Alessandro Lanzafame

Università degli Studi di Catania

Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia - Università di Catania

INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania

GASS: Group on Active Stars & Systems

• Highlights
  • GREAT – ESF Workshop
    "Ground-based observations and theoretical analysis for the Gaia Science on Open Clusters and Young Associations" ,
    Catania 13 – 14 May 2010
• Research
  • Data Processing and Analysis for the ESA mission Gaia
  • Cool Stars
    • Chromospheric activity
    • Close binaries of RS CVn type
    • T Tauri-type stars
    • Evolution of angular momentum and magnetic fields
  • Solar outer atmosphere
  • Solar extreme ultraviolet spectrum
  • Spectroscopic diagnostics
  • Plasma flows in the transition region
  • Coronal heating
• Teaching
  • Stellar Physics
  • Elements of Cosmology
  • Info on previous teaching, tutoring etc. in the "About me" page
• Space projects
  • Gaia
  • Solar Orbiter
  • PLATO
  • PLATO Payload and Science Consortia
  • WSO/UV
• Links
  • Gaia - Taking the Galactic Census
  • GREAT - Gaia Research for European Astronomy Training
  • GREAT – wiki: Working Group on Open Clusters and Young Associations
  • GREAT ESF Research Networking Programme
  • ADAS - Atomic Data and Analysis Structure

• Publications
  • Most relevant and recent publications
    • Modelling the rotational evolution of solar-like stars: the rotational coupling time-scale,
      Spada F., Lanzafame A. C., Lanza A. F., Messina S., Collier Cameron A., 2011,
      Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 416, 447
      [ADS] [arXiv]
    • RACE-OC project: rotation and variability in the ɛ Chamaeleontis, Octans, and Argus stellar associations
      Messina S., Desidera S., Lanzafame A. C., Turatto M., Guinan E. F., 2011,
      Astronomy & Astrophysics, 532, 10
      [ADS] [arXiv]
    • The debris disk host star HD 61005: a member of the Argus association?
      Desidera S., Covino E., Messina S., D'Orazi V., Alcalà J. M., Brugaletta E., Carson J., Lanzafame A. C., Launhardt R., 2011,
      Astronomy & Astrophysics, 529, 54
      [ADS] [arXiv]
    • RACE-OC Project: Rotation and variability in young stellar associations within 100 pc.
      Messina S., Desidera S., Turatto M., Lanzafame A.C., Guinan E.F., 2010,
      Astronomy & Astrophysics, 520, 15
      [ADS] [arXiv]
    • A semi-analytic approach to angular momentum transport in stellar radiative interiors.
      Spada F., Lanzafame, A.C. Lanza, A.F., 2010,
      Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 404, 641
      [ADS] [arXiv]
    • Signatures of Impulsive Localized Heating in the Temperature Distribution of Multi-Stranded Coronal Loops,
      Susino R., Lanzafame A.C, Lanza A.F., Spadaro D, 2010
      The Astrophysical Journal Vol. 709, pp. 499-506
      [ADS] [arXiv]
    • A semi-analytic approach to angular momentum transport in stellar radiative interiors,
      Spada F., Lanzafame, A.C. Lanza, A.F., 2009,
      Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 328, Issue 1-2, pp. 279-283.
      [ADS]
    • The RACE-OC project: Rotation and Activity Evolution in Open Clusters
      Messina, S.; Distefano, E.; Parihar, Padmakar; Busà, I.; Cutispoto, G.; Lanza, A. F.; Lanzafame, A.; Pagano, I.; Biazzo, K.; Leto, G.; Hatzidimitriou, D.; Kim, S.-L.; Koo, J.-R.; Kang, Y. B., 2009
      COOL STARS, STELLAR SYSTEMS AND THE SUN: Proceedings of the 15th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1094, pp. 939-942.
      [ADS]
    • New high resolution synthetic stellar libraries for the Gaia mission
      Sordo, R.; Vallenari, A.; Bouret, J.-C.; Brott, I.; Edvardsson, B.; Frémat, Y.; Heber, U.; Josselin, E.; Kochukhov, O.; Korn, A.; Lanzafame, A.; Martins, F.; Schweitzer, A.; Thévenin, F.; Zorec, J., 2009
      Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, v.80, p.103
      [ADS]
    • Doppler imaging of the young late-type star LO Pegasi (BD +22 4409) in September 2003
      Piluso N., Lanza A. F., Pagano I., Lanzafame A. C., Donati J. -F., 2008
      Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 387, 237
      [ADS]
    • Spots, plages and flares on lambda Andromedae and II Pegasi
      Frasca A., Biazzo K., Tas G., Evren S., Lanzafame A. C., 2008
      Astronomy & Astrophysics, 479, 557
      [ADS]
    • The in-flight monitoring and validation of the SOHO CDS Normal Incidence Spectrometer radiometric calibration,
      Lang J., Brooks D. H., Lanzafame A. C., Martin R., Pike C. D., Thompson, W. T., 2007
      Astronomy & Astrophysics, 463, 339
      [ADS]
  • Full list of publications