{"id":9040,"date":"2020-09-08T16:12:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T20:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/?page_id=9040"},"modified":"2025-10-17T20:04:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:04:36","slug":"extragalactic-cosmology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/research\/extragalactic-cosmology\/","title":{"rendered":"Extragalactic & Cosmology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Faculty with Research Groups studying Extragalactic Astrophysics and\/or Cosmology<\/h2>\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n\tResearch Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n

high-energy astrophysics, optical and NIR observational astronomy, clusters of galaxies, radio galaxies<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n\tResearch Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n

theoretical astrophysics, cosmology, computational astrophysics, galaxy formation & evolution, astrophysical applications of gravitational lensing<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n\tResearch Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n

cosmology, cosmological distance indicators, Type Ia supernovae, dark energy, dark matter, the Hubble Constant<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n\tResearch Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Milky Way formation and evolution; stellar and dark matter haloes; stellar streams; galactic dynamics; chemical evolution of galaxies<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n\tResearch Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n

active galactic nuclei, blazars, relativistic plasma jets, high energy astrophysics, multi-wavelength astronomy, very long baseline interferometry<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Research Scientists with Related Research<\/h2>\n

<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Svetlana Jorstad<\/a><\/h3>\n

Senior Research Scientist<\/small>
\n(Institute for Astrophysical Research<\/i><\/strong><\/small>)\n<\/td>\n

Research Interests:<\/strong>
\n
\n (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<\/a>)<\/i><\/small>
\n (2) Studies of Emission Mechanisms in blazars based on multi-wavelength observations from radio wavelengths to gamma-rays<\/i><\/small>
\n (3) Studies of the magnetic field in blazars with multi-wavelength polarization observations<\/i><\/small>
\n (4) Search for emission line variability in gamma-ray blazars<\/i><\/small>
\n (5) Studies of accretion disk \u2013 jet connection in AGN<\/i><\/small>
\n (6) Imaging black hole shadows with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)
\n<\/i><\/small>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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<\/p>\n

Interdisciplinary Cosmology Group at Boston University<\/h2>\n

<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

BU Cosmology Group<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n

Members from departments of Astronomy, Physics<\/a>, and Data Sciences<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

 
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Faculty with Research Groups studying Extragalactic Astrophysics and\/or Cosmology Research Interests: high-energy astrophysics, optical and NIR observational astronomy, clusters of galaxies, radio galaxies Research Interests: theoretical astrophysics, cosmology, computational astrophysics, galaxy formation & evolution, astrophysical applications of gravitational lensing Research Interests: cosmology, cosmological distance indicators, Type Ia supernovae, dark energy, dark matter, the Hubble Constant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7810,"featured_media":0,"parent":8676,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/landing.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9040"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11750,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9040\/revisions\/11750"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}