Docenti e ricercatori
Research Area: PHYS-05/A - Astrofisica, Cosmologia e Scienza Dello Spazio
L.go B. Pontecorvo, 3, 56127 Pisa (PI), Italy.
Research activities
My research activity is mainly focused on theoretical stellar evolution. Relying on the FRANEC evolutionary code I am able to model the evolution of low and intermediate-mass stars from the pre-main sequence to the cooling white dwarf phases. I collaborate to the construction and development of the Pisa Stellar Models Data Base (http://astro.df.unipi.it/stellar-models/), a rich database of evolutionary tracks and isochrones covering a large range of chemical compositions, mass and age values.
Recent publications
- Characterising the red giant companion of the black hole in the BH2 system [2025]
- Constraining the helium-to-metal enrichment ratio Δ Y /Δ Z from nearby field stars using Gaia DR3 photometry [2025]
- Testing the asteroseismic estimates of stellar radii with surface brightness–colour relations and Gaia DR3 parallaxes: III. Main-sequence stars [2025]
- Testing the asteroseismic estimates of stellar radii with surface brightness-colour relations and Gaia DR3 parallaxes: II. Red giants and red clump stars from the Kepler catalogue [2025]
- Tests and calibrations of stellar models with two triply eclipsing triple systems [2025]