Research Interests:
- Active Galaxies (Seyferts, quasars, LLAGN)
- Star Forming Galaxies both in the local and distant Universe.
- Stellar populations in galaxies.
- Luminous and Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies.
- The dusty torus of the AGN Unified Model.
- Infrared and (sub)millimeter observations.
Member of the IAU, EAS, SEA and RAS.
Corresponding member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.
Science groups of Infrared Instruments:
- Spanish co-I of the European Consortium of MIRI: the mid-infrared instrument for JWST
- Member of the AGN team of GTC/CanariCam
- Member of the science and calibration teams of the MIPS instrument on board the Spitzer Space Telescope.
- Member of the science and calibration teams of the NICMOS instrument on board the Hubble Space Telescope.
Recent Selected Results:
- MICONIC: Dual active galactic nuclei, star formation, and ionised gas outflows in NGC 6240 seen with MIRI/JWST, L. Hermosa Muñoz, A. Alonso Herrero et al. 2025, A&A, 693, A321
- MICONIC: JWST/MIRI MRS observations of the nuclear and circumnuclear regions of Mrk 231, A. Alonso Herrero, L. Hermosa Muñoz et al. 2024, A&A, 690, A95
- A biconical ionised gas outflow and evidence of positive feedback in NGC 7172 uncovered by MIRI/JWST, L. Hermosa Muñoz, A. Alonso Herrero et al. 2024, A&A, 690, A350
- A mature quasar at cosmic dawn revealed by JWST rest-frame infrared spectroscopy, S. Bosman, J. Álvarez Márquez, L. Colina, F. Walter, A. Alonso-Herrero et al. 2024, Nature Astronomy, 8, 1054
- Deconvolution of JWST/MIRI Images: Applications to an Active Galactic Nucleus Model and GATOS Observations of NGC 5728, M. Leist et al. 2024, ApJ, 167, 96
- GATOS: III. Revealing the inner ice structure in local active galactic nuclei. I. García-Bernete, A. Alonso-Herrero et al. 2024, A&A, 681, L7
- AGN feedback in action in the molecular gas ring of NGC7172. A. Alonso-Herrero, S. García-Burillo et al. 2023, A&A, 675, A88
- GATOS: II. Torus and polar dust emission in Seyfert galaxies. A. Alonso-Herrero, S. García-Burillo et al. 2021, A&A, 652, A99
- GATOS: I. ALMA images of dusty molecular tori in Seyfert galaxies. S. García-Burillo, A. Alonso-Herrero et al. 2021, A&A, 652, A98
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Current surveys:
- GATOS (Galaxy Activity, Torus and Outflow Survey): An optical/infrared/(sub)millimeter survey of a complete X-ray selected sample of nearby Seyfert galaxies.
- MICONIC and MIDIS of the MIRI European Consortium.
- SHARDS: A medium-band optical survey of galaxies and AGN at intermediate redshifts using OSIRIS on the GTC
Past surveys:
- ARCHES: A European FP7 project to provide a multi-wavelength view of X-ray sources from the 3XMM catalog
- Los Piratas: A mid-infrared survey of AGNs using CanariCam on the GTC. Observations include 100 hours of guaranteed time (Coordinator C. Packham) and 180 hours of an ESO/GTC large program (PI A. Alonso Herrero). The paper with the published spectroscopic catalog -the largest AGN mid-IR spectroscopic survey conducted on a 10m telescope: Alonso-Herrero et al. 2016, MNRAS, 455, 563.
BOOKS (in Spanish)
“Descubriendo Galaxias”, 2022, Next Door Publishers.
“El Telescopio Espacial James Webb”, 2023, Libros La Catarata.
Favorite Clumpy Torus and Disk+Wind Models:
- CLUMPY developed by Maia Nenkova and collaborators
- CAT3D and CAT3D+WIND developed by Sebastian Hönig and collaborators
EXHIBITION:Las Mujeres sostienen la mitad del cielo
Last updated: April 2025