Office: Room 215, Physics Building, Siwangting Road No. 180, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
e-mail: andrealencardacosta@gmail.com
Position: Research Scholar
Research Interests:
1. Cosmology
2. Late-time cosmic acceleration
3. Interaction between dark energy and dark matter
4. Observational constraints and data analysis
5. 21-cm Intensity Mapping
Previous work experience:
1. 2014 – 2018 postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Physics, University of S?o Paulo, S?o Paulo, Brazil
2. 2016 – 2017 academic visitor at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Education:
1. 2010 – 2014 University of S?o Paulo, Brazil, PhD in Physics
2. 2008 – 2010 Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil, Master in Physics
3. 2004 – 2008 Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil, Bachelor of Physics
Top 10 selected publications:
1. A. A. Costa et al., “J-PAS: forecasts on interacting dark energy from baryon acoustic oscillations and redshift-space distortions”, arXiv: 1901.02540
2. A. A. Costa, R. C. G. Landim, B. Wang, E. Abdalla, “Interacting Dark Energy: Possible Explanation for 21-cm Absorption at Cosmic Dawn”, EPJC 78, 746 (2018), arXiv: 1803.06944
3. L. C. Olivari, C. Dickinson, R. A. Battye, Y-Z. Ma, A. A. Costa, M. Remazeilles, S. Harper, “Cosmological parameter forecasts for HI intensity mapping experiments using the angular power spectrum”, MNRAS 473, 4242 (2018), arXiv: 1707.07647
4. R. J. F. Marcondes, R. C. G. Landim, A. A. Costa, B. Wang, E. Abdalla, “Analytic study of the effect of dark energy-dark matter interaction on the growth of structures”, JCAP 1612, 009 (2016), arXiv: 1605.05264
5. A. A. Costa, X-D. Xu, B. Wang, E. Abdalla, “Constraints on interacting dark energy models from Planck 2015 and redshift-space distortions data”, JCAP 1701, 028 (2017), arXiv: 1605.04138
6. E. G. M. Ferreira, J. Quintin, A. A. Costa, E. Abdalla, B. Wang, “Evidence for interacting dark energy from BOSS”, PRD 95, 043520 (2017), arXiv: 1412.2777
7. A. A. Costa, L. C. Olivari, E. Abdalla, “Quintessence with Yukawa interaction”, PRD 92, 103501 (2015), arXiv: 1411.3660
8. H. S. Vieira, V. B. Bezerra, A. A. Costa, “Scalar fields in the Lense-Thirring background with a cosmic string and Hawking radiation”, EPL 109, 60006 (2015), arXiv: 1405.7846
9. V. B. Bezerra, H. S. Vieira, A. A. Costa, “The Klein-Gordon equation in the spacetime of a charged and rotating black hole”, Class. Quant. Grav. 31, 045003 (2014), arXiv: 1312.4823
10. A. A. Costa, X-D. Xu, B. Wang, E. G. M. Ferreira, E. Abdalla, “Testing the interaction between dark energy and dark matter with Planck data”, PRD 89, 103531 (2014), arXiv: 1311.7380