ROBERTO SORIA

Honours degree in Physics at the University of Turin (Italy), 1994


PhD at the Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Australian National University, 2000


Currently a Research Fellow at Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London

Papers in Refereed Journals:

Detection of the Tip of the Red Giant Branch in NGC 5128,
Soria, R., Mould, J. R., Watson, A. M., et al. 1996, ApJ, 465, 79



Effects of Magnetized Winds on Advective Disks,
Soria, R., Li, J., & Wickramasinghe, D. T. 1997, ApJ, 487, 769



Measuring the Mass of the Black Hole in GRO J1655-40,
Soria, R., Wickramasinghe, D. T., Hunstead, R. W., & Wu, K. 1998, ApJ, 495, L95



Optical Counterpart of the X-ray Transient RX J0117.6-7330: Spectroscopy and Photometry,
Soria, R. 1999, PASA, 16, 147



A Study of the New X-ray Transient RXTE J2123-058 during its Post-Outburst State,
Soria, R., Wu, K., & Galloway, D. 1999, MNRAS, 309, 528



Optical Spectroscopy of GX339-4 during the High-Soft and Low-Hard States: I,
Soria, R., Wu, K., & Johnston, H. M. 1999, MNRAS, 310, 71



Optical Spectroscopy of GX339-4 during the High-Soft and Low-Hard States: II: Line Ionisation and Emission Region,
Wu, K., Soria, R., Hunstead, R. W., & Johnston, H. M. 2000, MNRAS, in press (astro-ph/0008016)



Optical Spectroscopy of GRO J1655-40,
Soria, R., Wu, K., & Hunstead, R. W. 2000, ApJ, in press (astro-ph/9911318)

Conference Papers:

A Gravitational Kaleidoscope,
Soria, R., & de Felice, F. 1999, Proceedings of the 8th Marcel Grossman Meeting (1997), eds. Piran S. and Ruffini R., World Scientific, 413



Spectroscopic Observations of the Black Hole Candidate GRO J1655-40,
Soria, R., Hunstead, R. W., Wickramasinghe, D. T. & Wu, K. 1997, Proceedings of the 13th North American Workshop on Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects, ASP Conference Series, 137, 455



Optical Lines from the Black-Hole Binary GRO J1655-40,
Soria, R. 1998, PASA, 15, 242



GRO J1655-40: Measuring the Mass of the Black Hole from its Optical Emission Lines,
Soria, R., Wickramasinghe, D. T., Hunstead, R. W., & Wu, K. 1998, AIP Conference Proceedings, 431, 335



High-Resolution Spectroscopy of GRO J1655-40,
Soria, R., Wu, K., & Hunstead, R. W. 2000, 19th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics & Cosmology (held in Paris, Dec 14--18, 1998), eds J. Paul, T. Montmerle & E. Aubourg (CEA: Saclay; Proceedings on CD-Rom)



Optical Study of GX339-4,
Soria, R., Wu, K., & Johnston, H. M. 2000, 19th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics & Cosmology (held in Paris, Dec 14--18, 1998), eds J. Paul, T. Montmerle & E. Aubourg (CEA: Saclay; Proceedings on CD-Rom)