Pedro R. Capelo

Graduate Student

Courses TA'd

ASTR 210: Stars and Their Evolution
ASTR 140: Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics
ASTR 130: Life in the Universe
ASTR 120: Galaxies and the Universe
ASTR 170: Introduction to Cosmology

Research Interests

Galaxy formation and evolution; Cosmology; Gravitational lensing; AGN and SN feedback; Magnetohydrodynamic simulations; Computational astrophysics

Recent Publications

"The polytropic approximation and X-ray scaling relations: constraints on gas and dark matter profiles for galaxy groups and clusters"                         Pedro R. Capelo, Paolo S. Coppi and Priyamvada Natarajan, 2011, accepted by MNRAS [ADS]

"Hydrostatic equilibrium profiles for gas in elliptical galaxies"                 Pedro R. Capelo, Priyamvada Natarajan and Paolo S. Coppi, 2010, MNRAS, 407, 1148 [ADS]

"How robust are the constraints on cosmology and galaxy evolution from the lens-redshift test?"                                                                                Pedro R. Capelo and Priyamvada Natarajan, 2007, New J. Phys., 9, 445 [ADS]