Giuseppe Lodato

General Info

I am an Associate Professor of Astrophysics at the Department of Physics of the University of Milano.


I am interested in Theoretical Astrophysics and in particular in the physics of accretion discs around young stars and black holes. Further details on my research can be found HERE.


For informations about teaching, please check the Italian version of the site.

Contact

  1. •   Address: Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano

  2. •Tel.:

  3. •email: giuseppe.lodato at unimi.it

Research

General Description

Publication List (from ADS)


Recent publications


  1. 1. Lodato & Facchini, Wave-like warp propagation in circumbinary discs - II. Application to KH 15D., MNRAS, 433, 2157 (2013)

  2. 2. Facchini, Lodato & Price, Wave-like warp propagation in circumbinary discs - I. Analytical theory and numerical simulations, MNRAS, 433, 2142 (2013)

  3. 3. Lodato & Gerosa, Black hole mergers: do gas discs lead to spin alignment?, MNRAS, 429, 30 (2013)

  4. 4.Nayakshin & Lodato, FU Ori outbursts and the planet-disc mass exchange, MNRAS, 426, 70 (2012)

  5. 5.Rosotti, Lodato & Price, Response of a circumbinary accretion disc to black hole mass loss, MNRAS, 425, 1958 (2012)

  6. 6.Lodato, Black holes: star ripped to shreds, Nature, 485, 183 (2012)

  7. 7.Cannizzo, Troja & Lodato, Swift J1644: the tidal obliteration of a deeply plunging star?, ApJ, 742, 32 (2011)

  8. 8.Campana, Lodato et al, The unusual gamma-ray burst GRB101225A explained as a minor body falling onto a neutron star, Nature, 480, 69 (2011)

  9. 9. Lodato & Rossi, Multiband lightcurves of tidal disruption events, MNRAS, 410, 359 (2011)

  10. 10.Cossins, Lodato & Testi, Resolved images of self-gravitating circumstellar discs with ALMA, MNRAS, in press (2010)

  11. 11. Lodato & Price, On the diffusive propagation of warps in thin accretion discs, MNRAS, 405, 1212 (2010)

  12. 12.The effects of opacity on gravitational stability in protoplanetary discs, by Cossins, Lodato & Clarke, MNRAS, 401, 2587 (2010)

  13. 13.Black hole mergers: the first light, by Rossi, Lodato, Armitage, King & Pringle, MNRAS, 401, 2021 (2009)

  14. 14.Black hole mergers: can gas discs solve the `final parsec’ problem?, by Lodato, Nayakshin, King & Pringle, MNRAS, 398, 1392 (2009)

  15. 15.Characterizing the gravitational instability in cooling accretion discs, By Cossins, Lodato & Clarke, MNRAS, 393, 1157 (2009)

  16. 16.Stellar disruption by a supermassive black hole: is the lightcurve really proportional to t^(-5/3)?, by Lodato, King & Pringle, MNRAS, 392, 332 (2009)



Collaborators Homepages

  1. •Phil Armitage

  2. •Priya Natarajan

  3. •Sergei Nayakshin

  4. •Daniel Price

  5. •Ken Rice

  6. •Elena Rossi

Conference on “Tidal Disruption Events”. More information can be found HERE.