Research at the Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO (FINCA)

The research conducted at the Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO (FINCA) focuses on three large main fields of astronomy.

Operating at the University of Turku, FINCA is a national joint astronomy research centre of Aalto University, University of Helsinki, University of Oulu, and the University of Turku.

The research conducted at FINCA mainly concerns either the galaxies and cosmology or stellar astrophysics. Additionally, interstellar medium and star formation are studied at FINCA.

The most recent publications

SN 2023gpw: Exploring the diversity and power sources of hydrogen-rich superluminous supernovae (2026)

Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kangas, T.; Charalampopoulos, P.; Nagao, T.; Yan, L.; Stritzinger, M.; Schulze, S.; Das, K.; Elias-Rosa, N.; Fremling, C.; Perley, D.; Sollerman, J.; Muller-Bravo, T. E.; Galbany, L.; Groom, S. L.; Gutierrez, C. P.; Kasliwal, M. M.; Kotak, R.; Laher, R. R.; Lundqvist, P.; Mattila, S.; Smith, R.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)

Spatially resolved polarization swings in the supermassive binary black hole candidate OJ 287 with first Event Horizon Telescope observations (2026)

Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gómez, José L.; Cho, Ilje; Traianou, Efthalia; Krichbaum, Thomas P.; Zhao, Guang-Yao; Lico, Rocco; Fuentes, Antonio; Foschi, Marianna; Dahale, Rohan; Georgiev, Boris; Moriyama, Kotaro; Wielgus, Maciek; Gold, Roman; Pesce, Dominic W.; Müller, Hendrik; Jorstad, Svetlana; Toscano, Teresa; Röder, Jan; Martí, José M.; Perucho, Manel; Kovalev, Yuri Y.; Komossa, Stefanie; Gopakumar, Achamveedu; Valtonen, Mauri J.; Bruni, Gabriele; Chandra, Sunil; Akiyama, Kazunori; Albentosa-Ruíz, Ezequiel; Alberdi, Antxon; Alef, Walter; Carlos, Algaba Juan; Anantua, Richard; Asada, Keiichi; Azulay, Rebecca; Bach, Uwe; Baczko, Anne-Kathrin; Ball, David; Baloković, Mislav; Bandyopadhyay, Bidisha; Barrett, John; Bauböck, Michi; Benson, Bradford A.; Bintley, Dan; Blackburn, Lindy; Blundell, Raymond; Bouman, Katherine L.; Bower, Geoffrey C.; Bremer, Michael; Brissenden, Roger; Britzen, Silke; Broderick, Avery E.; Broguiere, Dominique; Bronzwaer, Thomas; Bustamante, Sandra; Carlos, Douglas F.; Carlstrom, John E.; Chael, Andrew; Chan, Chi-kwan; Chang, Dominic O.; Chatterjee, Koushik; Chatterjee, Shami; Chen, Ming-Tang; Chen, Yongjun; Cheng, Xiaopeng; Christian, Pierre; Conroy, Nicholas S.; Conway, John E.; Crawford, Thomas M.; Crew, Geoffrey B.; Cruz-Osorio, Alejandro; Cui, Yuzhu; Curd, Brandon; Davelaar, Jordy; De Laurentis, Mariafelicia; Deane, Roger; Dempsey, Jessica; Desvignes, Gregory; Dexter, Jason; Dhruv, Vedant; Dihingia, Indu K.; Doeleman, Sheperd S.; Dzib, Sergio A.; Eatough, Ralph P.; Emami, Razieh; Falcke, Heino; Farah, Joseph; Fish, Vincent L.; Fomalont, Edward; Alyson, Ford H.; Fraga-Encinas, Raquel; Freeman, William T.; Friberg, Per; Fromm, Christian M.; Galison, Peter; Gammie, Charles F.; García, Roberto; Gentaz, Olivier; Geertsema, Gertie; Goddi, Ciriaco; Gómez-Ruiz, Arturo I.; Gu, Minfeng; Gurwell, Mark; Hada, Kazuhiro; Haggard, Daryl; Hesper, Ronald; Heumann, Dirk; Ho, Luis C.; Ho, Paul; Honma, Mareki; Huang, Chih-Wei L.; Huang, Lei; Hughes, David H.; Ikeda, Shiro; Violette, Impellizzeri C. M.; Inoue, Makoto; Issaoun, Sara; James, David J.; Jannuzi, Buell T.; Janssen, Michael; Jeter, Britton; Jiang, Wu; Jiménez-Rosales, Alejandra; Johnson, Michael D.; Jones, Adam C.; Joshi, Abhishek V.; Jung, Taehyun; Karuppusamy, Ramesh; Kawashima, Tomohisa; Keating, Garrett K.; Kettenis, Mark; Kim, Dong-Jin; Kim, Jae-Young; Kim, Jongsoo; Kim, Junhan; Kino, Motoki; Koay, Jun Yi; Kocherlakota, Prashant; Kofuji, Yutaro; Koch, Patrick M.; Koyama, Shoko; Kramer, Carsten; Kramer, Joana A.; Kramer, Michael; Kuo, Cheng-Yu; La Bella, Noemi; Lee, Sang-Sung; Levis, Aviad; Li, Zhiyuan; Lindahl, Greg; Lindqvist, Michael; Lisakov, Mikhail; Liu, Jun; Liu, Kuo; Liuzzo, Elisabetta; Lo, Wen-Ping; Lobanov, Andrei P.; Loinard, Laurent; Lonsdale, Colin J.; Lowitz, Amy E.; Lu, Ru-Sen; MacDonald, Nicholas R.; Mao, Jirong; Marchili, Nicola; Markoff, Sera; Marrone, Daniel P.; Marscher, Alan P.; Martí-Vidal, Ivàn; Matsushita, Satoki; Matthews, Lynn D.; Medeiros, Lia; Menten, Karl M.; Mizuno, Izumi; Mizuno, Yosuke; Montgomery, Joshua; Moran, James M.; Moscibrodzka, Monika; Mulaudzi, Wanga; Müller, Cornelia; Mus, Alejandro; Musoke, Gibwa; Myserlis, Ioannis; Nagai, Hiroshi; Nagar, Neil M.; Nair, Dhanya G.; Nakamura, Masanori; Narayanan, Gopal; Natarajan, Iniyan; Nathanail, Antonios; Fuentes, Santiago Navarro; Neilsen, Joey; Ni, Chunchong; Nowak, Michael A.; Oh, Junghwan; Okino, Hiroki; Olivares Sánchez, Héctor Raúl; Oyama, Tomoaki; Özel, Feryal; Palumbo, Daniel C. M.; Filippos Paraschos, Georgios; Park, Jongho; Parsons, Harriet; Patel, Nimesh; Pen, Ue-Li; Piétu, Vincent; PopStefanija, Aleksandar; Porth, Oliver; Prather, Ben; Principe, Giacomo; Psaltis, Dimitrios; Pu, Hung-Yi; Ramakrishnan, Venkatessh; Rao, Ramprasad; Rawlings, Mark G.; Rezzolla, Luciano; Ricarte, Angelo; Ripperda, Bart; Roelofs, Freek; Romero-Cañizales, Cristina; Ros, Eduardo; Roshanineshat, Arash; Rottmann, Helge; Roy, Alan L.; Ruiz, Ignacio; Ruszczyk, Chet; Rygl, Kazi L. J.; Sánchez, Salvador; Sánchez-Argüelles, David; Sánchez-Portal, Miguel; Sasada, Mahito; Satapathy, Kaushik; Saurabh; Savolainen, Tuomas; Schloerb, F. Peter; Schonfeld, Jonathan; Schuster, Karl-Friedrich; Shao, Lijing; Shen, Zhiqiang; Silpa, Sasikumar; Small, Des; Won Sohn, Bong; SooHoo, Jason; Salas, León D. S.; Souccar, Kamal; Stanway, Joshua S.; Sun, He; Tazaki, Fumie; Tetarenko, Alexandra J.; Tiede, Paul; Tilanus, Remo P. J.; Titus, Michael; Toma, Kenji; Torne, Pablo; Trent, Tyler; Trippe, Sascha; Turk, Matthew; van Bemmel, Ilse; van Langevelde, Huib Jan; van Rossum, Daniel R.; Vos, Jesse; Wagner, Jan; Ward-Thompson, Derek; Wardle, John; Washington, Jasmin E.; Weintroub, Jonathan; Wharton, Robert; Wiik, Kaj; Witzel, Gunther; Wondrak, Michael F.; Wong George N.; Wu, Qingwen; Yadlapalli, Nitika; Yamaguchi, Paul; Yfantis, Aristomenis; Yoon, Doosoo; Young, André; Younsi, Ziri; Yu, Wei; Yuan, Feng; Yuan, Ye-Fei; Zeng, Ai-Ling; Zensus, J. Anton; Zhang, Shuo; Zhao, Shan-Shan
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)

Looking into the faintEst WIth MUSE (LEWIS): Exploring the nature of ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Hydra-I cluster IV. A study of the globular cluster population in four ultra-diffuse galaxies (2026)

Astronomy and Astrophysics
Mirabile, Marco; Cantiello, Michele; Rejkuba, Marina; Mieske, Steffen; Iodice, Enrichetta; Buttitta, Chiara; Luisa Buzzo, Maria; Hartke, Johanna; Doll, Goran; Rossi, Luca; Arnaboldi, Magda; Branchesi, Marica; D'Ago, Giuseppe; Falcon-Barroso, Jesus; Fahrion, Katja; Forbes, Duncan A.; Gullieuszik, Marco; Hilker, Michael; Lohmann, Felipe S.; Paolillo, Maurizio; Riccio, Gabriele; Richtler, Tom; Spavone, Marilena
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)