General information

Nuclear activity in galaxies is known to recur on different time scales. The study of this duty-cycle is a topic that has recently attracted a lot of attention. The combination of new ideas about the cycle of activity and a more detailed view of the energetics can provide the required crucial input for testing models of AGN feedback. Radio galaxies and their radio jets affect the surrounding medium on different physical scales and potentially play an important feedback role. Their actual impact depends on their duty-cycle and energetics, both still topics of discussion. Data coming from new radio and optical facilities as well as progress in numerical models are opening new and exciting possibilities, making the workshop very timely.

 

The topics we would like to discuss are:

  • duty-cycle of radio galaxies
  • duty-cycle and accretion mode
  • structure and impact of jets
  • radio-quiet and weak radio sources
  • energetics of jets
  • jet-environment interaction

 

FORMAT
The workshop will start Monday morning and finish on Wednesday afternoon. We plan to have a reception in the afternoon of Sunday 25th March. We foresee a relatively small workshop (about 50 participants) that will be held in the auditorium at ASTRON.

 

 

 

This event has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 730562 [RadioNet].

 

 

 


E-mail: secretaryastronomy@astron.nl