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Neil Mark Nagar

Profesor Titular (Full Professor)

UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION

Concepcion, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Galaxy Formation and Evolution; Galaxy Kinematics; Innermost structure (few to few thousand Schwarzchild radii) of AGN; Event Horizon Telescope; Supermassive Black Holes; UltraHigh Energy Cosmic Rays; Instrumentation

Educación

  •  Astronomy, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - COLLEGE PARK. Estados Unidos, 2000
  •  Electronics & Electrical Engineering, BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE (BITS). India, 1994
  •  Mathematics, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND. Chile, 1994

Experiencia Académica

  •   Postdoctoral Fellow Full Time

    Arcetri Observatory

    Florence, Italia

    2000 - 2002

  •   Postdoctoral Fellow Full Time

    Kapteyn Institute, U. of Groningen

    Astronomy

    Groningen, Holanda

    2002 - A la fecha

  •   Professor Titular (Full Professor) Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION

    Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas

    Concepcion, Chile

    2004 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Design and Development Engineer Full Time

    Tata Elxsi

    Bangalore, India

    1993 - 1994

Formación de Capital Humano


Ph.D. Theses completed: Roger Leiton, Gustavo Orellana, Roy Slater, Paula Calderon, Carolina Finlez
Ph.D. Theses in progress: Juan-David Osorno
M.Sc. Theses completed: Catherine Cortes, Miguel Soto, Felipe de la Puente, Pedro Humire, Pamela Soto, Dania Muñoz
M.Sc. Theses in progress: Marcelo Figueroa, Andrea Guerrero, Matias Sotomayor, Alexander Pillard
Undergraduate (Titulo) Theses completed: Roy Slater, Gustavo Orellana, Gerald Neumann, Catalina Melendez
Undergraduate (Titulo) Theses in progress: --
Postdoc Supervision: Juan Baptiste Juin, Hugo Messias, Jay Blanchard, Venkatessh Ramakrishnan, Roger Leiton, Bidisha Bandyopadhyay, Carolina Finlez

Undergraduate classes: 3 per year
Graduate classes: one every three years on average.


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Best Graduating Student (Electronics and Electrical Engineering)

    BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE (BITS)

    India, 1992

    Award given to a single graduating student in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, for overall achievement in academics and extra curricular activities.

  •   Research Fellowship

    Arcetri Observatory

    Italia, 2000

    Two year independent research fellowship at Arcetri Observatory, Italy

  •   Research Fellowship

    UNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN

    Holanda, 2002

    Three year independent research fellowship.

  •   Graduate Fellowship

    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - COLLEGE PARK

    Estados Unidos, 1994

    Graduate Student Fellowship: stipend awarded to exceptional students to pursue their Ph.D. at UMD without any required duties.

  •   Senate Medal (Chilean Senate)

    Chilean Senate

    Chile, 2019

    Senate medal awarded to members of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHTC) and members at ALMA, who participated in the first image of a supermassive black hole.

  •   Premio Municipal de Ciencias 2019, Concepcion

    ILUSTRE MUNICIPALIDAD DE CONCEPCION

    Chile, 2019

    Annual award by the Municipality of Concepcion to an outstanding scientist from Concepcion, Chile.

  •   2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

    Breakthrough Prize Foundation

    Estados Unidos, 2020

    The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (3 million US$) is a new and very prestigious prize in Physics. The 2020 version of this prize was awarded to all 347 authors of the first set of papers which detailed the imaging of the supermassive black hole in M87 by the Event Horizon Telescope.


 

Article (80)

Ordered magnetic fields around the 3C 84 central black hole
The persistent shadow of the supermassive black hole of M 87: I. Observations, calibration, imaging, and analysis*
A Search for Pulsars around Sgr A* in the First Event Horizon Telescope Data Set
ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: average dust, gas, and star-formation properties of cluster and field galaxies from stacking analysis
A CO molecular gas wind 340 pc away from the Seyfert 2 nucleus in ESO420-G13 probes an elusive radio jet
SYMBA: An end-to-end VLBI synthetic data generation pipeline Simulating Event Horizon Telescope observations of M 87
The Molecular Gas in the NGC 6240 Merging Galaxy System at the Highest Spatial Resolution
A nuclear ionized gas outflow in the Seyfert 2 galaxy UGC 2024
First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole
First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. II. Array and Instrumentation
First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. III. Data Processing and Calibration
First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. IV. Imaging the Central Supermassive Black Hole
First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. V. Physical Origin of the Asymmetric Ring
First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VI. The Shadow and Mass of the Central Black Hole
How to Fuel an AGN: Mapping Circumnuclear Gas in NGC 6240 with ALMA
Nuclear kinematics in nearby AGN - I. An ALMA perspective on the morphology and kinematics of the molecular CO(2-1) emission
Outflowing gas in a compact ionization cone in the Seyfert 2 galaxy ESO 153-G20
Outflows in the inner kiloparsec of NGC1566 as revealed by molecular (ALMA) and ionized gas (Gemini-GMOS/IFU) kinematics
Resolving accretion flows in nearby active galactic nuclei with the Event Horizon Telescope
The Event Horizon General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Code Comparison Project
The molecular gas properties in the gravitationally lensed merger HATLAS J142935.3-002836
An outflow in the Seyfert ESO 362-G18 revealed by Gemini-GMOS/IFU observations
Detection of Intrinsic Source Structure at similar to 3 Schwarzschild Radii with Millimeter-VLBI Observations of SAGITTARIUS A*
GOODS-ALMA: 1.1 mm galaxy survey: I. Source catalog and optically dark galaxies
Optical, Near-IR, and Sub-mm IFU Observations of the Nearby Dual Active Galactic Nuclei MRK 463
Outflows in the narrow-line region of bright Seyfert galaxies - I. GMOS-IFU data
Starbursts in and out of the star-formation main sequence
The ALMA frontier fields survey: IV. Lensing-corrected 1.1 mm number counts in Abell 2744, MACS J0416.1-2403 and MACS J1149.5+2223
The ALMA Phasing System: A Beamforming Capability for Ultra-high-resolution Science at (Sub)Millimeter Wavelengths
The complex jet- and bar-perturbed kinematics in NGC 3393 as revealed with ALMA and GEMINI-GMOS/IFU
Gas inflows towards the nucleus of NGC1358
Gas inflows towards the nucleus of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1667
Molecular gas, dust, and star formation in galaxies I. Dust properties and scalings in similar to 1600 nearby galaxies
The ALMA Frontier Fields Survey I. 1.1mm continuum detections in Abell 2744, MACSJ0416.1-2403 and MACSJ1149.5+2223
The ALMA Frontier Fields Survey II. Multiwavelength Photometric analysis of 1.1 mm continuum sources in Abell 2744, MACSJ0416.1-2403 and MACSJ1149.5+2223
Feeding and feedback in NGC 3081
SPATIALLY RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY OF SUBMILLIMETER GALAXIES AT z similar or equal to 2
230 GHz VLBI OBSERVATIONS OF M87: EVENT-HORIZON-SCALE STRUCTURE DURING AN ENHANCED VERY-HIGH-ENERGY gamma-RAY STATE IN 2012
THE COMPLEX GAS KINEMATICS IN THE NUCLEUS OF THE SEYFERT 2 GALAXY NGC 1386: ROTATION, OUTFLOWS, AND INFLOWS
Feeding and feedback in the inner kiloparsec of the active galaxy NGC 2110
Gas inflows towards the nucleus of the active galaxy NGC 7213
Herschel-ATLAS and ALMA HATLAS J142935.3-002836, a lensed major merger at redshift 1.027
Parque Astronomic de Atacama: An Ideal Site for Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Mid-Infrared Astronomy
High-Angular-Resolution and High-Sensitivity Science Enabled by Beamformed ALMA
A MAGELLAN-IMACS-IFU SEARCH FOR DYNAMICAL DRIVERS OF NUCLEAR ACTIVITY. I. REDUCTION PIPELINE AND GALAXY CATALOG
RADIOMETER DEVELOPMENT AT UDEC AND PWV DATA AT CHAJNANTOR
Sub-millimeter detected z similar to 2 radio-quiet QSOs Accurate redshifts, black hole masses, and inflow/outflow velocities
Near-infrared dust and line emission from the central region of Mrk 1066: constraints from Gemini NIFS
Ultra-high energy cosmic rays detected by Auger and AGASA: Corrections for galactic magnetic field deflections, source populations, and arguments for multiple components
RADIO VARIABILITY IN SEYFERT NUCLEI
The role of the host galaxy kinematics on nuclear activity
Ultra-high energy cosmic rays detected by the Pierre Auger observatory - First direct evidence, and its implications, that a subset originate in nearby radiogalaxies
XMM-Newton detection of a compton-thick AGN in the 1 Jy ULIRG/LINER F04103-2838
3D studies of neutral and ionised gas and stars in seyfert and inactive galaxies
Central kiloparsec of Seyfert and inactive host galaxies: a comparison of two-dimensional stellar and gaseous kinematics
Extragalactic H2O masers and X-ray absorbing column densities
A Chandra X-ray survey of ultraluminous infrared galaxies
New H2O masers in Seyfert and FIR bright galaxies
Radio sources in low-luminosity active galactic nuclei - IV. Radio luminosity function, importance of jet power, and radio properties of the complete Palomar sample
The murmur of the sleeping black hole: Detection of nuclear ultraviolet variability in liner galaxies
Further clues to the nature of composite LINER/H II galaxies
Ionized gas and stars in the central kiloparsec of the type 2 Seyfert galaxy NGC 2110 - I. The data
Motion and properties of nuclear radio components in Seyfert galaxies seen with VLBI
Early Star Formation Traced by the Highest Redshift Quasars
Elusive active galactic nuclei
Evolution of the nuclear accretion disk emission in NGC 1097: Getting closer to the black hole
The AGN content of ultraluminous IR galaxies: High resolution VLA imaging of the IRAS 1 Jy ULIRG sample
The infrared supernova rate in starburst galaxies
NGC 5506 unmasked as a Narrow Line Seyfert 1:. A direct view of the broad line region using near-IR spectroscopy
Radio sources in low-luminosity active galactic nuclei. III. ``AGNs'' in a distance-limited sample of ``LLAGNs''
Warm-hot intergalactic baryons revealed
Evidence for Jet Domination of the Nuclear Radio Emission in Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei
NICS-TNG Low-Resolution 0.85-2.45 micron Spectra of L Dwarfs: A Near-Infrared Spectral Classification Scheme for Faint Dwarfs
Aluminum Abundances, Deep Mixing, and the Blue-Tail Second- Parameter Effect in the Globular Clusters M3 and M1 3
Radio Sources in Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei. I. VLA Detections of Compact, Flat-Spectrum Cores
Radio Sources in Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei. II. Very Long Baseline Interferometry Detections of Compact Radio Cores and Jets in a Sample of LINERs
The Active Jet in NGC 4258 and Its Associated Shocks
Radio Structures of Seyfert Galaxies. VIII. A Distance- and Magnitude-Limited Sample of Early-Type Galaxies
The Relative Orientation of Nuclear Accretion and Galaxy Stellar Disks in Seyfert Galaxies
Kinematics of the Molecular Sheath of the HH 111 Optical Jet

ConferencePaper (5)

HATLAS J142935.3-002836, a lensed major merger at z=1.027
The ALMA phasing system, a status report
Chilean Virtual Observatory and Integration with ALMA
An ALMA beamformer for VLBI and phased array science
RADIOMETER DEVELOPMENT AT UDEC AND PWV DATA AT CHAJNANTOR

Proyecto (14)

Formation and growth of supermassive black holes
THE PHYSICS OF BLACK HOLES DOWN TO SCHWARZSCHILD-RADIUS SCALES=> MASSES, ACCRETION AND OUTFLOWS, AND TESTS OF GENERAL RELATIVITY
A UdeC Postdoc for the ALMA Phasing Project and Event Horizon Telescope=> a bridge from instrumentation to science
Event Horizon Telescope
Estabilishing the Role of Mergers in Black Hole Growth and Galaxy Evolution
THE FORMATION OF THE RED SEQUENCE OF EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES=> UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF THE ENVIRONMENT
An Instrument Postdoc as UdeC's committment to the approved NSF MRI Project Development of an ALMA Beamformer
Desarrollo de una plataforma astroinformatica para la administracion y analisis inteligente de datos a gran escala
Development of an ALMA Beamformer for Ultra High Resolution VLBI and High Frequency Phased Array Science
Laboratory Test Instrumentation & Infrastructure for the U. de Concepcion Radioastronomy Laboratory
Phasing the Atacama Large Telescope Array for Observing a Black Hole Event Horizon
THE STELLAR-MASS FORMATION HISTORY OF MASSIVE GALAXIES AT Z>1.
UNDERSTANDING HIGH REDSHIFT SUBMILLIMETER GALAXIES BY STUDYING NEARBY SUBMILLIMETER GALAXIES AND NEARBY ULTRALUMINOUS INFRARED GALAXIES=> COEVAL EVOLUTION OF GALAXY AND NUCLEAR BLACK HOLE FROM THE FIRST GALAXY TO THE LAST.
Centro de Astrofisica y Tecnologias Afines

Review (2)

Central kiloparsec of Seyfert and inactive host galaxies: a comparison of two-dimensional stellar and gaseous kinematics
Extragalactic H2O masers and X-ray absorbing column densities
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Neil Nagar

Profesor Titular (Full Professor)

Astronomia

UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION

Concepcion, Chile

7
Roy Slater

Posdoctoral Fellow

Astronomía

Universidad de La Serena

La Serena, Chile

7
Carolina Finlez

Postdoctoral Fellow

catolica

Santiago, Chile

6
Ezequiel Treister

Associate Professor

Institute of Astrophysics

Pontificia Universidad Catolica

Santiago, Chile

5
Ricardo Demarco

Profesor Titular

Ciencias Físicas

Universidad Andrés Bello

Talcahuano, Chile

5
Franz Bauer

Associate Professor

Instituto de Astrofisica

PONTIFICÍA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE, DEPARTAMENTO DE ASTRONOMÍA Y ASTROFÍSICA

Santiago, Chile

5
Eduardo Ibar

Profesor Asociado

Instituto de Física y Astronomía

Universidad de Valparaíso

Valparaíso, Chile

4
Jorge González

Profesor asistente

Facultad de Física

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

4
gustavo orellana

Coordinador Científico

Agencia Nacional de Investigación

Santiago, Chile

3
Timo Anguita

Associate Professor

Ciencias Fisicas

Universidad Andrés Bello

Santiago, Chile

3
Manuel Aravena

Full Professor

Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias

Universidad Diego Portales

Santiago, Chile

3
Nelson Padilla

Profesor Titular

Astrophysics

Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

3
Paulina Troncoso

Professor

Engineering

Universidad Central de Chile

La Serena, Chile

2
Luis Barrientos

Associate Professor, Director

Institute of Astrophysics

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

2
Claudio Ricci

Profesor Asociado

Astronomia

Universidad Diego Portales

Santiago, Chile

2
Ricardo Bustos

Profesor Asociado

Ingeniería Eléctrica

Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción

Concepción, Chile

2
Javier Matulich

Postdoc

Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC

Madrid, España

1
Diego Mardones

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Víctor Parada

Profesor Titular

Ingeniería Informática

Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Pierluigi Cerulo

Profesor asistente

Ingeniería Informática y Ciencias de la COmputación

Universidad de Concepción

Concepción, Chile

1
Mauricio Solar

Full time professor

Informatic

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

Santiago, Chile

1
Patricia Arevalo

Profesor Adjunto (Associate Professor)

Instituto de Fisica y Astronomia

Universidad de Valparaíso

Valparaíso, Chile

1
Monica Rubio

Full Professor

DEPARTENTO DE ASTRONOMIA, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Dominik Schleicher

Associate Professor

Astronomia

UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION

Concepcion, Chile

1
ANGEL OTAROLA

Atmosphere Scientist

Science Operations

European Southern Observatory

Vitacura, Chile