Half a Century of Blazars and Beyond
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Europe/Rome
Aula Darwin (Torino - Italy)
Aula Darwin
Torino - Italy
Via Nizza 52
Description
Blazars are exemplary systems in which to study relativistic jet processes and connections to accretion onto super-massive black holes. Over half a century ago, studies began recognizing blazars as being distinguished by their flat radio spectra, compactness, variability, and polarized radio and optical emission. Over the past decade, they have become ubiquitous in the high-energy gamma-ray and very-high energy gamma-ray skies. Importantly, blazars have an expanding role in understanding high-energy astrophysics processes and significance in multi-messenger observations, thus driving future mission endeavors.
The Fermi Large Area Telescope has changed the landscape, offering 1000’s of gamma-ray blazars for study, and will provide continual all-sky monitoring over the coming decade. The gamma-ray monitoring will soon be joined by sky-survey capabilities in X-rays, optical, radio, infrared, and TeV gamma-rays, bringing an unprecedentedly complete multi-wavelength picture of their population. The Event Horizon Telescope is already making its mark in directly probing the collimation region of the jet base. The coming decade will also realize the multi-messenger connection particularly with IceCube high-energy neutrinos, and the possible role of blazars in the production of ultra high energy cosmic rays is being explored. How blazars may contribute to our understanding binary supermassive black hole systems with Pulsar Timing Arrays and in the LISA-era is ripe for study.
This conference will aim to synthesize the current observational and theoretical understanding of blazars and will anticipate coming frontiers in blazar research including X-ray and gamma-ray polarimetry, MeV gamma-ray prospects with proposed missions, and prospective X-ray imaging studies. The observations anticipated will be driven by advances in understanding of particle acceleration mechanisms through simulations and theory.
The conference is motivated by the 10th anniversary of the launch of Fermi (June 11, 2008) as well as the 40th anniversary of the Pittsburgh Conference on BL Lac Objects (April, 1978), where the blazar name was famously coined by Ed Spiegel at the conference dinner. We will plan to celebrate both Fermi’s (the satellite and its namesake) and their contributions from the vantage point of blazars.
TOPICS:
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Gamma-ray linchpin: Fermi and Beyond (e-ASTROGAM and AMEGO, CTA)
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Role of X-ray and Gamma-ray polarimetry (XIPE, IXPE)
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Jet collimation on Event-Horizon Scales
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The (Enrico) Fermi connection: particle acceleration, jet launching, and simulations
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Connection to ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos
- Identification, population, and time-domain studies with panchromatic all-sky surveys
- Jet signatures of super-massive black hole binaries and relation to low-frequency gravitational waves
Download the Conference Poster (HD) here:
https://agenda.infn.it/conferenceDisplay.py/getPic?picId=11&confId=14538
Participants
Aditi Agarwal
Aimo Sillanpää
Alan Marscher
Alberto Dominguez
Alessandro Caccianiga
Alessandro Paggi
Alexander Kutkin
Alexander Plavin
Alexander Pushkarev
Andrea Mignone
Andrea Tramacere
Andreas Zech
Angela Sandrinelli
Anna Lisa Celotti
Anton Strigachev
Antonio Fuentes
Antonio Stamerra
Ashwani Pandey
Axel Arbet-Engels
Barbara Balmaverde
Barbara Biasuzzi
Boyko Mihov
C.C. Teddy Cheung
Carolina Casadio
Catherine Boisson
Chiara Righi
Claudia M. Raiteri
Dario Gasparrini
Dmitry Blinov
Elena Nokhrina
Elisa Prandini
Emmanouil Angelakis
Fabrizio Tavecchio
Federico Di Pierro
Filippo D'Ammando
Francesca Panessa
Francesco Massaro
Gabriele Bruni
Gabriele Ghisellini
Giacomo Bonnoli
Goldoni Paolo
Grzegorz Madejski
Helene Sol
Henric Krawczynski
Howard Smith
Ioannis Liodakis
Ioannis Myserlis
Ivan Agudo
Jean-Philippe Lenain
John Quinn
John Wardle
Jose A. Acosta Pulido
Jose L. Gomez
Josefa Becerra Gonzalez
Julian Sitarek
Junhui Fan
Justin Finke
Jérémy Mortier
Katsuaki Asano
Kazuhiro Hada
Kenichi Nishikawa
Luigi Costamante
Luigi Pacciani
Marcello Giroletti
Maria Charisi
Maria Isabel Carnerero Martin
Maria Petropoulou
Markus Boettcher
Massimo Villata
Matteo Cerruti
Matthew Lister
Meg Urry
Michael Johnson
Michael Kreter
Michela Negro
Mitchell Begelman
Monika Moscibrodzka
Nicholas MacDonald
Nicolao Fornengo
Paolo Padovani
Patrizia Romano
Paul Morris
Renato Falomo
Rocco Lico
Rumen Bachev
Santiago Pita
Sergey Savchenko
Sergio Cellone
Silke Britzen
Simona Paiano
Stefan Wagner
Stefano Covino
Stefano Vercellone
Svetlana Jorstad
Talvikki Hovatta
Thalia Traianou
Tigran Arshakyan
Timur Dzhatdoev
Tuomas Savolainen
Uwe Bach
Valeri Larionov
Victor Manuel Patino Alvarez
Vincenzo Galluzzi
Wara Chamani
Wrijupan Bhattacharyya
Wystan Benbow
Yu-Ling Chang
Yuri Kovalev
ZAKARIA MELIANI
Zhi-Yuan Pei
Zulema Abraham
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