Diego F. Torres' research
Observational and theoretical inquiries on compact objects, relativistic environments, and cosmic-ray astrophysics
Observational and theoretical inquiries on compact objects, relativistic environments, and cosmic-ray astrophysics
How does the multifrequency spectral energy distribution of nebulae change along time? How does it couple with their dynamical evolution? How can we treat complexities in the evolution driven by diffusion, escape, anisotropies, pulsar kicks, age in a reasonable computational time?
What is the impact of reverberation and how dependent it is on the environment? How can we actually model it to analyze middle age and older nebulae?
How many nebulae are there, and how many of them are observable or expected to be observable at different frequencies?
How will we distinguish confused nebulae from isolated ones in forthcoming data? How can we speed up nebulae classification to allow for population studies in reasonable times?
Do magnetars host nebulae? Are magnetar-nebulae really different from others? How are they affected by flares?
What makes a pulsar bright (and how can we predict which ones will shine) at different frequencies?
What population properties can be extracted from systematic modelling of large population of gamma-ray pulsars?
Can we use the observed spectral energy distribution directly as a predictor of intrinsic properties of the pulsar?
Are magnetars any different from the rest of the pulsars?
How do magnetar flares affect nebulae surrounding them?
What are the connections among magnetars, fast radio bursts, and gamma-ray binaries?
How and when accretion lead to emission in gamma-rays?
To what extent can magnetospheric pulsations be maintained when accreting?
What drives the transitional pulsar behavior?
What is the physical mechanism behind transitional pulsar states and modes?
Are pulsars active in the low modes of the accretion state? How fast do the magnetospheres reconstruct themselves if affected by episodic accretion?
Are magnetospheres recovered to the same configuration after a mode change?
Which is the fraction of pulsars in compact binaries that will actually show such transitions?
Are all gamma-ray binaries pulsar-composed systems? Why, how, and when do they emit at high-energies?
Do pulsars and nebulae significantly contribute to cosmic rays?
What is the impact of cosmic rays in the vicinity of their acceleration sites?
How far can Helium and other nuclei really travel?
How are star forming regions at different scales and cosmic rays related?
What is the composition and the origin of the ultra-high energy cosmic rays?