Gustavo E. Romero

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Gustavo Esteban Romero
Born (1964-09-20) 20 September 1964 (age 59)
Scientific career
FieldsRelativistic Astrophysics.
InstitutionsUniversity of La Plata

Gustavo E. Romero is a professor of Relativistic Astrophysics at the University of La Plata in Argentina. In addition to his academic role, he serves as a Superior Researcher of the National Research Council of Argentina.[1] Romero also holds the position of Director of the Argentine Institute of Radio Astronomy (IAR). Additionally, Romero has previously served as President of the Argentine Astronomical Society[2] and is currently the leader of the GARRA research group[3] and a Helmholtz International Fellow.[4]

For his professional accomplishments, Romero has been honored with several notable awards in scientific research, including an award from the Argentine Academy of Sciences,[5] the Houssay Prize[6] and the Konex Award 2023.[7]

Research work[edit]

Romero has worked extensively on gamma-ray, neutrino and cosmic-ray astrophysics, black holes, and scientific philosophy. He is well known for his investigations of blazars, microquasars, and unidentified gamma-ray sources.[8] His research has received around 11000 citations in the academic literature,[9] making him one of the most cited scientists of Argentina.[10]


In the field of philosophy, he has contributed with research on Supertask, spacetime ontology,[11] and aesthetics.[12] Romero is usually considered a disciple of the Argentine-Canadian philosopher and physicist Mario Bunge .[13]


Selected publications[edit]

  • Hadronic gamma-ray emission from windy microquasars[14]
  • Unidentified 3eg gamma-ray sources at low galactic latitude[15]
  • Optical microvariability of southern AGNs[16]
  • Accretion vs. colliding wind models for the gamma-ray binary LS I+ 61 303: an assessment[17]
  • Gamma-ray emission from Wolf-Rayet binaries[18]
  • Reissner-Nordström black hole lensing[19]
  • Supernova remnants and γ-ray sources[20]
  • Linearized stability of charged thin-shell wormholes[21]
  • Hadronic high-energy gamma-ray emission from the microquasar LS I+ 61 303[22]


Books[edit]

  • Introduction to Black Hole Astrophysics[23]
  • Scientific Philosophy [24]
  • La Naturaleza del Tiempo
  • Contemporary Materialism: Its Ontology and Epistemology (Editor with Camprubi & Pérez-Jara)

References[edit]

  1. ^ "National Research Council of Argentina". conicet.gov (in Spanish).
  2. ^ "Argentine Astronomical Society". astronomiaargentina.org.ar (in Spanish).
  3. ^ "GARRA". GRUPO DE ASTROFÍSICA RELATIVISTA Y RADIOASTRONOMÍA.
  4. ^ "Helmholtz International Fellow Award für weitere fünf Wissenschaftler". Helmholtz.de (in German).[dead link]
  5. ^ "Award of the Argentine Academy of Sciences" (in Spanish). 8 June 2020.
  6. ^ "Houssay Prize" (in Spanish). 9 April 2019.
  7. ^ Fundación Konex (2 May 2023). "Premios Konex 2023: Ciencia y Tecnología. Ya se conocen los Diplomas al Mérito". fundacionkonex.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-05-15.
  8. ^ Romero, Gustavo E. (December 2005). "Microquasars and Gamma-ray Sources". Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics. 5: 110–120. doi:10.1088/1009-9271/5/S1/110. hdl:11336/29696. S2CID 15373413.
  9. ^ "Google Scholar".
  10. ^ "Webometrics". www.webometrics.info.
  11. ^ Romero, Gustavo E. (2017). "On the Ontology of Spacetime: Substantivalism, Relationism, Eternalism, and Emergence". Foundations of Science. 22: 141–159. doi:10.1007/s10699-015-9476-1. hdl:11336/35354. S2CID 124842203.
  12. ^ Romero, Gustavo E. (2018). "Outline of a Theory of Scientific Aesthetics". Foundations of Science. 23 (4): 795–807. doi:10.1007/s10699-018-9551-5. S2CID 126062553.
  13. ^ Bunge, Mario (2016). Between Two Worlds Memoirs of a Philosopher-Scientist. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-29251-9. ISBN 978-3-319-29250-2.
  14. ^ Romero, G. E.; Torres, D. F.; Kaufman Bernadó, M. M.; Mirabel, I. F. (2003). "Hadronic gamma-ray emission from windy microquasars". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 410 (2): L1–L4. arXiv:astro-ph/0309123. Bibcode:2003A&A...410L...1R. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20031314-1.
  15. ^ "Unidentified 3eg gamma-ray sources at low galactic latitude". arXiv:astro-ph/9904355.
  16. ^ Romero, G. E.; Cellone, S. A.; Combi, J. A. (1999). "Optical microvariability of southern AGNs". Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series. 135 (3): 477–486. Bibcode:1999A&AS..135..477R. doi:10.1051/aas:1999184.
  17. ^ Romero, G. E.; Okazaki, A. T.; Orellana, M.; Owocki, S. P. (2007). "Accretion vs. colliding wind models for the gamma-ray binary LS I+ 61 303: an assessment". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 474 (1): 15–22. arXiv:0706.1320. Bibcode:2007A&A...474...15R. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20078035.
  18. ^ Benaglia, P.; Romero, G. E. (2003). "Gamma-ray emission from Wolf-Rayet binaries". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 399 (3): 1121–1134. arXiv:astro-ph/0205375. Bibcode:2003A&A...399.1121B. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20021854.
  19. ^ Eiroa, Ernesto F.; Romero, Gustavo E.; Torres, Diego F. (2002). "Reissner-Nordström black hole lensing". Physical Review D. 66 (2): 024010. arXiv:gr-qc/0203049. Bibcode:2002PhRvD..66b4010E. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.66.024010. S2CID 12504121.
  20. ^ Torres, D. (2003). "Supernova remnants and γ-ray sources". Physics Reports. 382 (6): 303–380. arXiv:astro-ph/0209565. Bibcode:2003PhR...382..303T. doi:10.1016/S0370-1573(03)00201-1. hdl:11336/30888. S2CID 54074190.
  21. ^ Eiroa, Ernesto F.; Romero, Gustavo E. (2004). "Linearized stability of charged thin-shell wormholes". General Relativity and Gravitation. 36 (4): 651–659. arXiv:gr-qc/0303093. Bibcode:2004GReGr..36..651E. doi:10.1023/B:GERG.0000016916.79221.24. hdl:11336/29923. S2CID 119367195.
  22. ^ Romero, Gustavo E.; Christiansen, Hugo R.; Orellana, Mariana (2005). "Hadronic high-energy gamma-ray emission from the microquasar LS I+ 61 303". The Astrophysical Journal. 632 (2): 1093–1098. arXiv:astro-ph/0506735. Bibcode:2005ApJ...632.1093R. doi:10.1086/444446. hdl:11336/29928. S2CID 15582485.
  23. ^ Introduction to Black Hole Astrophysics. Lecture Notes in Physics. Vol. 876. 2014. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39596-3. ISBN 978-3-642-39595-6.
  24. ^ Romero, Gustavo E. (2018). Scientific Philosophy. Bibcode:2018scph.book.....R. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97631-0. ISBN 978-3-319-97630-3.

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