Teresa Antoja Castelltort

Senior lecturer

ORCID: 0000-0003-2595-5148
Knowledge area: Astronomia i Astrofísica

Research group: Astrophysics and Galaxy Formation

Contact Information
Department of Quantum Physics and Astrophysics
C/ Martí i Franquès, 1
934021126
tantoja(a)fqa.ub.edu

More Information: https://teresaantoja.fqa.ub.edu/

Academic training

Fisica . Facultat de Física- Universitat de Barcelona . 21/07/2005 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Master Astrofisica, Cosmologia i Fisica de Particules . Facultat de Física- Universitat de Barcelona . 05/09/2007 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Ph.D., Physics . Universitat de Barcelona . 30/05/2010 . (Ph.D.)

Teaching imparted

Àlgebra Lineal i Geometria (Bachelor's degree) - Ingeniería Electrónica de Telecomunicación - Universidad de Barcelona.
Astronomia Galàctica (University Master's Degree) - Astrofísica, Física de Párticulas y Cosmología - Universidad de Barcelona.
Àlgebra Lineal i Geometria (Bachelor's degree) - Física - Universidad de Barcelona.
Algebra i geometria lineal (Engineering) - Electrónica - Universidad de Barcelona.
Algebra i geometria lineal (Bachelor's degree) - Ingeniería Biomédica(1) - Universidad de Barcelona.

Research interests

Galactic dynamics & kinematics

Directed Thesis, minor thesis and research reports

Begoña García-Conde Navarro . (2024) . Galactic dynamics with cosmological simulations of Milky Way-sized galaxies:The phase spiral and vertical perutrbations (Ph.D. Thesis) . .
Pau Ramos . (2020) . SUBSTRUCTURE IN THE PHASE-SPACE OF THE GALAXY WITH GAIA (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.

Participation in projects

Exploring the Deep Universe by Computational Analysis of Data from Observations (EDUCADO) . 2024 - 2027 . Ref.101119830 . Unió Europea . PI: Francesca Figueras siñol
Mezclado de fases complejo en Gaia-DR3 . 2023 - 2025 . Ref.CNS2022-135232 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación . PI: Maria Teresa Antoja Castelltort
Diagnóstico del disco de la Vía Láctea . 2022 - 2025 . Ref.PID2021-125451NA-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación . PI: Maria Teresa Antoja Castelltort

Journal Publications

Koop, Orlin; Antoja, Teresa; Helmi, Amina; Callingham, Thomas M.; Laporte, Chervin F. P. (2024). Assessing the robustness of the Galactic rotation curve inferred from the Jeans equations using Gaia DR3 and cosmological simulations. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 692(A50)p. 20 . https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202450911 . ISSN: 0004-6361
Cao, Chengye; Li, Zhao-Yu; Schönrich, Ralph; Antoja, Teresa (2024). Radial Wave in the Galactic Disk: New Clues to Discriminate Different Perturbations. Astrophysical Journal, 975(2), pp. 292 - 11 . https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad7b0e . ISSN: 0004-637X
Bernet, M.; Ramos, P.; Antoja, T.; Monari, G.; Famaey, G. (2024). Radial and azimuthal gradients of the moving groups in Gaia DR3: The slow/fast bar degeneracy problem. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 686(A92)p. 20 . https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202348410 . ISSN: 0004-6361
García-Conde, B.; Antoja, T.; Roca-Fàbrega, S.; Gómez, F.; Ramos, P.; Garavito-Camargo, N.; Gómez-Flechoso, MA. (2024). Galactoseismology in cosmological simulations: Vertical perturbations by dark matter, satellite galaxies and gas. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 683(A47)p. 19 . https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202347446 . ISSN: 0004-6361
Antoja, T.; Ramos, P.; García-Conde, B.; Bernet, M.; Laporte, C. F. P.; Katz, D. (2023). The phase spiral in Gaia DR3. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 673(A115), pp. 1 - 16 . https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202245518 . ISSN: 0004-6361
Antoja, T.; Ramos, P.; López-Guitart, F.; Anders, F.; Bernet, M.; Laporte, C. F. P. (2022). Tidally induced spiral arm wraps encoded in phase space. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 668(A61), pp. 1 - 20 . https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202244064 . ISSN: 0004-6361