Quasars at all cosmic epochs

2 Apr 2017, 16:00 → 7 Apr 2017, 19:00 Europe/Rome

Cultural Centre San Gaetano

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)

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.

 

 

 

 

Documents

• abs_booklet.pdf
• posterlist.pdf
• social_en.pdf
• timetable2.pdf

Slides RegistrantsBook_1_12.pdf

Sunday, 2 April

Welcome cocktail

Monday, 3 April

Registration and opening

Invited Talk: Padovani, P. - Quasars at all wavelengths and from all angles

1 Zwitter, T. - Gaia and quasars

2 Delvecchio, I. - The deepest radio view of quasars in the COSMOS field: a two-fold population

3 Jones, S. - Submillimetre observations of WISE-selected high-redshift, luminous AGN and their

10:30 Coffe break

4 Kozieł-Wierzbowska, D. - Pair-matching of radio-loud and radio-quiet AGNs

5 Lusso, E. - What we can (still) learn from the non-linear X-ray to UV relation in AGN

6 Bon, N. - Variability of the AGN broad line region in the context of eigenvector 1

7 Lira, P. - Reverberation mapping of high-z, high-luminosity quasars

8 Wildy, C. - The relationship between Mg II broad emission and quasar inclination angle

Lunch: Free time

Invited Talk: Storchi-Bergmann, T. - Feeding of Supermassive Black Holes - from the accretion disk to hundred parsec scales

9 Horne, K. - Velocity-delay maps of the broad line region in NGC 5548

10 Bon, E. - Periodic variability patterns in AGN

11 De Cicco, D. - C IV broad absorption line variability in QSO spectra

12 Martínez-Aldama, M. L. - Highly accreting quasars at high redshift

16:20 Coffe break

13 Kaspi, S. - Results from reverberation mapping of high luminosity quasars

14 Fausnaugh, M. - Reverberation mapping of AGN accretion disks

15 Landt, H. - The first spectroscopic dust reverberation program on AGN

16 Ilic, D. - Long-term monitoring of the broad-line region in a selected sample of AGN

17 Stanley, F. - The mean star-formation rates of unobscured QSOs: searching for evidence of suppressed

18 La Mura, G. - Multiple frequency databases for AGN investigation: results and perspectives

Tuesday, 4 April

Invited Talk: Marquez, I. - The AGN nature of LINER nuclear sources

19 Perna, M. - An X-ray/SDSS sample: multiphase outflow incidence, dependence on AGN luminosity, and PLASMA properties

20 Zhang, X. - The covering factor of warm dust in weak emission-line active galactic nuclei

21 Paiano, S. - The optical view of extragalactic gamma-ray emitters

22 Ichikawa, K. - Complete infrared view of the 70 month Swift/BAT AGN catalog

10:35 Coffe break

Invited Talk: Richards, G. - Quasar physics from spectral energy distributions

23 Hoenig, S. - Dust in the wind: a new paradigm for the emission in AGN

24 Pancoast, A. - Inflow and outflow in the broad line region

25 Hernan-Caballero, A. - The spectrum of hot dust in luminous quasars

26 Panessa, F. - Accretion and ejection in AGN: the X-ray and radio perspective

Lunch: Free time

Invited Talk: Elitzur, M. - The AGN as a protostar

27 Vietri, G. - BLR winds in hyper-luminous quasars

28 Lin, D. - Planting seeds for gravitational wave generators around active galactic nuclei: analog of planetary systems around massive black holes.

29 Czerny, B. - The self-consistent dynamical model of the broad line region

30 D'Ammando, F. - Jet physics of accreting super-massive black holes in the Fermi era

31 Foschini, L. - What we talk about when we talk about blazars?

16:40 Coffee break

32 Nokhrina, E. - The physical parameters of jets - the non-uniform transversal model.

33 Stalevski, M. - New paradigm for the mid-IR emitting regions of AGNs?

34 Weigel, A. - Two mass independent Eddington ratio distribution functions regulate black hole growth of blue and red galaxies in the local Universe

35 Castello-Mor, N. - High accretion rate AGN: can theory, observations and simulations agree on the basic physics

36 Sobacchi, E. - A model for periodic blazars

37 Wang, J. - Making low-mass Supermassive Backhole spin

Wednesday, 5 April

Invited Talk: Sulentic, J. - A main sequence for quasars (TBC)

38 Mejia-Restrepo, J.; Lira, P. - The virial factor and biases in single-epoch black hole mass determination

39 Schulze, A. - New constraints on the black hole spin in radio-loud quasars

40 Sani, E. - Black Hole mass scaling relations: the case of local AGN2

41 Saikia, P. - The Optical Fundamental Plane of black hole activity

10:35 Coffee break

42 Savic, D. - Polarization of broad lines in AGNs and black hole mass estimation

43 Feltre, A. - Ultraviolet/optical emission of the ionised gas in AGN: diagnostics of the ionizing source and gas properties

44 Gallerani, S. - Inferring physical properties of z~6 quasars from mm and X-ray observations

45 Hutsemekers, D. - New constraints on quasar broad absorption and emission line regions from microlensing

46 Adhikari, T. P. - The nature of intermediate line region (ILR) in AGN

General discussion: Dultzin, D. (chair)

Free Afternoon

Social dinner

Thursday, 6 April

47 Bettoni, D. - Low redshift QSO environments

48 Kotilainen, J. - The host galaxies of AGN with powerful relativistic jets

49 Bernhard, E. - The most powerful AGNs reside in the most strongly star-forming galaxies

50 Matsuoka, K. - A relation between star-formation and accretion luminosities of infrared-luminous

51 Trakhtenbrot, B. - Fast-growing SMBHs in fast-growing galaxies, at z~5: the role of major mergers as revealed by ALMA

52 Ramois Almeida, C. - An infrared view of AGN feedback in a type-2 quasar: ionized, coronal and molecular phase

10:35 Coffee break

53 Woo, J. H. - Delayed or no feedback? The connection between AGN outflows and star formation

54 Combes, F. - AGN feedback and its quenching efficiency

55 Villarroel, B. - The two missing parameters in AGN Unification

56 Raimundo, S. - Tracing the external origin of the AGN gas fuelling reservoir

57 Cazzoli, S. - Negative and positive outflow-feedback in nearby (U)LIRGs

58 Mazzucchelli, C. - Supermassive black holes at the end of the cosmic dark ages: Insights from a sample of 15 quasars at z > 6.5

Lunch: Free time

Invited Talk: Morganti, R. - The many routes to AGN feedback

59 Carniani, S. - Fast outflows and star formation quenching in quasar host galaxies

60 Canalizo, G. - Quasars, mergers, and velocity dispersions

61 Jarvela, E. - Large-scale environments of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies

62 Bennert, V. N. - The origin of the black hole mass scaling relations

63 Stacey, H. - Gravitational lensing reveals extreme star formation in quasar host galaxies

16:40 Coffee break

64 McKean, J. - Resolving the stars, dust and molecular gas on 100 pc-scales in quasar host galaxies with gravitational lensing

65 Ishibashi, W. - How quasar feedback may shape the co-evolutionary paths

66 Koulouridis, E. - X-ray AGN in the XXL survey galaxy clusters

67 Fogasy, J. - On the frequency of star-forming galaxies in the vicinity of powerful AGNs

68 Mackenzie, J. - Exploring the consequences of selection effects in black hole-galaxy evolution studies

69 Poster prize winners - 2 talks

Friday, 7 April

Invited Talk: La Franca, F. - A new cosmological distance Mmeasure using AGN X-Ray variability

70 Sbarrato, T. - Big and young SMBHs in the early Universe

71 Schawinski, K. - The first black holes: constraints from deep fields and quasar surveys

72 Risaliti, G. - A Hubble diagram for quasars

73 Valiante, R. - From the first stars to the first quasars

10:35 Coffee break

74 Kimball, A. - Probing the early Universe with sub-millimeter observations of extremely luminous QSOs

75 Mesinger, A. - The first detection of cosmic reionization from QSO spectra

76 Negrete, A. - Quasars as cosmological standard candles

Review talk: Netzer, H. - Conference summary

General discussion