Felipe Andrade-Santos
Dr. Felipe Andrade-Santos
Research Associate
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
60 Garden Street, MS-70
Cambridge, MA 02138
Office: B-306A, Phone: (617) 495-7096
Email: fsantos (at) cfa.harvard.edu
Personal Information
- I am a Research Associate in the High Energy Astrophysics Division at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. I work with Dr. William Forman, Dr. Christine Jones, and the other members of the Chandra X-ray Visionary Program (XVP) to follow up in X-ray the clusters of galaxies detected by the Planck Mission (click here for more information). I am also member of the RELICS (REionization LensIng Cluster Survey) program, a Hubble Space Telescope Treasury program (PI Coe) and Spitzer Space Telescope GO program (PI Bradac).
- Click here for a list of my publications and conference proceedings.
Educational History
- PhD. in Astrophysics — Universidade de São Paulo / Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (Pre-Doctoral Fellow)
- MSc. in Engineering — Ecole Polytechnique, France (4ème année)
- MSc. in Astrophysics — Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (Summer Project at Dark Cosmology Center)
- BSc. in Engineering — Ecole Polytechnique, France (Scientific Internship at Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
- BSc. in Physics — Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
In the News
- Nature Astronomy
- Chandra Press Release
- Chandra Blog
- NASA
Cover of Nature Astronomy (first issue). Radio relics are diffuse radio sources of highly energetic
cosmic rays that are found within galaxy clusters. A combined
optical, radio (red) and X-ray (blue) study of a colliding pair of
galaxy clusters reveals that relativistic electrons ejected from an
actively accreting black hole are efficiently re-accelerated at a
cluster shock to produce bright, large-scale radio emission.
Image credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/R. van Weeren et al.; NCRA/TIFR/GMRT; NAOJ/Subaru. Cover design: Alex Wing.
Image credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/R. van Weeren et al.; NCRA/TIFR/GMRT; NAOJ/Subaru. Individual images of the clusters were created by
Joseph DePasquale. Inset was created by Reinout van Weeren.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, CXC, NRAO/AUI/NSF, STScI, R. van
Weeren (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), and G. Ogrean (Stanford
University); Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, J. Lotz (STScI), and the HFF
team. Individual images of the clusters were created by
Joseph DePasquale.
ESA's Planck Mission has provided a large, statistically
representative sample of very massive clusters, detected over the full
sky through their SZ effect. The Planck clusters are sufficiently
X-ray bright that for all 165 z < 0.35
clusters, Chandra
will collect 10,000 source
counts to characterize each
cluster's dynamical state,
including merger
properties, measure cluster
masses and mass proxies and
define local cluster mass
and temperature
functions. Chandra
observations will provide a
benchmark at low redshifts
for comparison to high
redshift clusters and to
cosmological N-body
simulations.
- Click here for more information.
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