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European Southern Observatory - Garching

I'm a third-year PhD student working at the European Southern Observatory (ESO, Garching, Germany) under the supervision of Leonardo Testi. Click here for my CV (in pdf format).

Scientific interests

Protoplanetary disks and their evolution

Early stages of Planet formation

Ongoing projects

• Disks@EVLA - Grain growth and sub-structure in protoplanetary disks (EVLA Key Science Project, C. Chandler PI)
  
• Dust grain growth in the outskirts of the Orion Nebula Cluster (ATCA, PI)
  
• Dust properties of protoplanetary disks in the outer regions of the rho-Oph star forming region (APEX/LABOCA, PI)
  
• Sub-mm observations of young disks around very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs in Chamaeleon (APEX/LABOCA, PI)
  
• Optical and NIR spectroscopy of a massive binary disk system in the Orion Nebula (X-Shooter, PI)
  
• The HST survey of the Orion Nebula Cluster (HST Treasury Program, M. Robberto PI)
  

8. Reggiani M., Robberto M., Da Rio N., Meyer M. R., Soderblom D. R., & Ricci L. 2011, A&A in press
   Quantitative Evidence for an Intrinsic Age Spread in the Orion Nebula Cluster
   (astro-ph)
   
   
7. Ricci L., Mann R. K., Testi L., Williams J. P. 2011, ApJL in press
   The mm-colors of a young binary disk system in the Orion Nebula Cluster
   (astro-ph)
   
   
6. Ricci L., Mann R. K., Testi L., Williams J. P., Isella A., Robberto M., Natta A., & Brooks K. J. 2011, A&A 525, 81
   The (sub-)millimeter SED of protoplanetary disks in the outskirts of the Orion Nebula Cluster
   (astro-ph) (ADS)
   
   
5. Ricci L., Testi L., Natta A., & Brooks K. J. 2010, A&A 521, 66
   Dust grain growth in rho-Ophiuchi protoplanetary disks
   (astro-ph) (ADS)
   
   
4. Birnstiel T., Ricci L., Trotta F., Dullemond C. P., Natta A., Testi L., Dominik C., Henning T., Ormel C. W., & Zsom A. 2010, A&AL 516, 14
   Testing the theory of grain growth and fragmentation by millimeter observations of protoplanetary disks
   (astro-ph) (ADS)
   
   
3. Ricci L., Testi L., Natta A., Neri R., Cabrit S., & Herczeg G. J. 2010, A&A 512, 15
   Dust properties of protoplanetary disks in the Taurus-Auriga star forming region from millimeter wavelengths
   (astro-ph) (ADS)
   
   
2. Robberto, M., Ricci L., Da Rio N., & Soderblom D. R. 2008, ApJL 687, 83
   Evidence for a Photoevaporated Circumbinary Disk in Orion
   (astro-ph) (ADS)
   
   
1. Ricci L., Robberto M., & Soderblom D. R. 2008, AJ 136, 2136
   The Hubble Space Telescope/Advanced Camera for Surveys Atlas of Protoplanetary Disks in the Great Orion Nebula
   (astro-ph) (ADS)
   
   

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