Elena Maria Rossi: homepage at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem </head> <body background="backdrop.png" text=#000000 link=#0000ff vlink=#0000ff> <center> <table width=750 border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width=750><img src="header_image.jpg" width=750></td> </tr> <font face=Helvetica> <table cellspacing="5"> <tr> <td width=450> <b><font face=Arial color=#ff0000>RESEARCH</font></b><br> </td> <td width=295> <b><font face=Arial color=#ff0000>CV</font></b> </td> </tr> </table> <font face=Arial> <table cellspacing="5"> <tr> <td width=450 valign=top> My research in theoretical astrophysics focuses on studies of high energy phenomena around black holes. I am currently developing a model for formation of supermassive black holes via direct collapse of gas. In am especially interested in the special configuration in which a black hole accretes from a hydrostatic envelope. In addition, I am studying --analytically and numerically-- the possible electromagnetic signals associated with the balck hole recoil at merger. Here you can find some <a href="http://jilawww.colorado.edu/~pja/recoil.html"> movies</a>. This is of course important to maximize the potential of future gravitational wave observations of merging systems. I am also interested in the physics of accretion discs, and how their micro-physical properties relate to the global process of accretion of matter. Finally, I am applying a newly developed analytic methods to study stellar dynamical processes in the vicinity of the black hole at the Galactic Centre. The results will be applied to understand observations of hypervelocity stars and of the stellar population in the Galactic Centre. <p> </td> <td width=295 valign=top> 2005: Ph.D. University of Cambridge, advisor Prof. M. J. Rees <p> 2005-2008: <em>Chandra</em> Fellow at<a href="http://jilawww.colorado.edu"> JILA</a>, University of Colorado <p> 2008 1 Nov: Postdoc at <a href="http://www.phys.huji.ac.il"> Racah Institute for Physics</a>, Hebrew University, Jerusalem <p> <a href="CV">full CV </a> <p> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellspacing="5" > <tr> <td width=225> <b><font color=#ff0000>CONTACT</font></b> </td> <td width=520> <b><font color=#ff0000>SELECTED PUBLICATIONS</font></b> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellspacing="5"> <tr> <td width=190 valign=top> Racah Institute for Physics<br> The Hebrew University<br> Jerusalem<br> 91904<br> Israel<p> Tel: +972-(0)2-658-5492<br> Fax: +972-(0)2-658-4437<br> <p> email: emr@phys.huji.ac.il </td> <td width=565 valign=top> <a href="http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0911.1136">Hypervelocity stars and the restricted parabolic 3-body problem</a>,<br> R. Sari, S. Kobayashi & E.M. Rossi, 2009, ApJ accepted <br> <a href="http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0910.0002">Black hole mergers: the first light</a>,<br> E.M. Rossi, G. Lodato, P.J.Armitage, J.E. Pringle & A.R. King, 2009, MNRAS, accepted <br> <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009MNRAS.392.1451R">Delayed X-ray emission from fallback in compact-object mergers </a>, <br>E.M. Rossi & M.C. Begelman, MNRAS, 392,1451 (2009) <br> <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008MNRAS.391..922R">Microphysical dissipation, turbulence and magnetic fields in hyper-accreting discs</a>,<br> E.M. Rossi, P.J.Armitage, K. Menou, MNRAS, 391,922 (2008) <br> <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007arXiv0711.4078B">Quasistars: Accreting black holes inside massive envelopes</a>, <br>M.C. Begelman, E.M. Rossi & P.J. Armitage, MNRAS, 387, 1649, (2008) <br> <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006MNRAS.369.1797R">Neutron-loaded outflows in gamma-ray bursts</a>,<br> E.M. Rossi, A.M. Beloborodov & M.J. Rees, MNRAS, 369, 1797 (2006) <br> <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002MNRAS.332..945R">Afterglow light curves, viewing angle and the jet structure of gamma-ray bursts</a>, </br>E.M. Rossi, D. Lazzati & M.J. Rees, MNRAS, 332, 945 (2002) <p> <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?library&libname=My+papers&libid=487a487a29">full list of publications</a> </td> </tr> </table> <table width=750> <tr><td> <hr> </td></tr> </table> <td width=95> foto by Paolo Tozzi</font> </td> </font> </table> </center> </body> </html>