RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Compact stars as sources of gravitational waves

• Equilibrium and instabilities of rotating relativistic stars

• Nonlinear oscillations of relativistic stars

• MHD oscillations in relativistic models of magnetars

• Numerical relativity

• Interaction of gravitational waves and plasma

• Relativistic accretion disks

• Compact stars in alternative theories of gravity

Some news articles on my research:

• Teramo News news article (2014) (in Italian)

• Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics press release (2014)

• INAF news article (2014) (in Italian)

• La Information news article (2013) (in Spanish)

• Sinc news article (2013) (in Spanish)

• AlphaGalileo news article (2013) (in Spanish)

• Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics press release (2012)

• MIT Technology Review news article (2010)

• Spin.gr news article (2002)  (in Greek)

• Nature news article (2001) [pdf]

• National Astronomical Organization of Japan News (2001) (in Japanese)

• Max-Planck-Society press release (1999) (in German)

• European Astronomical Society Newsletter Issue 22 (2001)

• Matters of Gravity vol. 20 (2002)

• Matters of Gravity vol. 17 (2001)

• Matters of Gravity vol. 16 (2000)

• Matters of Gravity vol. 12 (1998)

• Matters of Gravity vol. 7 (1996)

• Matters of Gravity vol. 5 (1995)

Some simulations:

     1. Nonlinear r-Modes in Rotating Relativistic Stars

Evolution of the axial velocity in the equatorial plane  [mpg]

Evolution of the rotational velocity in the xz-plane  [mpg]
 
 

    2.  Long-Term Simulations of Single Relativistic Stars
     Visualization by Werner Benger and Luciano Rezzolla (Mpg and Quicktime format at AEI)

      Avi format (requires the DivX codec) :

      a) Nonlinear Radial Pulsation of Migrating Star

3D volume rendering of density and internal energy(1.3 Mb avi)

2D slices of density and internal energy  (0.24 Mb avi)
 

      b) Rapidly Rotating Relativistic Star

3D volume rendering of density   (1.8Mb avi)

3D volume rendering of x-component of velocity (7.0Mb avi)