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Matias Andres Blaña Diaz

Investigador

Universidad de Tarapacá

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Dynamics of barred galaxies, Andromeda, dwarf spheroidal galaxies, star clusters, Local Group. Method: N-body simulations, Made-to-measure modeling, semi-analytical, SPH and grid hydrodynamical simulations. Modeling of photometric and kinematic data.

Educación

  •  Title of Astronomer, UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION. Chile, 2012
  •  Master in Physics, UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION. Chile, 2013
  •  Dr. rer. nat. in Astronomy, LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAT MUNCHEN. Alemania, 2018
  •  Licenciado en Ciencias Fisicas, UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION. Chile, 2009

Experiencia Académica

  •   PhD student Full Time

    MAX-PLANCK INSTITUT FUR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK

    Munich, Alemania

    2013 - 2018

  •   POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER Full Time

    MAX-PLANCK INSTITUT FUR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK

    MUNICH, Alemania

    2018 - A la fecha

  •   Docente Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION

    Vicerrectoría de la Universidad de Concepción

    Concepción, Chile

    2012 - 2012

  •   Investigador Postdoctoral Fondecyt Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Facultad de Física

    Santiago, Chile

    2021 - 2024

  •   Investigador Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE TARAPACA

    Instituto de Alta Investigación

    Santiago, Chile

    2024 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Postdoctoral researcher Full Time

    Max Planck for extraterrestrial Physics

    Garching bei München, Alemania

    2018 - 2021

Formación de Capital Humano


Currently I am co-supervisor of a doctoral student at the Institute of Astrophysics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. The project consist on developing orbital models for stellar streams and satellite galaxies of the barred galaxy Malin 1 which is a Giant Low Surface Brightness galaxy (GLSB), to understand the evolution of the environment of GLSB galaxies.
I also supervised an undergraduate student for a summer project at the Astronomy Department at the Universidad de Chile. The project consisted on modelling the orbits of star clusters located in the stellar halo of the Milky Way and explore tidal interactions.



 

Article (19)

A MUSE View of the Core of the Giant Low Surface Brightness Galaxy Malin 1
Bar-driven Gas Dynamics of M31
The Accretion Mode in Sub-Eddington Supermassive Black Holes: Getting into the Central Parsecs of Andromeda
Large-scale Hydrodynamical Shocks as the Smoking-gun Evidence for a Bar in M31
The Giant Low Surface Brightness Galaxy Malin 1: New Constraints for Its Molecular Gas Mass from GBT/ARGUS Observations
Unravelling stellar populations in the Andromeda Galaxy
Dwarfs in the Milky Way halo outer rim: first infall or backsplash satellites?
The survey of planetary nebulae in Andromeda (M 31) II. Age-velocity dispersion relation in the disc from planetary nebulae
Evidence for non-axisymmetry in M31 from wide-field kinematics of stars and gas
Sculpting Andromeda - made-to-measure models for M31's bar and composite bulge: dynamics, stellar and dark matter mass
Stellar populations of the central region of M 31
Andromeda chained to the box - dynamical models for M31: bulge and bar
How fast is mass segregation happening in hierarchically formed embedded star clusters?
Could Segue 1 be a destroyed star cluster? - a dynamical perspective
Life and death of a hero - lessons learned from modelling the dwarf spheroidal Hercules=> an incorrect orbit?
The difficult early stages of embedded star clusters and the importance of the pre-gas expulsion virial ratio
A possible formation scenario for dwarf spheroidal galaxies - II. A parameter study
Ursa Major II - reproducing the observed properties through tidal disruption
Leo IV and V - A possible dwarf galaxy pair?

Proyecto (5)

DWARF GALAXY MODELS: LEO T
Dynamics of the bar and the bulge of the Andromeda galaxy (M31)
THE FORMATION OF STAR CLUSTERS
MAGISTER EN CIENCIAS FISICAS
THE DWARF GALAXIES AND TIDAL STREAMS OF THE MILKY WAY
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Matias Blaña

Investigador

Instituto de Alta Investigación

Universidad de Tarapacá

Santiago, Chile

2
Michael Fellhauer

profesor titular

Departamento de Astronomia

Universidad de Concepción

Concepcion, Chile