Jorge Cuadra

Profesor Asistente
Departamento de Astronomía y Astrofísica
P. Universidad Católica de Chile
jcuadra(at)astro.puc.cl

Cursos:

• 2012A: Astronomía
• 2011B: Astronomía
• 2011A: El Centro Galáctico
• 2010B: Astronomía

Current Research:

• Gas dynamics and massive black hole binaries
• Star formation in self-gravitating accretion discs
• Stellar dynamics in galactic nuclei
• Accretion onto Sgr A*

CV:

• 2010-...: Assistant Professor at PUC.
• 2008-2010: Joint postdoctoral position between MPA and SHAO.
• 2006-2008: Research Associate at JILA, University of Colorado, US.
• 2002-2006: PhD at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA), Garching, Germany.
• 1998-2001: Degree in Astronomy (Licenciatura) at the P. Universidad Católica (PUC), Santiago, Chile.
• 1996-2000: Studies in Engineering and Computer Science at PUC.

Selected publications:

• A gas cloud on its way towards the super-massive black hole in the Galactic Centre (Nature 2012)
• Binaries migrating in a gaseous disk: Where are the Galactic center binaries? (ApJ 2011)
• Massive black hole binary mergers within sub-pc scale gas discs (MNRAS 2009)
• Stellar dynamical evidence against a cold disc origin for stars in the Galactic Centre (MNRAS 2008)
• Variable accretion and emission from the stellar winds in the Galactic Centre (MNRAS 2008)
• Simulations of star formation in a gaseous disc around Sgr A* - a failed active galactic nucleus (MNRAS 2007)
• Galactic Centre stellar winds and Sgr A* accretion (MNRAS 2006)
• A self-gravitating accretion disk in Sgr A* a few million years ago: Is Sgr A* a failed quasar? (A&A 2005)
• Accretion of cool stellar winds on to Sgr A*: another puzzle of the Galactic Centre? (MNRAS 2005)
• Bright stars and an optically thick inactive disk in Sgr A* and other dormant galaxy centers (A&A 2003)

Online material

• "¿Cómo se come algo un agujero negro?"
  Video realizado por Ciencia Cierta sobre el descubrimiento de la nube de gas cayendo a Sgr A*
  

• "Massive black hole binary mergers within sub-pc scale gas discs".
  Talk at the 7th meeting of the Chilean Astronomical Society, Santiago, Jan 2009.
  • Slides from my presentation.
  • Animation.

• "Marriage - Galaxy Style".
  JILA Research Highlight, Fall 2008.

• "Star formation and stellar winds around the Galactic super-massive black hole".
  Invited talk at the conference on Astrophysics of Compact Objects, Huangshan, July 2007.
  • Slides from my presentation.
  • The animations I showed can be found here and here.

• "Variable accretion of stellar winds onto Sagittarius A*".
  Talk at the IAU Symposium on Black Holes, Prague, Aug 2006.
  • Slides.

• "Variable accretion of stellar winds onto Sgr A*".
  Talk at the Galactic Center Workshop 2006, Bad Honnef, Apr 2006.
  • Animations from my presentation.
  • Article from the conference proceedings.

• "Feeding the Milky Way Central Black Hole with Stellar Winds", or, "Wie das Schwarze Loch im Zentrum unserer Galaxis gefuettert wird".
  MPA Research Highlight, Jan 2006.

• "Accretion of Stellar Winds in the Galactic Centre".
  Poster presented at the KITP Conference on The Paradoxes of Massive Black Holes, Santa Barbara, Apr 2005.

• "Stars in the Galactic Centre: Sources and Probes of the Accretion on to Sgr A*".
  Poster presented at the IMPRS evaluation, Garching, Apr 2005.