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Nicholas Dimakis
Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Office: BINAB 2.115, ESCNE 1.606A
Email: nicholas.dimakis@utrgv.edu
Phone Brownsville: (956) 882-6679
Phone Edinburg: (956) 665-2041


Administrative Assistant
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Office: BINAB 2.102, ESCNE 1.606A
Phone Brownsville: (956) 882-6779
Phone Edinburg: (956)-665-3136

Juan Madrid

juan madrid Assistant Professor
BINAB 2.128
Phone pending-
Brownsville
juan.madrid@utrgv.edu

 

Recent Teaching:

ASTR 1401 - Intro to Astronomy I
ASTR 1402 - Intro to Astronomy II
PHYS 5387 - Extragalactic Astronomy
PHYS 7300 - Thesis I
PHYS 7301 - Thesis II

Research:

I work on observational and theoretical astronomy. I study globular clusters using high resolution
observations obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. I also recreate the dynamical evolution of
globular clusters using advanced NBODY simulations that run on Graphic Processing Units (GPUs).
Other topics of interest are AGN jets, radio astronomy, galaxy clusters and cataclysmic variables.
My observational work is carried out mainly with the HST, Gemini, Chandra, and the Australian Square
Kilometer Array Pathfinder. If you are a student interested in working on the topics above please
feel free to contact me.


Recent publications:

- AGN Jets and a Fanciful Trio of Black Holes in the Abell 85 Brightest Cluster Galaxy,
Madrid, Juan P. 2021, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 133, 014101

- Optical Study of PKS B1322--110, the Intra-hour Variable Radio Source,
Madrid, J. P., Tuntsov, A. V., Schirmer, M., Walker, M. A., Donzelli, C. J., Bannister, K. W.,
et al. 2020, The Astrophysical Journal, 900, 169

- Wide Field Map of Intracluster Globular Clusters in Coma
Madrid, J. P., O'Neill, C., Gagliano, A., Marvil, J. 2018, The Astrophysical Journal, 867, 144

- WALLABY -- an SKA Pathfinder HI survey,
Koribalski, B. S., Staveley-Smith, L., Westmeier, T., Serra, P., et al., Madrid, J. P., among others, 2020,
Astrophysics and Space Science, 365, 118

- Monitoring of the radio galaxy M87 during a low emission state from 2012 to 2015 with MAGIC,
Manganaro, M., Bangale,  P., Mazin, D., Arcaro, C.,  et al., Madrid, J. P., among others, 2020,
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492, 5354


Recent press coverage:

So how many supermassive black holes are there in Holmberg 15A anyway?


Hubble Uncovers Thousands of Globular Star Clusters Scattered Among Galaxies


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