Instituto de Física Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina. B.Sc., Physics
1981-1986. Instituto Astronômico e Geofisico, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
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GUSTAVO ADOLFO MEDINA TANCO Departamento de Altas Energías Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Circuito Exterior S/N, Cuidad Universitaria, México DF Tel: +52/01(443)3223500(ext. 4129)
[email protected] EDUCATION Instituto de Física Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina Instituto Astronômico e Geofisico, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil • Awarded the Giambiagi prize to the best PhD thesis in Physics
B.Sc., Physics 1981-1986 Ph.D., Physics 1988-1992
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS 1995-2006 Professor Doutor, Departamento de Astronomia, IAGUSP, Brasil 1998-1999 Postdoctorado, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, UK 1997-1998 Postdoctorado, Royal Greenwich Observatory, Cambridge, UK 1993-1995 Postdoctorado, IAG-USP, Brasil present position Prof. Titular B, Inst. de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, México, DF THESIS ADVISOR AND POSTGRADUATE-SCHOLAR SPONSOR • Alberto Daniel Supanitsky: PhD 2007, [Inst. Física, Univ. Nacional de Buenos Aires, Argentina, co-supervisión: Alberto Etchegoyen (Lab. TANDAR, Argentina)] Detectores de Superficie y la composición química de los rayos cosmicos. • Alberto Martins – MSc 2006, [Inst. Astronómico e Geofísico, Univ. Sao Paulo, Brasil] El Centro de nuestra Galaxia: una posible fuente de neutrones de altas energias. • Federico Sanchez – PhD 2005, [Co-orientación Inst. Física Milan, Italia] The performance of the fluorescence detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory for the ultra high energy cosmic rays. • Andre Tiba – MSc 2004, [Inst. Astronómico e Geofísico, Univ. Sao Paulo, Brasil] Redes Neuronales y Diagnostico de Rayos Cosmicos Primarios en el Experimento Pierre Auger SOCIETY AFFILIATIONS • International Astronomical Union • Cambridge Philosophycal Society • Sociedade Astronômica Brasileira (SAB) • Asociacion Astronómica Argentina (AAA) PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS • Full member of the Pierre Auger Collaboration. o Member of publications committee • Member of EUSO (Extreme Universe Space Observatory, Estación Espacial) o Member of steering committee • Member of EUSO-JEM (EUSO-Japan) o Coordinator of Mexican Section • Member of the ALICE-UNAM collaboration • Member of the HAWC collaboration
COLLABORATORS P.L. Biermann, T. Stanev (Bartol), J. Horvath (Sao Paulo), A. WATSON (Leeds), G. Tenorio Tagle (INAOE), S. Silich (INAOE), H. Salazar (BUAP, México), O. Martínez (BUAP México), A. Fernández (BUAP, México), J. Valdés Galicia (Geofísica UNAM) + EUSO collaboration + ALICE collaboration + Pierre Auger Collaboration + HAWC collaboration SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: • The Pierre Auger Collaboration, 2006, An upper limit to the photon fraction in cosmic rays above 1019 eV from the Pierre Auger Observatory, Astropart. Phys., Accepted. •
Biermann P. L., Medina Tanco G. A., Engel R. , Pugliese G., The last Gamma Ray Burst in our Galaxy? On the observed cosmic ray excess at particle energy 1018 eV, ApJ Lett. 604, L29-32, 2004.
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Tenorio-Tagle G., Palous J., Silich S., Medina-Tanco G., and Munoz-Tunon C., On the Formation of Massive Stellar Clusters, A&A 411, 397 (2003)
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Biermann P.L., Ahn E.-J., Medina-Tanco G. A., Stanev T., Origin of the highest energy cosmic rays observed, Nucl. Phys. B, 87, 417 - 419, 2001.
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Cosmic magnetic fields from the perspective of ultra-high energy cosmic rays propagation, Medina Tanco G. A. , in Physics and Astrophysics of Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays, G. Sigl e M. Lemoine (eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001, pp. 155-180.
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Medina Tanco G. A., Watson A. A., 1999: Dark matter halos and ultra-high energy cosmic rays, Astroparticle Physics, 12, 25-34: astro-ph/9903182
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Medina Tanco G. A., Watson A. A., 1999: The Photodisintegration of Cosmic Ray Nuclei by Solar Photons: the Gerasimova-Zatsepin Effect Revisted, Astroparticle Physics, 10, 157-164.
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Medina Tanco G. A., Goveia Dal Pino E. M., Horvath J. E., 1998: Deflection of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays by the Galactic Magnetic Field: from the Sources to the Detector, Ap. J., 492, 2000.
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Biermann P.L., Ahn E.-J., Medina-Tanco G. A., Stanev T., Origin of the highest energy cosmic rays observed: do all roads lead to Virgo? Report No. BA-99-74 (MPI-Bonn) astro-ph/9911123.
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Medina Tanco G. A., Goveia Dal Pino E. M., Horvath J. E., 1997: Non Diffusive Propagation of Ultra High Energy Cosmic-Rays, Astroparticle Physics, 6, 337-342, 1997.
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Medina Tanco G. A. and J. Horvath, 1996: The Acceleration and Propagation of Strangeletes in the Galaxy: Numerical Simulations, Astrophys. J. , 464, 354.
