Pedro Manuel Edmond Reis da Silva Augusto

Departamento de Matemática e Engenharias
Universidade da Madeira

Campus Universitário da Penteada
9000-390 Funchal
Portugal

Telefone: +351 291705158
Fax: +351 291705199
Email: augusto(at)uma.pt
www: http://dme.uma.pt/people/faculty/pedro.augusto/
Office: Room 2.82


Actividade Profissional

  • Professor Auxiliar com Agregação, Universidade da Madeira, 2007-
  • Professor Auxiliar, Universidade da Madeira, 1998-2007
  • Investigador Associado (Pós-Doc), Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, 1996-1998
  • Professor Auxiliar Convidado, Universidade do Porto, 1996

Habilitações Académicas

  • Agregação em Física
  • Doutoramento em Rádio Astronomia
  • Licenciatura em Física/Matemática Aplicada (ramo de Astronomia)

Áreas de Investigação

  • Astronomia e Astrofísica; Separação e Classificação Magnética

Publicações

  • "Supporting theory of a new magnetic separator and classifier. Equations and modeling: Part I - Non-magnetic particles" (2007); Augusto, P.A., Castelo-Grande, T., Augusto, P., Barbosa, D., Estévez, A.M.; Current Applied Physics, vol. 7, p.240-246.
  • "Supporting theory of a new magnetic separator and classifier. Equations and modeling: Part II - Magnetic particles" (2007); Augusto, P.A., Castelo-Grande, T., Augusto, P., Barbosa, D., Estévez, A.M.; Current Applied Physics, vol. 7, p.247-257.
  • "Supporting theory of a new magnetic separator and classifier. Limiting
    conditions: Part I - Non-magnetic particles" (2007); Augusto, P.A., Castelo-Grande, T., Augusto, P., Barbosa, D., Estévez, A.M.; Current Applied Physics, vol. 7, p.258-263.
  • "Supporting theory of a new magnetic separator and classifier. Limiting
    conditions: Part II - Magnetic particles" (2007); Augusto, P.A., Castelo-Grande, T., Augusto, P., Barbosa, D., Estévez, A.M.; Current Applied Physics, vol. 7, p.264-273.
  • "High energy emission from flat-spectrum radio sources with ~kpc-scale structure" (2006); Augusto, P.; Proceedings of the IAU Symposium nº 230, p.233-234; eds. Meurs, E.J.A. & Fabiano, G.; Cambridge University Press.
  • "Optimization of refrigerated shields using multilayer thermal insulation:
    cryostats design - analytical solution" (2006): Augusto, P.A., Castelo-Grande, T., Augusto, P., Barbosa, D.; Cryogenics, vol.46, p.449-457.
  • "Flat-spectrum symmetric objects with ~1 kpc sizes I. The candidates"
    (2006); Augusto, P., Gonzalez-Serrano, J.I., Perez-Fournon, I., Wilkinson, P.N.; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (M.N.R.A.S.), vol.368, p.1411-1428.
  • "The radio properties of the cD galaxy of Abell 2390" (2006); Augusto, P., Edge, A.C., Chandler, C. J.; M.N.R.A.S., vol. 367, p. 366-374.
  • "Investigation of flat spectrum radio sources by the interplanetary scintillation method at 111 MHz" (2005); Tyul'bashev, S.A., Augusto, P.; Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol. 439, p.963-972.
  • "Novo separador e classificador magnético: aplicações em processamento de minérios" (2006); Augusto, P.A., Castelo-Grande, T., Augusto, P., Barbosa, D.; Holos, vol.22 - Outubro 2006, p.59-66.
  • "Magnetic Classification in Health Sciences and in Chemical Engineering"
    (2005); Augusto, P. A., Augusto, P., Castelo-Grande, T., Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 111, p.85-90.
  • "Magnetic shielding: application to a new magnetic separator and classifier" (2004); Augusto, P.A., Augusto, P., Castelo-Grande, T., Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, vol. 272-276, p.2296-2298.
  • "A new magnetic separator and classifier: reducing air pollution and improving the environment" (2003); Augusto, P.A., Castelo-Grande, T., Augusto, P.; Electronic Journal of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Chemistry, vol. 2, May-June issue,1st article, p.1-6.
  • "Inter-Longitude Astronomy Project: some results and perspectives" (2003); Andronov, I.L., Antoniuk, K.A., Augusto, P, et al.; Astron. & Astroph. Transactions, vol.22, 793-798.
  • "A new magnetic separator and classifier: theory, practice and industrial applications"; Augusto, P. A., Castelo-Grande, T. G.; Augusto, P. (2003); Chemical Industry and Environment IV - vol.I; eds. A. Macías Machín and J. Umbría, p. 387-395.
  • "Magnetic Classification" (2002); Augusto, P.A., Augusto, P., Castelo-Grande, T.; Minerals Engineering, vol. 15, p. 35-43.
  • "Magnetic classification: a new direction for magnetic separation" (2002); Augusto, P.A., Castelo-Grande, T., Augusto, P.; Industrial Minerals, December 2002, p.52-57.
  • "B2114+022: a distant radio source gravitationally lensed by a starburst galaxy"; Augusto, P., Browne, I.W.A., Wilkinson, P.N., Jackson, N., Fassnacht, C.D., Muxlow, T.W.B., Hjorth, J., Jaunsen, A. O., Koopmans, L., Patnaik, A.R., Taylor, G.B. (2001), M.N.R.A.S., vol. 326, p. 1007-1014.
  • "Modelling the first probable two plane lens system B2114+022: reproducing two compact radio cores A, D"; Chae, K.-H., Mao, S., Augusto, P. (2001), M.N.R.A.S., vol. 326, p. 1015-1026.
  • "Limits on the cosmological abundance of supermassive compact objects from a search for multiple imaging in compact radio sources"; Wilkinson, P.N., Henstock, D.R., Browne, I.W.A., Polatidis, A.G., Augusto, P., Readhead, A.C.S., Pearson, T.J., Xu, W., Taylor, G.B., Vermeulen, R.C. (2001); Physical Review Letters, vol.86, p.584-587.
  • "An observational constraint on gravitational lensing by objects of mass 109.5-1010..9 M0"; Augusto, P., Wilkinson, P.N. (2001), M.N.R.A.S., vol. 320, L40-L44.
  • "Probing the pc-scale environment of the powerful key object radio galaxy Hercules A" (2001); Gizani, N.A.B., Garrett, M.A., Leahy, J.P., Augusto, P; Astron. & Astroph. Transactions, vol. 20, p. 263-266.
  • "Probing the structure and size of the NLR in AGN with radio jets" (2001); Augusto, P., Gonzalez-Serrano, J.I., Gizani, N.A.B., Perez-Fournon, I., Edge, A.C.; Astron. & Astroph. Transactions, vol. 20, p. 275-279.
  • "Radio Leonids at Madeira"; Augusto, P., Gizani, N. (2000); Astronomy & Geophysics, vol. 41, p.1.4.
  • "The active cD galaxy of Abell 2390" (1998); Augusto, P.; Astrophysics & Space Science, vol. 261, p. 257-258.
  • "The population of kpc-scale flat-spectrum radio sources" (1998); Augusto, P., Wilkinson, P.N., Browne, I.W.A.; Astrophysics & Space Science, vol. 261, p. 261-264.
  • "Flat-spectrum radio sources with kpc-scale structure"; Augusto, P., Wilkinson, P.N., Browne, I.W.A. (1998), M.N.R.A.S., vol. 299, p. 1159-1192.
  • "A search for intermediate scale gravitational lenses"; Augusto, P. (1997); The Observatory, vol. 117, p. 249-250.
  • "The dark matter problem cannot be solved by 106-1012 Mo black holes"; Augusto, P.,Wilkinson, P.N., Browne, I.W.A., Henstock, D.R. (1996); Nuclear Physics B (Proc. Supp.); vol. 51B, p. 118-122.
  • "A VLA/MERLIN/VLBA search for intermediate scale gravitational lenses and the discovery of a new lens system?"; Augusto, P., Wilkinson, P.N., Browne, I.W.A. (1996); IAU Symposium nº 173, p. 399-400.
  • "The evolution of radio galaxies: their infancy"; Augusto, P. (2007), ASP Conf. Ser., pp.4; eds: Afonso, J., Ferguson, H., Norris, R., in press.
  • "AGN Selection by size of dominant emission" em "AGN Surveys"; IAU colloquium nr. 184; Augusto, P., Gonzalez-Serrano, J.I. (2002), ASP Conf.
    Ser., vol. 284, p.281-287; eds: Green, R.F., Khachikian, E. Ye, Sanders, D. B.
  • "B2114+022: a gravitational lens and/or what?" em "Gravitational Lensing:
    Recent Progress and Future Goals"; Augusto, P., Browne, I. W. A., Wilkinson, P. N., Jackson, N., Fassnacht, C. D. (2001), ASP Conf. Ser., vol. 237, p. 75-76; eds: T. G. Brainerd, Kochanek, C. S.
  • "The kpc-scale radio source population"; Augusto, P., Gonzalez-Serrano, I., Edge, A. C., Gizani, N. A. B., Wilkinson, P. N., Perez-Fournon, I.
    (1999), New Astronomy Reviews, vol. 43, p. 663-667; eds: Garrett, M.A., Campbell, R.M., Gurvits, L.I.
  • "The JVAS/CLASS Gravitational Lens Surveys" em 'Observational Cosmology with the New Radio Surveys' (1997): Astrophysics & Space Science Library, vol. 226, p. 305-314; Browne, I.W.A., Jackson, N., Augusto, P., Henstock, D.R., Marlow, D.R., Nair, S., Wilkinson, P.N., de Bruyn, A.G., Koopmans, L., Myers, S.T., Fassnacht, C.D., Blandford, R.D., Pearson, T.J., Readhead, A.C.S., Womble, D. & Patnaik, A.R.; eds. Bremer, M, Jackson, N. & Perez-Fournon, I.; Kluwer Academic.