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Star/Planet formation, Dust, Outflows and Jets, Exoplanets
Italy, Germany, Chile

Biography

Hi everyone!
I am Luca, from Naples, Italy.

I specialized in astrophysics at the University of Naples and I'm currently working as a PhD student at the European Southern Observatory in Garching, Germany.

I work on planet formation and exoplanetary science.
I specialize on the study of dust properties during collapse from ISM to protoplanetary disks using submillimeter interferometry, and on the detection and characterization of exoplanets via photometric transits.

Activities

Employment (3)

European Southern Observatory: Santiago, CL

2024-11-01 to present | Research Fellow ESO/ALMA (Office for Science)
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European Southern Observatory: Garching, Bayern, DE

2021-10-01 to present | PhD Student
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: Greenbelt, MD, US

2020-06-01 to 2020-08-07 | Intern (Code 600 - Astrophysics)
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Education and qualifications (3)

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München: Munich, DE

2021-10-01 to 2024-10-30 | PhD (Astronomy)
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Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II: Napoli, Campania, IT

2019-03-15 to 2020-07-15 | MSc (Physics department Ettore Pancini)
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Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II: Napoli, Campania, IT

2015-09-15 to 2019-01-17 | BSc (Physics Department Ettore Pancini)
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Professional activities (2)

Planet Patrol - Zooniverse: Zooniverse.org, US

2020-09 to present | Exoplanet Veting Expert (NASA Goddard Code 660 )
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Unione Astrofili Napoletani: Naples, Campania, IT

2020-01-21 to present | External expert on exoplanetary activities (Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory )
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Works (15)

FAUST. XIV. Probing the Flared Disk in L1527 with Sulfur-bearing Molecules

The Astrophysical Journal
2024-05-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Ziwei E. Zhang; Nami Sakai; Satoshi Ohashi; Nadia M. Murillo; Claire J. Chandler; Brian Svoboda; Cecilia Ceccarelli; Claudio Codella; Luca Cacciapuoti; Ross O’Donoghue et al.
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Accuracy of ALMA estimates of young disk radii and masses

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2024-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Ngo-Duy Tung; Leonardo Testi; Ugo Lebreuilly; Patrick Hennebelle; Anaëlle Maury; Ralf S. Klessen; Luca Cacciapuoti; Matthias González; Giovanni Rosotti; Sergio Molinari
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A dusty streamer infalling onto the disk of a class I protostar

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2024-02 | Journal article
Contributors: L. Cacciapuoti; E. Macias; A. Gupta; L. Testi; A. Miotello; C. Espaillat; M. Küffmeier; S. van Terwisga; J. Tobin; S. Grant et al.
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Protostellar Chimney Flues: Are Jets and Outflows Lifting Submillimeter Dust Grains from Disks into Envelopes?

The Astrophysical Journal
2024-01-01 | Journal article
Contributors: L. Cacciapuoti; L. Testi; L. Podio; C. Codella; A. J. Maury; M. De Simone; P. Hennebelle; U. Lebreuilly; R. S. Klessen; S. Molinari
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FAUST

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2023-08 | Journal article
Contributors: L. Cacciapuoti; E. Macias; A. J. Maury; C. J. Chandler; N. Sakai; Ł. Tychoniec; S. Viti; A. Natta; M. De Simone; A. Miotello et al.
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The TESS Triple-9 Catalog II: a new set of 999 uniformly vetted exoplanet candidates

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2023-03-23 | Journal article
Contributors: Christian Magliano; Veselin Kostov; Luca Cacciapuoti; Giovanni Covone; Laura Inno; Stefano Fiscale; Marc Kuchner; Elisa V Quintana; Ryan Salik; Vito Saggese et al.
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Validation of 13 Hot and Potentially Terrestrial TESS Planets

arXiv
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Luca Cacciapuoti; Steven Giacalone; Courtney D. Dressing; Christina Hedges; Veselin B. Kostov; Karen A. Collins; Eric L. N. Jensen; Daniel A. Yahalomi; Allyson Bieryla; David R. Ciardi et al.
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TESS discovery of a super-Earth and two sub-Neptunes orbiting the bright, nearby, Sun-like star HD 22946

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2022-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Luca Cacciapuoti; Laura Inno; Giovanni Covone; Veselin B. Kostov; Thomas Barclay; Elisa V. Quintana; Knicole D. Colon; Keivan G. Stassun; Benjamin Hord; Steven Giacalone et al.
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A systematic validation of hot Neptunes in TESS data

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2022-11-22 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0035-8711
Part of ISSN: 1365-2966
Contributors: Christian Magliano; Giovanni Covone; Richa Dobal; Luca Cacciapuoti; Luca Tonietti; Steven Giacalone; Jose I Vines; Laura Inno; James S Jenkins; Jack J Lissauer et al.
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The TESS Triple-9 Catalog: 999 uniformly vetted exoplanet candidates

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2022-04-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Luca Cacciapuoti; Veselin B Kostov; Marc Kuchner; Elisa V Quintana; Knicole D Colón; Jonathan Brande; Susan E Mullally; Quadry Chance; Jessie L Christiansen; John P Ahlers et al.
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Planet Patrol: Vetting Transiting Exoplanet Candidates with Citizen Science

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
2022-04-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Veselin B. Kostov; Marc J. Kuchner; Luca Cacciapuoti; Sovan Acharya; John P. Ahlers; Marc Andrés-Carcasona; Jonathan Brande; Lucas T. de Lima; Marco Z. Di Fraia; Aline U. Fornear et al.
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Efficiency of the oxygenic photosynthesis on Earth-like planets in the habitable zone

2021-04-06 | Journal article
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Luca Cacciapuoti

Identifying Planetary Transit Candidates in TESS Full-Frame Image Light Curves via Convolutional Neural Networks

2021-01-26 | Preprint
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Luca Cacciapuoti

The First Habitable-zone Earth-sized Planet from TESS. I. Validation of the TOI-700 System

The Astronomical Journal
2020-08-14 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1538-3881
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Luca Cacciapuoti

The L 98-59 System: Three Transiting, Terrestrial-size Planets Orbiting a Nearby M Dwarf

The Astronomical Journal
2019-06-27 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1538-3881
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