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Probing the Embedded YSOs of the R CrA Region Through VLT-ISAAC Spectroscopy
The low and medium resolution spectra, obtained with ISAAC at VLT, of five embedded Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) in the R CrA star forming core have... -
Post-AGB Objects and Planetary Nebulae
Planetary nebulae and post-AGB objects are luminous dust emitters in the infrared. Indeed it is by virtue of their strong dust emission that most... -
Small to Large Scale Properties of Protostellar Jets Through High-Resolution IR Spectroscopy
We present ISAAC high resolution (HR) spectra (at R ~ 10000) of the [FeII] (1.64 μm) and H2 (2.12 μm) lines of two protostellar jets (IRS 8 and IRS... -
Observation of Plasma Fluctuations
The diagnostics of fluctuating plasma quantities and their evaluation is an important issue in the context of plasma waves, instabilities, and... -
Low Temperature Plasmas
Characteristic properties and generation mechanisms of low temperature plasmas in different gas discharges are presented. A special part is focussed... -
Why Are Only High-Redshift Obscured AGN Bright Submillimeter Sources?
The bulk of the QSO luminosity density was produced at 1<3, and with 0.5-2 keV luminosities close to the break of the X-ray luminosity... -
From the Earliest Seeds to Today’s Supermassive Black Holes
I review scenarios for the assembly of supermassive black holes (MBHs) at the center of galaxies that trace their hierarchical build-up far up in the... -
Measuring the Masses and Accretion Rates in Rapidly Growing Young NLS1s
We find that Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies accrete at moderately super-Eddington rates. This was already suggested with the discovery of extreme... -
Red Optical Quasars are X-ray Blue Quasars
We have selected a sample of 12 dust-reddened quasars with extremely red colors, reddenigs and redshifts in the range of 0.4 < z < 2.21 using a... -
From First Galaxies to QSOs –Feeding the Baby Monsters
We present a physical model for the coevolution of massive spheroidal galaxies and active nuclei at their centers. Supernova heating is increasingly... -
How Black Holes Get Their Kicks:Radiation Recoil in Binary Black Hole Mergers
Gravitational waves from the coalescence of binary black holes carry linear momentum, causing center of mass recoil. This “radiation rocket” has... -
AGN Outbursts and Accretion Disks
We discuss the AGN intermittent activity. Accretion onto a supermassive black hole (SMBH) is generally accepted as the basis of AGN activity, however... -
Radiative Feedback from Quasars and the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes
We discuss the role of feedback via photoionization and Compton heating in the co-evolution of massive black holes at the center of spheroidal... -
The Influence of Black Hole Mass and Accretion Rate on the FRI/FRII Radio Galaxy Dichotomy
We use medium resolution optical spectra of 3CR radio galaxies to estimate their black hole masses and accretion rates. Black hole masses are found... -
When Supermassive Black Holes Were Growing: Clues from Deep X–ray Surveys
Merging the Chandra and XMM–Newton deep surveys with the previously identified ROSAT surveys a unique sample of almost 1000 AGN–1 covering five... -
The Art and Science of Black Hole Mergers
The merger of two black holes is one of the most extraordinary events in the natural world. Made of pure gravity, the holes combine to form a single... -
A Physically Motivated Toy Model for the BH-Spheroid Coevolution
We present a summary of the results obtained with a time-dependent, one-zone toy model aimed at exploring the importance of radiative feedback on the... -
The Obscured X-ray Background and Evolution of AGN
The X-ray Background has been resolved in the 0.5– $5{\rm\thinspace keV}$... -
Synthetic Stellar Clusters for Pop III
We present preliminary results of an incoming theoretical work concerning the integrated properties of the Population III clusters of stars. On the... -
Dependence of r-process Yields on the Progenitor Masses of Type II Supernovae
The r-process in Type II supernovae has been examined using a semianalytic, general relativistic model of neutrino winds and a nuclear reaction...