Searching for AGNs with VST: Optical variability in the COSMOS and CDFS regions

by Prof. Maurizio Paolillo (Università di Napoli Federico II, Itália)

Friday 13 Apr 2018, 14:00 → 15:00 Portugal

Sala de Conferências (Departamento de Física)

I will present the capabilities of the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) built in Naples and now operating at Paranal under ESO supervision. I will briefly discuss the main sky survey that the astronomical community is performing with the VST, intended to address several unsolved question in astrophysics: from the measurement of cosmological parameters, to the evolution of galaxies in different environments, to the detection of optical GW counterparts. I will then focus on the SUDARE-VOICE survey as a tool to identify Active Galactic Nuclei based on their optical variability, and discuss how this methods nicely complements other approaches, representing a very promising tool for current and future facilities such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope under construction in Chile.