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Antonio David Montero Dorta

Profesor Asistente

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


* The halo-galaxy connection: theory, models, simulations and observations * Large-scale structure of the universe: halo/galaxy clustering * Evolution of massive galaxies from galaxy surveys * Observational cosmology: cosmological constraints

Educación

  •  Astrophysics , Universidad de Granada - Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC). España, 2011
  •  Astrophysics , Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias - Universidad de La Laguna. España, 2006
  •  Physics , Universidad de La Laguna. España, 2004
  •  Education , UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID. España, 2005
  •  English , UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. Reino Unido, 2005

Experiencia Académica

  •   Postdoctoral Fellow Full Time

    UNIVERSIDADE DE SAO PAULO

    Instituto de Física

    Sao Paulo , Brasil

    2017 - 2020

  •   Postdoctoral Research Associate Full Time

    UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

    Physics

    Salt Lake City , Estados Unidos

    2012 - 2016

  •   PhD fellow Full Time

    Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC)

    Granada , España

    2006 - 2011

  •   Short-time research contract Full Time

    Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC)

    Granada, España

    2011 - 2012

  •   Short-time research contract Full Time

    Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC)

    Granada, España

    2017 - 2017

  •   Profesor Asistente Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

    Santiago, Chile

    2020 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   FAPESP Postdoctoral Fellow Full Time

    University of Sao Paulo

    Sao Paulo , Brasil

    2017 - 2020

  •   Postdoctoral Research Associate Full Time

    University of Utah

    Salt Lake City , Estados Unidos

    2012 - 2016

  •   Short-time research contract Full Time

    Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC)

    Granada, España

    2017 - 2017

  •   PhD MEC Fellow Full Time

    Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC)

    Granada, España

    2006 - 2011

  •   Short-time research contract Full Time

    Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC)

    Granada, España

    2011 - 2012

  •   Profesor Asistente Full Time

    Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

    Santiago, Chile

    2020 - A la fecha

Formación de Capital Humano


Ankit Kumar, postdoc - UNAB / USM, Chile - The SUPER project - Ongoing - co-advised. PI: Prof. Celeste Artale (UNAB, Chile).

Ignacio Quiroz, Master’s thesis - USM (Chile) - Ongoing - co-advised

Multiple ongoing undergraduate research projects - USM, Chile - Constanza Soto (on the modeling of the mass accretion history), Vicente H. Rodríguez (on the relation between baryonic profiles and DM halo profiles), Ignacio Quiroz (on comparing multiple ways of measuring secondary bias), etcetera .

Natali de Santi, PhD thesis - University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) - A machine-learning approach to the halo-galaxy connection - Ongoing - co-advised

Natalia Villa Nova, PhD thesis - University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) - A machine-learning approach to the halo-galaxy connection - Ongoing - co-advised

Project title: A Multi-Tracer approach to the determination of cosmological parameters from VIPERS
Type of Project: Master
Institution: Instituto de Física - Universidad de São Paulo, Brazil
Student: Francisco Maion
Defense year: 2022/2023
Publication: in preparation
Type of involvement: co-Advisor

Project title: The physical origins of spin bias
Type of Project: Final Undergraduate Project [Continuing into Master]
Institution: Instituto de Física - Universidad de São Paulo, Brazil
Student: Beatriz Tucci Schiewaldt
Defense year: 2020
Publication: Tucci, Montero-Dorta, et al. (to be submitted to Monthly Notice of the Royal Astronomical Society).
Type of involvement: co-Advisor
[Continuing into Master]

Project title: Halo Assembly Bias from the MultiDark simulations
Type of Project: Final Undergraduate Project
Institution: Instituto de Física - Universidad de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Student: Gabriela Sato-Polito (now at Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Defense year: 2018
Publication: The dependence of halo bias on age, concentration, and spin. Sato-Polito, Gabriela; Montero-Dorta, Antonio D.; Abramo, L. Raul; Prada, Francisco; Klypin, Anatoly. 2019, Monthly Notice of the Royal Astronomical Society, 487, 1570.
Type of involvement: co-Advisor

Project title: The Blue Cloud Luminosity Function at Intermediate Redshift from the Primus Survey
Type of Project: Final Undergraduate Project
Institution: University of Utah, United States
Student: Benjamin Knowlton
Defense Year: 2016
Publication: Poster in Conference
Type of involvement: co-Advisor

Notable students/postdocs that I provided guidance to: Doris Stoppacher (postdoc, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain), Ginevra Favole (postdoc, Portsmouth University, UK), Celeste Artale (postdoc, University of Innsbruck, Austria)


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Tombaugh Postdoctoral Fellowship

    NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY

    Estados Unidos, 2012

    Postdoctoral Fellowship

  •   FAPESP Postdoctoral Fellowship

    Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

    Brasil, 2017

    Postdoctoral Fellowship

  •   FPI PHD Fellowship

    Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

    España, 2006

    PhD. Fellowship

  •   ICTP Associate

    INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS (ICTP-TRIESTE)

    Italia, 2021

    Programa de 5 años (2021-2026) que incluye financiación para visitas anuales al ICTP en Trieste, Italia.


 

Article (58)

High-fidelity reproduction of central galaxy joint distributions with neural networks
Mimicking the halo-galaxy connection using machine learning
On the environmental influence of groups and clusters of galaxies beyond the virial radius: Galactic conformity at few Mpc scales
Subhalo abundance matching through the lens of a hydrodynamical simulation
The large-scale distribution of ionized metals in IllustrisTNG
On the influence of halo mass accretion history on galaxy properties and assembly bias
On the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect as an observational probe for halo spin bias
Spin bias: theory and observations
The galaxy size-halo mass scaling relations and clustering properties of central and satellite galaxies
The miniJPAS survey: Identification and characterization of galaxy populations with the J-PAS photometric system
The physical origins of low-mass spin bias
[O II] emitters in MultiDark-Galaxies and DEEP2
Assessing the photometric redshift precision of the S-PLUS survey: the Stripe-82 as a test-case
Rest-frame UV properties of luminous strong gravitationally lensed Ly alpha emitters from the BELLS GALLERY Survey
The manifestation of secondary bias on the galaxy population from IllustrisTNG300
The Multi-Tracer Optimal Estimator applied to VIPERS
A semi-analytical perspective on massive galaxies at z similar to 0.55
Measuring the growth of structure by matching dark matter haloes to galaxies with VIPERS and SDSS
The dependence of halo bias on age, concentration, and spin
The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS): improved SEDs, morphologies, and redshifts with 12 optical filters
Probing galaxy assembly bias with LRG weak lensing observations
The BOSS Emission-line Lens Survey. V. Morphology and Substructure of Lensed Ly alpha Emitters at Redshift Z approximate to 2.5 in the BELLS GALLERY
The mass-size relation of luminous red galaxies from BOSS and DECaLS
A direct measurement of the high- mass end of the velocity dispersion function at z-0.55 from SDSS- III/ BOSS
BOSS Great Wall: morphology, luminosity, and mass
Discovery of a Very Bright and Intrinsically Very Luminous, Strongly Lensed Ly alpha Emitting Galaxy at z=2.82 in the BOSS Emission-Line Lens Survey
Galaxy clustering dependence on the [O II] emission line luminosity in the local Universe
The 13th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory
The ALHAMBRA survey: B -band luminosity function of quiescent and star-forming galaxies at 0.2 ≤  z  < 1 by PDF analysis
The Correlation between Halo Mass and Stellar Mass for the Most Massive Galaxies in the Universe
The Dependence of Galaxy Clustering on Stellar-mass Assembly History for LRGs
The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. XIII. Discovery of 40 New Galaxy-scale Strong Lenses
A steep slope and small scatter for the high-mass end of the L-sigma relation at z similar to 0.55
Discovery of a massive supercluster system at z similar to 0.47
THE BOSS EMISSION-LINE LENS SURVEY. III. STRONG LENSING OF Ly alpha EMITTERS BY INDIVIDUAL GALAXIES
THE BOSS EMISSION-LINE LENS SURVEY. IV. SMOOTH LENS MODELS FOR THE BELLS GALLERY SAMPLE
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: modelling the clustering and halo occupation distribution of BOSS CMASS galaxies in the Final Data Release
The high-mass end of the red sequence at z similar to 0.55 from SDSS-III/BOSS: completeness, bimodality and luminosity function
THE SDSS-IV EXTENDED BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY: OVERVIEW AND EARLY DATA
How much dark matter is there inside early-type galaxies?
THE BIASES OF OPTICAL LINE-RATIO SELECTION FOR ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI AND THE INTRINSIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BLACK HOLE ACCRETION AND GALAXY STAR FORMATION
THE ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH DATA RELEASES OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FINAL DATA FROM SDSS-III
THE SLOAN LENS ACS SURVEY. XII. EXTENDING STRONG LENSING TO LOWER MASSES
X-ray Surface Brightness Profiles of Active Galactic Nuclei in the Extended Groth Strip: Implications for AGN Feedback
HOST GALAXY SPECTRA AND CONSEQUENCES FOR SUPERNOVA TYPING FROM THE SDSS SN SURVEY
The ALHAMBRA survey: evolution of galaxy clustering since z similar to 1
THE TENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FIRST SPECTROSCOPIC DATA FROM THE SDSS-III APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY GALACTIC EVOLUTION EXPERIMENT
THE BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY OF SDSS-III
The clustering of galaxies at z approximate to 0.5 in the SDSS-III Data Release 9 BOSS-CMASS sample: a test for the Lambda CDM cosmology
Fibre assignment in next-generation wide-field spectrographs
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: analysis of potential systematics
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological implications of the large-scale two-point correlation function
THE NINTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FIRST SPECTROSCOPIC DATA FROM THE SDSS-III BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY
The BigBOSS Experiment
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: the red sequence AGN fraction and its environment and redshift dependence
The SDSS DR6 luminosity functions of galaxies
The halo mass function redshift dependence
Understanding the cosmic mass function high-mass behavior

ConferencePaper (1)

Diffuse X-Ray Emission in Active and Normal Galaxies in the Extended Groth Strip

Proyecto (12)

The halo-galaxy connection in the era of multi-tracer cosmology
Unifying galaxy evolution and cosmology with massive dark-energy surveys
[LARGE COLLABORATION] Subaru Prime Focus Spectroscopic Survey (PFS) -- ONGOING
[LARGE COLLABORATION] The Javalambre Physics of the Accelerating Universe Astrophysical Survey (J-PAS) -- ONGOING
[LARGE COLLABORATION] The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) -- ONGOING
Hubble Space Telescope Cycle 23 Project: “Quantifying Cold Dark Matter Substructure with a Qualitatively New Gravitational Lense Sample”
[LARGE COLLABORATION] The Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS)
COSMOLOGÍA Y GRANDES SURVEYS EXTRAGALÁCTICOS
SUPER IFU DEPLOYABLE EXPERIMENT: UN ESPECTRÓGRAFO DE USO COMÚN PARA EL GRAN TELESCOPIO CANARIAS
[LARGE COLLABORATION] The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS)
[LARGE COLLABORATION] The Advanced Large Homogenous-Area Medium-Band Redshift Astronomical Survey (ALHAMBRA)
Galaxy Systems: material components, properties and large-scale distribution. Detectability of dark matter
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Antonio Montero

Profesor Asistente

Physics

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

Santiago, Chile

1
Christian Nitschelm

Full professor

Sciences

Universidad de Antofagasta

Antofagasta, Chile

1
Yara Jaffé

Prof. Adjunto

Instituto de Fisica y Astronomia

Universidad de Valparaiso

Valparaiso, Chile

1
Sergio Torres

Director de Investigación y Desarrollo

Dirección de Investigación y Desarrollo

UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SERENA

La Serena, Chile

1
Rodolfo Barbá

Director

Astronomía

DEPARTAMENTO DE ASTRONOMÍA - UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SERENA

La Serena, Chile

1
Javier Alonso

Associate Professor

Centro de Astronomía (CITEVA)

Universidad de Antofagasta

Antofagasta, Chile

1
Maria del Carmen Argudo

Profesora Asociada

Instituto de Física

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Valparaíso, Chile

1
Douglas Geisler

Full Professor

Astronomy

UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION, DEPTO DE ASTRONOMIA

Concepcion, Chile

1
José Fernández

Assistant Professor

Universidad de Atacama

Copiapo, Chile

1
Daniel Ortiz

Encargado de Plataformas

Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Postgrado

Universidad de La Serena

La Serena, Chile

1
Sandro Villanova

Associate Profesor

Astronomy

UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION, DEPTO DE ASTRONOMIA

Concepcion, Chile

1
Eduardo Unda

Director

Universidad de Antofagasta

Antofagasta, Chile

1
Jordanka Borissova

Full Professor, grado 4

Facultad de Ciencias

Universidad de Valparaiso

Valparaíso, Chile