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  • 2014 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For her pioneering contributions to our understanding of the long and short gammaray bursts, including the development of advanced models to describe their properties and environments, calculations of their particle and radiative emission, and innovative treatment of the timedependent photoinization in the dusty environment around the bursts

Overview

Rosalba Perna is a researcher affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their work is primarily situated within the field of Physics and Astronomy, with extensive contributions especially in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Their research encompasses a wide range of topics related to astrophysical phenomena and observations.

The main topics addressed in Perna's research include:

  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena

Their publication record features papers appearing frequently in several prominent venues such as:

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

Recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Perna include:

  • "Accretion-Induced Collapse of Neutron Stars in the Disks of Active Galactic Nuclei," 2021, The Astrophysical Journal
  • "A Very Young Radio-loud Magnetar," 2020, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • "Observable Signature of Merging Stellar-mass Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei," 2023, The Astrophysical Journal
  • "Can Stellar-mass Black Hole Growth Disrupt Disks of Active Galactic Nuclei? The Role of Mechanical Feedback," 2022, The Astrophysical Journal
  • "Large-scale Evolution of Seconds-long Relativistic Jets from Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers," 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Frequent collaborators in their research include Yihan Wang, Davide Lazzati, Zoltán Haiman, Taeho Ryu, and Hiromichi Tagawa.

In recognition of their contributions to astrophysics, Rosalba Perna was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2014. This honor cited their pioneering work on the understanding of long and short gamma-ray bursts, including the development of advanced models describing properties and environments of these bursts, calculations related to particle and radiative emission, and innovative approaches to the time-dependent photoionization effects in dusty environments surrounding bursts.

Best Publications

  • Unifying the observational diversity of isolated neutron stars via magneto-thermal evolution models.

    Daniele Viganò;Nanda Rea;José A. Pons;Rosalba Perna

  • Neutrino Trapping and Accretion Models for Gamma-Ray Bursts

    Tiziana Di Matteo;Tiziana Di Matteo;Rosalba Perna;Ramesh Narayan;Ramesh Narayan

  • Late Time Afterglow Observations Reveal a Collimated Relativistic Jet in the Ejecta of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

    Davide Lazzati;Rosalba Perna;Brian J. Morsony;Diego Lopez-Camara

  • A study of compact object mergers as short gamma-ray burst progenitors

    Krzysztof Belczynski;Rosalba Perna;Tomasz Bulik;Vassiliki Kalogera

  • Radio Foregrounds for the 21cm Tomography of the Neutral Intergalactic Medium at High Redshifts

    Tiziana Di Matteo;Rosalba Perna;Tom Abel;Martin J. Rees

  • Radio Foregrounds for the 21 Centimeter Tomography of the Neutral Intergalactic Medium at High Redshifts

    Tiziana Di Matteo;Rosalba Perna;Tom Abel;Tom Abel;Martin J. Rees

  • Flares in Long and Short Gamma-Ray Bursts: A Common Origin in a Hyperaccreting Accretion Disk

    Rosalba Perna;Philip J. Armitage;Bing Zhang

  • SHORT GAMMA-RAY BURSTS FROM THE MERGER OF TWO BLACK HOLES

    Rosalba Perna;Davide Lazzati;Bruno Giacomazzo

  • FORMATION OF STABLE MAGNETARS FROM BINARY NEUTRON STAR MERGERS

    Bruno Giacomazzo;Rosalba Perna

  • The outburst decay of the low magnetic field magnetar SGR 0418+5729

    N. Rea;G. L. Israel;J. A. Pons;R. Turolla

  • General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of binary neutron star mergers forming a long-lived neutron star

    Riccardo Ciolfi;Riccardo Ciolfi;Wolfgang Kastaun;Bruno Giacomazzo;Andrea Endrizzi

  • A Unified Model of the Magnetar and Radio Pulsar Bursting Phenomenology

    Rosalba Perna;Jose A. Pons

  • GRB 050904 at redshift 6.3: observations of the oldest cosmic explosion after the Big Bang

    G. Tagliaferri;L. A. Antonelli;G. Chincarini;G. Chincarini;A. Fernández-Soto

  • XIPE: the x-ray imaging polarimetry explorer

    P. Soffitta;R. Bellazzini;E. Bozzo;V. Burwitz

  • Magnetic Drag on Hot Jupiter Atmospheric Winds

    Rosalba Perna;Kristen Menou;Kristen Menou;Emily Rauscher;Emily Rauscher

  • Emission spectra of fallback disks around young neutron stars

    Rosalba Perna;Lars Hernquist;Ramesh Narayan

  • The first outburst of the new magnetar candidate SGR 0501+4516

    Nanda Rea;GianLuca Israel;Roberto Turolla;Paolo Esposito

  • A strongly magnetized pulsar within grasp of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole

    N. Rea;P. Esposito;J. A. Pons;R. Turolla

  • Instabilities in the Time-Dependent Neutrino Disk in Gamma-Ray Bursts

    A. Janiuk;Y.-F. Yuan;R. Perna;T. Di Matteo

  • Identifying the Environment and Redshift of Gamma‐Ray Burst Afterglows from the Time Dependence of Their Absorption Spectra

    Rosalba Perna;Abraham Loeb

Frequent Co-Authors

Davide Lazzati
Davide Lazzati Oregon State University
Nanda Rea
Nanda Rea Spanish National Research Council
Luigi Stella
Luigi Stella National Institute for Astrophysics
G. L. Israel
G. L. Israel National Institute for Astrophysics
Roberto Turolla
Roberto Turolla University of Padua
Sergio Campana
Sergio Campana National Institute for Astrophysics
Stefano Covino
Stefano Covino National Institute for Astrophysics
Silvia Zane
Silvia Zane University College London
S. Mereghetti
S. Mereghetti National Institute for Astrophysics
Abraham Loeb
Abraham Loeb Harvard University

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