Andrea Lapi

Research interests

Galaxy Formation and Evolution:

*) joint evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes;
*) quasar feedback on the interstellar medium;
*) formation of high-redshift galaxies and quasars;
*) spectral energy distributions of galaxies and quasars;
*) dust formation and metals enrichment in galaxies;
*) clustering of high-redshift galaxies and quasars;
*) galaxy-galaxy gravitational lensing;
*) size evolution of passively evolving galaxies.


Galaxy Clusters:

*) thermodynamics of the intracluster medium;
*) galaxy clusters in X rays;
*) Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect;
*) feedback processes on the intracluster medium;
*) astrophysics of cluster outskirts;
*) non-thermal pressure support in the intracluster medium;
*)universality in the pressure profiles of the intracluster medium;
*)mass reconstruction from X-ray, SZ, and lensing observations.


Dark Matter:

*) cosmological evolution of dark matter halos;
*) statistics of dark matter halos from the excursion set approach;
*) dynamical relaxation of dark matter halos;
*) dark matter distribution within cosmic structure;
*) gravitational lensing observations of dark matter halos;
*) gamma-rays from dark matter annihilations.


Spiral Galaxies:

*) universal rotation curve of spiral galaxies;
*) baryons and dark matter interactions in spirals;
*) distribution of HI gas, stars, black holes and dark matter in spirals;
*) semianalytic models for the formation and evolution of disk galaxies.

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