Alice Deconto-Machado

Intro

Hello! I am a PhD candidate in Astrophysics at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), based in Granada, Spain. I obtained my master's and bachelor's degrees in Physics from the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, located in the same city where I was born, Santa Maria (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil).

I am passionate about Astronomy and active galaxies in particular. My main lines of research are active galactic nuclei (AGN), quasars, and radiogalaxies. Briefly, during my PhD I am dedicated on the UV and optical spectral analysis of a sample of high-redshift and high-luminosity quasars with very peculiar characteristics and their location in the so-called Main Sequence of quasars.

Apart from this, I am also interested in Astronomy outreach and on making this amazing science accessible to everybody, specially for elementary and high school students.

Nice to see you here! Hope you enjoy! :D

Publications

Bellow you may find a selection of my recent publications.

Main articles:

- High-redshift quasars along the main sequence (Deconto-Machado+23, A&A)

- Ionised gas kinematics in MaNGA AGN. Extents of the Narrow Line and kinematically disturbed regions (Deconto-Machado+22, A&A)

- Optical and UV properties of a radio-loud and a radio-quiet Population A quasar at high redshift (Deconto-Machado+22, AN)

Main collaborations:

- The intermediate-ionization lines as virial broadening estimators for Population A quasars (Marziani+22, ApJS)

- Gas phase metallicity determinations in nearby AGNs with SDSS-IV MaNGA: evidence of metal poor accretion (do Nascimento+22, MNRAS)

- Isolating an outflow component in single-epoch spectra of quasars (Marziani,Deconto-Machado,del Olmo+22, Galaxies)

Talks

Here you will find a list of my recent talks.

Invited talks:

- The quasar Main Sequence across different cosmic epochs, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canárias, Tenerife, Spain, Virtual, 2023.

- The quasar Main Sequence under a high-redshift context, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Virtual, 2022.

- Radio-Loud population A quasars at high redshift, 13th Serbian Conference on Spectral Line Shapes in Astrophysics, Belgrade, Serbia, Virtual, 2021.

Oral contributions:

- On the quasar Main Sequence at high redshift: AGN outflows and radioloudness relations, 14th Serbian Conference on Spectral Line Shapes in Astrophysics, Bajina Basta, Serbia, 2023.

- Outflows and winds in high-luminosity and high-redshift radio-loud quasars, AGN Winds on the Chesapeake, Easton, Maryland, USA, 2023.

- AGN feedback along the quasar Main Sequence at high redshift, VI Meeting of AGN Research in Spain in the Era of the New Observatories, IAA, Granada, Spain, 2023.

- The trends of high-z quasars along the Main Sequence, Panchromatic view of the life-cycle of AGN, European Space Agency centre, Madrid, Spain, 2022.

- UV properties of high-redshift quasars, European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, Valencia, Spain, 2022.

- The Main Sequence of quasars at high redshift, Active Galactic Nuclei XIV: The Renaissance of Black Holes and Galaxies, Firenze, Italy, 2022.

Education & CV

If you are interested in more details, please check my complete CV by clicking here.

Contact

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