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

Rapid-Response Characterization of Near-Earth Asteroid 2024 YR4 During a Torino Scale 3 Alert (2026)

Journal of the Astronautical Sciences
Devogèle, Maxime; Hainaut, Olivier R.; Micheli, Marco; Pravec, Petr; Cano, Juan Luis; Ocaña, Francisco; Conversi, Luca; Moskovitz, Nicholas; de León, Julia; Gray, Zuri; Granvik, Mikael; Fedorets, Grigori; de Micas, Jules Bourdelle; Ieva, Simone; Dotto, Elisabetta; Beuden, Tracie; Fuls, Carson; Kareta, Theodore; Bagnulo, Stefano; Barucci, Maria Antonella; Birlan, Mirel; Farina, Andrea; Hornoch, Kamil; Fatka, Petr; Kušnirák, Peter; Ferri, Francesca; Fulchignoni, Marcello; Lazzarin, Monica; La Forgia, Fiorangela; Epifani, Elena Mazzotta; Mura, Alessandra; Perna, Davide; Bendjoya, Philippe; Rivet, Jean-Pierre; Cellino, Alberto
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)

Detection of an Optical Quasiperiodic Oscillation in the Blazar 3C 454.3 (2026)

Astrophysical Journal
Dogra, Karan; Gupta, Alok C.; Raiteri, C. M.; Villata, M.; Wiita, Paul J.; Valtonen, Mauri J.; Kurtanidze, S. O.; Jorstad, S. G.; Bachev, R.; Damljanovic, G.; Lorey, C.; Savchenko, S. S.; Vince, O.; Abdelkareem, M.; Aceituno, F. J.; Acosta-Pulido, J. A.; Agudo, I.; Andreuzzi, G.; Ata, S. A.; Baida, G. V.; Barbieri, L.; Blinov, D. A.; Bonnoli, G.; Borman, G. A.; Carnerero, M. I.; Carosati, D.; Casanova, V.; Chen, W. P.; Cui, Lang; Devanand, P. U.; Elhosseiny, E. G.; Elsaesser, D.; Escudero, J.; Fan, J. H.; Feige, M.; Gazeas, K.; Grishina, T. S.; Gu, Minfeng; Hagen-Thorn, V. A.; Hemrich, F.; Hsiao, H. Y.; Ismail, M.; Ivanidze, R. Z.; Jovanovic, M. D.; Kamel, T. M.; Kimeridze, G. N.; Kishore, Shubham; Kopatskaya, E. N.; Kuberek, D.; Kurtanidze, O. M.; Kurtenkov, A.; Larionov, V. M.; Larionova, Elena G.; Larionova, L. V.; Lin, H. C.; Marchini, A.; Marinelli, C.; Marscher, A. P.; Morcuende, D.; Morozova, D. A.; Nazarov, S. V.; Nikolashvili, M. G.; Reinhart, D.; Otero-Santos, J.; Scherbantin, A.; Semkov, E.; Shishkina, E. V.; Sigua, L. A.; Singh, A. K.; Sota, A.; Steineke, R.; Stojanovic, M.; Strigachev, A.; Takey, A.; Tawfeek, Amira A.; Tripathi, Tushar; Troitskiy, I. S.; Troitskaya, Y. V.; Tsai, An-Li; Vasilyev, A. A.; Vrontaki, K.; Zhang, Zhongli; Zhovtan, A. V.; Zottmann, N.; Zuo, Wenwen
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)

Full-polarization millimeter wavelength variability of Sagittarius A* during the 2018 EHT campaign (2026)

Astronomy and Astrophysics
Albentosa-Ruiz, Ezequiel; Washington, Jasmin E.; Marchili, Nicola; Marti-Vidal, Ivan; Goddi, Ciriaco; Wielgus, Maciek; Mus, Alejandro; Ricarte, Angelo; Marrone, Daniel P.; Salas, Leon D. S.; Iwata, Yuhei; Carlos, Douglas F.; Tetarenko, Alexandra J.; Moriyama, Kotaro; Dhruv, Vedant; Akiyama, Kazunori; Alberdi, Antxon; Alef, Walter; Algaba, Juan Carlos; Anantua, Richard; Asada, Keiichi; Azulay, Rebecca; Bach, Uwe; Baczko, Anne-Kathrin; Ball, David; Balokovic, Mislav; Bandyopadhyay, Bidisha; Barrett, John; Baubock, 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; Carlstrom, John E.; Chael, Andrew; Chan, Chi-kwan; Chang, Dominic O.; Chatterjee, Koushik; Chatterjee, Shami; Chen, Ming-Tang; Chen, Yongjun; Cheng, Xiaopeng; Christian, Pierre; Cho, Ilje; Conroy, Nicholas S.; Conway, John E.; Crawford, Thomas M.; Crew, Geoffrey B.; Cruz-Osorio, Alejandro; Cui, Yuzhu; Curd, Brandon; Dahale, Rohan; Davelaar, Jordy; De laurentis, Mariafelicia; Deane, Roger; Dempsey, Jessica; Desvignes, Gregory; Dexter, Jason; Dihingia, Indu K.; Doeleman, Sheperd S.; Dzib, Sergio A.; Eatough, Ralph P.; Emami, Razieh; Falcke, Heino; Farah, Joseph; Fish, Vincent L.; Fomalont, Edward; Ford, H. Alyson; Foschi, Marianna; Fuentes, Antonio; Fraga-Encinas, Raquel; Freeman, William T.; Friberg, Per; Fromm, Christian M.; Galison, Peter; Gammie, Charles F.; Garcia, Roberto; Gentaz, Olivier; Geertsema, Gertie; Georgiev, Boris; Gold, Roman; Gomez, Jose L.; Gomez-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; Impellizzeri, C. M. Violette; Inoue, Makoto; Issaoun, Sara; James, David J.; Jannuzi, Buell T.; Janssen, Michael; Jeter, Britton; Jiang, Wu; Jimenez-Rosales, Alejandra; Johnson, Michael D.; Jones, Adam C.; Jorstad, Svetlana; 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; Krichbaum, Thomas P.; Kuo, Cheng-Yu; La Bella, Noemi; Lee, Sang-Sung; Levis, Aviad; Li, Zhiyuan; Lico, Rocco; 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; Marko, Sera; Marscher, Alan P.; Matsushita, Satoki; Matthews, Lynn D.; Medeiros, Lia; Menten, Karl M.; Mizuno, Izumi; Mizuno, Yosuke; Montgomery, Joshua; Moran, James M.; Moscibrodzka, Monika; Mulaudzi, Wanga; Mueller, Hendrik; Mueller, Cornelia; 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; Sanchez, Hector Raul Olivares; Oyama, Tomoaki; Ozel, Feryal; Palumbo, Daniel C. M.; Paraschos, Georgios Filippos; Park, Jongho; Parsons, Harriet; Patel, Nimesh; Pen, Ue-Li; Pesce, Dominic W.; Pietu, Vincent; PopStefanija, Aleksandar; Porth, Oliver; Prather, Ben; Principe, Giacomo; Psaltis, Dimitrios; Pu, Hung-Yi; Ramakrishnan, Venkatessh; Rao, Ramprasad; Rawlings, Mark G.; Rezzolla, Luciano; Ripperda, Bart; Roder, Jan; Roelofs, Freek; Romero-Canizales, Cristina; Ros, Eduardo; Roshanineshat, Arash; Rottmann, Helge; Roy, Alan L.; Ruiz, Ignacio; Ruszczyk, Chet; Rygl, Kazi L. J.; Sanchez, Salvador; Sanchez-Arguelles, David; Sanchez-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; Sohn, Bong Won; SooHoo, Jason; Souccar, Kamal; Stanway, Joshua S.; Sun, He; Tazaki, Fumie; Tiede, Paul; Tilanus, Remo P. J.; Titus, Michael; Toma, Kenji; Torne, Pablo; Toscano, Teresa; Traianou, Efthalia; 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; 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, Andre; Younsi, Ziri; Yu, Wei; Yuan, Feng; Yuan, Ye-Fei; Zeng, Ai-Ling; Zensus, J. Anton; Zhang, Shuo; Zhao, Guang-Yao; Zhao, Shan-Shan
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)

Rapid jet ejection from PKS 0215+015 coincident with a high-energy neutrino event (2026)

Astronomy and Astrophysics
Eppel, F.; Kadler, M.; Ros, E.; Benke, P.; Debbrecht, L. C.; Eich, J.; Edwards, P. G.; Giroletti, M.; Gokus, A.; Hämmerich, S.; Heßdörfer, J.; Janssen, M.; Kim, S.; Kirchner, D.; Kovalev, Y. Y.; Krichbaum, T. P.; Ojha, R.; Paraschos, G. F.; Rösch, F.; Schulga, W.; Sinapius, J.; Stevens, J.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)