Juan Madrid
Assistant Professor
BINAB 2.128
Phone pending-
Brownsville
juan.madrid@utrgv.edu
Recent Teaching:ASTR 1401 - Intro to Astronomy IASTR 1402 - Intro to Astronomy IIPHYS 5387 - Extragalactic AstronomyPHYS 7300 - Thesis IPHYS 7301 - Thesis IIResearch:I work on observational and theoretical astronomy. I study globular clusters using high resolutionobservations obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. I also recreate the dynamical evolution ofglobular 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 SquareKilometer Array Pathfinder. If you are a student interested in working on the topics above pleasefeel 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 ComaMadrid, 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, 5354Recent press coverage:So how many supermassive black holes are there in Holmberg 15A anyway?
Hubble Uncovers Thousands of Globular Star Clusters Scattered Among Galaxies