Happy New Year!
🎆 The AHEAD2020 team wishes you all a wonderful and creative New Year full of discoveries and new experiences! 🎆 We are looking #AHEAD to a wealthy and prosperous #2023!
Author: Dr. Ektoras Pouliasis
TALK: “Obscured AGN and outflows with eROSITA” by Prof. Marcella Brusa (Bologna Univ.)
Marcella Brusa Bologna Univ.Obscured AGN and outflows with eROSITAThursday 22 December, 12.00p.m. IAASARS NOA is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Extragalactic Talk. M. Brusa (Univ. Bologna)Time: Dec 22, 2022 12:00 Athens If you would like to attend, Read More …
The Coldest Place in Outer Space!
❄️❄️❄️ To enable the observation of the X-ray Universe, the X-ray Integral Field Unit must be cooled down to a temperature close to the absolute zero. This movie presents the technologies involved in the X-IFU cryogenic chain, which makes its Read More …
High-energy gamma-ray emission from a compact binary merger!
On December 11, 2021, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory satellite observed a gamma-ray burst, named GRB 211211A that is one of the brightest ever observed. Then, ground-based and space-based telescopes started to follow up GRB 211211A to obtain images at Read More …
TALK: “Determining the intrinsic relation between X-ray and UV/optical tracers of AGN activity” by Amy Rankine (U. Edinburgh)
IAASARS NOA is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Extragalactic Talk. Amy RankineTime: Dec 8, 2022 12:00 Athens If you would like to attend, please send an e-mail to epouliasis@noa.gr and ig@noa.gr for the Zoom credentials.
Rare cosmic explosion blasts hole in established science
On Dec. 11, 2021, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory detected a blast of high-energy light from a galaxy roughly 1 billion light-years away. The event, which was simultaneously detected by Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, brings into question what was thought Read More …
TALK: “The characterization of the obscuring material in the nearby changing-lookCompton thick AGN NGC 1358: results of a multi-year NuSTAR-XMM-Newton monitoring” by Dr. S. Marchesi (INAF/OAS Bologna)
IAASARS NOA is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Extragalactic Seminars. S. Marchesi (INAF/OAS)Time: Dec 1, 2022 12:00 Athens If you would like to attend, please send an e-mail to epouliasis@noa.gr and ig@noa.gr for the Zoom credentials.
TALK: “GAIA: the extragalactic content” by Prof. D. Hatzidimitriou (UoA)
IAASARS NOA is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Extragalactic seminars. D. HatzidimitriouTime: Nov 17, 2022 12:00 Athens If you would like to attend, please send an e-mail to epouliasis@noa.gr and ig@noa.gr for the Zoom credentials.
National Observatory of Athens presents the movie: “Unvealing the Invisible Universe” («Αποκαλύποντας το αόρατο Σύμπαν», Ελληνικά πιο κάτω)
On Saturday, November 19th 2022, the film entitled “Unvealing the Invisible Universe” will be screened at the Penteli Visitor Center of the National Observatory of Athens. The film has been created within the framework of the European program AHEAD2020, directed Read More …
Angel Ruiz
🚀 Angel is a post-doctoral researcher at the National Observatory of Athens, His research is focused on extra-galactic astronomy, mainly in studying Active Galactic Nuclei. Within AHEAD2020 he contributes to the development of an X-ray source detection code that uses Read More …