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Piero Madau is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's work covers several main topics related to astrophysics and cosmic phenomena. These include:

  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies

Piero Madau has contributed to a number of publication venues, with a significant presence in the following journals and repositories:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Madau are:

  • "Evolutionary roads leading to low effective spins, high black hole masses, and O1/O2 rates for LIGO/Virgo binary black holes," 2020, Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology)
  • "New constraints on warm dark matter from the Lyman-α forest power spectrum," 2023, Physical Review D
  • "Modeling cosmic reionization," 2022, Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics
  • "Global torques and stochasticity as the drivers of massive black hole pairing in the young Universe," 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • "Cosmic Reionization in the JWST Era: Back to AGNs?", 2024, The Astrophysical Journal

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers in related fields. Co-authors with whom Madau has worked extensively include:

  • Lucio Mayer
  • Pedro R. Capelo
  • Bruno Villasenor
  • Brant Robertson
  • Sijing Shen

Best Publications

  • Cosmic Star-Formation History

    Piero Madau;Mark Dickinson

  • HIGH-REDSHIFT GALAXIES IN THE HUBBLE DEEP FIELD : COLOUR SELECTION AND STAR FORMATION HISTORY TO Z 4

    Piero Madau;Henry C. Ferguson;Mark E. Dickinson;Mauro Giavalisco

  • CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey - The Hubble Space Telescope Observations, Imaging Data Products and Mosaics

    Anton M. Koekemoer;S. M. Faber;Henry C. Ferguson;Norman A. Grogin

  • The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey: Initial Results From Optical and Near-Infrared Imaging

    M. Giavalisco

  • Radiative Transfer in a Clumpy Universe: II. The Utraviolet Extragalactic Background

    Francesco Haardt;Piero Madau

  • CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey

    Norman A. Grogin;Dale D. Kocevski;S. M. Faber;Henry C. Ferguson

  • The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey: Initial results from optical and near-infrared imaging

    M. Giavalisco;H. C. Ferguson;H. C. Ferguson;A. M. Koekemoer;M. Dickinson;M. Dickinson

  • Radiative Transfer in a Clumpy Universe. II. The Ultraviolet Extragalactic Background

    Francesco Haardt;Piero Madau

  • The Star formation history of field galaxies

    Piero Madau;Lucia Pozzetti;Mark Dickinson;Mark Dickinson

  • Candels: The cosmic assembly near-infrared deep extragalactic legacy survey - The hubble space telescope observations, imaging data products, and mosaics

    Anton M. Koekemoer;S. M. Faber;Henry C. Ferguson;Norman A. Grogin

  • Radiative transfer in a clumpy universe: The colors of high-redshift galaxies

    Piero Madau

  • Bulgeless dwarf galaxies and dark matter cores from supernova-driven outflows

    Fabio Governato;Chris Brook;Lucio Mayer;Alyson Brooks

  • Massive Black Holes as Population III Remnants

    Piero Madau;Martin J. Rees

  • Clumps and streams in the local dark matter distribution

    J. Diemand;M. Kuhlen;P. Madau;M. Zemp

  • The Assembly and Merging History of Supermassive Black Holes in Hierarchical Models of Galaxy Formation

    Marta Volonteri;Francesco Haardt;Piero Madau

  • Radiative Transfer in a Clumpy Universe. IV. New Synthesis Models of the Cosmic UV/X-Ray Background

    Francesco Haardt;Piero Madau

  • A NEW NONPARAMETRIC APPROACH TO GALAXY MORPHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION

    Jennifer M. Lotz;Joel Primack;Piero Madau

  • 21-cm Tomography of the Intergalactic Medium at High Redshift

    Piero Madau;Avery Meiksin;Martin J. Rees

  • 21 CENTIMETER TOMOGRAPHY OF THE INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM AT HIGH REDSHIFT

    Piero Madau;Avery Meiksin;Martin J. Rees

  • A New Non-Parametric Approach to Galaxy Morphological Classification

    Jennifer M. Lotz;Joel Primack;Piero Madau

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesco Haardt
Francesco Haardt University of Insubria
Lucio Mayer
Lucio Mayer University of Zurich
Henry C. Ferguson
Henry C. Ferguson Space Telescope Science Institute
Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson National Optical Astronomy Observatory
Martin J. Rees
Martin J. Rees University of Cambridge
Leonidas A. Moustakas
Leonidas A. Moustakas California Institute of Technology
Mauro Giavalisco
Mauro Giavalisco University of Massachusetts Amherst
Lucia Pozzetti
Lucia Pozzetti National Institute for Astrophysics
Joachim Stadel
Joachim Stadel University of Zurich
Marta Volonteri
Marta Volonteri Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris

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