Curriculum
Education
Ph.D. in Astrophysics 2017 - 2021
Hamburger Sternwarte
Universität Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
M.Sc. in Astrophysics 2015 - 2017
Argelander Institute für Astronomie (AIfA)
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Bonn, Germany
Academic semester 2013
Department of Physics
University of New Mexico (UNM)
Albuquerque, USA
B.Sc. in Physics (graduated with honours) 2010 - 2015
Faculty of Science
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Ciudad de México, México
Scholarships
Doctoral funding HmbNFG
Hamburg Act for the Promotion of Young Researchers and Artists 2021
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Equal Opportunity Fund
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany 2021
(rejected)
Graduate studies in Germany
CONACyT-DAAD 2015
AIfA, Bonn, Germany
Undergraduate thesis work
PAPIIT-DGAPA 2014
UNAM, Ciudad de México
Research program
PAPIIT-DGAPA 2013
UNAM, Ciudad de México
International mobility
DGECI-UNAM 2013
UNM, Albuquerque, USA
Publications
5 as a first author, 8 as a co-author. See my ADS profile here.
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Morphology of radio relics - II. Properties of polarized emission
P. Domínguez-Fernández, M. Brüggen, F. Vazza, M. Hoeft, W. E. Banda-Barragán, K. Rajpurohit, D. Wittor, A. Mignone, D. Mukherjee, B. Vaidya.
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2353 -
Accretion of a Vlasov gas onto a black hole from a sphere of finite radius and the role of angular momentum
A. Gamboa, C. Gabarrete, P. Domínguez-Fernández, D. Núñez, O. Sarbach.
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Exploring the spectral properties of radio relics – I: integrated spectral index and Mach number
D. Wittor, S. Ettori, F. Vazza, K. Rajpurohit, M. Hoeft, Domínguez-Fernández, P..
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1735 -
Dissecting nonthermal emission in the complex multiple-merger galaxy cluster Abell 2744: Radio and X-ray analysis
K. Rajpurohit, F. Vazza, R. J. van Weeren, M. Hoeft, M. Brienza, E. Bonnassieux, C. J. Riseley, G. Brunetti, A. Bonafede, M. Brüggen, W. R. Formann, H. J. A. Röttgering, A. Drabent, A. S. Rajpurohit, P. Domínguez-Fernández, D. Wittor, F. Andrade-Santos
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The intracluster magnetic field in the double relic galaxy cluster Abell 2345
Stuardi, C., Bonafede, A., Lovisari, L., Domínguez-Fernández, P., Vazza, F., Brüggen, M., van Weeren, R. J., de Gasperin, F.
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab218 -
Understanding the radio relic emission in the galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745: Spectral analysis
Rajpurohit, K., Wittor, D., van Weeren, R. J., Vazza, F., Hoeft, M., Rudnick, L., Locatelli, N., Eilek, J., Forman, W. R., Bonafede, A., Bonnassieux, E., Riseley, C. J., Brienza, M., Brunetti, G., Brüggen, M., Loi, F., Rajpurohit, A. S., Röttgering, H. J. A., Botteon, A., Clarke, T. E. Drabent, A., Domínguez-Fernández, P., Di Gennaro, G., Gastaldello, F.
0.1051/0004-6361/202039428 -
Fast magnetic field amplification in distant galaxy clusters
Di Gennaro, G., van Weeren, R. J., Brunetti, G., Cassano, R., Brüggen, M., Hoeft, M., Shimwell, T. W., Röttgering, H. J. A., Bonafede, A., Botteon, A., Cuciti, V., Dallacasa, D., de Gasperin, F., Domínguez-Fernández, P., Enßlin, T. A., Gastaldello, F., Mandal, S., Rossetti, M. and Simionescu, A.
2021NatAs…5..268D/doi:10.1038/s41550-020-01244-5 -
Morphology of radio relics I: What causes the substructure of synchrotron emission?
Domínguez-Fernández, P., Brüggen, M., Vazza, F., Banda-Barragán, W. E., Rajpurohit, K., Mignone, A., Mukherjee, D. and Vaidya, B.
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3018 -
Polarisation of Radio Relics in Galaxy Clusters
Wittor, D., Hoeft, M., Vazza, F., Brüggen, M. and Domínguez-Fernández, P. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2715 -
Dynamical evolution of magnetic fields in the intracluster medium
Domínguez-Fernández, P., Vazza, F., Brüggen, M. and Brunetti, G. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz877 -
The challenge of detecting intracluster filaments with Faraday Rotation
Locatelli, N., Vazza, F., Domínguez-Fernández, P.
https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies6040128 -
Spectral analysis of magnetic fields in simulated galaxy clusters
Domínguez-Fernández, P., Vazza, F., Brüggen, M.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2548940 -
Description of the evolution of inhomogeneities on a Dark Matter halo with the Vlasov equation
Domínguez-Fernández, P., Jiménez-Vázquez, E., Alcubierre, M.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-017-2286-8
Relevant professional experience
Member of the Student Council of the Quantum Universe Cluster of Excellence
University of Hamburg, Germany
2020 - 2021
Link
Equal Opportunity Officer at the Hamburger Sternwarte
University of Hamburg, Germany
2018 - 2021
Link
Teaching experience
Laboratory in Photometry of stars 02.2017 - 05.2017
University of Bonn, Germany
Assistant in General Relativity 08.2015 - 12.2015
Faculty of Science, UNAM, México
Assistant in Contemporary Physics 02.2014 - 06.2014
Faculty of Science, UNAM, México
Succesful computational proposals
Primordial Magnetic Fields through Large scale Structure formation II
Principal investigator
Norddeutsche Verbund für Hoch- und Höchstleistungsrechnen (HLRN), Germany
50,000 node-h
The shocking and turbulent life of radio emitting electrons in the simulated intracluster medium 2
Co-principal investigator
JUWELS, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany
1.29 million core-h
Primordial Magnetic Fields through Large scale Structure formation
Principal investigator
Norddeutsche Verbund für Hoch- und Höchstleistungsrechnen (HLRN), Germany
83,340 node-h
The shocking and turbulent life of radio emitting electrons in the simulated intracluster medium
Co-principal investigator
JUWELS, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany
0.7 million core-h
Schools & Internships
Les Houches Physics School: The multiple approaches to plasma physics 2019
Ecole de Physique des Houches
Les Houches, France
Research work: Distribution functions describing Vlasov perturbations 2016
in Dark Matter Haloes
Gravitation and Field Theory Department of ICN, UNAM
Ciudad de México, México
Research work: Dark Matter as a fluid or collection of particles 2013
Gravitation and Field Theory Department of ICN, UNAM
Ciudad de México, México
Summer school in Astrophysics 2013
Radioastronomy and Astrophysics Center (CRyA)
Morelia, México
Astrophysical codes
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ENZO
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PLUTO
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FLASH
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GADGET
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AREPO