Alessandra Mastrobuono Battisti
My past and current research efforts focus on the field of stellar dynamics. I faced this problem both from the numerical and the observational point of view and, in particular, I worked on numerical simulations of the dynamical evolution of star clusters in galaxies.
In particular, during my PhD I gained knowledge and abilities in the study of dynamical evolution of globular clusters in Milky Way-like potentials, paying particular attention to the possible consequences on the Galactic structure. For this purpose I used N-body direct summation parallel codes which I realized during my PhD. The codes exploit GPUs as computing accelerators, by mean of the CUDA C programming language and can run on multiple GPUs and CPUs systems.
There is a close interplay between stellar dynamics, stellar evolution, the clusters’ stellar content and the dynamics and properties of galaxies. Results obtained in the study of star
clusters provide an excellent opportunity to better understand the evolutionary and formation history of their host galaxy.
Publications
Clumpy streams in a smooth dark halo: the case of Palomar 5,
MASTROBUONO-BATTISTI A., DI MATTEO P., MONTUORI M., HAYWOOD, M., A&A Letters (2012)
Dissipationless Formation and Evolution of the Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster, ANTONINI F., CAPUZZO-DOLCETTA R., MASTROBUONO-BATTISTI A., MERRITT D.,
ApJ, 750, 111 (2012)
A Monte Carlo analysis of the velocity dispersion of the globular cluster Palomar 14, SOLLIMA, A., NIPOTI, C., MASTROBUONO-BATTISTI A., MONTUORI, M., CAPUZZODOLCETTA R.,
ApJ, 744, 196 (2012)
NBSymple, a double parallel, symplectic N-body code running on Graphic Processing Units,
CAPUZZO-DOLCETTA R., MASTROBUONO-BATTISTI A., MASCHIETTI D.,
New Astron., 16, 284 (2011)
Globular cluster system erosion in elliptical galaxies,
CAPUZZO-DOLCETTA R., MASTROBUONO-BATTISTI A.,
A&A, 507, 183 (2009)
Contact
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