Crete High-Energy Astrophysics and Cosmology Group
Vasiliki Pavlidou (pavlidou at physics.uoc.gr)
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.
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.