Eduardo Balbinot

CV/Bio

Short bio

I was born in Porto Alegre, the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. I did my BSc (Physics), MSc (Astronomy), and PhD at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. During most of undergrad I was supervised by Prof. Basilio Santiago and worked in a variety of topics such as globular clusters, dwarf galaxies, stellar streams, and survey design and preparation. After my PhD in 2014 I moved to a 4-year postdoctoral research position at the University of Surrey (Guildford, UK), to work with Prof. Mark Gieles. There I focussed mainly on the dynamics of globular clusters and dwarf galaxies, heavily linked to large photometric/astrometric surveys. Since 2018 I have been working on galactic archeology as a postdoc with Prof. Amina Helmi at the Kapteyn Institute in the University of Groningen (NL). My main focus now is on Gaia and near-future spectroscopic surveys, such as WEAVE and 4MOST.

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Publication List

2021

  1. Variable stars in Local Group Galaxies - V. The fast and early evolution of the low-mass Eridanus II dSph galaxy
    Martínez-Vázquez, C. E.; Monelli, M.; Cassisi, S.; Taibi, S.; Gallart, C.; Vivas, A. K.; Walker, A. R.; Martín-Ravelo, P.; Zenteno, A.et al. with Balbinot, E (MNRAS; 0 citations)
  2. A supra-massive population of stellar-mass black holes in the globular cluster Palomar 5
    Gieles, Mark; Erkal, Denis; Antonini, Fabio; Balbinot, E.; Peñarrubia, Jorge (NatAs; 7 citations)
  3. Gaia Early Data Release 3. Summary of the contents and survey properties (Corrigendum)
    Gaia Collaboration; Brown, A. G. A.; Vallenari, A.; Prusti, T.; de Bruijne, J. H. J.; Babusiaux, C.; Biermann, M.; Creevey, O. L.; Evans, D. W.et al. with Balbinot, E (A&A; 9 citations)
  4. Gaia Early Data Release 3. Structure and properties of the Magellanic Clouds
    Gaia Collaboration; Luri, X.; Chemin, L.; Clementini, G.; Delgado, H. E.; McMillan, P. J.; Romero-Gómez, M.; Balbinot, E. (A&A; 21 citations)
  5. Gaia Early Data Release 3. Summary of the contents and survey properties
    Gaia Collaboration; Brown, A. G. A.; Vallenari, A.; Prusti, T.; de Bruijne, J. H. J.; Babusiaux, C.; Biermann, M.; Creevey, O. L.; Evans, D. W.et al. with Balbinot, E (A&A; 552 citations)
  6. MUSE narrow field mode observations of the central kinematics of M15
    Usher, Christopher; Kamann, Sebastian; Gieles, Mark; Hénault-Brunet, Vincent; Dalessandro, Emanuele; Balbinot, E.; Sollima, Antonio (MNRAS; 4 citations)
  7. Gaia Early Data Release 3. Catalogue validation
    Fabricius, C.; Luri, X.; Arenou, F.; Babusiaux, C.; Helmi, A.; Muraveva, T.; Reylé, C.; Spoto, F.; Vallenari, A.et al. with Balbinot, E (A&A; 57 citations)
  8. Gaia Early Data Release 3. The Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars
    Gaia Collaboration; Smart, R. L.; Sarro, L. M.; Rybizki, J.; Reylé, C.; Robin, A. C.; Hambly, N. C.; Abbas, U.; Barstow, M. A.et al. with Balbinot, E (A&A; 49 citations)
  9. Gaia Early Data Release 3. Acceleration of the Solar System from Gaia astrometry
    Gaia Collaboration; Klioner, S. A.; Mignard, F.; Lindegren, L.; Bastian, U.; McMillan, P. J.; Hernández, J.; Hobbs, D.; Ramos-Lerate, M.et al. with Balbinot, E (A&A; 21 citations)
  10. Gaia Early Data Release 3. The Galactic anticentre
    Gaia Collaboration; Antoja, T.; McMillan, P. J.; Kordopatis, G.; Ramos, P.; Helmi, A.; Balbinot, E.; Cantat-Gaudin, T. (A&A; 11 citations)
  11. The dynamics of the globular cluster NGC 3201 out to the Jacobi radius
    Wan, Zhen; Oliver, William H.; Baumgardt, Holger; Lewis, Geraint F.; Gieles, Mark; Hénault-Brunet, Vincent; de Boer, Thomas; Balbinot, E. (MNRAS; 5 citations)

2020

  1. Modelling the Milky Way - I. Method and first results fitting the thick disc and halo with DES-Y3 data
    Pieres, A.; Girardi, L.; Balbinot, E.; Santiago, B.; da Costa, L. N.; Carnero Rosell, A.; Pace, A. B.; Bechtol, K. (MNRAS; 9 citations)
  2. Full 5D characterisation of the Sagittarius stream with Gaia DR2 RR Lyrae (Corrigendum)
    Ramos, P.; Mateu, C.; Antoja, T.; Helmi, A.; Castro-Ginard, A.; Balbinot, E.; Carrasco, J. M. (A&A; 0 citations)
  3. The tidal remnant of an unusually metal-poor globular cluster
    Wan, Zhen; Lewis, Geraint F.; Li, Ting S.; Simpson, Jeffrey D.; Martell, Sarah L.; Zucker, Daniel B.; Mould, Jeremy R.; Erkal, Denis; Pace, Andrew B.et al. with Balbinot, E (Natur; 18 citations)
  4. Full 5D characterisation of the Sagittarius stream with Gaia DR2 RR Lyrae
    Ramos, P.; Mateu, C.; Antoja, T.; Helmi, A.; Castro-Ginard, A.; Balbinot, E.; Carrasco, J. M. (A&A; 22 citations)
  5. On the black hole content and initial mass function of 47 Tuc
    Hénault-Brunet, V.; Gieles, M.; Strader, J.; Peuten, M.; Balbinot, E.; Douglas, K. E. K. (MNRAS; 17 citations)

2019

  1. The southern stellar stream spectroscopic survey (S5): Overview, target selection, data reduction, validation, and early science
    Li, T. S.; Koposov, S. E.; Zucker, D. B.; Lewis, G. F.; Kuehn, K.; Simpson, J. D.; Ji, A. P.; Shipp, N.; Mao, Y. -Y.et al. with Balbinot, E (MNRAS; 41 citations)
  2. Globular cluster number density profiles using Gaia DR2
    de Boer, T. J. L.; Gieles, M.; Balbinot, E.; Hénault-Brunet, V.; Sollima, A.; Watkins, L. L.; Claydon, I. (MNRAS; 36 citations)
  3. A Search for Optical Emission from Binary Black Hole Merger GW170814 with the Dark Energy Camera
    Doctor, Z.; Kessler, R.; Herner, K.; Palmese, A.; Soares-Santos, M.; Annis, J.; Brout, D.; Holz, D. E.; Sako, M.et al. with Balbinot, E (ApJL; 13 citations)
  4. 4MOST: Project overview and information for the First Call for Proposals
    de Jong, R. S.; Agertz, O.; Berbel, A. A.; Aird, J.; Alexander, D. A.; Amarsi, A.; Anders, F.; Andrae, R.; Ansarinejad, B.et al. with Balbinot, E (Msngr; 121 citations)
  5. 4MOST Consortium Survey 1: The Milky Way Halo Low-Resolution Survey
    Helmi, A.; Irwin, M.; Deason, A.; Balbinot, E.; Belokurov, V.; Bland-Hawthorn, J.; Christlieb, N.; Cioni, M. -R. L. (Msngr; 9 citations)
  6. Linking the rotation of a cluster to the spins of its stars: the kinematics of NGC 6791 and NGC 6819 in 3D
    Kamann, S.; Bastian, N. J.; Gieles, M.; Balbinot, E.; Hénault-Brunet, V. (MNRAS; 10 citations)

2018

  1. Star-galaxy classification in the Dark Energy Survey Y1 data set
    Sevilla-Noarbe, I.; Hoyle, B.; Marchã, M. J.; Soumagnac, M. T.; Bechtol, K.; Drlica-Wagner, A.; Abdalla, F.; Aleksić, J. (MNRAS; 22 citations)
  2. Modelling the Tucana III stream - a close passage with the LMC
    Erkal, D.; Li, T. S.; Koposov, S. E.; Belokurov, V.; Balbinot, E.; Bechtol, K.; Buncher, B.; Drlica-Wagner, A. (MNRAS; 43 citations)
  3. The First Tidally Disrupted Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxy?: A Spectroscopic Analysis of the Tucana III Stream
    Li, T. S.; Simon, J. D.; Kuehn, K.; Pace, A. B.; Erkal, D.; Bechtol, K.; Yanny, B.; Drlica-Wagner, A.; Marshall, J. L.et al. with Balbinot, E (ApJ; 44 citations)
  4. Stellar Streams Discovered in the Dark Energy Survey
    Shipp, N.; Drlica-Wagner, A.; Balbinot, E.; Ferguson, P.; Erkal, D.; Li, T. S.; Bechtol, K.; Belokurov, V. (ApJ; 134 citations)
  5. Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: Cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering and weak lensing
    Abbott, T. M. C.; Abdalla, F. B.; Alarcon, A.; Aleksić, J.; Allam, S.; Allen, S.; Amara, A.; Annis, J.; Asorey, J.et al. with Balbinot, E (PhRvD; 769 citations)
  6. Deep SOAR follow-up photometry of two Milky Way outer-halo companions discovered with Dark Energy Survey
    Luque, E.; Santiago, B.; Pieres, A.; Marshall, J. L.; Pace, A. B.; Kron, R.; Drlica-Wagner, A.; Queiroz, A. (MNRAS; 11 citations)
  7. Probing dark matter with star clusters: a dark matter core in the ultra-faint dwarf Eridanus II
    Contenta, Filippo; Balbinot, E.; Petts, James A.; Read, Justin I.; Gieles, Mark; Collins, Michelle L. M.; Peñarrubia, Jorge; Delorme, Maxime (MNRAS; 32 citations)
  8. Mass models of NGC 6624 without an intermediate-mass black hole
    Gieles, Mark; Balbinot, E.; Yaaqib, Rashid I. S. M.; Hénault-Brunet, Vincent; Zocchi, Alice; Peuten, Miklos; Jonker, Peter G. (MNRAS; 35 citations)
  9. The devil is in the tails: the role of globular cluster mass evolution on stream properties
    Balbinot, E.; Gieles, Mark (MNRAS; 61 citations)
  10. Chemical Abundance Analysis of Three α-poor, Metal-poor Stars in the Ultrafaint Dwarf Galaxy Horologium I
    Nagasawa, D. Q.; Marshall, J. L.; Li, T. S.; Hansen, T. T.; Simon, J. D.; Bernstein, R. A.; Balbinot, E.; Drlica-Wagner, A. (ApJ; 23 citations)
  11. Cartography of Triangulum-Andromeda using SDSS stars
    Perottoni, H. D.; Rocha-Pinto, H. J.; Girardi, L.; Balbinot, E.; Santiago, B. X.; Majewski, S. R.; Anders, F.; Da Costa, L. (MNRAS; 8 citations)

2017

  1. A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant
    Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Acernese, F.; Ackley, K.; Adams, C.; Adams, T.; Addesso, P.; Adhikari, R. X.et al. with Balbinot, E (Natur; 576 citations)
  2. The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. I. Discovery of the Optical Counterpart Using the Dark Energy Camera
    Soares-Santos, M.; Holz, D. E.; Annis, J.; Chornock, R.; Herner, K.; Berger, E.; Brout, D.; Chen, H. -Y.; Kessler, R.et al. with Balbinot, E (ApJL; 309 citations)
  3. The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-infrared Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models
    Cowperthwaite, P. S.; Berger, E.; Villar, V. A.; Metzger, B. D.; Nicholl, M.; Chornock, R.; Blanchard, P. K.; Fong, W.; Margutti, R.et al. with Balbinot, E (ApJL; 482 citations)
  4. Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger
    Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Acernese, F.; Ackley, K.; Adams, C.; Adams, T.; Addesso, P.; Adhikari, R. X.et al. with Balbinot, E (ApJL; 2013 citations)
  5. The Dark Energy Survey view of the Sagittarius stream: discovery of two faint stellar system candidates
    Luque, E.; Pieres, A.; Santiago, B.; Yanny, B.; Vivas, A. K.; Queiroz, A.; Drlica-Wagner, A.; Morganson, E. (MNRAS; 34 citations)
  6. A stellar overdensity associated with the Small Magellanic Cloud
    Pieres, A.; Santiago, B. X.; Drlica-Wagner, A.; Bechtol, K.; Marel, R. P. van der; Besla, G.; Martin, N. F.; Belokurov, V.; Gallart, C.et al. with Balbinot, E (MNRAS; 30 citations)
  7. The contribution of dissolving star clusters to the population of ultra faint objects in the outer halo of the Milky Way
    Contenta, Filippo; Gieles, Mark; Balbinot, E.; Collins, Michelle L. M. (MNRAS; 14 citations)
  8. Nearest Neighbor: The Low-mass Milky Way Satellite Tucana III
    Simon, J. D.; Li, T. S.; Drlica-Wagner, A.; Bechtol, K.; Marshall, J. L.; James, D. J.; Wang, M. Y.; Strigari, L. (ApJ; 73 citations)
  9. Differences in the rotational properties of multiple stellar populations in M13: a faster rotation for the `extreme' chemical subpopulation
    Cordero, M. J.; Hénault-Brunet, V.; Pilachowski, C. A.; Balbinot, E.; Johnson, C. I.; Varri, A. L. (MNRAS; 45 citations)
  10. Farthest Neighbor: The Distant Milky Way Satellite Eridanus II
    Li, T. S.; Simon, J. D.; Drlica-Wagner, A.; Bechtol, K.; Wang, M. Y.; García-Bellido, J.; Frieman, J.; Marshall, J. L.; James, D. J.et al. with Balbinot, E (ApJ; 109 citations)

2016

  1. Physical properties of star clusters in the outer LMC as observed by the DES
    Pieres, A.; Santiago, B.; Balbinot, E.; Luque, E.; Queiroz, A.; da Costa, L. N.; Maia, M. A. G.; Drlica-Wagner, A. (MNRAS; 21 citations)
  2. Noble gas composition of subcontinental lithospheric mantle: An extensively degassed reservoir beneath Southern Patagonia
    Jalowitzki, Tiago; Sumino, Hirochika; Conceição, Rommulo V.; Orihashi, Yuji; Nagao, Keisuke; Bertotto, Gustavo W.; Balbinot, E.; Schilling, Manuel E. (E&PSL; 8 citations)
  3. The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy - an overview
    Dark Energy Survey Collaboration; Abbott, T.; Abdalla, F. B.; Aleksić, J.; Allam, S.; Amara, A.; Bacon, D.; Balbinot, E. (MNRAS; 481 citations)
  4. No evidence for younger stellar generations within the intermediate-age massive clusters NGC 1783, NGC 1806 and NGC 411
    Cabrera-Ziri, I.; Niederhofer, F.; Bastian, N.; Rejkuba, M.; Balbinot, E.; Kerzendorf, W. E.; Larsen, S. S.; Mackey, A. D. (MNRAS; 15 citations)
  5. Digging deeper into the Southern skies: a compact Milky Way companion discovered in first-year Dark Energy Survey data
    Luque, E.; Queiroz, A.; Santiago, B.; Pieres, A.; Balbinot, E.; Bechtol, K.; Drlica-Wagner, A.; Neto, A. Fausti (MNRAS; 49 citations)
  6. The Phoenix Stream: A Cold Stream in the Southern Hemisphere
    Balbinot, E.; Yanny, B.; Li, T. S.; Santiago, B.; Marshall, J. L.; Finley, D. A.; Pieres, A.; Abbott, T. M. C. (ApJ; 41 citations)
  7. Discovery of a Stellar Overdensity in Eridanus-Phoenix in the Dark Energy Survey
    Li, T. S.; Balbinot, E.; Mondrik, N.; Marshall, J. L.; Yanny, B.; Bechtol, K.; Drlica-Wagner, A.; Oscar, D. (ApJ; 27 citations)
  8. Spectro-photometric distances to stars: A general purpose Bayesian approach
    Santiago, Basílio X.; Brauer, Dorothée E.; Anders, Friedrich; Chiappini, Cristina; Queiroz, Anna B.; Girardi, Léo; Rocha-Pinto, Helio J.; Balbinot, E. (A&A; 59 citations)

2015

  1. Bridge over troubled gas: clusters and associations under the SMC and LMC tidal stresses
    Bica, E.; Santiago, B.; Bonatto, C.; Garcia-Dias, R.; Kerber, L.; Dias, B.; Barbuy, B.; Balbinot, E. (MNRAS; 18 citations)
  2. Eight Ultra-faint Galaxy Candidates Discovered in Year Two of the Dark Energy Survey
    Drlica-Wagner, A.; Bechtol, K.; Rykoff, E. S.; Luque, E.; Queiroz, A.; Mao, Y. -Y.; Wechsler, R. H.; Simon, J. D.; Santiago, B.et al. with Balbinot, E (ApJ; 345 citations)
  3. Biases in the determination of dynamical parameters of star clusters: today and in the Gaia era
    Sollima, A.; Baumgardt, H.; Zocchi, A.; Balbinot, E.; Gieles, M.; Hénault-Brunet, V.; Varri, A. L. (MNRAS; 32 citations)
  4. Search for Gamma-Ray Emission from DES Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy Candidates with Fermi-LAT Data
    Drlica-Wagner, A.; Albert, A.; Bechtol, K.; Wood, M.; Strigari, L.; Sánchez-Conde, M.; Baldini, L.; Essig, R.; Cohen-Tanugi, J.et al. with Balbinot, E (ApJL; 162 citations)
  5. Eight New Milky Way Companions Discovered in First-year Dark Energy Survey Data
    Bechtol, K.; Drlica-Wagner, A.; Balbinot, E.; Pieres, A.; Simon, J. D.; Yanny, B.; Santiago, B.; Wechsler, R. H. (ApJ; 422 citations)
  6. Stellar Kinematics and Metallicities in the Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxy Reticulum II
    Simon, J. D.; Drlica-Wagner, A.; Li, T. S.; Nord, B.; Geha, M.; Bechtol, K.; Balbinot, E.; Buckley-Geer, E. (ApJ; 119 citations)
  7. The LMC geometry and outer stellar populations from early DES data
    Balbinot, E.; Santiago, B. X.; Girardi, L.; Pieres, A.; da Costa, L. N.; Maia, M. A. G.; Gruendl, R. A.; Walker, A. R. (MNRAS; 36 citations)
  8. Globular Cluster Streams as Galactic High-Precision Scales—the Poster Child Palomar 5
    Küpper, Andreas H. W.; Balbinot, E.; Bonaca, Ana; Johnston, Kathryn V.; Hogg, David W.; Kroupa, Pavel; Santiago, Basilio X. (ApJ; 133 citations)
  9. Modeling the Transfer Function for the Dark Energy Survey
    Chang, C.; Busha, M. T.; Wechsler, R. H.; Refregier, A.; Amara, A.; Rykoff, E.; Becker, M. R.; Bruderer, C.; Gamper, L.et al. with Balbinot, E (ApJ; 33 citations)

2014

  1. Chemodynamics of the Milky Way. I. The first year of APOGEE data
    Anders, F.; Chiappini, C.; Santiago, B. X.; Rocha-Pinto, H. J.; Girardi, L.; da Costa, L. N.; Maia, M. A. G.; Steinmetz, M.; Minchev, I.et al. with Balbinot, E (A&A; 155 citations)
  2. Self-consistent physical parameters for five intermediate-age SMC stellar clusters from CMD modelling
    Dias, B.; Kerber, L. O.; Barbuy, B.; Santiago, B.; Ortolani, S.; Balbinot, E. (A&A; 18 citations)

2013

  1. A New Milky Way Halo Star Cluster in the Southern Galactic Sky
    Balbinot, E.; Santiago, B. X.; da Costa, L.; Maia, M. A. G.; Majewski, S. R.; Nidever, D.; Rocha-Pinto, H. J.; Thomas, D. (ApJ; 44 citations)
  2. PreCam: A Precursor Observational Campaign for Calibration of the Dark Energy Survey
    Kuehn, K.; Kuhlmann, S.; Allam, S.; Annis, J. T.; Bailey, T.; Balbinot, E.; Bernstein, J. P.; Biesiadzinski, T. (PASP; 3 citations)

2012

  1. The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
    Ahn, Christopher P.; Alexandroff, Rachael; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Anderson, Scott F.; Anderton, Timothy; Andrews, Brett H.; Aubourg, Éric; Bailey, Stephen (ApJS; 1087 citations)

2011

  1. The tidal tails of NGC 2298
    Balbinot, E.; Santiago, Basílio X.; da Costa, Luiz N.; Makler, Martin; Maia, Marcio A. G. (MNRAS; 30 citations)
  2. SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems
    Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Weinberg, David H.; Agol, Eric; Aihara, Hiroaki; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Anderson, Scott F.; Arns, James A.; Aubourg, Éric (AJ; 1553 citations)
  3. The Dark Energy Survey: Prospects for Resolved Stellar Populations
    Rossetto, Bruno M.; Santiago, Basílio X.; Girardi, Léo; Camargo, Julio I. B.; Balbinot, E.; da Costa, Luiz N.; Yanny, Brian; Maia, Marcio A. G. (AJ; 21 citations)
  4. The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III
    Aihara, Hiroaki; Allende Prieto, Carlos; An, Deokkeun; Anderson, Scott F.; Aubourg, Éric; Balbinot, E.; Beers, Timothy C.; Berlind, Andreas A. (ApJS; 1101 citations)
  5. Panchromatic averaged stellar populations
    Riffel, R.; Bonatto, C.; Cid Fernandes, R.; Pastoriza, M. G.; Balbinot, E. (MNRAS; 8 citations)

2010

  1. Probing the Large Magellanic Cloud age gap at intermediate cluster masses
    Balbinot, E.; Santiago, B. X.; Kerber, L. O.; Barbuy, B.; Dias, B. M. S. (MNRAS; 12 citations)

2009

  1. The globular cluster NGC 6642: evidence for a depleted mass function in a very old cluster
    Balbinot, E.; Santiago, B. X.; Bica, E.; Bonatto, C. (MNRAS; 14 citations)