Raffaella Morganti web page

I am senior staff astronomer at ASTRON and Head of the Astronomy Group. I am also professor of astronomy at the Kapteyn Institute in Groningen. Here is my CV.

You can reach me at morgantiAtastron.nl

My research: HI in early-type and radio galaxies

0648 HI

  1. Gas in the nuclear region of (radio loud) AGN. Using HI to trace outflow, feeding of theAGN and circumnuc lear disks
  2. Gas-rich mergers and radio galaxies: relation with radio morphology?
  3. Centaurus A - detailed study of the HI in this nearby radio galaxy
  4. Neutral hydrogen in early-type galaxies - connectionto formation and evolution of these galaxies (Sauron sample, ATLAS3D, HIPASS sample)

See a summary of the recent results:

HI absorption in radio galaxies: fast nuclear outflows

Neutral hydrogen around early-type galaxies: relicts of their formation?

 

My research: Deep Fields

I am part of the LOFAR Survey Core Team. My main interest is evolution of radio galaxies and cyclical activity. In particular I study the very early phase - very young radio sources (CSS/GPS) - and old relics.

  1. see the summary of some recent results on deep fields
  2. study the spectral properties of the AGN at sub-mJy radio flux, in order to disentangle different accretion regimes (see paper The AGN component in deep radio fields: Results from the First Look Survey - Prandoni, Morganti & Mignano)

PhD students:

Life-cycle of radio sources - Aleksandar Shuvelski (Kapteyn/ASTRON)

Neutral hydrogen and radio sources: a large absorption survey - Katinka Gereb (Kapteyn/ASTRON)

The AGN component in deep radio fields: a LOFAR perspective - Gabriele Guglielmino (INAF Bologna/ASTRON)

Past PhD students:

The role of neutral hydrogen in the evolution of nearby radio galaxies - Christian Struve (Kapteyn Institute /ASTRON)

 

 

 

One night I was, as usual, observing the sky with my telescope. I noticed that a sign was hanging from a galaxy a hundred milion light-years away. On it was written: I SAW YOU.

I.Calvino "Cosmicomics"