Elena Maria Rossi: homepage at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem </head> <body bgcolor=#777777 text=#000000 link=#99cc00 vlink=#99cc00> <center> <table width=800 border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width=800><img src="elena_rossi.jpg" alt="Elena Maria Rossi" width=800></td> </tr> <font face=Helvetica> <table cellspacing="5"> <tr> <td width=500> <b><font face=Arial color=#000000>RESEARCH</font></b><br> </td> <td width=300> <b><font face=Arial color=#000000>CONTACT</font></b> </td> </tr> </table> <font face=Arial> <table cellspacing="5"> <tr> <td width=500 valign=top> My research in theoretical astrophysics focuses on studies of high energy phenomena around black holes. <p> <li>Accretion disc physics</li> <li>Supermassive black holes</li> <li>Galactic Centre stellar dynamics</li> <li>Gamma-ray bursts</li> <p> Animations of disc response to <a href="http://jilawww.colorado.edu/~pja/recoil.html">black hole recoil</a> (<em>Rossi et al.</em> 2009) </td> <td width=300 valign=top> Racah Institute for Physics<br> The Hebrew University<br> Jerusalem<br> 91904 Israel<p> Tel: +972-(0)2-658-5492<br> Fax: +972-(0)2-658-4437<p> email: emr@phys.huji.ac.il </td> </tr> </table> <table cellspacing="5" > <tr> <td width=300> <b><font color=#000000>CV</font></b> </td> <td width=500> <b><font color=#000000>SELECTED PUBLICATIONS</font></b> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellspacing="5"> <tr> <td width=300 valign=top> 2005: Ph.D. <a href="http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk">University of Cambridge</a>, 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> Presently: <a href="http://www.phys.huji.ac.il/">Racah Institute for Physics</a>, Hebrew University <p> <a href="CV">full CV</a> <p> <b>COLLABORATORS</b> <p> <a href="http://www.phys.huji.ac.il/~sari/">Re'em Sari</a><br> <a href="http://www.astro.ljmu.ac.uk/~sk/">Shiho Kobayashi</a><br> <a href="http://www2.fisica.unimi.it/lodato/Homepage_di_Giuseppe_Lodato/Home.html">Giuseppe Lodato</a><br> <a href="http://jilawww.colorado.edu/~pja/">Phil Armitage</a><br> <a href="http://www.astro.columbia.edu/~kristen/">Kristen Menou</a><br> Mitch Begelman<br> </td> <td width=500 valign=top> <a href="http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0911.1136">Hypervelocity stars and the restricted parabolic 3-body problem</a>, R. Sari, S. Kobayashi & E.M. Rossi, 2010, ApJ, 708, 605 <br> <a href="http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0910.0002">Black hole mergers: the first light</a>, E.M. Rossi, G. Lodato, P.J.Armitage, J.E. Pringle & A.R. King, 2010, MNRAS, 401, 202 <br> <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009MNRAS.392.1451R">Delayed X-ray emission from fallback in compact-object mergers </a>, 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>, 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>, 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>, 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>, 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=800> <tr><td> <hr> </td></tr> </table> <td><center> Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum. ---Tom Stoppard </center></font> </td> </font> </table> </center> </body> </html>