Valeria Ferrari is an Italian physicist whose research concerns the theoretical modeling of gravitational waves, and the oscillations in black holes and neutron stars that could cause them. She is a professor of theoretical physics at Sapienza University of Rome.
Education and career edit
Ferrari was born on 21 March 1952 in Monterotondo, a municipality within the Metropolital City of Rome. She studied physics at Sapienza University of Rome under the supervision of Giovanni Vittorio Pallottino, earning a degree in 1976 with the thesis On dispersion phenomena in a gravitational wave antenna.[1][2]
After working as a researcher at Sapienza University from 1977 to 1993, she became an associate professor in 1993, and full professor in 2000.[1] Her doctoral students at Sapienza University have included M. Alessandra Papa in 1997[3] and Raffaella Schneider in 2000.[2]
Selected publications edit
Research articles edit
- Ferrari, Valeria; Mashhoon, Bahram (July 1984), "New approach to the quasinormal modes of a black hole", Physical Review D, 30 (2): 295–304, Bibcode:1984PhRvD..30..295F, doi:10.1103/physrevd.30.295
- Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan; Ferrari, Valeria (February 1991), "On the non-radial oscillations of a star", Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, 432 (1885): 247–279, Bibcode:1991RSPSA.432..247C, doi:10.1098/rspa.1991.0016, JSTOR 51855, S2CID 122833232
- Schneider, R.; Ferrari, V.; Matarrese, S.; Portegies Zwart, S. F. (July 2001), "Low-frequency gravitational waves from cosmological compact binaries", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 324 (4): 797–810, arXiv:astro-ph/0002055, Bibcode:2001MNRAS.324..797S, doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04217.x, S2CID 17717713
- Benhar, Omar; Ferrari, Valeria; Gualtieri, Leonardo (December 2004), "Gravitational wave asteroseismology reexamined", Physical Review D, 70 (12): 124015, arXiv:astro-ph/0407529, Bibcode:2004PhRvD..70l4015B, doi:10.1103/physrevd.70.124015, S2CID 119418120
- Andersson, N.; Ferrari, V.; Jones, D. I.; Kokkotas, K. D.; Krishnan, B.; Read, J. S.; Rezzolla, L.; Zink, B. (2011), "Gravitational waves from neutron stars: promises and challenges", General Relativity and Gravitation, 43 (2): 409–436, arXiv:0912.0384, Bibcode:2011GReGr..43..409A, doi:10.1007/s10714-010-1059-4, S2CID 119195365
Book edit
- Ferrari, Valeria; Gualtieri, Leonardo; Pani, Paolo (2020), General Relativity and its Applications: Black Holes, Compact Stars and Gravitational Waves, CRC Press, doi:10.1201/9780429491405, ISBN 9780429491405, S2CID 224954065
References edit
- ^ a b Curriculum vitae (PDF), Sapienza University of Rome, retrieved 2022-10-25
- ^ a b "Valeria Ferrari", AstroGen, American Astronomical Society, retrieved 2022-10-25
- ^ Curriculum vitae for M. Alessandra Papa (PDF), Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, 23 July 2022, retrieved 2022-10-25
External links edit
- Home page
- Valeria Ferrari publications indexed by Google Scholar