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

Ordered magnetic fields around the 3C 84 central black hole (2024)

Astronomy and Astrophysics
Paraschos G, Kim J, Wielgus M, Röder J, Krichbaum T, Ros E, Agudo I, Myserlis I, Moscibrodzka M, Traianou E, Zensus J, Blackburn L, Chan C, Issaoun S, Janssen M, Johnson M, Fish V, Akiyama K, Alberdi A, Alef W, Algaba J, Anantua R, Asada K, Azulay R, Bach U, Baczko A, Ball D, Baloković M, Barrett J, Bauböck M, Benson B, Bintley D, Blundell R, Bouman K, Bower G, Boyce H, Bremer M, Brinkerink C, Brissenden R, Britzen S, Broderick A, Broguiere D, Bronzwaer T, Bustamante S, Byun D, Carlstrom J, Ceccobello C, Chael A, Chang D, Chatterjee K, Chatterjee S, Chen M, Chen Y, Cheng X, Cho I, Christian P, Conroy N, Conway J, Cordes J, Crawford T, Crew G, Cruz-Osorio A, Cui Y, Dahale R, Davelaar J, De Laurentis M, Deane R, Dempsey J, Desvignes G, Dexter J, Dhruv V, Doeleman S, Dougal S, Dzib S, Eatough R, Emami R, Falcke H, Farah J, Fomalont E, Ford H, Foschi M, Fraga-Encinas R, Freeman W, Friberg P, Fromm C, Fuentes A, Galison P, Gammie C, García R, Gentaz O, Georgiev B, Goddi C, Gold R, Gómez-Ruiz A, Gómez J, Gu M, Gurwell M, Hada K, Haggard D, Haworth K, Hecht M, Hesper R, Heumann D, Ho L, Ho P, Honma M, Huang C, Huang L, Hughes D, Ikeda S, Impellizzeri C, Inoue M, James D, Jannuzi B, Jeter B, Jaing W, Jiménez-Rosales A, Jorstad S, Joshi A, Jung T, Karami M, Karuppusamy R, Kawashima T, Keating G, Kettenis M, Kim D, Kim J, Kim J, Kino M, Koay J, Kocherlakota P, Kofuji Y, Koch P, Koyama S, Kramer C, Kramer J, Kramer M, Kuo C, La Bella N, Lauer T, Lee D, Lee S, Leung P, Levis A, Li Z, Lico R, Lindahl G, Lindqvist M, Lisakov M, Liu J, Liu K, Liuzzo E, Lo W, Lobanov A, Loinard L, Lonsdale C, Lowitz A, Lu R, MacDonald N, Mao J, Marchili N, Markoff S, Marrone D, Marscher A, Martí-Vidal I, Matsushita S, Matthews L, Medeiros L, Menten K, Michalik D, Mizuno I, Mizuno Y, Moran J, Moriyama K, Mulaudzi W, Müller C, Müller H, Mus A, Musoke G, Nadolski A, Nagai H, Nagar N, Nakamura M, Narayanan G, Natarajan I, Nathanail A, Navarro Fuentes S, Neilsen J, Neri R, Ni C, Noutsos A, Nowak M, Oh J, Okino H, Olivares H, Ortiz-León G, Oyama T, ÖZel F, Palumbo D, Park J, Parsons H, Patel N, Pen U, Piétu V, Plambeck R, Popstefanija A, Porth O, Pötzl F, Prather B, Preciado-López J, Psaltis D, Pu H, Ramakrishnan V, Rao R, Rawlings M, Raymond A, Rezzolla L, Ricarte A, Ripperda B, Roelofs F, Rogers A, Romero-Cañizales C, Roshanineshat A, Rottmann H, Roy A, Ruiz I, Ruszczyk C, Rygl K, Sánchez S, Sánchez-Argüelles D, Sánchez-Portal M, Sasada M, Satapathy K, Savolainen T, Schloerb F, Schonfeld J, Schuster K, Shao L, Shen Z, Small D, Sohn B, Soohoo J, Sosapanta Salas L, Souccar K, Sun H, Tazaki F, Tetarenko A, Tiede P, Tilanus R, Titus M, Torne P, Toscano T, Trent T, Trippe S, Turk M, Van Bemmel I, Van Langevelde H, Van Rossum D, Vos J, Wagner J, Ward-Thompson D, Wardle J, Washington J, Weintroub J, Wharton R, Wiik K, Witzel G, Wondrak M, Wong G, Wu Q, Yadlapalli N, Yamaguchi P, Yfantis A, Yoon D, Young A, Young K, Younsi Z, Yu W, Yuan F, Yuan Y, Zhang S, Zhao G, Zhao S
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)

Detection of X-Ray Polarization from the Blazar 1ES 1959+650 with the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (2024)

Astrophysical Journal
Errando M., Liodakis Ioannis, Marscher A.P., Marshall H.L., Middei R., Negro M., Peirson A.L., Perri M., Puccetti S., Rabinowitz P.L., Agudo I., Jorstad S.G., Savchenko S.S., Blinov D., Bourbah I.G., Kiehlmann S., Kontopodis E., Mandarakas N., Romanopoulos S., Skalidis R., Vervelaki A., Aceituno F.J., Bernardos M.I., Bonnoli G., Casanova V., Agís-González B., Husillos C., Marchini A., Sota A., Kouch P.M., Lindfors E., Casadio C., Escudero J., Myserlis I., Imazawa R., Sasada M., Fukazawa Y., Kawabata K.S., Uemura M., Mizuno T., Nakaoka T., Akitaya H., Gurwell M., Keating G.K., Rao R., Ingram A., Massaro F., Antonelli L.A., Bonino R., Cavazzuti E., Chen C.T., Cibrario N., Ciprini S., De Rosa A., Di Gesu L., Di Pierro F., Donnarumma I., Ehlert S.R., Fenu F., Gau E., Karas V., Kim D.E., Krawczynski H., Laurenti M., Lisalda L., López-Coto R., Madejski G., Marin F., Marinucci A., Mitsuishi I., Muleri F., Pacciani L., Paggi A., Petrucci P.O., Rodriguez Cavero N., Romani R.W., Tavecchio F., Tugliani S., Wu K., Bachetti M., Baldini L., Baumgartner W.H., Bellazzini R., Bianchi S., Bongiorno S.D., Brez A., Bucciantini N., Capitanio F., Castellano S., Costa E., Del Monte E., Di Lalla N., Di Marco A., Doroshenko V., Dovčiak M., Enoto T., Evangelista Y., Fabiani S., Ferrazzoli R., Garcia J.A., Gunji S., Hayashida K., Heyl J., Iwakiri W., Kaaret P., Kislat F., Kitaguchi T., Kolodziejczak J.J., La Monaca F., Latronico L., Maldera S., Manfreda A., Matt G., Ng C.Y., O’Dell S.L., Omodei N., Oppedisano C., Papitto A., Pavlov G.G., Pesce-Rollins M., Pilia M., Possenti A., Poutanen J., Ramsey B.D., Rankin J., Ratheesh A., Roberts O.J., Sgrò C., Slane P., Soffitta P., Spandre G., Swartz D.A., Tamagawa T., Taverna R., Tawara Y., Tennant A.F., Thomas N.E., Tombesi F., Trois A., Tsygankov S.S., Turolla R., Vink J., Weisskopf M.C., Xie F., Zane S.
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))

Evidence for bipolar explosions in Type IIP supernovae (2024)

Astronomy and Astrophysics
Nagao, T.; Maeda, K.; Mattila, S.; Kuncarayakti, H.; Kawabata, M.; Taguchi, K.; Nakaoka, T.; Cikota, A.; Bulla, M.; Vasylyev, S. S.; Gutiérrez, C. P.; Yamanaka, M.; Isogai, K.; Uno, K.; Ogawa, M.; Inutsuka, S.; Tsurumi, M.; Imazawa, R.; Kawabata, K. S.
(B1 Other refereed article (e.g., editorial, letter, comment) in a scientific journal)