Supermassive Black Holes

by Maurizio Paolillo (Universidade de Nápoles)

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 14:00 → Thursday 16 May 2019, 17:30 Portugal

Sala de Conferências (Departamento de Física)

Programa:

 

Lecture 1:

The Discovery of Active Supermassive Black Holes;
Taxonomy of Active Galactic Nuclei;
clues to the interpretation: variability, luminosity and efficiency;
steps toward unification: Eddington luminosity, Eddington mass and accretion rate;
accretion efficiency;
the Unified Model;
AGN physical scales;
broadband emission in AGNs;
accretion disk spectrum;
X-ray corona and other components;
observational evidence of the Unified Model: Quasar host galaxies;
dynamical mass measurements;
circumnuclear disks, dusty nuclear disks.

 

Lecture 2:

Reverberation mapping mass measurements;
evidence of hidden BLR in Sy2;
relativistic distortion in Fe lines;
the Milky Way nuclear BH;
the first direct evidence of the event horizon in M87;
AGN evolution from multi-wavelength studies of AGN populations optical, X-ray and infrared; l
uminosity function and number counts;
AGN activity and number density evolution;
resolving the Cosmic X-ray Background;
Soltan argument: how to derive the current Black Hole mass density of the Universe;
The link between Supermassive Black Holes and galaxy evolution; Evidences of AGN feedback in galaxies.