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Activity of the Group for
Astrophysical Spectroscopy GAS
Luka Č. Popović
Astronomical Observatory, Belgrade, Serbia
Four projects financed by Ministry of
education and science
Pr176001 – Astrophyscal spectroscopy of extragalactic Objects
• Edi Bon (PhD 2010)
• Miodrag Dacic (until 2011, in pension)
• Milan Dimitrijevic (until 2011, now involved in interdisciplinar
project, leaded by D. Jevremovic)
• Natasa Gavrilovic-Bon (PhD in 2011)
• Dragana Ilic
• Predrag Jovanovic
• Andjelka Kovacevic
• Jelena Kovacevic (PhD in 2011)
• Luka Popovic
• Sasa Simic
• Marko Stalevski (PhD student)
Pr176001 – Astrophyscal spectroscopy of extragalactic
Objects – Participants from another institutions
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Evangelia Lyratzy (Greece)
Evencio Mediavilla (Spain)
Alla I. Shapovalova (Russia)
Three EM students working on subjects
from the project
• Payaswini, Nemanja and Luca
Some conferences – 8 SCSLSA
Last two years (2010 to 2012) we published 41 papers, 14 in
the journals from ISI list
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8 SCSLSA in June 2011, Proceedings in Baltic Astronomy, Vol. 20 (Eds. L.
C. Popovic, D. Ilic and D. Jevremovic)
Workshop on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries – Proc. New Astronomy
Reviews, Volume 56, Issue 2 (Ed L. C. Popovic)
SPIG 2010 Proc. in Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 257, Issue
1 (Eds. L. C. Popovic and M. Kuraica)
Three PhD thesis, Edi, Natasha and Jelena
Participation in two COST actions: MP0905 Black Holes in a Violent
Unvierse (MC L. Popovic and P. Jovanovic) and MP 1104 Polarization in
Astronomy (MC D. Ilic and L. Popovic)
Participation in EM master studies in Astrophysics – Astromundus (D. Ilic, L.
Popovic)
Subjects
• Active Galactic Nuclei
• Gravitational Lensis
• Gamma Ray Bursts
АGN
AGN Part
• Central Part (monitoring program with A.I. Shapovalova –
Russia, V. Chavushian – Mexico and W. Kollatschny –
Germany) and SDSS spectra. Work of Payaswini and
Nemanja
• Physics of the BLR (P. Rafanelli and G. La Mura – Italy)
• Broad Absorption Lines in AGN (E. Danezis and V.
Lyratzi – Greece)
• Polarization in the BLR (here to talk with V. Afanasiev Russia)
• AGN Torus (part of M. Stalevski PhD, M. Baes –
Belgium)
• Stellar populations in AGNs (Natasha Gavrilovic-Bon,
collaboration with Lyon Observatory – France)
Disk emission in the optical broad lines –
geometry of the BLR – e.g. 3C390.3
• Eracleous & Halpern
1994, 2003, ApJ
• Shapovalova, Popovic,
Burenkov et al. 2010,
A&A
• Popovic, Shapovalova,
Ilic et al. 2011, A&A
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Double peaked lines
Very broad
Radio loud AGN
Variability in line
intensities and line shapes
(Shapovalova, Popovic et
al. 2010, Popovic et al.
2011)
• Very small fraction, 3-5%,
of BLAGN
Gravitational lensing
• Obs. 6m telescope
SAO (A. Moeseev)
Theoretical part
E. Mediavilla – Spain
Stalevski et al. 2012,
Sent to MNRAS
Lensing of the torus
Gamma ray bursts
• Modified Shock
wave model
(Simic & Popovic
2012, IJMPD)
Luca is working on
multi-peaked GRB
light curves
Mergers of galaxies & AGNs
(see Popovic 2012, NewAR, review paper)
Hierarchical galaxy formation in
CDM cosmology (Credit: MPA)
Begelman, Blandford, Rees, 1980, Nat
binary AGNs ~
1.4 kpc
(Komossa et al., 2003)
SMBHBs at Sgr A*? (Hansen
& Milosavljevic 2003)
IMBHs in
global clusters?
NGC4472 (Maccorane
et al, 2007, Nat)
Some interesting profiles
We are here to discuss
• E.g. Spectral line
polarization and
binary black holes
• UV & Optical
spectra AGN
• Variabilty of
AGNs, monitoring
projects
• GRBs and high
energy emission of
AGNs
• The structure and
physics of the BLR
• Etc.