Pedro Luis Espino
About me
I am a postdoctoral research fellow with the Network for Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS), based in UC Berkeley. I am currently a visiting scholar at the Princeton Gravity Initiative and before that I was a visiting scholar at Penn State. I completed my Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Arizona. I work within the field of numerical relativity , where we use advanced computing methods to solve Einstein's equations numerically. My research focuses on systems involving compact stars (usually neutron stars or hybrid stars). I completed a B. Sc. in Physics at Fordham University. In the past I have also done research in lattice QCD and particle dark matter, and those topics still hold a place in my heart!
For more detail on my academic work, please see my CV.
Publications
Pedro Luis Espino, David Radice, Francesco Zappa, Rossella Gamba, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Impact of moment-based, energy integrated neutrino transport on microphysics and ejecta in binary neutron star mergers, arxiv: 2311.12923
Pedro Luis Espino, Peter Hammond, David Radice, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Rossella Gamba, Francesco Zappa, Luis Felipe Longo Micchi, Albino Perego, Neutrino trapping and out-of-equilibrium effects in binary neutron star merger remnants, arxiv:2311.00031
Pedro Luis Espino, Aviral Prakash, David Radice, Domenico Logoteta, Revealing Phase Transition in Dense Matter with Gravitational Wave Spectroscopy of Binary Neutron Star Mergers, arxiv: 2301.03619
Pedro L. Espino, Gabriele Bozzola, Vasileios Paschalidis, Quantifying uncertainties in general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic codes, arxiv: 2210.13481
Carolyn Raithel, Pedro L. Espino, Vasileios Paschalidis, Finite-temperature effects in dynamical-spacetime binary neutron star merger simulations: Validation of the parametric approach, Mon. Not. Roy. Astr. Soc., Volume 516, Issue 4, November 2022
Pedro L. Espino, Vasileios Paschalidis, Fate of twin stars on the unstable branch: Implications for the formation of twin stars, Phys.Rev.D 105 (2022) 4, 043014
Pedro L. Espino, Vasileios Paschalidis, Thomas Baumgarte, Stuart L. Shapiro, Dynamical stability of quasitoroidal differentially rotating neutron stars, Phys.Rev.D 100 (2019) 4, 043014
Gabriele Bozzola, Pedro L. Espino, Collin Lewin, Vasileios Paschalidis  Maximum mass and universal relations of rotating relativistic hybrid hadron-quark stars, Eur.Phys.J.A 55 (2019) 9, 149
Pedro L. Espino, Vasileios Paschalidis, Revisiting the maximum mass of differentially rotating neutron stars in general relativity with realistic equations of state, Phys.Rev.D 99 (2019) 8, 083017
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