From November 25, 2023 to March 24, 2024 – Palazzo Esposizioni, Rome THE EXHIBITION “Time Machines” is an exhibition about Italian astrophysics and astronomy. What awaits you is a journey through the universe created to make you find out the new Read More …
Author: Giuseppe Fiasconaro
Title: “The Awakening Beasts in our Universe”
Seminar by Jiachen Jiang, Leverhulme/Isaac Newton Fellow – Institute of Astronomy (University of Cambridge, UK) Tuesday 4th of April, 2.30 pm (On-line seminar. Link: https://meet.google.com/ots-rija-hyc) Abstract: “Unlike the stochastic variability in the optical and UV emission of active galactic nuclei (AGN), Read More …
Title: “The accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 during its 2022 outburst: hints of an orbital shrinking”
Seminar by Giulia Illiano, PhD – Astronomical Observatory of Rome (INAF-OAR) Tuesday 7th of March, at 2.30 pm Abstract: “Accreting millisecond pulsars (AMSPs) are rapidly rotating neutron stars hosted in a tight binary system with a low-mass companion. Their millisecond periods Read More …
B.O.M! BULLETIN OF THE MONTH is out – October 2022
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B.O.M! BULLETIN OF THE MONTH is out – July, August, September 2022
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Title: “Disk, corona, jet connection in black hole X-ray binaries using reverberation mapping”
Seminar by Jingyi Wang, PhD student (MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Cambridge) Wednesday 8th of June 2022, 14:15 p.m Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/ots-rija-hyc Abstract: “Black holes tell us about accretion and ejection physics in the strongest gravity Read More …
B.O.M! BULLETIN OF THE MONTH is out – March 2022
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Title: “A Spectroscopic point of view on Central Engines in Accreting Neutron Stars”
Seminar by Nicolas Trueba, PhD student (Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan) Wednesday 30th of March, 14:15 p.m Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/ots-rija-hyc Abstract: “High-resolution spectroscopic studies of absorbing disk winds and atmospheres in low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) are key in Read More …
Title: “Astrometric techniques for the calibration of the ASTRI Cherenkov telescope”
Seminar by Simone Iovenitti, PhD (INAF-Brera Astronomical Observatory, University of Milan). Monday 7th of March, 15:00 p.m. Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/jfi-jtfp-ybu Abstract: “ASTRI in an Italian project for the study of Very High-Energy astrophysical phenomena up to 300 TeV and Read More …
Title: “Numerical simulation of a stable sub-Eddington accretion disk”
Seminar by Debora Lančová (Silesian University in Opava – Czech Republic, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center – Polish Academy of Sciences). Wednesday 16th of March, 14:15 p.m. Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/ots-rija-hyc Abstract: “We have performed general relativistic radiative magneto-hydrodynamics (GRRMHD) simulations of Read More …