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Dr. Tanya Urrutia

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I am a researcher interested in galaxy evolution, especially regarding the impact of AGN on their host galaxies and the feeding and feedback in galaxies across cosmic times. I am a pure observational astronomer having used and analyzed data from the radio to hard X-rays, but my main interest currently reside in optical 3D-astronomy.

Galaxies and Quasars
Scientific Staff
Astronomical Spectroscopic Instrumentation
Scientific Staff
Office: LH/0-22
Phone: +49 331 7499 664
turrutianothing@aip.de

Private homepage:

http://www.tanya-urrutia.com


Leibniz-Institut
für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)
An der Sternwarte 16
14482 Potsdam
 

I am a member of:

  • the MUSE consortium (deputy-PI of the MUSE-Wide survey)
  • the eROSITA consortium (executive board member of the AGN working group)
  • the 4MOST consortium (as a systems engineer)
  • the Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS)
  • 3D-Cancer-Spec and the PlasMark project (detecting cancer and micro-plastics using astronomical techniques)
  • the early development of the new BlueMUSE instrument
 

My science in the press:

Spitzer, Hubble See Galaxy-Altering Quasars Ignite

Looking Deeply into the Universe in 3D

Starving Black Hole Returns Brilliant Galaxy to the Shadows

Neptune closer than ever: Super Sharp Pictures from the Edge of our Solar System

A Universe Aglow

€17 million Fund Backs 170 Breakthrough Concepts in Imaging and Sensing (one of which is the CANCER-3D project)

Publications

Latest refereed publications, retrieved from NASA ADS:

A weak Lyα halo for an extremely bright little red dot: Indications of enshrouded supermassive black hole growth
Torralba, A., ... Urrutia, T., ..., 2026
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 705, A147; published January 2026
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202555596, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Galaxies and Quasars, 3D and Multi Object Spectroscopy (now: Astronomical Spectroscopic Instrumentation), Astronomical Spectroscopic Instrumentation
Multiple star-forming episodes of intermediate-redshift galaxies
Muñoz López, C., Krajnović, D., ... Urrutia, T., Pessa, I., ... Pharo, J., ..., 2025
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 702, A146; published October 2025
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202555197, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Galaxies and Quasars, 3D and Multi Object Spectroscopy (now: Astronomical Spectroscopic Instrumentation)
The X-ray statistical properties of dust-obscured galaxies detected by eROSITA
Noboriguchi, A., ... Urrutia, T., 2025
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 702, A34; published October 2025
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202450190, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Galaxies and Quasars, 3D and Multi Object Spectroscopy (now: Astronomical Spectroscopic Instrumentation)
The Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS): Long-term spectral variability study of the changing-look AGN Mrk 1018
Saha, T., Krumpe, M., ... Powell, M., ... Urrutia, T., 2025
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 699, A205; published July 2025
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202554707, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Galaxies and Quasars, 3D and Multi Object Spectroscopy (now: Astronomical Spectroscopic Instrumentation), X-ray Astronomy
Searching for supermassive black hole binaries within SRG/eROSITA-De: I. Properties of the X-ray selected candidates
Tubín-Arenas, D., Krumpe, M., Homan, D., ... Powell, M., Lamer, G., Urrutia, T., Schwope, A., ... Bahic, S., ... Kurpas, J., ... Chaturvedi, A., ..., 2025
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 698, A192; published June 2025
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202554749, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Galaxies and Quasars, 3D and Multi Object Spectroscopy (now: Astronomical Spectroscopic Instrumentation), X-ray Astronomy
The eROSITA Final Equatorial Depth Survey (eFEDS): SDSS spectroscopic observations of X-ray sources
Aydar, C., ... Schwope, A., ... Krumpe, M., Lamer, G., ... Pizarro, C. R., ... Urrutia, T., 2025
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 698, A132; published June 2025
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202554372, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Galaxies and Quasars, 3D and Multi Object Spectroscopy (now: Astronomical Spectroscopic Instrumentation), X-ray Astronomy
Measuring the Interstellar Medium Content of Nearby, Luminous, Type 1 and Type 2 QSOs through CO and [C II]
Luo, Y., ... Urrutia, T., 2025
The Astrophysical Journal, 981, 2, 194; published March 2025
doi:10.3847/1538-4357/adb13b, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Galaxies and Quasars, 3D and Multi Object Spectroscopy (now: Astronomical Spectroscopic Instrumentation)
The SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey: X-ray beacons at late cosmic dawn
Wolf, J., ... Urrutia, T., ..., 2024
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 691, A30; published November 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202451035, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Galaxies and Quasars, 3D and Multi Object Spectroscopy (now: Astronomical Spectroscopic Instrumentation)
The intrinsic distribution of Lyman-α halos
Pharo, J., Wisotzki, L., Urrutia, T., ... Pessa, I., Augustin, R., ... Kozlova, D., ... Salas, H., Smirnov, D., ..., 2024
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 690, A343; published October 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202451318, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Galaxies and Quasars, 3D and Multi Object Spectroscopy (now: Astronomical Spectroscopic Instrumentation)
Eddington ratios of dust-obscured quasars at z ≲ 1: Evidence supporting dust-obscured quasars as young quasars
Kim, D., ... Urrutia, T., ..., 2024
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 690, A283; published October 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202450290, NASA ADS
Participating AIP research groups: Galaxies and Quasars, 3D and Multi Object Spectroscopy (now: Astronomical Spectroscopic Instrumentation)