Faculty with Research Groups studying Extragalactic Astrophysics and/or Cosmology
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high-energy astrophysics, optical and NIR observational astronomy, clusters of galaxies, radio galaxies |
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theoretical astrophysics, cosmology, computational astrophysics, galaxy formation & evolution, astrophysical applications of gravitational lensing |
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cosmology, cosmological distance indicators, Type Ia supernovae, dark energy, dark matter, the Hubble Constant |
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Milky Way formation and evolution; stellar and dark matter haloes; stellar streams; galactic dynamics; chemical evolution of galaxies |
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active galactic nuclei, blazars, relativistic plasma jets, high energy astrophysics, multi-wavelength astronomy, very long baseline interferometry |
Research Scientists with Related Research |
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Svetlana JorstadSenior Research Scientist |
Research Interests: (1) Kinematics of parsec-scale jets of gamma-ray blazars with the Very Long Baseline Array at 43 GHz (www.bu.edu/blazars/VLBAproject.html) (2) Studies of Emission Mechanisms in blazars based on multi-wavelength observations from radio wavelengths to gamma-rays (3) Studies of the magnetic field in blazars with multi-wavelength polarization observations (4) Search for emission line variability in gamma-ray blazars (5) Studies of accretion disk – jet connection in AGN (6) Imaging black hole shadows with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) |
Interdisciplinary Cosmology Group at Boston University |
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BU Cosmology Group |
Members from departments of Astronomy, Physics, and Data Sciences |