
Graduate Students | Biography
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]
Image Credits: (header) Michelle Buxton
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Department of Astronomy
Yale University
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