Email
fbuitrago@oal.ul.pt
Personal webpage
http://fbuitrago.github.io/

Biographic Notes
I am a FCT Fellow whose main research topic is the understanding of the most massive galaxies at all redshifts. These "monsters" were already formed at very large cosmic distances (> 12 Gyr!), being extremely compact disk-like galaxies and some of them "dead and dead" at this very early stage in the life of the Universe. My aim is to characterise how they transformed to the huge elliptical galaxies we see in the nearby Universe, while at the same time looking for new Physics in this metamorphosis.

Lastest publications at IA (or with IA Researchers)J. Fernández-Iglesias, F. Buitrago, B. Sahelices, 2024,
Detecting the edges of galaxies with deep learning,
Acta Applicandae Mathematicae, 683, 23
>> AbstractF. Buitrago, I. Trujillo, 2024,
Strong size evolution of disc galaxies since z = 1
Readdressing galaxy growth using a physically motivated size indicator,
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 682, 22
>> AbstractJ. Vega-Ferrero, M. Huertas-Company, L. Costantin, Pablo G. Perez-Gonzalez, R. Sarmiento, J. S. Kartaltepe, A. Pillepich, M. B. Bagley, S. L. Finkelstein, E. J. McGrath et al. (including: F. Buitrago), 2024,
On the Nature of Disks at High Redshift Seen by JWST/CEERS with Contrastive Learning and Cosmological Simulations,
The Astrophysical Journal, 961, 28
>> AbstractL. Costantin, Pablo G. Perez-Gonzalez, Y. Guo, C. Buttitta, S. Jogee, M. B. Bagley, G. Barro, J. S. Kartaltepe, A. M. Koekemoer, C. Cabello et al. (including: F. Buitrago), 2023,
A Milky Way-like barred spiral galaxy at a redshift of 3,
Nature, 623, 499 - 501
>> AbstractS. Comerón, I. Trujillo, M. Cappellari, F. Buitrago, L. E. Garduño, J. Zaragoza-Cardiel, I. A. Zinchenko, M. A. Lara-López, A. Ferré-Mateu, S. Dib, 2023,
The massive relic galaxy NGC 1277 is dark matter deficient
From dynamical models of integral-field stellar kinematics out to five effective radii,
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 675, 30
>> AbstractEuclid Collaboration, E. Merlin, M. Castellano, H. Bretonnière, M. Huertas-Company, U. Kuchner, D. Tuccillo, F. Buitrago, J. R. Peterson, C. J. Conselice et al. (including: A. C. da Silva, J. Dinis, I. Tereno, C. S. Carvalho), 2023,
Euclid preparation. XXV. The Euclid Morphology Challenge: Towards model-fitting photometry for billions of galaxies,
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 671, 28
>> Abstract