IAU Symposia
IAUS 313: Extragalactic Jets from every angle
Start date/time
September 15, 2014
End date/time
September 20, 2014
Place
Puerto Ayora, Galapagos Islands,
Ecuador
Contact
Francesco Massaro
fmassaro@stanford.edu
Event website
http://iau313ecuador.epn.edu.ec/
Coordinating Division
Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science, Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics, Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
Co-Chairs of SOC:
Francesco (Massaro)
Aneta (Siemiginowska)
Ericson (Lopez)
C. C. (Teddy) (Cheung)
Co-Chairs of LOC:
Ericson (Lopez)
Topics
- The unified picture of extragalactic jets: from blazars to radio galaxies
- The multifrequency behavior of highly beamed jets in blazars
- Timing Jets: unveiling the nature of the extragalactic jet variability
- The interaction between jets and their surrounding environment
- The fate of young radio galaxies
- How observations of jets constrain the growth of supermassive black holes in the early Universe
- Launching jets: inferring jet power and their energetic
- Determination of particle acceleration and emission sites of extragalactic jets
- The origin of X-ray emission from jets at all scales
- The nature of jet composition, structure, collimation and the role of the magnetic fields