Luminous quasars as laboratories for the formation and evolution of SMBH/galaxy systems
IFPU
9-13 June 2025
The formation and evolution of SMBHs and their host galaxies is a complex, multi-scale phenomenon with many unsolved aspects especially in the first few billion years of the Universe. In this regard, the most luminous quasars powered by the most massive SMBH provide exceptional laboratories for the investigation of such processes.
The program addresses the following four main research lines: 1. The central engine; 2. Host galaxy and circumgalactic environment; 3. Feeding & Feedback: 4. Formation and evolution of SMBHs and Quasars. These research lines will be approached from a multi-band perspective and through collaborative efforts between observational and theoretical scientists. Our goal is to test and refine current SMBH/host formation and evolutionary models.
Our small-scale meeting foresees 5 days of scientific activities and aims to join the theoretical and observational side of the community in the field of formation and evolution of quasars and their host galaxies.
Meeting website: https://sites.google.com/inaf.it/focusweek-luminous-quasars
Organisers:
- Luca Zappacosta (INAF-OAR; Chair)
- Enrico Piconcelli (INAF-OAR; co-Chair)
- Chiara Feruglio (INAF-OATs; local organizer)
- Manuela Bischetti (UniTS; local organizer)
Participants:
- Silvia Belladitta (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)
- Manuela Bischetti (UniTS)
- Stefano Carniani (Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa)
- Tiago Costa (Newcastle University)
- Valentina D’Odorico (INAF-OATs)
- Emanuele Paolo Farina (International Gemini Observatory/NFS NOIRLab)
- Chiara Feruglio (INAF-OATs)
- Fabrizio Fiore (INAF-OATs)
- Fabio Fontanot (INAF-OATs)
- Francesco Haardt (University of Insubria)
- Christopher Harrison (Newcastle University)
- Giorgio Lanzuisi (INAF-OAS)
- Michele Perna (CAB/INTA-CSIC)
- Enrico Piconcelli (INAF-OAR)
- Daniel Proga (University of Nevada)
- Francesco Salvestrini (INAF-OATs)
- Rosa Valiante (INAF-OAR)
- Giustina Vietri (INAF-IASF)
- Dominika Wylezalek (Heidelberg University)
- Luca Zappacosta (INAF-OAR)
- Kastytis Zubovas (Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Vilnius)