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  • December 9, 2021
    Matthew Temple was awarded time with XMM-Newton to observe a few very interesting nearby BASS AGN (his very first X-ray proposal), congratulations!
     

  • November 2, 2021
    Jeffrey McKaig's first paper, X-ray Simulations of Polar Gas in Accreting Supermassive Black Holes, has been accepted for publication on MNRAS.
     

  • October 27, 2021
    Alessia Tortosa's paper, The extreme properties of the nearby hyper-Eddington accreting Active Galactic Nucleus in IRAS 04416+1215, has been accepted for publication on MNRAS.
     

  • October 14, 2021
    I was awarded a ESO-Chile Comite Mixto grant to hire a postdoc for two years to work on AGN in the X-ray band.
     

  • September 22, 2021
    Taiki Kawamuro's paper, Hard X-ray Irradiation Potentially Drives Negative AGN Feedback by Altering Molecular Gas Properties, has been accepted for publication on ApJS.
     

  • August 31, 2021
    I have been promoted to Associate professor!
     

  • August 24, 2021
    Jeffrey McKaig submitted his first paper, "X-ray Simulations of Polar Gas in Accreting Supermassive Black Holes", to MNRAS.
     

  • August 21, 2021
    I had the pleasure of chatting with Frank Timmes about our X-ray monitoring campaign of 1ES1927 for the AAS Journal Author Series. Here is the video.
     

  • August 6, 2021
    The ALMA proposals of Alejandra Rojas, Matthew Temple and Taiki Kawamuro have been accepted, congratulations! My 25h survey of a volume-limited sample of AGN was also accepted (priority A).
     

  • August 4, 2021
    Our ALMA/X-ray monitoring campaign of IC4329A will start on Friday August 7, with the first Swift observation. Over the following 40 days (until Sept. 15) the source will be observed by Swift (10), XMM-Newton (10), NuSTAR (5) and NICER (20). ALMA will start the monitoring campaign on August 27.
     

  • July 15, 2021
    Carolina Andonie (now PhD student at Durham University) submitted her first paper, A multiwavelength-motivated X-ray model for the Circinus Galaxy, to MNRAS. This work started during Carolina's bachelor thesis, and continued during her master.
     

  • July 9, 2021
    My latest paper, A hard X-ray view of Luminous and Ultra-luminous Infrared Galaxies in GOALS: I – AGN obscuration along the merger sequence, has been accepted for publication on MNRAS.
     

  • July 2, 2021
    Taiki Kawamuro's latest work was featured in a EAS press release during the EAS 2021 meeting. Here is the Spanish version of the press release.
     

  • July 2, 2021
    Our symposium at the EAS 2021 meeting just concluded, with a typical attendance of 120-150 people during the two days.
     

  • June 10, 2021
    The program of our symposium at the EAS meeting is now online
     

  • April 26, 2021
    Both Alessia Tortosa and Taiki Kawamuro had their NuSTAR proposals accepted, congratulations! My proposal to monitor IC4329A was also accepted (100ks).
     

  • April 15, 2021
    Alejandra Rojas is joining our group. She is starting today her Fondecyt fellowship, which will be carried out jointly between Universidad de Antofagasta (in the group of Mederic Boquien) and UDP. 
     

  • March 16, 2021
    A total of 180 abstracts were submitted to our EAS symposium The many faces of black hole accretion.
     

  • March 15, 2021
    Kriti Gupta's first paper, BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey XXVII: Scattered X-Ray Radiation in Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei, has been accepted for publication on MNRAS!
     

  • February 11, 2021
    Giorgos Dimopoulos (National Observatory of Athens, Greece) was awarded an ANID fellowship, and will start his PhD in our group in March.
     

  • February 9, 2021
    The second paper based on the X-ray monitoring campaign of 1ES 1927, The 450 days X-ray monitoring of the changing-look AGN 1ES 1927+654, has been accepted for publication in ApJS.
     

  • February 5, 2021
    Ryan Pfeifle's paper, BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey-XXIII. A New Mid-Infrared Diagnostic for Absorption in Active Galactic Nuclei, has been accepted for publication in ApJS.
     

  • January 2021
    Registration for our EAS symposium The many faces of black hole accretion is now open
     

  • December 11, 2020
    Several members of my group gave a talk at the Supermassive black holes: formation, evolution and growth online conference. Here you can find the Youtube videos of their talks:
    - Kriti Gupta
    - Jeffrey McKaig
    - Matthew Temple
    and here is my talk
     

  • November 29, 2020
    Our proposal for a symposium during the next EAS meeting in Leiden (June/July 2021) has been accepted! "The many faces of black hole accretion" symposium will be held online on July 1-2. The idea of the symposium is to discuss the wealth of multi-wavelength data that has been collected over the past few years, and the prospects to advance our knowledge of AGN physics in the near future. We plan to discuss both observations and recent theoretical results during the meeting, with the goal of gathering the European AGN community, a year before JWST will begin to revolutionise our view of galaxy evolution, to discuss the state of our knowledge in nearby SMBHs, and to forge synergies among forthcoming facilities and JWST.
     

  • November 19, 2020
    Kriti Gupta submitted her first first-author paper: BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey XXVII: Scattered X-Ray Radiation in Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei.
     

  • November 6, 2020
    Taiki Kawamuro and Kriti Gupta gave a talk at the AGN Santiago group meeting
     

  • November 2, 2020
    Matthew Temple joined our group as a postdoc. Matthew just finished his PhD at Cambridge University, and he will be working on several aspects of the AGN phenomenon, focussing on the relation between AGN outflows and galaxies. Matthew will start working remotely, we hope to welcome him soon in Santiago!
     

  • October 7, 2020
    Taiki Kawamuro arrived Santiago to join our group as a Fondecyt postdoc. Taiki started his postdoc remotely in March from Japan, and he is working on combining submm and X-ray observations of AGN, in order to understand the influence accreting SMBHs have on their host galaxies.
     

  • July 16, 2020
    The first paper on the X-ray campaign of 1ES1927+654 was published, together with a NASA press release.

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