Barbara De Marco

Associate professor
Campus Besos (UPC), Edifici C
Eduard Matistany 16
08019 BARCELONA

E-Mail: barbara.de.marco

upc.edu
Web del grup de recerca: https://gaa.upc.edu/en
Web personal: https://futur.upc.edu/BarbaraDeMarco

Short CV

Sep 2020-present: Ramon y Cajal fellow at Departament de Fisica, EEBE, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Feb 2017-Aug 2020: Assistant professor/Adiunkt, Centrum Astronomiczne im. Mikolaja Kopernika Polskiej Akademii Nauk (CAMK-PAN), Warsaw, Poland
Mar 2013-Jan 2017: Post doctoral research scientist, Max Planck Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Garching bei München, Germany
Feb 2012-Dec 2012: Post doctoral research scientist, Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid, Spain
Dec 2009-Nov 2011: Post doctoral research scientist, INAF-IASF Bologna and University of Bologna, Italy.
Nov. 2005-Oct. 2009: Ph.D. in Astrophysics, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati/International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS), Trieste (Italy).
14 Jul. 2005: Master's Degree in Astronomy, University of Bologna (Italy)

1- X-Ray and optical polarization aligned with the radio jet ejecta in GX 339-4
Mastroserio, G.; De Marco, B.; Baglio, M.; Carotenuto, F.; Fabiani, S.; Russell, T.; Capitanio, F.; Cavecchi, Y.; Motta, S.; Russell, D.M.; Dovciak, M.
The astrophysical journal letters 978, L19 (2025)

2- Characterisation of the stellar wind in Cyg X-1 via modelling of colour-colour diagrams
Lai, E.; De Marco, B.; Cavecchi, Y.; el Mellah, I.; Cinus, M.; Diez, C.; Grinberg, V.; Zdziarski, A.; Uttley, P.; Bachetti, M.; Jose, J.; Rózanska, A.; Wilms, J.; Sala, G.
Astronomy & astrophysics 691, A78 (2024)

3- Tracking the spectral properties of ESO 511-G030 across different epochs
Middei, R.; Petrucci, P.; Bianchi, S.; Ursini, F.; Matzeu, G.; Vagnetti, F.; Tortosa, A.; Marinucci, A.; Matt, G.; Piconcelli, ¿.; De Rosa, A.; De Marco, B.; Reeves, J.; Perri, M.; Guainazzi, M.; Cappi, M.; Done, C.
Astronomy & astrophysics 672, A101 (2023)

4- Transient obscuration event captured in NGC 3227: IV. Origin of the obscuring cloud variability
Grafton, S.; Mao, J.; Mehdipour, M.; Branduardi, G.; Page, M.; Kaastra, J.; Pinto, C.; Kriss, G.; Walton, D.; Petrucci, P.; Ponti, G.; De Marco, B.; Bianchi, S.; Behar, E.; Ebrero, J.
Astronomy & astrophysics 673, A26 (2023)

5- The lively accretion disk in NGC 2992. III. Tentative evidence of rapid ultrafast outflow variability
Luminari, A.; Marinucci, A.; Bianchi, S.; De Marco, B.; Feruglio, C.; Matt, G.; Middei, R.; Nardini, E.; Piconcelli, ¿.; Puccetti, S.; Tombesi, F.
The astrophysical journal letters 950, 160 (2023)

6- Supermassive black hole winds in X-rays: SUBWAYS: II. HST UV spectroscopy of winds at intermediate redshifts
Mehdipour, M.; Kriss, G.; Brusa, M.; Matzeu, G.; Gaspari, M.; Kraemer, S.; Mathur, S.; Behar, E.; Bianchi, S.; Cappi, M.; Chartas, G.; De Marco, B.
Astronomy & astrophysics 670, A183 (2023)

7- Supermassive black hole winds in X-rays: SUBWAYS: I. Ultra-fast outflows in quasars beyond the local Universe
Matzeu, G.; Brusa, M.; Lanzuisi, G.; Dadina, M.; Bianchi, S.; Kriss, G.; Mehdipour, M.; Nardini, E.; Chartas, G.; Middei, R.; Piconcelli, ¿.; De Marco, B.
Astronomy & astrophysics 670, A182 (2023)

8- The lively accretion disc in NGC 2992-II. The 2019/2021 X-ray monitoring campaigns
Middei, R.; Marinucci, A.; Braito, V.; De Marco, B.; Luminari, A.; Matt, G.; Nardini, E.; Perri, M.; Reeves, J.; Vagnetti, F.
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 514, 2974-2993 (2022)

9- Transient obscuration event captured in NGC 3227: III. Photoionization modeling of the X-ray obscuration event in 2019
Mao, J.; Kaastra, J.; Mehdipour, M.; Kriss, G.; Grafton, S.; Branduardi, G.; Pinto, C.; Landt, H.; Walton, D.; Costantini, E.; Di Gesu, L.; Bianchi, S.; Petrucci, P.; De Marco, B.; Ponti, G.
Astronomy & astrophysics 665, A72 (2022)

10- Detection of an unidentified soft X-ray emission feature in NGC 5548
Gu, L.; Mao, J.; Kaastra, J.; Mehdipour, M.; Pinto, C.; Grafton, S.; Bianchi, S.; Landt, H.; Branduardi, G.; Costantini, E.; Ebrero, J.; Petrucci, P.; Behar, E.; Di Gesu, L.; De Marco, B.
Astronomy & astrophysics 665, A93 (2022)

11- Transient obscuration event captured in NGC 3227: II. Warm absorbers and obscuration events in archival XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observations
Mehdipour, M.; Kriss, G.; Kaastra, J.; De Marco, B.
Astronomy & astrophysics 657, A77 (2022)

12- Short-timescale X-ray spectral variability in the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 3783
Costanzo, D.; Dadina, M.; Vignali, C.; De Marco, B.; Cappi, M.; Petrucci, P.; Bianchi, S.; Kriss, G.; Kaastra, J.; Mehdipour, M.; Matzeu, G.
Astronomy & astrophysics 659, A161 (2022)

13- The X-ray spectral-timing contribution of the stellar wind in the hard state of Cyg X-1
Lai, E.; De Marco, B.; Zdziarski, A.; Belloni, T.; Mondal, S.; Uttley, P.; Grinberg, V.; Wilms, J.; Rózanska, A.
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 512, 2671-2685 (2022)

14- X-ray variability of transitional millisecond pulsars: a faint, stable, and fluctuating disc
Linares, M.; De Marco, B.; Wijnands, R.; Van der Klis, M.
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 512, 5269-5277 (2022)

15- A spectrally stratified hot accretion flow in the hard state of MAXI J1820+070
Dzielak, M.; De Marco, B.; Zdziarski, A.
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 506, 2020-2029 (2021)

16- Transient obscuration event captured in NGC 3227: I. Continuum model for the broadband spectral energy distribution
Mehdipour, M.; Kriss, G.; Kaastra, J.; Costantini, E.; Behar, E.; Branduardi, G.; Cappi, M.; De Marco, B.; Di Gesu, L.; Ebrero, J.; Grafton, S.; Petrucci, P.; Walton, D.
Astronomy & astrophysics 652, A150 (2021)

17- Spectral state transitions in Circinus ULX5
Mondal, S.; Rózanska, A.; Baginska, P.; Markowitz, A.; De Marco, B.
Astronomy & astrophysics 651, A54 (2021)

18- Discovery of soft and hard X-ray time lags in low-mass AGNs
Mallick, L.; Wilkins, D.; Alston, W.; Markowitz, A.; De Marco, B.; Parker, M.; Lohfink, A.; Stalin, C.
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 503, 3775-3783 (2021)

19- Accretion geometry in the hard state of the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070
Zdziarski, A.; Dzielak, M.; De Marco, B.
The astrophysical journal 909, 1 (2021)

20- Does the disk in the hard state of XTE J1752-223 extend to the innermost stable circular orbit?
Zdziarski, A.; De Marco, B.; Szanecki, M.; Niedzwiecki, A.; Markowitz, A.
The astrophysical journal letters 906, 69 (2021)

21- The inner flow geometry in MAXI J1820+070 during hard and hard-intermediate states
De Marco, B.; Zdziarski, A.; Ponti, G.; Belloni, T.; Migliori, G.; Segovia, A.; Dzielak, M.; Lai, E.
Astronomy & astrophysics 654, A14 (2021)