Phd in Physics

Publications

Selected publications

Full list of publications available here

Recent refereed publications:

"A low-eccentricity migration pathway for a 13-h-period Earth analogue in a four-planet system"
Serrano, L. M., Gandolfi, D., Mustill, A. J. et al. 2022, Nature Astronomy.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01641-y
Press release: TOI-500, a four planet system with a peculiar migration process

"The Transiting Multi-planet System HD15337: Two Nearly Equal-mass Planets Straddling the Radius Gap"
Gandolfi et al. 2019, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 876, Issue 2, article id. L24, 12 pp
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab17d9
Press release: Two Planets Straddling the Gap

"PYANETI: a fast and powerful software suite for multiplanet radial velocity and transit fitting"
Barragán, Gandolfi, Antoniciello 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 482, Issue 1, p.1017-1030
http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019MNRAS.482.1017B

"TESS's first planet: a super-Earth transiting the naked-eye star π Mensae"
Gandolfi et al. 2018, Astronomy & Astrophysics, in press
https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051/0004-6361/201834289
Italian press release: L'Università di Torino scopre il pianeta Π Mensae C - Una super-Terra in orbita attorno ad una stella visibile ad occhio nudo

"Mass determination of the 1:3:5 near-resonant planets transiting GJ 9827 (K2-135)"
Prieto-Arranz, Palle, Gandolfi et al. 2018, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 618, id.A116, 15 pp
http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018A%26A...618A.116P

"K2-141 b. A 5-M_⊕ super-Earth transiting a K7 V star every 6.7 h"
Barragán, Gandolfi et al. 2018, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 612, id.A95, 11 pp.
http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018A%26A...612A..95B

"The Transiting Multi-planet System HD 3167: A 5.7 M _⊕ Super-Earth and an 8.3 M _⊕ Mini-Neptune"
Gandolfi et al. 2017, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 154, Issue 3, article id. 123
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1646362 and http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017AJ....154..123G

"K2-99: a subgiant hosting a transiting warm Jupiter in an eccentric orbit and a long-period companion"
Smith, Gandolfi,  Barragán, et al.  2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 464, Issue 3, p.2708-2716
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1615881 and http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017MNRAS.464.2708S 

"K2-98b: A 32 M _⊕ Neptune-size Planet in a 10 Day Orbit Transiting an F8 Star"
Barragán,  Grziwa, Gandolfi, et al.  2016, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 152, Issue 6, article id. 193
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1619358 and http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016AJ....152..193B

"Kepler-432 b: A massive warm Jupiter in a 52-day eccentric orbit transiting a giant star"
Ortiz, Gandolfi, et al. 2017, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 573, id.L6, 5 pp. 
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1524826 and http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015A%26A...573L...6O

"Kepler-423b: A half-Jupiter mass planet transiting a very old solar-like star"
Gandolfi et al. 2015, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 576, id.A11, 13 pp.
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1524842 and http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015A%26A...576A..11G

"Kepler-77b: a very low albedo, Saturn-mass transiting planet around a metal-rich solar-like star"
Gandolfi et al., 2013, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 557, id.A74, 13 pp.
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1524839 and http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013A%26A...557A..74G

Courses

• Elementi di Astrofisica (FIS0135)
  Corso di Laurea in Fisica
• Esperimentazioni I A (FIS0108)
  Corso di Laurea in Fisica
• Ottica Geometrica con laboratorio (FIS0008)
  Corso di Laurea in Ottica&Optometria

Research topics

- Search, characterization, and study of transiting exoplanets within the context of space-based missions such as CoRoT, Kepler, K2, TESS, and CHEOPS.

- High-precision radial velocity measurements.

- Study of the mechanisms leading to the formation of close-in giant planets.

Research groups

• Exoplanets

Research projects

• Gaseous or rocky? Unveiling the nature of small worlds

Activities in agenda

See my calendar

Academic bodies

• Commissione laboratori didattici
• Consiglio di Dipartimento