{"id":6892,"date":"2023-11-09T12:01:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T11:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/heag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/11\/Roberta.png"},"modified":"2025-11-20T09:10:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:10:01","slug":"roberta","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/heag\/roberta\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberta Amato"},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-6892","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/heag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/11\/Roberta.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/heag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/11\/Roberta-212x300.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/heag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/11\/Roberta-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/heag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/11\/Roberta.png 595w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I graduated in 2021 in Physics with a doctorate in a cotutelle agreement between the University of Palermo (Italy) and the University of Tuebingen (Germany). After a first postdoc at IRAP in Toulouse (France), I am now in Rome, where I am carrying out a second postdoc, in close collaboration with Prof. Gianluca Israel and PhD candidate Matteo Imbrongo. <\/p>\n<p>My research has always been devoted to the physics of accretion of compact objects (white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes) in X-ray binary systems. One example is the high-mass X-ray Binary Vela X-1, for which I performed high-resolution spectroscopic studies using Chandra data. Recently, X-ray binaries that are accreting at super-Eddington rates have caught my attention. These sources are known as Ultraluminous X-ray sources. With my present postdoctoral position, I intend to unveil the mysteries of their temporal variability.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, I also modelled part of the X-ray background for the future ESA mission Athena and compiled the latest three releases (DR11\u201313) of the XMM-Newton Source Catalogue. <\/p>\n<p>You can find more about me here: <a href=\"https:\/\/astroroberta.com\/\">https:\/\/astroroberta.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0593-4681\">List of publications<\/a><\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>Roberta Amato &#8211; TD researcher<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/png","media_details":{"width":595,"height":842,"file":"2023\/11\/Roberta.png","filesize":777610,"sizes":{"medium":{"file":"Roberta-212x300.png","width":212,"height":300,"filesize":115527,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/heag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/11\/Roberta-212x300.png"},"thumbnail":{"file":"Roberta-150x150.png","width":150,"height":150,"filesize":46917,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/heag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/11\/Roberta-150x150.png"},"inspiro-loop":{"file":"Roberta-595x320.png","width":595,"height":320,"filesize":366889,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/heag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/11\/Roberta-595x320.png"},"inspiro-loop@2x":{"file":"Roberta-595x640.png","width":595,"height":640,"filesize":651456,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/heag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/11\/Roberta-595x640.png"},"full":{"file":"Roberta.png","width":595,"height":842,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/heag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/11\/Roberta.png"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":null,"source_url":"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/heag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/11\/Roberta.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/heag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/heag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/heag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/heag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oa-roma.inaf.it\/heag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6892"}]}}