Phone
226 089 850

Email
mcunha@astro.up.pt

ORCID
0000-0001-8237-7343

Biographic Notes
Margarida Cunha is a Principal Researcher at IA. She was awarded a first degree in Physics/Applied Mathematics by the University of Porto in 1994, the Advanced Certificate in Mathematics (Part III) by the University of Cambridge, UK, in 1995 and a PhD by the University of Cambridge, UK, in 1999. She is a member of IA since its creation.

Current research interests focus on asteroseismology and helioseismology. In particular, she is interested in the development of seismic diagnostic tools aimed at exploring space-based data to infer particular aspects of the stellar physics and understand stellar evolution, as well as on the understanding of the coupling between the magnetic fields and solar/stellar oscillations.

Margarida Cunha is currently chair of the Working Group #4 (AF Classical pulsators) for the TESS Asteroseismic Science Consortium (TASC), in association to the NASA mission TESS, and Chair of the Work Package #124000 (seismic diagnostics), for the PLATO Science Preparation Management (PSM), in association to the ESA PLATO mission.

In addition, she is a member of the WP120 Board for the Stellar Science part of the PLATO PSM and former leader (2015-2018) of the IA group “Origin and Evolution of Stars and Planets”.

Publications
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Lastest publications at IA (or with IA Researchers)D. L. Holdsworth, M. S. Cunha, M. Lares-Martiz, D. W. Kurtz, V. Antoci, S. Barceló Forteza, P. De Cat, A. Derekas, C. Kayhan, D. Ozuyar, 2024,
TESS Cycle 2 observations of roAp stars with 2-min cadence data,
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527, 32
>> AbstractL. F. Pereira, S. K. Grunblatt, A. Psaridi, T. L. Campante, M. S. Cunha, N. C. Santos, D. Bossini, D. Thorngren, C. Hellier, F. Bouchy, 2024,
TESS giants transiting giants V – two hot Jupiters orbiting red giant hosts,
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527, 13
>> AbstractT. Li, G. R. Davies, M. B. Nielsen, M. S. Cunha, Alexander Lyttle, 2023,
Systematics in asteroseismic modelling: application of a correlated noise model for oscillation frequencies,
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 523, 10
>> AbstractC. Gehan, T. L. Campante, M. S. Cunha, L. F. Pereira, 2023,
FRA–A new fast, robust, and automated pipeline for the detection and measurement of solar-like oscillations in time-series photometry of red-giant stars,
Astronomische Nachrichten, 344, 35
>> AbstractM. Deal, M. -. Goupil, M. S. Cunha, M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro, Y. Lebreton, S. Christophe, L. F. Pereira, R. Samadi, A. V. Oreshina, G. Buldgen, 2023,
Glitches in solar-like oscillating F-type stars
Theoretical signature of the base of the convective envelope on the ratios r₀₁₀,
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 673, 19
>> AbstractT. L. Campante, T. Li, J. M. J. Ong, E. Corsaro, M. S. Cunha, T. R. Bedding, D. Bossini, S. N. Breton, D. L. Buzasi, W. J. Chaplin et al. (including: M. Deal, M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro, L. F. Pereira, N. C. Santos), 2023,
Revisiting the Red Giant Branch Hosts KOI-3886 and ι Draconis. Detailed Asteroseismic Modeling and Consolidated Stellar Parameters,
The Astronomical Journal, 165, 21
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