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Cristóbal Petrovich Balbontín

Assistant professor

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

Exoplanets: dynamics, formation, demographics, protoplanetary disks; Stellar systems: dynamics, nuclear star clusters, compact objects, gravitational wave sources.

Astrophysical Sciences, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. Estados Unidos, 2015
Industry and Mathematical Engineering, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2009
Astronomy, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2008

Postdoctoral fellow Full Time

Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

Toronto, Canada

2015 - 2019
Bok postdoctoral fellow Full Time

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

Tucson, Estados Unidos

2019 - 2020

Postdoctoral fellow Full Time

Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

Toronto, Canada

2015 - 2019

Student Advising & Supervision (graduate level)

2020-2021 Mr. Imran Nasim (Surrey University, UK, PhD Student)
Mergers of massive black holes in center of galaxies (1 publication)

2016-2018 Mrs. Emily Deibert (University of Toronto, PhD Student)
Dynamics of short-period planets (2 publications)

2016-2018 Mr. Matthias He (University of Toronto, PhD Student)
Stability and mergers in stellar systems (He & Petrovich 2018)

2016-2017 Mr. Luis Rodriguez (Universidad Catolica, Masters Student)
Effect from stellar evolution in planetary systems

Student Advising & Supervision (undergraduate level)

2019-2020 Mr. Mathew Bub (University of Toronto)
Binary black hole mergers in centers of galaxies (Bub & Petrovich 2020)

2018-2019 Kai Wu (Nanking University)
N-body simulations of giant impacts

2018-2019 Mingze Sun( Nanking University)
Forecast of TESS and Gaia exoplanets yields

2017 Ling Kong (University of Toronto)
SPH simulations of planetary impacts

Gruber Foundation Fellowship in Astrophysics

The Gruber Foundation

Estados Unidos, 2015

Prize awarded by the International Astronomical Union to one promising your astronomer in 2015 to pursue a postdoctoral research studies. The award consists in US$50,000 discretionary funds donated by The Gruber Foundation and a fully-covered invitation to receive the prize on stage at the opening ceremony of the IAU general assembly in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Bart J. Bok Fellowship

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

Estados Unidos, 2019

Three-year prize fellowship to carry out independent research at Steward Observatory. It includes a discretionary research fund of ~USD$50,000.
CITA fellowship

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

Canada, 2015

A four-year fellowship to carry out independent research at CITA. It included a research budget of ~CAD$50,000.
Jeffrey L. Bishop Fellowship

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

Canada, 2017

Prize awarded every two years for research excellence at CITA. It comes with a CAD$2,000 cash prize.


A Disk-driven Resonance as the Origin of High Inclinations of Close-in Planets Petrovich, Cristobal; Munoz, Diego J.; Kratter, Kaitlin M.; Malhotra, Renu Article ISI ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS (2020)
An ultrahot Neptune in the Neptune desert Jenkins, James S.; Diaz, Matias R.; Kurtovic, Nicolas T.; Espinoza, Nestor; Vines, Jose I.; Rojas, Pablo A. Pena; Brahm, Rafael; Torres, Pascal; Cortes-Zuleta, Pia; Soto, Maritza G.; Lopez, Eric D.; King, George W.; Wheatley, Peter J.; Winn, Joshua N.; Ciardi, David R.; Ricker, George; Vanderspek, Roland; Latham, David W.; Seager, Sara; Jenkins, Jon M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Bieryla, Allyson; Burke, Christopher J.; Christiansen, Jessie L.; Henze, Christopher E.; Klaus, Todd C.; McCauliff, Sean; Mori, Mayuko; Narita, Norio; Nishiumi, Taku; Tamura, Motohide; de Leon, Jerome Pitogo; Quinn, Samuel N.; Villasenor, Jesus Noel; Vezie, Michael; Lissauer, Jack J.; Collins, Karen A.; Collins, Kevin I.; Isopi, Giovanni; Mallia, Franco; Ercolino, Andrea; Petrovich, Cristobal; Jordan, Andres; Acton, Jack S.; Armstrong, David J.; Bayliss, Daniel; Bouchy, Francois; Belardi, Claudia; Bryant, Edward M.; Burleigh, Matthew R.; Cabrera, Juan; Casewell, Sarah L.; Chaushev, Alexander; Cooke, Benjamin F.; Eigmueller, Philipp; Erikson, Anders; Foxell, Emma; Gansicke, Boris T.; Gill, Samuel; Gillen, Edward; Guenther, Maximilian N.; Goad, Michael R.; Hooton, Matthew J.; Jackman, James A. G.; Louden, Tom; McCormac, James; Moyano, Maximiliano; Nielsen, Louise D.; Pollacco, Don; Queloz, Didier; Rauer, Heike; Raynard, Liam; Smith, Alexis M. S.; Tilbrook, Rosanna H.; Titz-Weider, Ruth; Turner, Oliver; Udry, Stephane; Walker, Simon. R.; Watson, Christopher A.; West, Richard G.; Palle, Enric; Ziegler, Carl; Law, Nicholas; Mann, Andrew W. Article ISI NATURE ASTRONOMY (2020)
Compact-object Mergers in the Galactic Center: Evolution in Triaxial Clusters Bub, Mathew W.; Petrovich, Cristobal Article ISI ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2020)
Constraining protoplanetary discs with exoplanetary dynamics: Kepler-419 as an example Ali-Dib, Mohamad; Petrovich, Cristobal Article ISI MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY (2020)
Kozai Migration Naturally Explains the White Dwarf Planet WD1856 b Muñoz, Diego J.; Petrovich, Cristobal Article The Astrophysical Journal (2020)
Nekhoroshev Estimates for the Survival Time of Tightly Packed Planetary Systems Yalinewich, Almog; Petrovich, Cristobal Article ISI ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS (2020)
HD 1397b: A Transiting Warm Giant Planet Orbiting A V=7.8 mag Subgiant Star Discovered by TESS Brahm, Rafael; Espinoza, Nestor; Jordan, Andres; Henning, Thomas; Sarkis, Paula; Jones, Matias, I; Diaz, Matfas R.; Jenkins, James S; Vanzi, Leonardo; Zapata, Abner; Petrovich, Cristobal; Kossakowski, Diana; Rabus, Markus; Rojas, Felipe; Torres, Pascal Article ISI SCOPUS ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL (2019)
Secular Transport during Disk Dispersal: The Case of Kepler-419 Petrovich, Cristobal; Wu, Yanqin; Ali-Dib, Mohamad Article ISI ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL (2019)
Signatures of a Planet-Planet Impacts Phase in Exoplanetary Systems Hosting Giant Planets Frelikh, Renata; Jang, Hyerin; Murray-Clay, Ruth A.; Petrovich, Cristobal Article ISI ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS (2019)
Ultra-short-period Planets from Secular Chaos Petrovich, Cristobal; Deibert, Emily; Wu, Yanqin Article ISI ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL (2019)
About 30% of Sun-like Stars Have Kepler-like Planetary Systems: A Study of Their Intrinsic Architecture Zhu, Wei; Petrovich, Cristobal; Wu, Yanqin; Dong, Subo; Xie, Jiwei Article ISI ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2018)
On the stability and collisions in triple stellar systems He, Matthias Y.; Petrovich, Cristobal Article ISI MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY (2018)
Precessional dynamics of black hole triples: binary mergers with near-zero effective spin Antonini, Fabio; Rodriguez, Carl L.; Petrovich, Cristobal; Fischer, Caitlin L. Article ISI MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY (2018)
The Impact of Vector Resonant Relaxation on the Evolution of Binaries near a Massive Black Hole: Implications for Gravitational-wave Sources Hamers, Adrian S.; Bar-Or, Ben; Petrovich, Cristobal; Antonini, Fabio Article ISI ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2018)
Connecting HL Tau to the observed exoplanet sample Simbulan, Christopher; Tamayo, Daniel; Petrovich, Cristobal; Rein, Hanno; Murray, Norman Article ISI MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY (2017)
Convergent Migration Renders TRAPPIST-1 Long-lived Tamayo, Daniel; Rein, Hanno; Petrovich, Cristobal; Murray, Norman Article ISI ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS (2017)
Dynamically Hot Super-Earths from Outer Giant Planet Scattering Huang, Chelsea X.; Petrovich, Cristobal; Deibert, Emily Article ISI ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL (2017)
Greatly Enhanced Merger Rates of Compact-object Binaries in Non-spherical Nuclear Star Clusters Petrovich, Cristobal; Antonini, Fabio Article ISI ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2017)
PLANETARY ENGULFMENT AS A TRIGGER FOR WHITE DWARF POLLUTION Petrovich, Cristobal; Munoz, Diego J. Article ISI ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2017)
A MACHINE LEARNS TO PREDICT THE STABILITY OF TIGHTLY PACKED PLANETARY SYSTEMS Tamayo, Daniel; Silburt, Ari; Valencia, Diana; Menou, Kristen; Ali-Dib, Mohamad; Petrovich, Cristobal; Huang, Chelsea X.; Rein, Hanno; van Laerhoven, Christa; Paradise, Adiv; Obertas, Alysa; Murray, Norman Article ISI ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS (2016)
WARM JUPITERS FROM SECULAR PLANET-PLANET INTERACTIONS Petrovich, Cristobal; Tremaine, Scott Article ISI ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2016)
HOT JUPITERS FROM COPLANAR HIGH-ECCENTRICITY MIGRATION Petrovich, Cristobal Article ISI ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2015)
Rotochemical heating of millisecond and classical pulsars with anisotropic and density-dependent superfluid gap models Gonzalez-Jimenez, N; Petrovich C.; Reisenegger, A. Article ISI SCOPUS Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2015)
STEADY-STATE PLANET MIGRATION BY THE KOZAI-LIDOV MECHANISM IN STELLAR BINARIES Petrovich, Cristobal Article ISI ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2015)
The GAPS programme with HARPS-N at TNG IX. The multi-planet system KELT-6: Detection of the planet KELT-6 c and measurement of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect for KELT-6 b Damasso, M; Esposito M.; Nascimbeni V.; Desidera, S; Bonomo, AS; Bieryla, A; Malavolta L.; Biazzo, K; Sozzetti, A; Covino E.; Latham, DW; Gandolfi, D.; Rainer, M.; Petrovich C.; Collins, KA; Boccato, C; Claudi, RU; Cosentino R.; Gratton, R; Lanza, AF; Maggio, A.; Micela, G; Molinari E.; Pagano, I.; Piotto, G; Poretti E.; Smareglia, R.; Di Fabrizio L.; Giacobbe, P; Gomez-Jimenez, M; Murabito, S; Molinaro, M; Affer L.; Barbieri M.Á.; Bedin, LR; Benatti S.; Borsa, F.; Maldonado J.; Mancini, L; Scandariato, G.; Southworth, J; Sanchez, RZ Article ISI SCOPUS ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS (2015)
THE STABILITY AND FATES OF HIERARCHICAL TWO-PLANET SYSTEMS Petrovich, Cristobal Article ISI ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2015)
SCATTERING OUTCOMES OF CLOSE-IN PLANETS: CONSTRAINTS ON PLANET MIGRATION Petrovich, Cristobal; Tremaine, Scott; Rafikov, Roman Article ISI ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2014)
PLANETS NEAR MEAN-MOTION RESONANCES Petrovich, Cristobal; Malhotra, Renu; Tremaine, Scott Article ISI ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2013)
DISK-SATELLITE INTERACTION IN DISKS WITH DENSITY GAPS Petrovich, Cristobal; Rafikov, Roman R. Article ISI ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2012)
THE ORIGIN OF THE NEGATIVE TORQUE DENSITY IN DISK-SATELLITE INTERACTION Rafikov, Roman R.; Petrovich, Cristobal Article ISI ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2012)
DENSITY WAVES EXCITED BY LOW-MASS PLANETS IN PROTOPLANETARY DISKS. I. LINEAR REGIME Dong, Ruobing; Rafikov, Roman R.; Stone, James M.; Petrovich, Cristobal Article ISI ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2011)
Long-period thermal oscillations in superfluid millisecond pulsars Petrovich C.; Reisenegger, A. Article ISI SCOPUS Astronomy and Astrophysics (2011)
Rotochemical heating in millisecond pulsars: modified Urca reactions with uniform Cooper pairing gaps Petrovich C.; Reisenegger, A. Article ISI SCOPUS Astronomy and Astrophysics (2010)


Rotochemical heating of old neutron stars Reisenegger, A.; González D; Petrovich C. ConferencePaper ISI SCOPUS AIP Conference Proceedings (2011)
Rotochemical heating in millisecond pulsars with Cooper pairing Petrovich C.; Reisenegger, A. ConferencePaper ISI SCOPUS AIP Conference Proceedings (2010)
Rotochemical heating with a density-dependent superfluid energy gap in neutron stars GonzÃ¡lez-JimÃ©nez N.; Petrovich C.; Reisenegger, A. ConferencePaper ISI SCOPUS AIP Conference Proceedings (2010)