my (strictly scientific) Curriculum
Vitae (a zipped postscript file, 25 K)
Welcome to my home page!
I have belonged since 1975 to the permanent research staff of the Astronomical
Observatory of Rome ( now part of the Italian National
Institute for Astrophysics, INAF).
My present
position is 'astronomo ricercatore' that can be [badly] translated
as ``research astronomer".
Besides, I was affiliated, from 1994 to 1998, to the Institut
d' Astrophysique de Paris (IAP)
.
Here is my portrait, if you really want to see me.
My Chief research interests are :
Interacting binaries (contact binaries), stellar
activity, stellar rotation, variable stars.
Do you want to know more about my professional activity? Read:
my (strictly scientific) Curriculum
Vitae (a zipped postscript file, 25 K)
a list of my
publications
,
as appearing in the ADS
database.
Links on Close/contact binaries:
New and hot:
NEW!! the Presentation
"Binaries as astrophysical laboratories:
overview" from the ENEAS PhD School on Variable stars held in Pecs, Hungary
(September 2005). This unfortunately works only with IE5 or later. With a
different browser you can choose
the PDF version
(less interactive but complete).
NEW! The homepage of the COROT Thematic
Team on binary stars and the presentation on what
COROT can do for our preferred stars (my
presentation at the the conference of Syros, Greece "Binaries in the
21th Century", June '05) and the corresponding
PDF
Cool:
the last version of my
catalog of field W UMa binaries (first published in A&A 311,
523).
the tables of
the Fourier coefficients
for the 933 eclipsing binaries in the first nine fields of the OGLE-I experiment
(as used in Maceroni and Rucinski 1999)..
General interest ones on the same topic:
the Bulletin of IAU Commision
42
The
Interacting Binary Newsletter
the Information Bulletin of
Variable Stars, IBVS .
By-products
(or side benefits) of astrophysics:
sometimes we have the opportunity
of visiting some of the most unusual (and beatiful) sites on Earth, where
the large world-class telescopes are located. Here are a few pictures of the Canada France Hawaii Telescope
(CFHT) on
Mauna Kea, Hawaii. I took them in September 98, at the time
I was there to observe the binary BW3 V38 (see the list of my papers
to know more about it).
More photos of other sites are available under the next link, just below.
....... and if you followed me up to this point don't miss my strictly non-professional pages, with my non-astronomy-related interests and activities! (music, horse-riding, photography and...Pif!)
You can contact me:
by e-mail using the address you can guess by the rule
firstname.familyname@nodename.astro.it
(nodename
is mporzio)
[yes, it's a rather involved style!! but it is to prevent automatic e-mail
address collection]
by snail mail writing to:
Carla Maceroni, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma,
via Frascati 33,
I-00040 Monteporzio C. (RM) Italy.
by telephone: +39-06-94286457 or fax: +39-06-9447243