ACTIVE GALAXIES

Supermassive black holes power relativistic jets, which are responsible for some of the most spectacular phenomena in the Universe. Our group uses a multiwavelength, multi-messenger, multi-technique approach to study these powerful sources. These include the pioneering RoboPol optopolarimetric monitoring program, radio observations, gamma-ray observations, neutrino observations, and theoretical, statistical studies.

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Selected Publications:  

• RoboPol: connection between optical polarization plane rotations and gamma-ray flares in blazars, Blinov et al. 2018, MNRAS 

• Scale Invariant Jets: From Blazars to Microquasars, Liodakis et al. 2017, ApJL 

• Population statistics of beamed sources - II. Evaluation of Doppler factor estimates, Liodakis et al. 2015, MNRAS

• The RoboPol optical polarization survey of gamma-ray-loud blazars, Pavlidou et al. 2014, MNRAS

Our AGN research has been funded by the GSRT Aristeia program through the RoboPol project and by the European Commission MSCA program through the JetPop and EuroCal projects.