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

CTAO LST–1 observations of magnetar SGR 1935+2154: Deep limits on sub-second bursts and persistent tera-electronvolt emission (2026)

Astronomy and Astrophysics
Abe, K.; Abe, S.; Abhishek, A.; Acero, F.; Aguasca-Cabot, A.; Agudo, I.; Alispach, C.; Ambrosino, D.; Ambrosino, F.; Antonelli, L. A.; Aramo, C.; Arbet-Engels, A.; Arcaro, C.; Arnesen, T. T. H.; Asano, K.; Aubert, P.; Baktash, A.; Balbo, M.; Bamba, A.; Baquero-Larriva, A.; Barres De Almeida, U.; Barrio, J. A.; Barrios-Jiménez, L.; Batković, I.; Baxter, J.; Becerra González, J.; Bernardini, E.; Bernete, J.; Berti, A.; Bezshyiko, I.; Bigongiari, C.; Bissaldi, E.; Blanch, O.; Bonnoli, G.; Bordas, P.; Borkowski, G.; Brunelli, G.; Bulgarelli, A.; Bunse, M.; Burelli, I.; Burmistrov, L.; Cardillo, M.; Caroff, S.; Carosi, A.; Carraro, R.; Carrasco, M. S.; Cassol, F.; Castrejón, N.; Cerasole, D.; Ceribella, G.; Cerviño Cortínez, A.; Chai, Y.; Cheng, K.; Chiavassa, A.; Chikawa, M.; Chon, G.; Chytka, L.; Cicciari, G.M.; Cifuentes, A.; Contreras, J.L.; Cortina, J.; Costantini, H.; Dalchenko, M.; da Vela, P.; Dazzi, F.; De Angelis, A.; de Bony de Lavergne, M.; del Burgo, R.; Delgado, C.; Delgado-Mengual, J.; Dell’aiera, M.; Della Volpe, D.; De Lotto, B.; Del Peral, L.; de Menezes, R.; De Palma, G.; Díaz, C.; Di Piano, A.; Di Pierro, F.; Di Tria, R.; Di Venere, L.; Dominik, R.M.; Dominis-Prester, D.; Donini, A.; Dorner, D.; Doro, M.; Eisenberger, L.; Elsasser, D.; Emery, G.; Escudero, J.; Fallah Ramazani, V.; Ferrarotto, F.; Fiasson, A.; Foffano, L.; Frias Garcia-Lago, F.; Fröse, S.; Fukazawa, Y.; Gallozzi, S.; García López, R.; García Soto, S.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)

Compelling Evidence for a Harmonic in the Light Curve of the Supermassive Black Hole Binary Candidate PKS J1309+1154 (2026)

Astrophysical Journal Letters
Readhead, A. C. S.; Aller, M. F.; Sullivan, A. G.; Blandford, R. D.; Mróz, P.; De La Parra, P. V.; Molina, B.; Most, E. R.; Lister, M. L.; Synani, A.; Aller, H.; Begelman, M. C.; Ding, Y.; Graham, M. J.; Harrison, F.; Hovatta, T.; Liodakis, I.; Max-Moerbeck, W.; Pavlidou, V.; Pearson, T. J.; Ravi, V.; Reeves, R. A.; Surti, T.; Tassis, K.; Tremblay, S. E.; Zensus, J. A.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)

The hydrogen-free circumstellar interaction in the Type Ib supernova 2021efd: A clue to the mechanism of the helium-layer stripping (2026)

Astronomy and Astrophysics
Pyykkinen, N.; Nagao, T.; Kuncarayakti, H.; Stritzinger, M. D.; Kangas, T.; Maeda, K.; Chen, P.; Sollerman, J.; Burns, C.; Bose, S.; Folatelli, G.; Ferrari, L.; Morrell, N.; Reguitti, A.; Salmaso, I.; Mattila, S.; Gal-Yam, A.; Fremling, C.; Anand, S.; Kasliwal, M. M.; Gutierrez, C. P.; Galbany, L.; Hoogendam, W.; Schulze, S.; Ashall, C.; Medler, K.; Pfeffer, C. M.; Lundqvist, P.; Rusholme, B.; Adler, J.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)

Probing jet base emission of M87* with the 2021 Event Horizon Telescope observations (2026)

Astronomy and Astrophysics
Saurabh, ; Müller, Hendrik; von Fellenberg, Sebastiano D.; Tiede, Paul; Janssen, Michael; Blackburn, Lindy; Broderick, Avery E.; Chavez, Erandi; Georgiev, Boris; Krichbaum, Thomas P.; Moriyama, Kotaro; Nair, Dhanya G.; Natarajan, Iniyan; Park, Jongho; West, Andrew Thomas; Wielgus, Maciek; Akiyama, Kazunori; Albentosa-Ruíz, Ezequiel; Alberdi, Antxon; Alef, Walter; Algaba, Juan Carlos; 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; Blundell, Raymond; Bouman, Katherine L.; Bower, Geoffrey C.; Bremer, Michael; Brissenden, Roger; Britzen, Silke; 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; Chichura, Paul; Cho, Ilje; Christian, Pierre; 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; 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; Ford, Alyson H.; Foschi, Marianna; Fraga-Encinas, Raquel; Freeman, William T.; Friberg, Per; Fromm, Christian M.; Fuentes, Antonio; Galison, Peter; Gammie, Charles F.; García, Roberto; Gentaz, Olivier; Goddi, Ciriaco; Gold, Roman; Gómez-Ruiz, Arturo I.; Gómez, José L.; 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, Violette C. M.; Inoue, Makoto; Issaoun, Sara; James, David J.; Jannuzi, Buell T.; Jeter, Britton; Jiang, Wu; Jiménez-Rosales, Alejandra; Johnson, Michael D.; Jorstad, Svetlana; 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, Deokhyeong; Lee, Sang-Sung; Levis, Aviad; Li, Shaoliang; 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; Marchili, Nicola; Markoff, Sera; Marrone, Daniel P.; Marscher, Alan P.; Martí-Vidal, Iván; Matsushita, Satoki; Matthews, Lynn D.; Medeiros, Lia; Menten, Karl M.; Messias, Hugo; 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.; Nakamura, Masanori; Narayanan, Gopal; Nathanail, Antonios; Navarro, Fuentes Santiago; Neilsen, Joey; Ni, Chunchong; Nowak, Michael A.; Oh, Junghwan; Okino, Hiroki; Olivares Sánchez, Héctor Raúl; Oyama, Tomoaki; Özel, Feryal; Palumbo, Daniel C. M.; Paraschos, Georgios Filippos; Parsons, Harriet; Patel, Nimesh; Pen, Ue-Li; Pesce, Dominic W.; Piétu, Vincent; Plavin, Alexander; PopStefanija, Aleksandar; Porth, Oliver; Prather, Ben; Principe, Giacomo; Psaltis, Dimitrios; Pu, Hung-Yi; Rahlin, Alexandra; Ramakrishnan, Venkatessh; Rao, Ramprasad; Rawlings, Mark G.; Rezzolla, Luciano; Ricarte, Angelo; Ricci, Luca; Ripperda, Bart; Röder, Jan; Roelofs, Freek; Romero-Cañizales, Cristina; Ros, Eduardo; Roshanineshat, Arash; Rottmann, Helge; Roy, Alan L.; Ruiz, Ignacio; Ruszczyk, Chet; Rygl, Kazi L. J.; Salas León, D. S.; Sánchez, Salvador; Sánchez-Argüelles, David; Sánchez-Portal, Miguel; Sasada, Mahito; Satapathy, Kaushik; Savolainen, Tuomas; Schloerb, Peter F.; Schonfeld, Jonathan; Schuster, Karl-Friedrich; Shao, Lijing; Shen, Zhiqiang; Silpa, Sasikumar; Small, Des; Smith, Randall; Sohn, Bong Won; SooHoo, Jason; Souccar, Kamal; Stanway, Joshua S.; Sun, He; Tazaki, Fumie; Tetarenko, Alexandra J.; 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; Washington, Jasmin E.; Weintroub, Jonathan; Wharton, Robert; Wiik, Kaj; Witzel, Gunther; Wondrak, Michael F.; Wong, George N.; Wongphexhauxsorn, Jompoj; 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, Anton J.; Zhang, Shuo; Zhao, Guang-Yao; Zhao, Shan-Shan
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)

Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Neptune Trojans (2026)

The Astronomical Journal
Murtagh, Joseph; Schwamb, Megan E.; Bernardinelli, Pedro H.; Lin, Hsing Wen; Kurlander, Jacob A.; Merritt, Stephanie R.; Cornwall, Samuel; Jurić, Mario; Fedorets, Grigori; Holman, Matthew J.; Eggl, Siegfried; Jones, R. Lynne; Yoachim, Peter; Moeyens, Joachim; Kubica, Jeremy; Oldag, Drew; West, Maxine; Chandler, Colin Orion
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)