Carles Badenes Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Astrophysical Sciences Princeton University Contact Information: Office 124, Peyton Hall Ivy Lane, Princeton, NJ 08544-1001 USA phone: (609) 258-3807 fax: (609) 258-8226 e-mail : badenes[at]astro[dot]princeton[dot]edu

Who am I?

I am a Chandra Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Astrophysical Sciences of Princeton University. I have been at Princeton since September 2007. Before coming to Princeton, I spent three years at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

I got my PhD in Astrophysics from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and the Insititut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC) in Barcelona, Spain. My advisor was Dr. Eduardo Bravo, from the Astronomy and Astrophysics group at the UPC.

You can download my cv here (in pdf or gzipped PostScript).

Research Interests

My research focuses on supernova explosions and their supernova remnants (SNRs). I am particularly interested on Type Ia supernovae. I study the properties (mostly dynamics and X-ray emission) of the remnants left behind by these supernovae to learn more about their progenitor systems and the physical mechanisms involved in the thermonuclear explosion.

Below you can see some images of young Type Ia SNRs taken with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. A complete catalog of all the public Chandra observations of SNRs can be found here.

SN 1006

Tycho (SN 1572)

Kepler (SN 1604)

I use simulations of the hydrodynamic evolution of these objects, coupled to calculations of the nonequilibrium ionization in the hot plasma and spectral codes to understand the X-ray emission from the shocked supernova ejecta. My goal is to establish connections between this X-ray emission and the details of the physical processes going on at the time of the supernova explosion.

You can find all the details in my publications (from NASA ADS) and my preprints (from the astro-ph archive). If you have lots of time, you might want to read my PhD thesis, which is available here.

Collaborators

I have ongoing collaborations with the following people (with number of papers we have published together):

• Kazik Borkowski (NCSU, Raleigh, NC) [5]
• Eduardo Bravo (UPC, Barcelona, Spain) [6]
• Dan Dewey (MIT, Cambridge MA) [1]
• Inmaculada Domínguez (Universidad de Granada, Spain) [1]
• Jack Hughes (Rutgers University, NJ) [6]
• Una Hwang (NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, MD) [3]
• Martin Laming (NRL, Washington DC) [2]
• Norbert Langer (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) [1]
• Cara Rakowski (NRL, Washington DC) [2]
• Jessica Warren (Rutgers University, NJ) [2]

Talks

Here you can find the pdf files for some talks I have given in the past. I make them available to the public in the hope that someone will find them useful. I make an effort to reference the work of my colleagues properly; if you find that your work is not referenced correctly in these viewgraphs, or you have any questions about the content of the presentations, please contact me.

• IAS Coffee (review of Type Ia models). IAS, Princeton, Feb 6, 2008.
• Wunch Talk. Princeton, Jan 30, 2008.
• Massive Stars Workshop. Lorentz Center Leiden, Aug 7, 2007.
• Endpoints and Interactions Workshop (AAS meeting). Hawaii, May 24, 2007.
• Paths to Exploding Stars conference. KITP Santa Barbara, Mar 22, 2007.
• Physics of Type Ia SNe program. KITP Santa Barbara, Feb 8, 2007.
• UT Austin Dept. of Astronomy Seminar Dec 7, 2006.
• Princeton ISM Seminar Nov 27, 2006.
• Chandra Fellows Symposium Oct 13, 2006.
• SN and GRB Remnants conference. KITP Santa Barbara, Feb 10, 2006.
• New Jersey StarQuest 2005 Jun 4, 2005 (general audiences).

Personal

• Compulsive reader. A little bit of everything, including science fiction, fantasy, history and drama. Here is a list of what I have been reading lately.
• Avid music listener. Also a little bit of everything, with emphasis on rock, blues, good pop, alt-country and celtic music.
• I like some movies a lot. Most of my favorite movies are classics, like 'The Quiet Man' or 'All About Eve'. Incidentally, I share a birthday with the (IMHO) greatest film director of all time: Mr John Ford.
• Born on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea. To be specific, in a town called Castelló de la Plana, although I consider my roots to be in the village of Atzeneta del Maestrat, where my father's family comes from. I have lived for most of my life in Barcelona, which I think is a very beautiful and fascinating city.
• Carlos or Carles? A lot of people ask me whether my name is Carlos or Carles. The answer is that it is both, it just depends on what language you are using. In Spanish, it is written Carlos and pronounced [karlos] (in the SAMPA phonetic alphabet, here is a chart). This is the version of my name that appears in my passport and all other official documents. In Catalan, it is written Carles and pronounced [karl@s]. This is how most of my friends call me, and is the form that I use to sign scientific papers. But I answer to both. So now you know.

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