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Overview

S. Colafrancesco was affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa during their career. Their research primarily focused on physics and astronomy, with notable contributions to astronomy and astrophysics alongside work in nuclear and high energy physics.

Their research topics covered a range of areas in astrophysics and cosmology. Key topics included:

  • Cosmology and gravitation theories
  • Galaxies: formation, evolution, phenomena
  • Astrophysics and star formation studies
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Astrophysics and cosmic phenomena
  • Pulsars and gravitational waves research
  • Radio astronomy observations and technology

Throughout their career, Colafrancesco published several papers in various scientific venues. Recent works featured contributions to:

  • "Planck intermediate results V. Pressure profiles of galaxy clusters from the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect" (2023), published in Spectrum Research Repository (Concordia University)
  • "Publisher Correction: Resolving acceleration to very high energies along the jet of Centaurus A" (2020), published in Nature
  • "Making light of gravitational-waves" (2021), published in Astroparticle Physics

Colafrancesco frequently collaborated with several co-authors, which included:

  • G. de Zotti
  • P. A. R. Ade
  • N. Aghanim
  • M. Arnaud
  • M. Ashdown

The publications appeared predominantly in three venues:

  • Spectrum Research Repository (Concordia University)
  • Nature
  • Astroparticle Physics

Best Publications

  • Planck early results. XV. Spectral energy distributions and radio continuum spectra of northern extragalactic radio sources

    J. Aatrokoski;P. A. R. Ade;N. Aghanim;H. D. Aller

  • Ionization balance for optically thin plasmas: Rate coefficients for all atoms and ions of the elements H to NI

    P. Mazzotta;G. Mazzitelli;S. Colafrancesco;N. Vittorio

  • THE SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTION OF FERMI BRIGHT BLAZARS

    A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;I. Agudo;M. Ajello

  • The Spectral Energy Distribution of Fermi bright blazars

    A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;M. Axelsson

  • Introducing the CTA concept

    B. S. Acharya;M. Actis;T. Aghajani;G. Agnetta

  • Planck early results - VIII. The all-sky early Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster sample

    Peter A. R. Ade;N. Aghanim;M. Arnaud;M. Ashdown

  • Planck Early Results VIII: The all-sky Early Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster sample

    P. A. R. Ade;N. Aghanim;M. Arnaud

  • Acceleration of petaelectronvolt protons in the Galactic Centre

    A. Abramowski;F. Aharonian;Faical Ait Benkhali;A. G. Akhperjanian

  • Bright Active Galactic Nuclei Source List from the First Three Months of the Fermi Large Area Telescope All-Sky Survey

    A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;W. B. Atwood

  • The AGILE Mission

    M. Tavani;G. Barbiellini;A. Argan;F. Boffelli

  • Science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

    B.S. Acharya;I. Agudo;I. Al Samarai

  • Planck Intermediate Results. V. Pressure profiles of galaxy clusters from the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect

    P. A. R. Ade;N. Aghanim;M. Arnaud

  • Search for TeV Gamma-ray Emission from GRB 100621A, an extremely bright GRB in X-rays, with H.E.S.S

    A. Abramowski;F. Aharonian;F. Ait Benkhali

  • Search for Photon-Linelike Signatures from Dark Matter Annihilations with H.E.S.S.

    A. Abramowski;Fabio Acero;F. Aharonian;F. Aharonian;F. Aharonian;A. G. Akhperjanian;A. G. Akhperjanian

  • Cosmic rays, radio halos and nonthermal X-ray emission in clusters of galaxies

    Pasquale Blasi;Sergio Colafrancesco

  • Fermi Gamma-Ray Imaging of a Radio Galaxy

    A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;M. Ajello

  • Planck Early Results XI: Calibration of the local galaxy cluster Sunyaev-Zeldovich scaling relations

    P. A. R. Ade;N. Aghanim;M. Arnaud

  • Simultaneous Planck, Swift, and Fermi observations of X-ray and gamma-ray selected blazars

    P. Giommi;G. Polenta;A. Lahteenmaki;D. J. Thompson

  • Planck intermediate results: V. Pressure profiles of galaxy clusters from the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect

    P. A.R. Ade;N. Aghanim;M. Arnaud;M. Ashdown

  • Multi-frequency analysis of neutralino dark matter annihilations in the Coma cluster

    Sergio Colafrancesco;Sergio Colafrancesco;S. Profumo;P. Ullio

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Tavani
Marco Tavani National Institute for Astrophysics
A. Morselli
A. Morselli National Institute for Nuclear Physics
S. Mereghetti
S. Mereghetti National Institute for Astrophysics
P. A. Caraveo
P. A. Caraveo National Institute for Astrophysics
Felix Aharonian
Felix Aharonian Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies
Jim Hinton
Jim Hinton Max Planck Society
Dieter Horns
Dieter Horns Universität Hamburg
M.-H. Grondin
M.-H. Grondin University of Bordeaux
Werner Hofmann
Werner Hofmann Max Planck Society
Olaf Reimer
Olaf Reimer University of Innsbruck

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