About me

I am an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany. Since October 1st, I work at the Stellar Astrophysics Department that is led by Prof. Dr. Selma de Mink.

Until September 2024, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Hamburg Observatory of the University of Hamburg in Germany. I was member of the Compact Objects and High-Energy Events group, which is led by Prof. Dr. Stephan Rosswog.

Previously, I was working as an ERC-Funded Postdoctoral Researcher at the Time-domain astronomy group led by Dr. Ondřej Pejcha in the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Charles University in Czech Republic.

I obtained my PhD in 2019 at the Instituto de Astrofísica at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. My doctoral thesis is entitled “The role of interacting stellar winds feeding Sgr A*”. This work was developed under the supervision of Prof. Jorge Cuadra who leads the Planets, accretion, and Galactic Centre astrophysics (PLAGA) group at Universidad Adolfo Ibañez. Part of my thesis work was carried out at the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching bei München. In this institution, my co-advisor was Dr. Marc Schartmann who is Senior Data Scientist at OmegaLambdaTec, as well as a member of the Physics of galactic nuclei group at MPE, which is led by Prof. Andreas Burkert.

CV

Main research topics:

  • Galactic Centre Astrophysics.
  • Astrophysical transients: Tidal Disruption Events

  • Numerical (radiation-)hydrodynamics.

Short CV:

  • since Oct 2024 : Humboldt Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.

  • Mar 2023 - Sep 2024: Postdoctoral Researcher at Hamburg Observatory.

  • Oct 2019 - Feb 2023 : Postdoctoral Researcher at Charles University in Prague.

  • 2019 : Ph.D. in Astrophysics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (thesis).

  • 2018 : Visiting student at Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany.

  • 2015 : Master in Astrophysics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

  • 2012 : Bachelor in Astronomy at Universidad de Concepción in Concepción, Chile.

Full version

Refereed publications:

Summary: 11 published papers (+1 in press, +1 submitted), 7 first-author papers.
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  • "The Milky Way satellite galaxy Leo T: a perturbed cored dwarf?", Blaña, M., Burkert, A., Fellhauer, M., Calderón D., Behrendt, M., Schartmann, M., 2024, A&A, in press.

  • "Multistructured Accretion Flow of Sgr A*. II. Signatures of a Cool Accretion Disk in Hydrodynamic Simulations of Stellar Winds", Balakrishnan, M. et al. (including Calderón D.), 2024 ApJ, 974, 99 (link).

  • "Multistructured Accretion Flow of Sgr A*. I. Examination of a Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flow Model", Balakrishnan, M. et al. (including Calderón D.), 2024 ApJ, 974, 98 (link).

  • "The effect of relativistic precession on light curves of tidal disruption events", Calderón D., Pejcha O., Meztger B. D., Duffell P. C., 2024, MNRAS, 528, 2568 (link).

  • "Supernovae in colliding-wind binaries: observational signatures in the first year", Pejcha O., Calderón D., Kurfürst P., 2022, MNRAS, 510, 3276 (link).

  • "Moving-mesh radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of wind-reprocessed transients", Calderón D., Pejcha O., Duffell P. C., 2021, MNRAS, 507, 1092 (link).

  • "The Dynamics of the Wide-angle Tailed (WAT) Galaxy Cluster A562", Gómez P. L., Calderón D., AJ, 160, 152 (link).

  • "Three-dimensional simulations of clump formation in stellar wind collisions", Calderón D., Cuadra J., Schartmann M., Burkert A., Prieto J., Russell C. M. P., 2020, MNRAS, 493, 447 (link).

  • "Stellar winds pump the heart of the Milky Way", Calderón D., Cuadra J., Schartmann M., Burkert A., Russell C. M. P., 2020, ApJL, 888, L2 (link).

  • "The Galactic Centre source G2 was unlikely born in any of the known massive binaries", Calderón D., Cuadra J., Schartmann M., Burkert A., Plewa P., Eisenhauer F., Habibi M., 2018, MNRAS, 478, 3494 (link).

  • "Searching for molecular outflows in hyper-luminous infrared galaxies", Calderón D., Bauer F. E., Veilleux S., Graciá-Carpio J., Sturm E., Lira P., Schulze S., Kim S., 2016, MNRAS, 460, 3052 (link).

  • "Clump formation through colliding stellar winds in the Galactic Centre", Calderón D., Ballone A., Cuadra J., Schartmann M., Burkert A., Gillessen S., 2016, MNRAS, 455, 4388 (link).

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