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Alejandro Clocchiatti

Professor

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Supernovae; Cosmology

Educación

  •  Astrophysics, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN. Estados Unidos, 1995

Experiencia Académica

  •   Postdoctoral Fellow Full Time

    CERRO TOLOLO INTERAMERICAN OBSERVATORY

    Staff

    La, Chile

    1995 - 1997

  •   Professor Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Physics

    Santiago, Chile

    1998 - A la fecha

Premios y Distinciones

  •   Gruber Cosmology Prize

    Gruber Foundation

    Estados Unidos, 2007

    Annual Cosmology Prize of the Gruber Foundation. This time shared by the teams of Brian Schmidt (of which I was a member) and that of Saul Perlmutter, for the discovery of the Cosmic Acceleration in 1998.

  •   Breakthrough Cosmology Prize

    Breakthrough Foundation

    Estados Unidos, 2015

    The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics of 2015 was awarded to the teams lead by Brian Schmidt, of which I was a member & Saul Perlmutter for the discovery of the Cosmic Acceleration in 1998.


 

Article (63)

The delay of shock breakout due to circumstellar material evident in most type II supernovae
Spectropolarimetry of the Type Ib supernova iPTF 13bvn: Revealing the complex explosion geometry of a stripped-envelope core-collapse supernova
A MEASUREMENT OF GRAVITATIONAL LENSING OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND BY GALAXY CLUSTERS USING DATA FROM THE SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE
Analysis of late-time light curves of Type IIb, Ib and Ic supernovae
Analysis of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect mass-observable relations using South Pole Telescope observations of an X-ray selected sample of low-mass galaxy clusters and groups
GALAXY CLUSTERS DISCOVERED VIA THE SUNYAEV-ZEL'DOVICH EFFECT IN THE 2500-SQUARE-DEGREE SPT-SZ SURVEY
MASS CALIBRATION AND COSMOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SPT-SZ GALAXY CLUSTER SAMPLE USING VELOCITY DISPERSION sigma(v) AND X-RAY Y-X MEASUREMENTS
MEASUREMENT OF GALAXY CLUSTER INTEGRATED COMPTONIZATION AND MASS SCALING RELATIONS WITH THE SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE
PESSTO: survey description and products from the first data release by the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects
Properties of extragalactic dust inferred from linear polarimetry of Type Ia Supernovae
Constraints on the CMB temperature evolution using multiband measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with the South Pole Telescope
OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY AND VELOCITY DISPERSIONS OF GALAXY CLUSTERS FROM THE SPT-SZ SURVEY
PERSISTENT C II ABSORPTION IN THE NORMAL TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA 2002fk
PHOTOSPHERIC MAGNITUDE DIAGRAMS FOR TYPE II SUPERNOVAE: A PROMISING TOOL TO COMPUTE DISTANCES
THE REDSHIFT EVOLUTION OF THE MEAN I EMPERATURE, PRESSURE, AND ENTROPY PROFILES IN 80 SPT-SELECTED GALAXY CLUSTERS
COSMOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS FROM SUNYAEV-ZEL'DOVICH-SELECTED CLUSTERS WITH X-RAY OBSERVATIONS IN THE FIRST 178 deg(2) OF THE SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE SURVEY
GALAXY CLUSTERS DISCOVERED VIA THE SUNYAEV-ZEL'DOVICH EFFECT IN THE FIRST 720 SQUARE DEGREES OF THE SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE SURVEY
SPECTROPOLARIMETRY OF THE TYPE Ia SN 2007sr TWO MONTHS AFTER MAXIMUM LIGHT
Spectropolarimetry of the Type Ia supernova 2012fr
SPT-CL J0205-5829: A z=1.32 EVOLVED MASSIVE GALAXY CLUSTER IN THE SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE SUNYAEV-ZEL'DOVICH EFFECT SURVEY
THE GROWTH OF COOL CORES AND EVOLUTION OF COOLING PROPERTIES IN A SAMPLE OF 83 GALAXY CLUSTERS AT 0.3 < z < 1.2 SELECTED FROM THE SPT-SZ SURVEY
A massive, cooling-flow-induced starburst in the core of a luminous cluster of galaxies
HIGH-REDSHIFT COOL-CORE GALAXY CLUSTERS DETECTED VIA THE SUNYAEV-ZEL'DOVICH EFFECT IN THE SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE SURVEY
REDSHIFTS, SAMPLE PURITY, AND BCG POSITIONS FOR THE GALAXY CLUSTER CATALOG FROM THE FIRST 720 SQUARE DEGREES OF THE SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE SURVEY
WEAK-LENSING MASS MEASUREMENTS OF FIVE GALAXY CLUSTERS IN THE SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE SURVEY USING MAGELLAN/MEGACAM
A SUNYAEV-ZEL'DOVICH-SELECTED SAMPLE OF THE MOST MASSIVE GALAXY CLUSTERS IN THE 2500 deg(2) SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE SURVEY
DISCOVERY AND COSMOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF SPT-CL J2106-5844, THE MOST MASSIVE KNOWN CLUSTER AT z > 1
PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF CONVENTIONAL CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVAE: THE EXTREMELY ENERGETIC SUPERNOVA SN 2003ma
SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE DETECTIONS OF THE PREVIOUSLY UNCONFIRMED PLANCK EARLY SUNYAEV-ZEL'DOVICH CLUSTERS IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE
THE ULTIMATE LIGHT CURVE OF SN 1998bw/GRB 980425
A SPECTROPOLARIMETRIC VIEW ON THE NATURE OF THE PECULIAR TYPE I SN 2005hk
General two-dimensional least-squares image subtraction
HIGH-AMPLITUDE delta-SCUTIS IN THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD
THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY QUASAR LENS SEARCH. IV. STATISTICAL LENS SAMPLE FROM THE FIFTH DATA RELEASE
THE UNIFICATION OF ASYMMETRY SIGNATURES OF TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE
DISTANCE DETERMINATION TO 12 TYPE II SUPERNOVAE USING THE EXPANDING PHOTOSPHERE METHOD
Optical Spectroscopy of the Somewhat Peculiar Type IIb Supernova 2001ig
SPECTROSCOPY OF HIGH-REDSHIFT SUPERNOVAE FROM THE ESSENCE PROJECT: THE FIRST FOUR YEARS
THE EARLY ASYMMETRIES OF SUPERNOVA 2008D/XRF 080109
Constraining cosmic evolution of type Ia supernovae
Discovery of four gravitationally lensed quasars from the sloan digital sky survey
Exploring the outer solar system with the ESSENCE Supernova Survey
Late-time HST photometry of SN1994I: Hints of positron annihilation energy deposition
Scattered-light echoes from the historical galactic supernovae Cassiopeia A and Tycho (SN 1572)
Spectral identification of an ancient supernova using light echoes in the Large Magellanic Cloud
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search. II. Statistical lens sample from the third data release
Time dilation in type Ia supernova spectra at high redshift
Light curves of type Ia supernovae from near the time of explosion
Scrutinizing exotic cosmological models using essence supernova data combined with other cosmological probes
Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observations of Type Ia supernovae at redshift 0.5: Cosmological implications
Death rate of massive stars at redshift similar to 0.3
Hubble Space Telescope observations of nine high-redshift essence supernovae
Light echoes from ancient supernovae in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Spectroscopy of high-redshift supernovae from the essence project: The first 2 years
Testing LMC microlensing scenarios: The discrimination power of the SuperMACHO microlensing survey
Optical and infrared photometry of the nearby Type Ia supernovae 1999ee, 2000bh, 2000ca, and 2001ba
The Deep Lens Survey transient search. I. Short timescale and astrometric variability
Twenty-three high-redshift supernovae from the Institute for Astronomy Deep Survey: Doubling the supernova sample at z > 0.7
Imaging and demography of the host galaxies of high-redshift type Ia supernovae
The Type Ic SN 1990B in NGC 4568
Optical spectra of Type Ia supernovae at z=0.46 and z=1.2
Tests of the accelerating universe with near-infrared observations of a high-redshift type Ia supernova
The luminous Type Ic supernova 1992ar at z=0.145

ConferencePaper (4)

Bayesian Polarization Measurements
The CHilean automatic supernova search
Spectropolarimetry of type IIn SN2010jl: Peering into the heart of a monster
Light echoes of supernovae in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Review (6)

Optical and infrared observations of SN 2002dj: some possible common properties of fast-expanding Type Ia supernovae
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search. III. Constraints on dark energy from the third data release quasar lens catalog
Observational constraints on the nature of dark energy: First cosmological results from the essence supernova survey
The ESSENCE supernova survey: Survey optimization, observations, and supernova photometry
Using line profiles to test the fraternity of Type Ia supernovae at high and low redshifts
Cosmological results from high-z supernovae
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Alejandro Clocchiatti

Professor

Astrophysics

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

26
Alfredo Zenteno

Assistant Scientist

Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

La Serena, Chile

13
Dante Minniti

Professor

Facultad de Ciencias Exactas

UNIVERSIDAD ANDRES BELLO

Santiago, Chile

7
José Maza

Full Professor

Astronomía

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

3
Mario Hamuy

DEPARTAMENTO DE ASTRONOMÍA, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

2
Giuliano Pignata

Associate professor

Universidad Andrés Bello

Santiago, Chile

2
Franz Bauer

Associate Professor

Instituto de Astrofisica

PONTIFICÍA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE, DEPARTAMENTO DE ASTRONOMÍA Y ASTROFÍSICA

Santiago, Chile

2
Francisco Forster

Profesor

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Juan Maureira

Scientist

Center for Mathematical Modeling

University of Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Maria Ruiz

Profesor Titular

DEPARTAMENTO DE ASTRONOMÍA, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Guillermo Cabrera

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science

Universidad de Concepción

Concepción, Chile

1
Paulina Lira

Associate Professor

Astronomía

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Pablo Huijse

Profesor categoría III

Facultad de Ciencias de la Ingeniería

Universidad Austral de Chile

Valdivia, Chile

1
Pablo Estevez

Profesor Titular

Departamento de Ingenieria Eléctrica

DEPTO. INGENIERÍA ELÉCTRICA, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Ósmar Rodríguez

Postdoctoral Researcher

Millenium Institute of Astrophysics

Santiago, Chile