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.

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The most recent publications

PKS 2131-021-Discovery of Strong Coherent Sinusoidal Variations from Radio to Optical Frequencies: Compelling Evidence for a Blazar Supermassive Black Hole Binary (2025)

Astrophysical Journal
Kiehlmann, S.; de la Parra, P. V.; Sullivan, A. G.; Synani, A.; Liodakis, I.; Mroz, P.; Naess, S. K.; Readhead, A. C. S.; Begelman, M. C.; Blandford, R. D.; Chatziioannou, K.; Ding, Y.; Graham, M. J.; Harrison, F.; Homan, D. C.; Hovatta, T.; Kulkarni, S. R.; Lister, M. L.; Maiolino, R.; Max-Moerbeck, W.; Molina, B.; O'Dea, C. P.; Pavlidou, V.; Pearson, T. J.; Aller, M. F.; Lawrence, C. R.; Lazio, T. J. W.; O'Neill, S.; Prince, T. A.; Ravi, V.; Reeves, R. A.; Tassis, K.; Vallisneri, M.; Zensus, J. A.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)

Optical evolution of AT 2024wpp: the high-velocity outflows in Cow-like transients are consistent with high spherical symmetry (2025)

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Pursiainen, M.; Killestein, T. L.; Kuncarayakti, H.; Charalampopoulos, P.; Warwick, B.; Lyman, J.; Kotak, R.; Leloudas, G.; Coppejans, D.; Kravtsov, T.; Maeda, K.; Nagao, T.; Taguchi, K.; Ackley, K.; Dhillon, V. S.; Galloway, D. K.; Kumar, A.; O'Neill, D.; Ramsay, G.; Steeghs, D.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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