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Jesus Zavala Franco - Professor
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School of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Jesus Zavala Franco
Íslenska
Professor
Location
Tæknigarður / Tg-319
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525 4776
Email
jzavala [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Physical Sciences
Website
https://notendur.hi.is/~jzavala/
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4442-908X
Research portal – Jesus Zavala Franco
Under construction throughout the autumn semester 2023
Courses 2023 - 2024
EÐL205G - Spacetime Physics
EÐL625M - Astronomical Observations, Data Reduction and Analysis
EÐL302G - Classical Mechanics
EÐL505F - Course for the Ph.D.-degree in Physics
EÐL701M - Quantum field theory 2
Education
2007
,
Ph.D.
,
Nuclear Sciences Institute, National Autnomous University of Mexico
,
PhD in Physics
Professional Experience
2016 -
,
Associate Professor,
University of Iceland
2013 -
2016,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Dark Cosmology Centre
2012 -
2013,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
2010 -
2013,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
University of Waterloo
2008 -
2010,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
2007 -
2008,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
Published works
2022
Kinematic Signatures of Impulsive Supernova Feedback in Dwarf Galaxies
Phys.Rev.Lett.
2021
Supernova-driven Mechanism of Cusp-core Transformation: an Appraisal
Astrophys.J.
2017
A merger in the dusty, z=7.5 galaxy A1689-zD1?
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Galaxy formation with BECDM - I. Turbulence and relaxation of idealized haloes
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Spreading out and staying sharp - creating diverse rotation curves via baryonic and self-interaction effects
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
A rumble in the dark: signatures of self-interacting dark matter in supermassive black hole dynamics and galaxy density profiles
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2016
ETHOS-an effective theory of structure formation: From dark particle physics to the matter distribution of the Universe
Physical Review D
Angular power spectrum of the diffuse gamma-ray emission as measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope and constraints on its dark matter interpretation
Phys.Rev.D
ETHOS - an effective theory of structure formation: dark matter physics as a possible explanation of the small-scale CDM problems
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Universal clustering of dark matter in phase space
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Contributions to cosmic reionization from dark matter annihilation and decay
Phys.Rev.D
The link between the assembly of the inner dark matter halo and the angular momentum evolution of galaxies in the EAGLE simulation
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Enhanced tidal stripping of satellites in the galactic halo from dark matter self-interactions
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2014
Scattering, damping, and acoustic oscillations: Simulating the structure of dark matter halos with relativistic force carriers
Physical Review D
Clustering in the phase space of dark matter haloes – I. Results from the Aquarius simulations
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.
Clustering in the phase space of dark matter haloes – II. Stable clustering and dark matter annihilation
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.
Dark matter implications of Fermi-LAT measurement of anisotropies in the diffuse gamma-ray background
Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section a-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment
Dwarf galaxies in CDM and SIDM with baryons: observational probes of the nature of dark matter
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
The growth of galactic bulges through mergers in Lambda cold dark matter haloes revisited - II. Morphological mix evolution
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
DARK MATTER CORES IN THE FORNAX AND SCULPTOR DWARF GALAXIES: JOINING HALO ASSEMBLY AND DETAILED STAR FORMATION HISTORIES
Astrophysical Journal Letters
Galactic PeV neutrinos from dark matter annihilation
Phys.Rev.D
2013
Characterization of dark-matter-induced anisotropies in the diffuse gamma-ray background
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
The abundance of (not just) dark matter haloes
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Direct detection of self-interacting dark matter
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.
Constraining Self-Interacting Dark Matter with the Milky Way's dwarf spheroidals
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.
2012
Removal and mixing of the coronal gas from satellites in galaxy groups: cooling the intragoup gas
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.
Dark Matter implications of the Fermi-LAT measurement of anisotropies in the diffuse gamma-ray background: status report
Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A
Subhaloes in Self-Interacting Galactic Dark Matter Haloes
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.
The growth of galactic bulges through mergers in LCDM haloes revisited. I. Present-day properties
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2011
The cosmic X-ray and gamma-ray background from dark matter annihilation
Phys.Rev.D
2010
Extragalactic gamma-ray background radiation from dark matter annihilation
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.
Relic density and CMB constraints on dark matter annihilation with Sommerfeld enhancement
Phys.Rev.D
2009
THE VELOCITY FUNCTION IN THE LOCAL ENVIRONMENT FROM Lambda CDM AND Lambda WDM CONSTRAINED SIMULATIONS
Astrophysical Journal
The velocity function in the local environment from LCDM and LWDM constrained simulations
Astrophys.J.
2008
3D hydrodynamical simulations of the large scale structure of W50-SS433
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.
On the baryonic, stellar, and luminous scaling relations of disk galaxies
Astronomical Journal
Constraining the mSUGRA parameter space using the entropy of dark matter halos
JCAP
Three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of the large-scale structure of W50-SS433
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bulges versus disks: The evolution of angular momentum in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.
2006
Pioneer anomaly? Gravitational pull due to the Kuiper belt
International Journal of Modern Physics D
Entropy considerations in constraining the msugra parameter space
AIP Conf.Proc.
Empirical testing of tsallis' thermodynamics as a model for dark matter halos
AIP Conf.Proc.
Stellar polytropes and NFW halo model: Stellar polytropes and Navarro-Frenk-White halo models: comparison with observations
JCAP
2003
The luminous and dark matter content of disk galaxies
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Keywords for Specialisation:
Dark matter astrophysics
Galaxy formation and evolution
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