
Casado Gómez, Javier, 2016 (advisors: Yago Ascasibar, Ángeles Díaz)
- Estudio de la formación y evolución de las estructuras del universo mediante simulaciones coosmologícas. Comparación con resultados de surveys de galaxias
Rodríguez Torres, Sergio, 2019 (advisor: Gustavo Yepes, Francisco Prada)
- Semi-Analytical Galaxies in the MultiDark-Universe - A perspective on the evolution of the most luminous and massive galaxies throughout cosmic history
Stoppacher, Doris, 2019 (advisor: Alexander Knebe, Francisco Prada)
Supervised by external professors
- The structure and dynamics of transition regions in stellar atmospheres.
Luis Manuel Sarro Baró, 1999. Advisor: Benjamín Montesinos Comino (LAEFF)
- Estructura vertical nubosa en formaciones meteoroló-gicas de Júpiter y Saturno.
Juan Ramón Acarreta Rodríguez, 1999. Advisor: Agustín Sánchez Lavega (Univ. País Vasco)
- Aproximaciones analíticas a la formación de Estructuras Cosmológicas.
Alvaro Domínguez Alvarez, 1999. Advisor: Juan Pérez Mercader (CAB)
- The secret life of adolescent stars: Magnetic Activity of post T-Tauri stars in Lindroos systems.
Nuria Huélamo Bautista, 2002. Advisor: Ralph Neuhäuser (Max Planck Institut).
- Multiwavelength observations of galactic X-ray transients: Study from outburst to quiescense.
Celia Sánchez Fernández, 2002. Advisor: Alvaro Jiménez Cañete (CAB)
- Astrofísica Molecular en el Infrarrojo lejano: Nubes estelares y circunestelares.
Javier Rodríguez Goicoechea, 2003. Advisor: José Cernicharo Quintanilla (CSIC)
- The role of low-mass star clusters in the formation of massive stars
Rivilla Rodríguez, Victor Manuel, 2014 (advisor: Jesús Martín-Pintado)
- Búsqueda de exoplanetas: caracterización de las propiedades
Lillo Box, Jorge, 2015 (advisor: David Barrado)
- Protoplanetary disk evolution in nearby star forming regions
Ribas Gómez, Álvaro, 2015 (advisors: Bruno Merín, Hervé Bouy)
- Cúmulos jóvenes masivos en el infrarrojo como sondas Galácticas
de la Fuente Guillén, Diego, 2016 (advisors: Francisco Najarro)
- Contenido molecular en la región de fotodisociación de la Barra de Orión
Cuadrado Prado, Sara, 2017 (advisors: Javier Goicoechea, José Cernicharo)
- Sondeo espectroscópico de estrellas O galácticas
Sota Ballano, Alfredo, 2018 (advisors: Jesús Maíz Apellaniz, Ángeles Díaz)
Workshops
- Disks, Planetesimals and Planets
Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain, January 2000
- International Workshop: Hydrodynamical Simulations of the Assembly of Galaxies: Dynamics and Star Formation
UAM, September 2001
- V Reunión Científica de la Sociedad Española de Astronomía
Toledo, Spain, September 2002
- IV Estallidos workshop
Madrid, Spain, January 2006
- VII Estallidos workshop
"La Cristalera" in Miraflores de la Sierra, Spain, January 2009
- Haloes going MAD
"La Cristalera" in Miraflores de la Sierra, Spain, May 2010
- Constrained
Local Universe Simulations 2010
"La Cristalera" in Miraflores de la Sierra, Spain, May 2010
- Subhaloes going Notts
University of Nottingham, UK, May 2012
- Constrained
Local Universe Simulations 2013
"La Cristalera" in Miraflores de la Sierra, Spain, May 2013
- Sussing Merger Trees
University of Sussex, UK, July 2013
- nIFTy Cosmology
IFT, Madrid, Spain, July 2014
- Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters in the XXI century
IFT, Madrid, Spain, November 2014
- Stars, interstellar medium, galaxies, and the chemistry between them
"La Cristalera" in Miraflores de la Sierra, Spain, April 2015
