Prof. Dr. Maria-Rosa Cioni

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsAstronomy
KeywordsMagellanic Clouds, stellar populations, astrometry

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityPotsdam
InstitutionLeibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Andreas BurkertObservatorium Wendelstein, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Prof. Dr. Ralf BenderObservatorium Wendelstein, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Prof. Dr. Matthias SteinmetzLeibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Potsdam
Dr. Roelof S. de JongLeibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Potsdam
Start of initial sponsorship01/12/2010

Programme(s)

2010Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2010Christine P. Nicholls, Peter R. Wood, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni: Ellipsoidal Variability and the Difference between Sequence D and E Red Giants. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2010, 1770-1776
2009Christine P. Nicholls, Peter R. Wood, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Igor Soszynski: Long Secondary Periods in variable red giants. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2009, 2063-2078
2009Eric Lagadec, Albert A. Zijlstra, Greg C. Sloan, Peter R. Wood, Mikako Matsuura, Jeronimo Bernard-Salas, Joris A.D.L. Blommaert, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Michael W. Feast, Martin A.T. Groenewegen, Sacha Hony, John W. Menzies, Jacco Th. van Loon, Patricia A. Whitelock: Metal-rich carbon stars in the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2009, 598-608
2009Leandro O. Kerber, Leo Girardi, Stefano Rubele, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni: Recovery of the star formation history of the LMC from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic system. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2009, 697-710
2009J.S. Lawrence, M.C.B. Ashley, J. Bailey, D. Barrado y Navascues, T. R. Bedding, J. Bland-Hawthorn, I. Bond, F. Boulanger, R. Bowens, H. Bruntt, Andy Burker, Dennis Burgarella, M.G. Burton, Maurizio Busso, D. Coward, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, G. Durand, C. Eiroa, Nicolas Epchtein, N. Gherels, P. Gillingham, K. Glazebrook, R. Haynes, Lasko Kiss, P.O. Lagage, Thibaut Le Bertre, C. Mackay, J.P. Maillard, A. McGrath, V. Minier, A. Mora, Knut Olsen, Paolo Persi, K. Pimbblet, R. Quimby, W. Saunders, et al.: The Science Case for PILOT I: Summary and Overview. In: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2009, 379-396
2009J.S. Lawrence, M.C.B. Ashlwy, J. Bailey, D. Barrado y Navascues, Tim R. Bedding, J. Bland-Hawthorn, I. Bond, H. Bruntt, M.G. Burton, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, C. Eiroa, Nicolas Epchtein, Lasko Kiss, P.O. Lagage, V. Minier, A. Mora, Knut Olsen, Paolo Persi, W. Saunders, D. Stello, John W.V. Storey, C. Tinney, P. Yock: The Science Case for PILOT III: the Nearby Universe. In: ublications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2009, 415-438
2009Mikako Matsuura, Mike J. Barlow, Albert A. Zijlstra, Patricia A. Whitelock, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Martin A.T. Groenewegen, K. Volk, Fraciska Kemper, T. Kodama, Eric Lagadec, Margaret Meixner, Greg C. Sloan, S. Srnivasan: The global gas and dust budget of the Large Magellanic Cloud: AGB stars and supernovae, and the impact on the ISM evolution. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2009, 918-934
2009Maria-Rosa L. Cioni: The metallicity gradient as a tracer of history and structure: the Magellanic Clouds and M33 galaxies. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2009, 1137-1146
2008Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Mike Irwin, Annette M.N. Ferguson, Alan McConnachie, Blair C. Conn, Avon Huxor, Rodrigo Ibata, Geraint Lewis, Neil Tanvir: AGB stars as tracers of metallicity and mean age across M 33. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2008, 131-146
2008Luciana Pompeia, Vanessa Hill, M. Spite, Andrew Cole, Francesca Primas, Martino Romaniello, Luca Pasquini, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Tammy Smecker-Hane: Chemical abundances in LMC stellar populations. I. The inner disk sample. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2008, 379-395
2008Nick J. Wright, Robert Greimel, Mike J. Barlow, Janet E. Drew, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Albert A. Zijlstra, Romano L.M. Corradi, Eduardo A. Gonzalez-Solares, Paul Groot, J. Irwin, Mike J. Irwin, A. Mampaso, R.A.H. Morris, S. Steeghs, Y.C. Unruh, Nick Walton: Extremely red stellar objects revealed by IPHAS. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2008, 929-944
2008Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Kenji Bekki, Gisella Clementini, W.J.G. de Blok, Jim P. Emerson, Chris J. Evans, Richard de Grijs, Brad K. Gibson, Leo Girardi, Martin A.T. Groenewegen, Valentin D. Ivanov, Pierre Leisy, Marcella Marconi, Chiara Mastropietro, Ben Moore, Tim Naylor, Joana M. Oliveira, Vincenzo Ripepi, Jacco Th. van Loon, Mark I. Wilkinson, Peter R. Wood: The Magellanic Clouds as a Template for the Study of Stellar Populations and Galaxy Interactions. In: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2008, 121-128
2007Martin A.T. Groenewegen, Peter R. Wood, Greg C. Sloan, Joris A.D.L. Blommaert, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Michael W. Feast, Sacha Hony, Mikako Matsuura, John W. Menzies, E.A. Olivier, E. Vanhollebeke, Jacco Th. van Loon, Patricia A. Whitelock, Albert A. Zijlstra, Harm J. Habing, Eric Lagadec: Luminosities and mass-loss rates of carbon stars in the Magellanic Clouds. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2007, 313-337
2007Marco Gullieuszik, Marina Rejkuba, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Harm J. Habing, Enrico V. Held: Near-infrared photometry of carbon stars in the Sagittarius dwarf irregular galaxy and DDO 210. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2007, 467-477
2007Kenji Bekki, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni: Probing clumpy pasts of galaxies from asymptotic giant branch stars. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2007, L20-L24
2007Mikako Matsuura, Albert A. Zijlstra, J. Bernard-Salas, John W. Menzies, Greg C. Sloan, Patricia A. Whitelock, Peter R. Wood, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Michael W. Feast, Eric Lagadec, Jacco Th. van Loon, Martin A.T. Groenewegen, G.J. Harris: Spitzer Space Telescope spectral observations of AGB stars in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2007, 1889-1900
2007Eric Lagadec, Albert A. Zijlstra, Greg C. Sloan, Mikako Matsuura, Peter R. Wood, Jacco Th. van Loon, G.J. Harris, Joris A.D.L. Blommaert, Sacha Hony, Martin A.T. Groenewegen, Michael W. Feast, Patricia A. Whitelock, John W. Menzies, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni: Spitzer spectroscopy of carbon stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2007, 1270-1284
2006Albert A. Zijlstra, Mikako Matsuura, Peter R. Wood, Greg C. Sloan, Eric Lagadec, Jacco Th. van Loon, Martin A.T. Groenewegen, Michael W. Feast, John W. Menzies, Patricia A. Whitelock, Joris A.D.L. Blommaert, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Harm J. Habing, Sacha Hony, Cecile Loup, L.B.F.M. Waters: A Spitzer mid-infrared spectral survey of mass-losing carbon stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2006, 1961-1978
2006Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Leo Girardi, Paola Marigo, Harm J. Habing: AGB stars in the Magellanic Clouds. II. The rate of star formation across the LMC. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2006, 77-91
2006Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Leo Girardi, Paola Marigo, Harm J. Habing: AGB stars in the Magellanic Clouds. III. The rate of star formation across the Small Magellanic Cloud. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2006, 195-201
2006Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Leo Girardi, Paola Marigo, Harm J. Habing: Erratum: AGB stars in the Magellanic Clouds. II. The rate of star formation across the LMC. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2006, 967-967
2006Mikako Matsuura, Peter R. Wood, Greg C. Sloan, Albert A. Zijlstra, Jacco Th. van Loon, Martin A.T. Groenewegen, Joris A.D.L. Blommaert, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Michael W. Feast, Harm J. Habing, Sacha Hony, Eric Lagadec, Cecile Loup, John W. Menzies, L.B.F.M. Waters, Patricia A. Whitelock: Spitzer observations of acetylene bands in carbon-rich asymptotic giant branch stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2006, 415-420
2005Jacco Th. van Loon, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Albert A. Zijlstra, Cecile Loup: An empirical formula for the mass-loss rates of dust-enshrouded red supergiants and oxygen-rich Asymptotic Giant Branch stars. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2005, 273-289
2005Jacco Th. van Loon, Joana M. Oliveira, Peter R. Wood, Albert A. Zijlstra, Greg C. Sloan, Mikako Matsuura, Patricia A. Whitelock, Martin A.T. Groenewegen, Joris A.D.L. Blommaert, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Sacha Hony, Cecile Loup, L.B.F.M. Waters: ESO-VLT and Spitzer spectroscopy of IRAS05328-6827: a massive young stellar object in the Large Magellanic Cloud. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2005, L71-L75
2005Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Harm J. Habing: Near--IR observations of NGC 6822: AGB stars, distance, metallicity and structure. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2005, 837-850
2005Gabriella Raimondo, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Marina Rejkuba, David R. Silva: Pulsation properties of C stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2005, 521-532
2005Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Harm J. Habing: The Draco dwarf galaxy in the near-infrared. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2005, 165-176
2004Mathias Schultheis, Ian S. Glass, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni: Late-type giant variables in NGC 6522, LMC and SMC. How do they differ?. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2004, 945-958
2003Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Harm J. Habing: AGB stars in the Magellanic Clouds. I. The C/M ratio. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2003, 133-140
2003Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Joris A.D.L. Blommaert, Martin A.T. Groenewegen, Harm J. Habing, Joseph Hron, Franz Kerschbaum, Cecile Loup, Alain Omont, Jacco Th. van Loon, Patricia A. Whitelock, Albert A. Zijlstra: Long period variables detected by ISO in the Small Magellanic Cloud. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2003, 51-63
2003Cecile Loup, Nausicaa Delmotte, Daniel Egret, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Francois Genova: On the usefulness of finding charts. Or the runaway carbon stars of the Blanco & McCarthy field 37. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2003, 801-804
2002Nausicaa Delmotte, Cecile Loup, Daniel Egret, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Francesco Pierfederici: The Master Catalogue of stars towards the Magellanic Clouds. I. Multispectral surveys of the Large Magellanic Cloud. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2002, 143-155
2001Roeland P. van der Marel, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni: Magellanic Cloud Structure from Near-Infrared Surveys. I. The Viewing Angles of the Large Magellanic Cloud. In: The Astronomical Journal, 2001, 1807-1826
2001Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Jean-Baptiste Marquette, Cecile Loup, Marc Azzopardi, Harm J. Habing, Thierry Lasserre, Eric Lequoy: Variability and spectral classification of LMC giants: Results from DENIS and EROS. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2001, 945-954
2000Pascal Fouque, L. Chevallier, Martin Cohen, E. Galliano, Cecile Loup, Christoph Alard, B. de Batz, Emanuel Bertin, Jean Borsenberger, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, E. Copet, M. Dennefeld, S. Derriere, Eric Deul, P.-A. Duc, Daniel Egret, Nicolas Epchtein, Thierry Forveille, F. Garzon, Harm J. Habing, Joseph Hron, Stefan Kimeswenger, F. Lacombe, Thibaut Le Bertre, Gary A. Mamon, Alain Omont, G. Paturel, S. Pau, Paolo Persi, A.C. Robin, D. Rouan, Mathias Schultheis, Guy Simon, D. Tiphene, I. Vauglin, S.J. Wagner: CATALOGS, SURVEYS, GALAXIES: MAGELLANIC CLOUDS, GALAXIES: PHOTOMETRY, GALAXIES: STELLAR CONTENT, INFRARED: STARS. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplements, 2000, 313-317
2000Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Cecile Loup, Harm J. Habing, Pascal Fouque, Emanuel Bertin, Eric Deul, Christoph Alard, B. de Batz, Jean Borsenberger, M. Dennefeld, Nicolas Epchtein, Thierry Forveille, F. Garzon, Josph Hron, Stefan Kimeswenger, F. Lacombe, Thibaut Le Bertre, Gary A. Mamon, Alain Omont, G. Paturel, Paolo Persi, A. Robin, D. Rouan, G. Simon, D. Tiphene, L. Vauglin, S. Wagner: The DENIS Point Source Catalogue towards the Magellanic Clouds. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2000, 235-245
2000Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Harm J. Habing, Frank P. Israel: The morphology of the Magellanic Clouds revealed by stars of different age: results from the DENIS survey. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2000, L9-L12
2000Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Roeland P. van der Marel, Cecile Loup, Harm J. Habing: The tip of the red giant branch and distance of the Magellanic Clouds: results from the DENIS survey. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2000, 601-614