Fulvio Melia

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Fulvio Melia

Fulvio Melia (born August 2, 1956 in Gorizia ) is an Italian astronomer and astrophysicist.

Melia studied at the University of Melbourne and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he did his PhD with Paul Joss and Saul Rappaport , and after post-doctoral studies at the University of Chicago was Assistant Professor at Northwestern University from 1987 . In 1991 he became Associate Professor and in 1993 Professor at the University of Arizona .

From 1996 to 2002 he was editor of the Astrophysical Journal and later Associate Editor of Astrophysical Journal Letters.

In 2000, together with Eric Agol and Heino Falcke , he proposed the possibility of observing the event horizon of the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way (Sagittarius A *) with interconnected radio telescopes (VLBI at submillimeter wavelengths). The implementation is aimed at in the Event Horizon Telescope .

He has published books on astrophysics and black holes, both textbooks and popular science books, and he also gives popular science lectures, for example in observatories and museums.

He also deals with cosmology and developed his own model of the cosmos. In this model there is no horizon problem and thus, according to Melia, no need for inflation.

In 2002 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . He received the Presidential Young Investigator Award and was a Sloan Research Fellow .

Fonts

  • Electrodynamics. University of Chicago Press, 2001, ISBN 0-226-51958-9 .
  • The Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy. Princeton University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-691-09505-1 .
  • The Edge of Infinity. Supermassive Black Holes in the Universe. Cambridge UP, 2003, ISBN 0-521-81405-7 .
  • The Galactic Supermassive Black Hole. Princeton University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-691-13129-0 .
  • High-Energy Astrophysics. Princeton University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-691-14029-2 .
  • Cracking the Einstein Code. University of Chicago Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-226-51951-7 .
  • with Heino Falcke: The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. In: Annual Review Astron. Astroph. Volume 39, 2001, pp. 309-352. (pdf)
  • The cosmic spacetime. In: Australian Physics. May 2012. arxiv : 1205.2713
  • Melia The cosmic horizon. In: Monthly Notices Roy. Astron. Soc. Volume 382, ​​2008, pp. 1917-1921. arxiv : 0711.4181

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heino Falcke, Fulvio Melia, Eric Agol: Viewing the Shadow of the Black Hole at the Galactic Center. In: Astroph. J. Letters. Volume 528, 2000, p. 13, bibcode : 2000ApJ ... 528L..13F
  2. ^ Fulvio Melia, Andrew Shevchuk: The R_h = ct Universe. In: Monthly Notices Roy Astron Soc. 2011.
  3. ↑ Fulvio Melia: The R_h = ct Universe Without Inflation. 2012. arxiv : 1206.6527
personal data
SURNAME Melia, Fulvio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian astrophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Gorizia