Quasars at all cosmic epochs

Europe/Rome
Cultural Centre San Gaetano

Cultural Centre San Gaetano

Via Altinate, 71 Padova
Ascensión Del Olmo (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Granada, Spain), Deborah Dultzin (Instituto de Astronomía, UNAM, Mexico), Mauro D'Onofrio (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Padova, Italy), Paola Marziani (INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy)
Description

Quasars have been discovered slightly more than 50 years ago. The times are ripe for a critical assessment of our present knowledge of quasars as accreting systems and of their evolution across cosmic time. The aim of this meeting is to review the main observational scenarios following an empirical approach, to present and discuss theories, and then to analyze how a closer connection between theory and observation can be achieved, identifying those aspects of our understanding that are still on a shaky terrain and are therefore uncertain knowledge. The meeting will cover topics ranging from the systematic organization of observational properties of quasars to accretion processes in the nearest environment of the quasars’ black holes, from feedback effects on host galaxies and environmental effects that are relevant for improving our still-lacunose understanding of galaxy evolution. The meeting will be held in downtown Padova, whose University and Observatory host one of the largest communities of professional astronomers in Europe, with a large school and a long tradition in teaching of physics and astronomy. The meeting will be part of the events meant to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the foundation of the Padova Observatory.

 

Key Topics

Day 1: Observational properties of quasars as luminous active galactic nuclei.
Day 2: Accretion processes on supermassive black holes.
Day 3: Contextualization and connection between theory and observation for the emitting region of quasars.
Day 4: Feedback and environment of active galaxies and quasars.
Day 5: Quasar evolution over cosmic time and quasars as cosmological tools.

 

 

 

 

Participants
  • Agnese Del Moro
  • Alan Andres Garcia Lopez
  • Alberto Franceschini
  • Aldo Treves
  • Aleksandra Wołowska
  • Alenka Negrete
  • Alessandro Marconi
  • Alexander Kutkin
  • Alexander Plavin
  • Amid Nayerhoda
  • Amy Kimball
  • Andreas Schulze
  • Andrei Mesinger
  • Anelise Audibert
  • Angela Sandrinelli
  • Anna Feltre
  • Anna Pancoast
  • Anna Weigel
  • Antonio Hernan-Caballero
  • Arman Stepanian
  • Ascension del Olmo Orozco
  • Barbara Balmaverde
  • Beatriz Villarroel
  • Benny Trakhtenbrot
  • Bernardo Fraga
  • Bozena Czerny
  • Carolina Queiroz de Abreu Silva
  • Cesare Chiosi
  • Chiara Mazzucchelli
  • Conor Wildy
  • Cristina Ramos Almeida
  • Dalya Baron
  • Damien Coffey
  • Damien Hutsemekers
  • damla erakuman
  • Daniel Kynoch
  • Daniela Bettoni
  • David Sanmartim
  • David Starkey
  • Dawei Xu
  • Deborah Dultzin
  • Demetra De Cicco
  • Didier Fraix-Burnet
  • Djordje Savic
  • Dohyeong Kim
  • Dorota Kozieł-Wierzbowska
  • Douglas Lin
  • Dragana Ilic
  • Edgar A. Ramirez
  • Edi Bon
  • Edwin Retana-Montenegro
  • Elena Bannikova
  • Elena Fedorova
  • Elena Nokhrina
  • Eleonora Sani
  • Elias Kammoun
  • Elias Koulouridis
  • Elisa Prandini
  • Elisabeta Lusso
  • Emanuele Sobacchi
  • Emilia Järvelä
  • Emmanuel Bernhard
  • Enrico Congiu
  • Estelle Pons
  • Eugenio Bottacini
  • Fabio La Franca
  • Fabio Pacucci
  • Federico Di Giacomo
  • Filippo D'Ammando
  • Flora Stanley
  • Francesca Panessa
  • Francoise Combes
  • Gabriela Canalizo
  • Georgii Khorunzhev
  • Giacomo Venturi
  • Giovanni La MUra
  • Giustina Vietri
  • Gordon Richards
  • Guido Risaliti
  • Hagai Netzer
  • Hannah Stacey
  • Harold Peña
  • Hermine Landt
  • Hikari Shirakata
  • Hyun-Jin Bae
  • Hyunmi Song
  • Ilaria Pagotto
  • Ilya Pashchenko
  • Isabel Marquez
  • Ismael Botti
  • Ivan Delvecchio
  • Jari Kotilainen
  • Jing Wang
  • Joanna Ramasawmy
  • John McKean
  • Jong-Hak Woo
  • Josefa Masegosa
  • Judit Fogasy
  • Justyna Średzińska
  • Katarzyna Rusinek
  • Keith Horne
  • Kenta Matsuoka
  • Kevin Schawinski
  • Kohei Ichikawa
  • Krisztina Perger
  • Luca Graziani
  • Luigi Foschini
  • Luka Popovic
  • Mackenzie Jones
  • Maialen Arrieta-Lobo
  • Maitrayee Gupta
  • makengele loya juresse
  • Manuela Bischetti
  • Marco Berton
  • Mariela Martínez Paredes
  • Marios Karouzos
  • Marko Stalevski
  • Martin Ward
  • Mary Loli Martínez-Aldama
  • Massimo Capaccioli
  • Maurizio Paolillo
  • Mauro D'Onofrio
  • Michael DiPompeo
  • Michael Fausnaugh
  • Michele Perna
  • Moshe Elitzur
  • Mouhamadou Sarr
  • Natasa Bon
  • Nenghui Liao
  • Nuria Castello-Mor
  • Paola Marziani
  • Paolo Padovani
  • Paramita Barai
  • Parveen Kumar
  • Patricia Andrea ROJAS LOBOS
  • Paulina Lira
  • Payaswini Saikia
  • Piero Rafanelli
  • Priyanka Jalan
  • Raffaella Morganti
  • Renato Falomo
  • Riccardo Ottolina
  • Riccardo Scarpa
  • Roberto Serafinelli
  • Rosa Valiante
  • Sandra Raimundo
  • Sara Cazzoli
  • Sebastian Hoenig
  • Sergei Kotov
  • Shai Kaspi
  • Simona Gallerani
  • Simona Paiano
  • Sina Chen
  • Stefano Carniani
  • Stefano Covino
  • Stergios Amarantidis
  • Susanna Bisogni
  • Suzy Jones
  • SWAYAMTRUPTA PANDA
  • Szymon Kozlowski
  • Tek Prasad Adhikari
  • Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann
  • Tobias Schmidt
  • Tomaz Zwitter
  • Tullia Sbarrato
  • Vardha N. Bennert
  • Víctor Manuel Patiño Álvarez
  • Wako Ishibashi
  • Wlodek Bednarek
  • Xingting Pu
    • 18:00 21:00
      Welcome cocktail Agora (Centro Culturale San Gaetano)

      Agora

      Centro Culturale San Gaetano

    • 08:45 09:00
      Registration and opening Auditorium (Centro Culturale San Gaetano)

      Auditorium

      Centro Culturale San Gaetano

    • 09:00 09:30
      Invited Talk: Padovani, P. - Quasars at all wavelengths and from all angles
    • 09:30 09:50
      Zwitter, T. - Gaia and quasars 20m
    • 09:50 10:10
      Delvecchio, I. - The deepest radio view of quasars in the COSMOS field: a two-fold population 20m
    • 10:10 10:30
      Jones, S. - Submillimetre observations of WISE-selected high-redshift, luminous AGN and their 20m
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffe break 30m
    • 11:00 11:20
      Kozieł-Wierzbowska, D. - Pair-matching of radio-loud and radio-quiet AGNs 20m
    • 11:20 11:40
      Lusso, E. - What we can (still) learn from the non-linear X-ray to UV relation in AGN 20m
    • 11:40 12:00
      Bon, N. - Variability of the AGN broad line region in the context of eigenvector 1 20m
    • 12:00 12:20
      Lira, P. - Reverberation mapping of high-z, high-luminosity quasars 20m
    • 12:20 12:40
      Wildy, C. - The relationship between Mg II broad emission and quasar inclination angle 20m
    • 12:40 14:30
      Lunch: Free time
    • 14:30 15:00
      Invited Talk: Storchi-Bergmann, T. - Feeding of Supermassive Black Holes - from the accretion disk to hundred parsec scales
    • 15:00 15:20
      Horne, K. - Velocity-delay maps of the broad line region in NGC 5548 20m
    • 15:20 15:40
      Bon, E. - Periodic variability patterns in AGN 20m
    • 15:40 16:00
      De Cicco, D. - C IV broad absorption line variability in QSO spectra 20m
    • 16:00 16:20
      Martínez-Aldama, M. L. - Highly accreting quasars at high redshift 20m
    • 16:20 16:50
      Coffe break 30m
    • 16:50 17:10
      Kaspi, S. - Results from reverberation mapping of high luminosity quasars 20m
    • 17:10 17:30
      Fausnaugh, M. - Reverberation mapping of AGN accretion disks 20m
    • 17:30 17:50
      Landt, H. - The first spectroscopic dust reverberation program on AGN 20m
    • 17:50 18:10
      Ilic, D. - Long-term monitoring of the broad-line region in a selected sample of AGN 20m
    • 18:10 18:30
      Stanley, F. - The mean star-formation rates of unobscured QSOs: searching for evidence of suppressed 20m
    • 18:30 18:50
      La Mura, G. - Multiple frequency databases for AGN investigation: results and perspectives 20m
    • 08:45 09:15
      Invited Talk: Marquez, I. - The AGN nature of LINER nuclear sources
    • 09:15 09:35
      Perna, M. - An X-ray/SDSS sample: multiphase outflow incidence, dependence on AGN luminosity, and PLASMA properties 20m
    • 09:35 09:55
      Zhang, X. - The covering factor of warm dust in weak emission-line active galactic nuclei 20m
    • 09:55 10:15
      Paiano, S. - The optical view of extragalactic gamma-ray emitters 20m
    • 10:15 10:35
      Ichikawa, K. - Complete infrared view of the 70 month Swift/BAT AGN catalog 20m
    • 10:35 11:05
      Coffe break 30m
    • 11:05 11:35
      Invited Talk: Richards, G. - Quasar physics from spectral energy distributions
    • 11:35 11:55
      Hoenig, S. - Dust in the wind: a new paradigm for the emission in AGN 20m
    • 11:55 12:15
      Pancoast, A. - Inflow and outflow in the broad line region 20m
    • 12:15 12:35
      Hernan-Caballero, A. - The spectrum of hot dust in luminous quasars 20m
    • 12:35 12:55
      Panessa, F. - Accretion and ejection in AGN: the X-ray and radio perspective 20m
    • 12:55 14:30
      Lunch: Free time
    • 14:30 15:00
      Invited Talk: Elitzur, M. - The AGN as a protostar
    • 15:00 15:20
      Vietri, G. - BLR winds in hyper-luminous quasars 20m
    • 15:20 15:40
      Lin, D. - Planting seeds for gravitational wave generators around active galactic nuclei: analog of planetary systems around massive black holes. 20m
    • 15:40 16:00
      Czerny, B. - The self-consistent dynamical model of the broad line region 20m
    • 16:00 16:20
      D'Ammando, F. - Jet physics of accreting super-massive black holes in the Fermi era 20m
    • 16:20 16:40
      Foschini, L. - What we talk about when we talk about blazars? 20m
    • 16:40 17:10
      Coffee break 30m
    • 17:10 17:30
      Nokhrina, E. - The physical parameters of jets - the non-uniform transversal model. 20m
    • 17:30 17:50
      Stalevski, M. - New paradigm for the mid-IR emitting regions of AGNs? 20m
    • 17:50 18:10
      Weigel, A. - Two mass independent Eddington ratio distribution functions regulate black hole growth of blue and red galaxies in the local Universe 20m
    • 18:10 18:30
      Castello-Mor, N. - High accretion rate AGN: can theory, observations and simulations agree on the basic physics 20m
    • 18:30 18:50
      Sobacchi, E. - A model for periodic blazars 20m
    • 18:50 19:10
      Wang, J. - Making low-mass Supermassive Backhole spin 20m
    • 08:45 09:15
      Invited Talk: Sulentic, J. - A main sequence for quasars (TBC)
    • 09:15 09:35
      Mejia-Restrepo, J.; Lira, P. - The virial factor and biases in single-epoch black hole mass determination 20m
    • 09:35 09:55
      Schulze, A. - New constraints on the black hole spin in radio-loud quasars 20m
    • 09:55 10:15
      Sani, E. - Black Hole mass scaling relations: the case of local AGN2 20m
    • 10:15 10:35
      Saikia, P. - The Optical Fundamental Plane of black hole activity 20m
    • 10:35 11:05
      Coffee break 30m
    • 11:05 11:25
      Savic, D. - Polarization of broad lines in AGNs and black hole mass estimation 20m
    • 11:25 11:45
      Feltre, A. - Ultraviolet/optical emission of the ionised gas in AGN: diagnostics of the ionizing source and gas properties 20m
    • 11:45 12:05
      Gallerani, S. - Inferring physical properties of z~6 quasars from mm and X-ray observations 20m
    • 12:05 12:25
      Hutsemekers, D. - New constraints on quasar broad absorption and emission line regions from microlensing 20m
    • 12:25 12:45
      Adhikari, T. P. - The nature of intermediate line region (ILR) in AGN 20m
    • 12:45 13:05
      General discussion: Dultzin, D. (chair)
    • 13:05 20:00
      Free Afternoon
    • 20:00 23:30
      Social dinner
    • 08:35 08:55
      Bettoni, D. - Low redshift QSO environments 20m
    • 08:55 09:15
      Kotilainen, J. - The host galaxies of AGN with powerful relativistic jets 20m
    • 09:15 09:35
      Bernhard, E. - The most powerful AGNs reside in the most strongly star-forming galaxies 20m
    • 09:35 09:55
      Matsuoka, K. - A relation between star-formation and accretion luminosities of infrared-luminous 20m
    • 09:55 10:15
      Trakhtenbrot, B. - Fast-growing SMBHs in fast-growing galaxies, at z~5: the role of major mergers as revealed by ALMA 20m
    • 10:15 10:35
      Ramois Almeida, C. - An infrared view of AGN feedback in a type-2 quasar: ionized, coronal and molecular phase 20m
    • 10:35 11:05
      Coffee break 30m
    • 11:05 11:25
      Woo, J. H. - Delayed or no feedback? The connection between AGN outflows and star formation 20m
    • 11:25 11:45
      Combes, F. - AGN feedback and its quenching efficiency 20m
    • 11:45 12:05
      Villarroel, B. - The two missing parameters in AGN Unification 20m
    • 12:05 12:25
      Raimundo, S. - Tracing the external origin of the AGN gas fuelling reservoir 20m
    • 12:25 12:45
      Cazzoli, S. - Negative and positive outflow-feedback in nearby (U)LIRGs 20m
    • 12:45 13:05
      Mazzucchelli, C. - Supermassive black holes at the end of the cosmic dark ages: Insights from a sample of 15 quasars at z > 6.5 20m
    • 13:05 14:30
      Lunch: Free time
    • 14:30 15:00
      Invited Talk: Morganti, R. - The many routes to AGN feedback
    • 15:00 15:20
      Carniani, S. - Fast outflows and star formation quenching in quasar host galaxies 20m
    • 15:20 15:40
      Canalizo, G. - Quasars, mergers, and velocity dispersions 20m
    • 15:40 16:00
      Jarvela, E. - Large-scale environments of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies 20m
    • 16:00 16:20
      Bennert, V. N. - The origin of the black hole mass scaling relations 20m
    • 16:20 16:40
      Stacey, H. - Gravitational lensing reveals extreme star formation in quasar host galaxies 20m
    • 16:40 17:10
      Coffee break 30m
    • 17:10 17:30
      McKean, J. - Resolving the stars, dust and molecular gas on 100 pc-scales in quasar host galaxies with gravitational lensing 20m
    • 17:30 17:50
      Ishibashi, W. - How quasar feedback may shape the co-evolutionary paths 20m
    • 17:50 18:10
      Koulouridis, E. - X-ray AGN in the XXL survey galaxy clusters 20m
    • 18:10 18:30
      Fogasy, J. - On the frequency of star-forming galaxies in the vicinity of powerful AGNs 20m
    • 18:30 18:50
      Mackenzie, J. - Exploring the consequences of selection effects in black hole-galaxy evolution studies 20m
    • 18:50 19:10
      Poster prize winners - 2 talks 20m
    • 08:45 09:15
      Invited Talk: La Franca, F. - A new cosmological distance Mmeasure using AGN X-Ray variability
    • 09:15 09:35
      Sbarrato, T. - Big and young SMBHs in the early Universe 20m
    • 09:35 09:55
      Schawinski, K. - The first black holes: constraints from deep fields and quasar surveys 20m
    • 09:55 10:15
      Risaliti, G. - A Hubble diagram for quasars 20m
    • 10:15 10:35
      Valiante, R. - From the first stars to the first quasars 20m
    • 10:35 11:05
      Coffee break 30m
    • 11:05 11:25
      Kimball, A. - Probing the early Universe with sub-millimeter observations of extremely luminous QSOs 20m
    • 11:25 11:45
      Mesinger, A. - The first detection of cosmic reionization from QSO spectra 20m
    • 11:45 12:05
      Negrete, A. - Quasars as cosmological standard candles 20m
    • 12:05 12:25
      Review talk: Netzer, H. - Conference summary
    • 12:25 13:05
      General discussion