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Margarida S. Cunha
Researcher

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)A. R. G. Santos, S. Mathur, R. García, A.-M. Broomhall, R. Egeland, A. Jiménez, D. Godoy-Rivera, S. N. Breton, Z. R. Claytor, T. S. Metcalfe, M. S. Cunha, L. Amard, 2023,
Temporal variation of the photometric magnetic activity for the Sun and Kepler solar-like stars,
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 672, 22
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M. S. Cunha, M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro, 2022,
Asterossismologia. Como explorar os dados que nos mostram o interior das estrelas,
Revista de Ciência Elementar, 10
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M. Vrard, M. S. Cunha, D. Bossini, P. P. Avelino, E. Corsaro, B. Mosser, 2022,
Evidence of structural discontinuities in the inner core of red-giant stars,
Nature Communications, 13
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C. Jiang, M. S. Cunha, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, Q.-S. Zhang, L. Gizon, 2022,
Evolution of dipolar mixed-mode coupling factor in red giant stars: impact of buoyancy spike,
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 515, 3853 - 3866
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B. Nsamba, M. S. Cunha, C. I. S. A. Rocha, C. J. G. N. Pereira, M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro, T. L. Campante, 2022,
On the stellar core physics of the 16 Cyg binary system: constraining the central hydrogen abundance using asteroseismology,
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 514, 893 - 905
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D. Huber, T. R. White, T. S. Metcalfe, A. Chontos, M. M. Fausnaugh, C. S. K. Ho, V. Van Eylen, W. H. Ball, S. Basu, T. R. Bedding et al. (including: D. Bossini, T. L. Campante, M. S. Cunha, M. Deal, C. Gehan, M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro, B. Nsamba), 2022,
A 20 Second Cadence View of Solar-type Stars and Their Planets with TESS: Asteroseismology of Solar Analogs and a Recharacterization of π Men c,
The Astronomical Journal, 163
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Margarida S. Cunha
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia COMPETE 2020 PORTUGAL 2020 União Europeia