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Jorge Cuadra

Académico

Universidad Adolfo Ibánez

Viña del Mar, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Numerical Astrophysics; Galactic Centre; Massive Black Hole Binaries; Proto-planetary Discs

Educación

  •  Astronomy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Alemania, 2006
  •  Astronomy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Chile, 2001

Experiencia Académica

  •   Profesor Asociado Full Time

    Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

    Chile

    2010 - 2020

  •   Postdoc Full Time

    University of Colorado at Boulder

    Estados Unidos

    2006 - 2008

  •   Postdoc Full Time

    Shanghai Astronomical Observatory

    China

    2008 - 2009

  •   Postdoc Full Time

    Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik

    Alemania

    2009 - 2010

  •   Académico Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD ADOLFO IBANEZ

    Viña del Mar, Chile

    2020 - At present

Formación de Capital Humano


Theses supervised

• Infalling clouds onto supermassive black hole binaries. PhD thesis by Felipe G. Goicovic (PUC, Aug. 2017).
• The role of interacting stellar winds on the feeding of Sgr A*. PhD thesis by Diego Calderón (PUC, Sep. 2019).
• Coevolution of binary systems surrounded by accretion discs. PhD thesis by Camilo Fontecilla (PUC, expected 2021).
• Very-High-Energy gamma-rays from the Galactic Center Generated by Cosmic Rays. PhD thesis by Andrés Scherer (PUC, expected 2021).
• 3D distribution of molecular clouds in the Galactic Centre. PhD thesis by Camila Órdenes (PUC, expected 2022).
• Thin-shell instabilities and clump formation due to colliding stellar winds in the Galactic Centre. MSc thesis by Diego Calderón (PUC, March 2015).
• Evolution of circumbinary discs at decoupling. MSc thesis by Camilo Fontecilla (PUC, Aug. 2017).
• Feedback and migration of accreting planets in discs. MSc thesis by Matías Gárate (PUC, July 2017).
• Dusty clumps in circumbinary discs. MSc thesis by Pedro Poblete
(PUC, Nov. 2019; with N. Cuello).
• Satellite infall and mass deposition on the Galactic Centre. BSc thesis by Sofía Gallego (PUC, Aug. 2012).
• One-dimensional hydrodynamical models of circumbinary discs. BSc thesis by Camilo Fontecilla (PUC, Aug. 2014).
• Proto-planetary discs: effect of an accretion-dependent feedback. BSc thesis by Matías Gárate (PUC, Aug. 2015).
• Hydrodynamical simulations of the binary proto-star HD142527. BSc thesis by Pedro Poblete (PUC, July 2017; with N. Cuello).
• Effects of the luminosity of a proto-planet on the proto-planetay disc’s dust. BSc thesis by Juan Garrido (PUC, July 2019).

Additional mentoring
• Advisor of postdoctoral researchers Matías Montesinos (2011–14,2017), Alex Dunhill (2013–15), Virginie Faramaz (2014–17), Xian Chen (2015– 16), Nicolás Cuello (2016–20), Christopher Russell (2017–20), M. Paula Ronco (2018–), Luciano del Valle (2019–), Francisco Castillo (2019–) and Laura Becerra (2019–).
• Local supervisor of U Antioquia PhD student Mario Sucerquia (advisor J. Zuluaga; 2018).
• Local supervisor of Heidelberg–PUC joint PhD student Sebastian Stammler (advisor C.P. Dullemond, ITA; 2016).
• Advisor of several summer and part-time research projects for under- and graduate students at PUC (2011–).
• Member of the PhD thesis committees of Luciano del Valle (advisor A. Escala; 2011–16) and Francisco Castillo (advisor A. Valdivia; 2014–17) at Universidad de Chile, and of the MSc thesis committee of Cristián Maureira at UTFSM (advisor P. Amaro-Seoane, AEI; 2012–13).
• Member of several BSc and MSc thesis evaluation committees at PUC and U de Chile (2010–).


Difusión y Transferencia


• Development of 360º and Virtual Reality animations of Galactic centre simulations (led by postdoc Chris Russell). More than 1.7 million views in social media.
• Columnist for “Tendencias de la Astronomía” series, in the online version of the Chilean newspaper “El Mercurio” (2016–2019).
• Lecture to high school teachers on the Solar System (Heidelberg Centre, Santiago, Jan. 2018, and Universidad de Valparaíso, Jan. 2020)
• Participated in ESA’s online broadcast of Mercury’s transit (2016).
• Outreach talks at different venues in Santiago and Valparaíso (2010–).
• Interviews for TV, radio, online, and written media.


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Head of a Max Planck Partner Group

    MAX PLANCK SOCIETY

    Alemania, 2016

    The Max Planck Society (MPG) has appointed Professor Jorge Cuadra as Head of a Partner Group of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) at PUC. The partner group programme aims to support Max Planck alumni of proven scientific excellence to carry out promising and innovative research in collaboration with a Max Planck institute. Cuadra’s group at PUC will receive 20,000 € per year to fund their research activities on Galactic Centre Astrophysics.


 

Article (65)

Binary-induced spiral arms inside the disc cavity of AB Aurigae
Colliding winds in and around the stellar group IRS 13E at the galactic centre
Flybys in protoplanetary discs - II. Observational signatures
Stellar Winds Pump the Heart of the Milky Way
Three-dimensional simulations of clump formation in stellar wind collisions
Dusty clumps in circumbinary discs
Dusty spirals triggered by shadows in transition discs
Flybys in protoplanetary discs=> I. Gas and dust dynamics
From Scattered-light to Millimeter Emission: A Comprehensive View of the Gigayear-old System of HD 202628 and its Eccentric Debris Ring
Non-steady-state long-term evolution of supermassive black hole binaries surrounded by accretion discs
Accretion of clumpy cold gas onto massive black hole binaries=> a possible fast route to binary coalescence
Circumbinary, not transitional=> on the spiral arms, cavity, shadows, fast radial flows, streamers, and horseshoe in the HD 142527 disc
Is there really a debris disc around zeta(2) Reticuli?
OJ287=> deciphering the Rosetta stone of blazars
Publisher Note=> Circumbinary, not transitional=> On the spiral arms, cavity, shadows, fast radial flows, streamers and horseshoe in the HD142527 disc
The Galactic Centre source G2 was unlikely born in any of the known massive binaries
A second decoupling between merging binary black holes and the inner disc - impact on the electromagnetic counterpart
A Second Decoupling Between Merging Binary Black Holes and the Inner Disc--Impact on the Electromagnetic Counterpart
Infalling clouds on to supermassive black hole binaries - II. Binary evolution and the final parsec problem
Inner mean-motion resonances with eccentric planets: a possible origin for exozodiacal dust clouds
Modelling the thermal X-ray emission around the Galactic Centre from colliding Wolf-Rayet winds
Satellite infall and mass deposition on the Galactic Centre
Clump formation through colliding stellar winds in the Galactic Centre
Infalling clouds on to supermassive black hole binaries - I. Formation of discs, accretion and gas dynamics
Probing dark matter crests with white dwarfs and IMBHs
Resolving the planetesimal belt of HR 8799 with ALMA
SDSS J0159+0105: A RADIO-QUIET QUASAR WITH A CENTI-PARSEC SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE BINARY CANDIDATE
SPIRAL WAVES TRIGGERED BY SHADOWS IN TRANSITION DISKS
STABILITY OF GAS CLOUDS IN GALACTIC NUCLEI: AN EXTENDED VIRIAL THEOREM
ACCRETION KINEMATICS THROUGH THE WARPED TRANSITION DISK IN HD 142527 FROM RESOLVED CO(6-5) OBSERVATIONS
Precession and accretion in circumbinary discs: the case of HD 104237
PROTOPLANETARY DISKS INCLUDING RADIATIVE FEEDBACK FROM ACCRETING PLANETS
SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES IN A STAR-FORMING GASEOUS CIRCUMNUCLEAR DISK
The role of feedback in accretion on low-luminosity AGN: Sgr A* case study
Satellite infall and mass deposition on the Galactic center
TIDAL DISRUPTIONS IN CIRCUMBINARY DISKS. II. OBSERVATIONAL SIGNATURES IN THE REVERBERATION SPECTRA
Dissecting X-ray-Emitting Gas Around the Center of Our Galaxy
NEW OBSERVATIONS OF THE GAS CLOUD G2 IN THE GALACTIC CENTER
On the role of initial and boundary conditions in numerical simulations of accretion flows
TIDAL DISRUPTIONS IN CIRCUMBINARY DISKS. I. STAR FORMATION, DYNAMICS, AND BINARY EVOLUTION
A gas cloud on its way towards the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Centre
Evolution of binary black holes in self gravitating discs Dissecting the torques
Super-massive black hole binaries in gas-rich environments
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT IN THE EXTREME-MASS RATIO INSPIRAL PROBLEM
THE DYNAMICALLY DISRUPTED GAP IN HD 142527
BINARIES MIGRATING IN A GASEOUS DISK: WHERE ARE THE GALACTIC CENTER BINARIES?
Limiting eccentricity of subparsec massive black hole binaries surrounded by self-gravitating gas discs
Massive black hole binary mergers within subparsec scale gas discs
Binary formation and mass function variations in fragmenting discs with short cooling times
Self‐Gravitating Fragmentation of Eccentric Accretion Disks
Stellar dynamical evidence against a cold disc origin for stars in the Galactic Centre
Variable accretion and emission from the stellar winds in the Galactic Centre
Clumpy stellar winds and the obscuration of active galactic nuclei
Simulations of star formation in a gaseous disc around Sgr A* - a failed active galactic nucleus
Accretion of stellar winds onto Sgr A*
Galactic Centre stellar winds and Sgr A* accretion
The two young star disks in the central parsec of the Galaxy: properties, dynamics, and formation
Variable accretion of stellar winds onto Sgr A*
Weighing the young stellar discs around Sgr A
A self-gravitating accretion disk in Sgr A* a few million years ago: Is Sgr A* a failed quasar?
Accretion of cool stellar winds on to Sgr A*: another puzzle of the Galactic Centre?
X-ray flares from Sgr A * : Star-disk interactions?
Bright stars and an optically thick inactive disk in Sgr A$^*$ and other dormant galaxy centers
Optical and infrared photometry of the unusual Type Ia supernova 2000cx
Light and color curves of six field RR Lyrae variable stars

ConferencePaper (4)

A MASSIVE BINARY SYSTEM CAN FEED SGR A
Formation of discs around super-massive black hole binaries
Gas dynamics in the galactic centre: Clump accretion and outflows
Massive gaseous discs around SMBH binaries: Binary decay and tidal disruptions

Proyecto (18)

DUST EVOLUTION IN PROTOPLANETARY DISKS WITH COMPLEX MORPHOLOGIES
Núcleo Milenio en Formación Planetaria
THE INNER PARSEC OF THE GALACTIC CENTER
Max Planck Partner Group on Galactic Centre Astrophysics
Núcleo Milenio de Discos Protoplanetarios
EPISODIC FEEDING OF ACCRETING OBJECTS=> FROM MASSIVE BLACK HOLE GROWTH TO PLANET FORMATION
EXOPLANETARY SYSTEMS DYNAMICS
Magneto-hydrodynamical simulations of a molecular cloud falling onto single and binary super-massive black holes
Chile--Max Planck Network on Super-Massive Black Hole Binaries
Postdoctoral position on ALMA-related Numerical Astrophysics
Establishing the Role of Mergers in Black Hole Growth and Galaxy Evolution
Centro de Cómputo Nacional para Astrofísica
DYNAMICS OF ASTROPHYSICAL ACCRETION DISKS
BLACK HOLE MERGERS AND KICKS IN GAS-RICH GALAXIES
Massive black holes, stars and gas in the central pasecs of galaxies
Centro de Astrofísica y Tecnologías Afines (CATA)
NSF Teragrid Projects=> Gas dynamics of binary-disc interactions, Self-gravity and fragmentation in eccentric accretion discs, and Gas dynamics of binary-disc interactions including star formation
THE GALAXY POPULATION IN A YOUNG UNIVERSE
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Jorge Cuadra

Académico

Departamento de Ciencias

Universidad Adolfo Ibánez

Viña del Mar, Chile

6
Simon Casassus

Profesor Titular

Astronomía

DEPARTAMENTO DE ASTRONOMÍA, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

4
Sebastian Perez

Assistant Professor

Physics

Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Santiago, Chile

3
Diego Calderón

Investigador Postdoctoral

Universidad de Hamburgo

Hamburgo, Alemania

3
Matías Montesinos

Professor

Física

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

Santiago, Chile

2
Matthias Schreiber

Profesor Titular

Departamento de Fisica

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

Valparaiso, Chile

2
Virginie Faramaz

Postdoctorada

Instituto de Astrofísica - Pontificia Universidad Católica

Santiago, Chile

1
Andres Escala

Associated Professor. (ternured

Astronomía

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Pablo Román

Profesor Asistente

Departamento de Ingeniería Informática

Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Andres Jordan

Profesor

Universidad Adolfo Ibánez

Santiago, Chile

1
Lucas Cieza

Full Professor

Engineering and Science

Universidad Diego Portales

Santiago, Chile

1
Amelia Bayo

Full Professor

Instituto de Fisica y Astronomia, Facultado de Ciencias

Valparaiso, Chile