Gravitational Physics in Rome

Cementerio de Trenes, Uyuni (Bolivia), 1999 - courtesy of Gianni Battimelli




University of Rome "Sapienza"
Department of Physics,
P.le A. Moro 2, 00185 Rome
ITALY.


People

Valeria Ferrari  (Full Professor) Homepage
Leonardo Gualtieri  (Associate Professor) Homepage
Paolo Pani  (Tenure-track Researcher) Homepage
Omar Benhar (INFN Research Director)
Francisco Forteza  (Postdoc) 
Tiziano Abdelsalhin  (PhD Student) 
Guilherme Raposo  (PhD Student) 


Research

According to General Relativity, the emission of gravitational waves is associated to a variety of physical processes that range from astrophysical phenomena - such as the evolution and coalescence of binary systems, gravitational collapse, stellar oscillations and instabilities - to cosmological processes that developed in the very early universe. Signals produced in these processes have different intensities, shapes and characteristic frequencies; some of them are emitted in short bursts, some are continuous, some superimpose to form stochastic backgrounds with spectral properties that depend on the generating phenomenon. The Rome group is concerned primarily with the study of the characteristic features of gravitational signals emitted by astrophysical sources, and of the spectral properties of stochastic backgrounds they generate.

The research interests of the group include:




Publications

  • V. Ferrari,   "Focusing process in the collision of gravitational plane waves", Phys. Rev. D 37, 3061, 1988
  • V.Ferrari, J.Ibanez,    "Type D solutions describing the collision of plane-fronted gravitational waves", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 417, 417, 1988
  • V.Ferrari, J.Ibanez e M.Bruni,    "Colliding plane gravitational waves: a class of non-diagonal soliton solutions", Phys. Rev. D 36, 1053, 1987
  • S.Chandrasekhar, V.Ferrari,    "On the dispersion of cylindrical impulsive gravitational waves"., Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 412, 75, 1987
  • V.Ferrari, J.Ibanez,    "On the collision of gravitational plane waves: a class of soliton solutions", Gen. Rel. and Grav., 19, 405, 1987
  • V.Ferrari, J.Ibanez,    "A new exact solution for colliding gravitational plane waves", Gen. Rel. and Grav., 19, 383, 1987
  • C. Coretti, V.Ferrari,    "On the radiation emitted by a particle falling into a black hole in the semirelativistic approximation", Il Nuovo Cimento 93B, 43, 1986
  • B.Bazanski, V.Ferrari,    "Analytic extension of the Schwarzschild-de Sitter metric", Il Nuovo Cimento 91B 120, 1986
  • S.Chandrasekhar, V.Ferrari,    "On the Nutku-Halil solution for colliding impulsive gravitational waves", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 396, 55, 1984
  • V.Ferrari, B.Mashhoon,    "New approach to the quasi-normal modes of a black hole", Phys. Rev. D 30, 295, 1984
  • V.Ferrari, B.Mashhoon,    "Oscillations of a black hole", Phys. Rev. Lett., 52, 1361, 1984
  • V.Bellezza, V.Ferrari,    "Coupled electromagnetic and gravitational linearized perturbations of the Kerr-Newman metric"., J. Math. Phys. 25, 1985, 1984

For Questions or Comments contact Valeria Ferrari valeria.ferrari@roma1.infn.it