Giovedì 24 ottobre alle ore 15:00, il Prof. Maurizio Paolillo dell’Università di Napoli Federico II terrà il seminario dal titolo “Understanding the Active Galactic Nuclei paradigm through variability studies: a path toward LSST”.

Abstract
While accreting supermassive Black Holes are now accepted as a common and fundamental phenomenon to understand both fundamental physics as well as the formation and evolution of structures in the Universe, a full understanding of the AGN paradigm still eludes physicists and astronomers. Variability studies have been pivotal in building the so-called “unified model” of AGN, trying to explain the complex structure and often contradictory manifestations of accreting Black Holes; however the physical mechanism producing the astonishing changes in luminosity at every wavelength and at all timescales, remains a mystery. I will review the status of our current knowledge, highlighting the role that wide-field monitoring surveys have played in recent years in trying to solve this puzzle and the expectations from next generation wide-field surveys such as the Legacy Survey of Time and Space.
 
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