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.
Science groups of Infrared Instruments and Instrument Concepts:
- Spanish co-I of the European Consortium of MIRI: the mid-infrared instrument for JWST
- Member of the AGN team of GTC/CanariCam
- MICHI for the TMT
- Planet Formation Imager
Recent Selected Results:
- 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
- Cold molecular gas and PAH emission in Seyfert galaxies, A. Alonso-Herrero, M. Pereira-Santaella, D. Rigopoulou, S. García-Burillo et al., 2020, A&A, 639, A43
- Searching for molecular in/outflows in the nuclear regions of five Seyfert galaxies, A. Domínguez Fernández, A. Alonso Herrero et al., 2020, A&A, 643, A127
- ALMA images the many faces of the NGC 1068 torus and its surroundings, S. García-Burillo, et al. 2019, A&A, 632, A61
- Nuclear molecular outflow in the Seyfert galaxy NGC3227, A. Alonso-Herrero, S. García-Burillo, M. Pereira Santaella et al. 2019, A&A, 628, A65
- Resolving the nuclear obscuring disk in the Compthon-thick Seyfert galaxy NGC5643 with ALMA, A. Alonso-Herrero, M. Pereira-Santaella, S. García-Burillo et al., 2018, ApJ, 859,144
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.
- 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.
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: May 2022