Current Grants

• Anisotropy and particle injection at localized enhancements of supra-thermal particles at oblique collisionless shocks at 1 AU, NASA Heliophysics Supporting Research (PI)
• The ionization of M dwarf exoplanet atmospheres by flare energetic particles, Chandra Theory proposal (Co-I)
• Tracking mechanisms efficiently accelerating charged particles at shocks at multiple heliospheric distances out to ~1.5 AU, NASA Living With a Star (PI)
• Energetics of Solar Eruptions from the Chromosphere to the Inner Heliosphere, NASA Heliophysics Systems Observatory Connect (Co-I)
• Interpreting the signature of GeV-TeV galactic cosmic rays on the solar surface via turbulent transport within inner heliosphere and solar atmosphere, NASA Heliophysics Supporting Research (PI)
• Energetic Particles transport in the inner heliosphere switchbacks turbulent environment, NASA Parker Solar Probe Guest Investigator (PI)
• Particle acceleration at collisionless shocks propagating into inhomogeneous media, NASA Astrophysics Theory (PI)

Current Spacecraft Involvement

Current Spacecraft Involvement

ACE, STEREO, Wind, Chandra, Fermi-LAT

Student Collaborations/Advising

Currently advised graduate students

• Emmanouil Georgios Drimalas (U. of Arizona, Physics Dept)

Currently advised Master students

• Mia Lilley (U. of Southampton, UK, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy)

Currently advised undergraduate students

• Greta Goldberg (New York University, Undergrad, Major Physics)
• Abigail Bohl (Cornell U.)

Formerly advised undergraduate students

• Jamesen Reese (U. of Arizona, Undergrad, Major Physics)
• Darshana Mandal (Bangalore Univ., India, Undergrad, Major Physics)
• Xiaohang Chen (U. of Arizona, Planetary Sciences, Co-advised; advisor: Prof. J. Giacalone)
• Thomas Do (Washington Univ. and formerly Harvard Univ, REU-Undergrad, Major Physics)
• Liam David (U. of Arizona, Physics/Astronomy/Applied Math; now Grad. Princeton U.)
• Aurelia Balkanski (Harvard Univ, Undergrad, Major Physics)
• Yue Zeng (U. of Arizona, Undergrad, Major Astronomy)
• Zehao Dong (U. of Arizona, Undergrad, Major Astronomy)
• Connie Zhou (now B.S. at NYU)
• Mohira Rassel (Harvard Univ.; now Univ. of Cincinnati)

Looking for new and excited graduate students and post-docs.

Current Postdocs

Manpreet Singh

Xiaozhou Zhao

Eleonora Puzzoni

Based on Google Scholar and NASA ADS: NASA ADS Author search: Federico Fraschetti

Recent refereed publications (NASA ADS): Years 2019 through May 2023

Fraschetti, Federico, Anastasopoulou, Konstantina, Drake, Jeremy J., & Evans, Nancy Remage 2023, The Astrophysical Journal. Nonthermal X-Rays from Pulsation-driven Shocks in Cepheids

Singh, Manpreet, Fraschetti, Federico, & Giacalone, Joe 2023, The Astrophysical Journal. Electrostatic Plasma Wave Excitations at the Interplanetary Shocks

Suzuki, Hiromasa, Katsuda, Satoru, Tanaka, Takaaki, Sasaki, Nobuaki, Inoue, Tsuyoshi, & Fraschetti, Federico 2022, The Astrophysical Journal. Particle Acceleration Controlled by Ambient Density in the Southwestern Rim of RCW 86

Fraschetti, Federico, Alvarado-Gómez, Julián D., Drake, Jeremy J., Cohen, Ofer, & Garraffo, Cecilia 2022, The Astrophysical Journal. Stellar Energetic Particle Transport in the Turbulent and CME-disrupted Stellar Wind of AU Microscopii

Cohen, Ofer, Alvarado-Gómez, Julián D., Drake, Jeremy J., Harbach, Laura M., Garraffo, Cecilia, & Fraschetti, Federico 2022, The Astrophysical Journal. Space-weather-driven Variations in Lyα Absorption Signatures of Exoplanet Atmospheric Escape: MHD Simulations and the Case of AU Mic b

Alvarado-Gómez, Julián. D., Drake, Jeremy J., Cohen, Ofer, Fraschetti, Federico, Garraffo, Cecilia, & Poppenhäger, Katja 2022, Astronomische Nachrichten. Coronal mass ejections and exoplanets: A numerical perspective

Alvarado-Gómez, Julián D., Cohen, Ofer, Drake, Jeremy J., Fraschetti, Federico, Poppenhaeger, Katja, Garraffo, Cecilia, Chebly, Judy, Ilin, Ekaterina, Harbach, Laura, & Kochukhov, Oleg 2022, The Astrophysical Journal. Simulating the Space Weather in the AU Mic System: Stellar Winds and Extreme Coronal Mass Ejections

David, Liam, Fraschetti, Federico, Giacalone, Joe, Wimmer-Schweingruber, Robert F., Berger, Lars, & Lario, David 2022, The Astrophysical Journal. In Situ Measurement of the Energy Fraction in Suprathermal and Energetic Particles at ACE, Wind, and PSP Interplanetary Shocks

Harbach, Laura M., Moschou, Sofia P., Garraffo, Cecilia, Drake, Jeremy J., Alvarado-Gómez, Julián D., Cohen, Ofer, & Fraschetti, Federico 2021, The Astrophysical Journal. Stellar Winds Drive Strong Variations in Exoplanet Evaporative Outflow Patterns and Transit Absorption Signatures

Fraschetti, Federico 2021, The Astrophysical Journal. Effect of Acceleration and Escape of Energetic Particles on Spectral Steepening at Shocks

Fraschetti, F. & Giacalone, J. 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Bi-directional streaming of particles accelerated at the STEREO-A shock on 2008 March 9

Cohen, Ofer, Garraffo, C., Moschou, Sofia-Paraskevi, Drake, Jeremy J., Alvarado-Gómez, J. D., Glocer, Alex, & Fraschetti, Federico 2020, The Astrophysical Journal. The Space Environment and Atmospheric Joule Heating of the Habitable Zone Exoplanet TOI 700 d

Alvarado-Gómez, Julián D., Drake, Jeremy J., Fraschetti, Federico, Garraffo, Cecilia, Cohen, Ofer, Vocks, Christian, Poppenhäger, Katja, Moschou, Sofia P., Yadav, Rakesh K., & Manchester, Ward B. 2020, The Astrophysical Journal. Tuning the Exospace Weather Radio for Stellar Coronal Mass Ejections

Alvarado-Gómez, Julián D., Drake, Jeremy J., Moschou, Sofia P., Garraffo, Cecilia, Cohen, Ofer, NASA LWS Focus Science Team: Solar-Stellar Connection, Yadav, Rakesh K., & Fraschetti, Federico 2019, The Astrophysical Journal. Coronal Response to Magnetically Suppressed CME Events in M-dwarf Stars

Moschou, Sofia-Paraskevi, Drake, Jeremy J., Cohen, Ofer, Alvarado-Gómez, Julián D., Garraffo, Cecilia, & Fraschetti, Federico 2019, The Astrophysical Journal. The Stellar CME-Flare Relation: What Do Historic Observations Reveal?

Fraschetti, F., Drake, J. J., Alvarado-Gómez, J. D., Moschou, S. P., Garraffo, C., & Cohen, O. 2019, The Astrophysical Journal. Stellar Energetic Particles in the Magnetically Turbulent Habitable Zones of TRAPPIST-1-like Planetary Systems

in't Zand, Jean J. M., Bozzo, Enrico, Qu, JinLu, Li, Xiang-Dong, Amati, Lorenzo, Chen, Yang, Donnarumma, Immacolata, Doroshenko, Victor, Drake, Stephen A., Hernanz, Margarita, Jenke, Peter A., Maccarone, Thomas J., Mahmoodifar, Simin, de Martino, Domitilla, De Rosa, Alessandra, Rossi, Elena M., Rowlinson, Antonia, Sala, Gloria, Stratta, Giulia, Tauris, Thomas M., Wilms, Joern, Wu, XueFeng, Zhou, Ping, Agudo, Iván, Altamirano, Diego, Atteia, Jean-Luc, Andersson, Nils A., Baglio, M. Cristina, Ballantyne, David R., Baykal, Altan, Behar, Ehud, Belloni, Tomaso, Bhattacharyya, Sudip, Bianchi, Stefano, Bilous, Anna, Blay, Pere, Braga, João, Brandt, Søren, Brown, Edward F., Bucciantini, Niccolò, Burderi, Luciano, Cackett, Edward M., Campana, Riccardo, Campana, Sergio, Casella, Piergiorgio, Cavecchi, Yuri, Chambers, Frank, Chen, Liang, Chen, Yu-Peng, Chenevez, Jérôme, Chernyakova, Maria, Jin, ChiChuan, Ciolfi, Riccardo, Costantini, Elisa, Cumming, Andrew, D'Aì, Antonino, Dai, Zi-Gao, D'Ammando, Filippo, De Pasquale, Massimiliano, Degenaar, Nathalie, Del Santo, Melania, D'Elia, Valerio, Di Salvo, Tiziana, Doyle, Gerry, Falanga, Maurizio, Fan, XiLong, Ferdman, Robert D., Feroci, Marco, Fraschetti, Federico, Galloway, Duncan K., Gambino, Angelo F., Gandhi, Poshak, Ge, MingYu, Gendre, Bruce, Gill, Ramandeep, Götz, Diego, Gouiffès, Christian, Grandi, Paola, Granot, Jonathan, Güdel, Manuel, Heger, Alexander, Heinke, Craig O., Homan, Jeroen, Iaria, Rosario, Iwasawa, Kazushi, Izzo, Luca, Ji, Long, Jonker, Peter G., José, Jordi, Kaastra, Jelle S., Kalemci, Emrah, Kargaltsev, Oleg, Kawai, Nobuyuki, Keek, Laurens, Komossa, Stefanie, Kreykenbohm, Ingo, Kuiper, Lucien, Kunneriath, Devaky, Li, Gang, Liang, En-Wei, Linares, Manuel, Longo, Francesco, Lu, FangJun, Lutovinov, Alexander A., Malyshev, Denys, Malzac, Julien, Manousakis, Antonios, McHardy, Ian, Mehdipour, Missagh, Men, YunPeng, Méndez, Mariano, Mignani, Roberto P., Mikusincova, Romana, Miller, M. Coleman, Miniutti, Giovanni, Motch, Christian, Nättilä, Joonas, Nardini, Emanuele, Neubert, Torsten, O'Brien, Paul T., Orlandini, Mauro, Osborne, Julian P., Pacciani, Luigi, Paltani, Stéphane, Paolillo, Maurizio, Papadakis, Iossif E., Paul, Biswajit, Pellizzoni, Alberto, Peretz, Uria, Pérez Torres, Miguel A., Perinati, Emanuele, Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda, Reig, Pablo, Riggio, Alessandro, Rodriguez, Jerome, Rodríguez-Gil, Pablo, Romano, Patrizia, Różańska, Agata, Sakamoto, Takanori, Salmi, Tuomo, Salvaterra, Ruben, Sanna, Andrea, Santangelo, Andrea, Savolainen, Tuomas, Schanne, Stéphane, Schatz, Hendrik, Shao, LiJing, Shearer, Andy, Shore, Steven N., Stappers, Ben W., Strohmayer, Tod E., Suleimanov, Valery F., Svoboda, Jir̆í, Thielemann, F. -K., Tombesi, Francesco, Torres, Diego F., Torresi, Eleonora, Turriziani, Sara, Vacchi, Andrea, Vercellone, Stefano, Vink, Jacco, Wang, Jian-Min, Wang, JunFeng, Watts, Anna L., Weng, ShanShan, Weinberg, Nevin N., Wheatley, Peter J., Wijnands, Rudy, Woods, Tyrone E., Woosley, Stan E., Xiong, ShaoLin, Xu, YuPeng, Yan, Zhen, Younes, George, Yu, WenFei, Yuan, Feng, Zampieri, Luca, Zane, Silvia, Zdziarski, Andrzej A., Zhang, Shuang-Nan, Zhang, Shu, Zhang, Shuo, Zhang, Xiao, & Zingale, Michael 2019, Science China Physics, Mechanics, and Astronomy. Observatory science with eXTP

• Powerful Particles and Tugging Tides May Affect Extraterrestrial Life - April 16, 2019
• Stellar Corpse Sheds Light on Cosmic Rays - September 4, 2017