Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos | Adrian del Rio Vega

Adrian del Rio Vega - Postdoctoral Scholar - Postdoc

Office: 307 Whitmore Laboratory

Address: 104 Davey Lab University Park, PA 16802 US

Email: axd570@psu.edu

Phone: +1 814-863-0165

Publications

Ivan Agullo, Vitor Cardoso, Adrián Rio, Michele Maggiore, Jorge Pullin, "Absorption spectroscopy of quantum black holes with gravitational waves." Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 30 14 (2021)

Vitor Cardoso, Adrian Rio, Masashi Kimura, "Distinguishing black holes from horizonless objects through the excitation of resonances during inspiral." Phys. Rev. D 100 (2019)

Adrián Rio, Ruth Durrer, Subodh Patil, "Tensor Bounds on the Hidden Universe." JHEP 12 (2018)

Adrian Rio, Nicolas Sanchis-Gual, Vassilios Mewes, Ivan Agullo, Jose Font, Jose Navarro-Salas, "Spontaneous creation of circularly polarized photons in chiral astrophysical systems." Phys. Rev. Lett. 124 21 (2020)

Adrian Rio, "Chiral anomalies induced by gravitational waves." Phys. Rev. D 104 6 (2021)

The IGC wordmark was created by Monica Rincon Ramirez, while she was a graduate student at the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos (IGC). Monica enjoys drawing new connections between fundamental theory and observations. Her graduate work includes specialized topics in general relativity, loop quantum gravity, and quantum fields in cosmological backgrounds. In particular, her thesis work focused on finding effective quantum corrections to gravitational phenomena from spinfoams, and applications to cosmology. She received her PhD in 2024.

The wordmark symbolizes the scope and variety of research at the IGC. The base of the image represents quantum gravity, evoking the quantum geometrical picture from spinfoams and loop quantum gravity. These are among the approaches to fundamental questions studied at the Center for Fundamental Theory. The middle of the image represents the Center for Theoretical and Observational Cosmology by galaxies embedded in a smooth surface, characteristic of spacetime in general relativity and the much larger physical scales studied in cosmology. Finally, at the top, the surface curves to an extreme, representing a supermassive black hole accompanied by an energetic jet. These elements depict an active galactic nucleus, inspired by Centaurus A. Just to the right, a pair of black holes approaches merger. This top portion of the wordmark represents the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics, which specializes in the study of high-energy phenomena in the universe.