Dr. Diego N. Calderon Espinoza

Profil

Derzeitige StellungPost Doc
FachgebietAstrophysik,Astronomie
KeywordsTidal disruption events, Galactic Centre, Binaries, Stellar Evolution, Radiation hydrodynamics
Auszeichnungen

2024: Heraeus Fellowship, Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation, Germany.

2023: Quantum Universe Postdoctoral Grant, Quantum Universe Excellence Cluster - Hamburg

2015: Doctoral Excellence Award, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile - Santiago

2015: Doctoral Fellowship, National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research - Chile

2013: Master Fellowship, National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research.

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandDeutschland
OrtGarching
Universität/InstitutionMax-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Selma E. de MinkMax-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.12.2024

Programm(e)

2023Humboldt-Forschungsstipendien-Programm für Postdocs

Publikationen (Auswahl)

2025Villanueva, V., Blaña, M., Bolatto, A. D., Rubio, M., Tarantino, E., Herrera-Camus, R., Burkert, A., Vaz, D., Read, J. I., Galaz, G., Muñoz, C., Calderón, D., Behrendt, M., Carballo-Bello, J. A., Gray, E., Fellhauer, M.: The CHIMERA Survey: The first CO detection in Leo T, the lowest mass known galaxy still hosting cold molecular gas. In: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 699, 2025, L11
2025Calderón, D., Cuadra, J., Russell, C. M. P., Burkert, A., Rosswog, S., Balakrishnan, M.: The formation and stability of a cold disc made out of stellar winds in the Galactic centre. In: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 693, 2025, A180
2025Gillessen, S., Eisenhauer, F., Cuadra, J., Genzel, R., Calderón, D., Joharle, S., Piran, T., Ribeiro, D. C., Russell, C. M. P., Sadun Bordoni, M., Burkert, A., Bourdarot, G., Drescher, A., Mang, F., Ott, T., Agapito, G., Agudo Berbel, A., Baruffolo, A., Bonaglia, M., Black, M., Briguglio, R., Cao, Y., Carbonaro, L., Cresci, G., Dallilar, Y., Davies, R., Deysenroth, M., Di Antonio, I., Di Cianno, A., Di Rico, G., Doelman, D., Dolci, M., Esposito, S., Fantinel, D., Ferruzzi, D., Feuchtgruber, H., Förster Schreiber, N. M., Glauser, A. M., Grani, P., Hartl, M., Henry, D., Huber, H., Keller, C., Kenworthy, M., Kravchenko, K., Lightfoot, J., Lunney, D., Lutz, D., Macintosh, M., Mannucci, F., Pearson, D., Puglisi, A., Rabien, S., Rau, C., Riccardi, A., Salasnich, B., Shimizu, T., Snik, F., Sturm, E., Tacconi, L. J., Taylor, W., Valentini, A., Waring, C., Xompero, M.: The gas streamer G1-2-3 in the Galactic Center. In: arXiv e-prints, 2025, arXiv:2510.00897
2025Shaqil, W., Calderón, D., Rosswog, S., Cuadra, J., Ciurlo, A., Morris, M. R., Campbell, R. D., Ghez, A. M.: Tidal phenomena in the Galactic Center: The curious case of X7. In: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 700, 2025, A134
2025Kirilov, A., Calderón, D., Pejcha, O., Duffell, P. C.: Two-dimensional Radiation-hydrodynamic Simulations of Luminous Red Novae. In: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 994, 2025, L41
2024Balakrishnan, M., Corrales, L., Markoff, S., Nowak, M., Haggard, D., Wang, Q. D., Neilsen, J., Russell, C. M. P., Calderón, D., Cuadra, J., Baganoff, F.: Multistructured Accretion Flow of Sgr A*. I. Examination of a Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flow Model. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 974, 2024, 98
2024Balakrishnan, M., Russell, C. M. P., Corrales, L., Calderón, D., Cuadra, J., Haggard, D., Markoff, S., Neilsen, J., Nowak, M., Wang, Q. D., Baganoff, F.: Multistructured Accretion Flow of Sgr A*. II. Signatures of a Cool Accretion Disk in Hydrodynamic Simulations of Stellar Winds. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 974, 2024, 99
2024Blaña, M., Burkert, A., Fellhauer, M., Calderón, D., Behrendt, M., Schartmann, M.: The Milky Way satellite galaxy Leo T: A perturbed cored dwarf. In: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 692, 2024, A183
2024Calderón, D., Pejcha, O., Metzger, B. D., Duffell, P. C.: The effect of relativistic precession on light curves of tidal disruption events. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 528, 2024, 2568-2587
2022Pejcha, O., Calderón, D., Kurfürst, P.: Supernovae in colliding-wind binaries: observational signatures in the first year. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510, 2022, 3276-3290
2021Calderón, D., Pejcha, O., Duffell, P. C.: Moving-mesh radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of wind-reprocessed transients. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 507, 2021, 1092-1105
2020Calderón, D., Cuadra, J., Schartmann, M., Burkert, A., Russell, C. M. P.: Stellar Winds Pump the Heart of the Milky Way. In: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 888, 2020, L2
2020Gómez, P. L., Calderón, D.: The Dynamics of the Wide-angle Tailed (WAT) Galaxy Cluster A562. In: The Astronomical Journal, 160, 2020, 152
2020Calderón, D., Cuadra, J., Schartmann, M., Burkert, A., Prieto, J., Russell, C. M. P.: Three-dimensional simulations of clump formation in stellar wind collisions. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 493, 2020, 447-467
2018Calderón, D., Cuadra, J., Schartmann, M., Burkert, A., Plewa, P., Eisenhauer, F., Habibi, M.: The Galactic Centre source G2 was unlikely born in any of the known massive binaries. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478, 2018, 3494-3505
2016Calderón, D., Ballone, A., Cuadra, J., Schartmann, M., Burkert, A., Gillessen, S.: Clump formation through colliding stellar winds in the Galactic Centre. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455, 2016, 4388-4398
2016Calderón, D., Bauer, F. E., Veilleux, S., Graciá-Carpio, J., Sturm, E., Lira, P., Schulze, S., Kim, S.: Searching for molecular outflows in hyperluminous infrared galaxies. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460, 2016, 3052-3062