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

First X-Ray Polarization Measurement Confirms the Low Black Hole Spin in LMC X-3 (2024)

Astrophysical Journal
Svoboda J., Dovčiak M., Steiner J.F., Muleri F., Ingram A., Yilmaz A., Rodriguez Cavero N., Marra L., Poutanen J., Veledina A., Mojaver M.R., Bianchi S., García J.A., Kaaret P., Krawczynski H., Matt G., Podgorný J., Weisskopf M.C., Kislat F., Petrucci P.O., Brigitte M., Bursa M., Fabiani S., Hu K., Chun S., Mastroserio G., Mikus̆incová R., Ratheesh A., Romani R.W., Soffitta P., Ursini F., Zane S., Agudo I., Antonelli L.A., Bachetti M., Baldini L., Baumgartner W.H., Bellazzini R., Bongiorno S.D., Bonino R., Brez A., Bucciantini N., Capitanio F., Castellano S., Cavazzuti E., Chen C.T., Ciprini S., Costa E., De Rosa A., Del Monte E., Di Gesu L., Di Lalla N., Di Marco A., Donnarumma I., Doroshenko V., Ehlert S.R., Enoto T., Evangelista Y., Ferrazzoli R., Gunji S., Hayashida K., Heyl J., Iwakiri W., Jorstad S.G., Karas V., Kitaguchi T., Kolodziejczak J.J., La Monaca F., Latronico L., Liodakis I., Maldera S., Manfreda A., Marin F., Marinucci A., Marscher A.P., Marshall H.L., Massaro F., Mitsuishi I., Mizuno T., Negro M., Ng C.Y., O’Dell S.L., Omodei N., Oppedisano C., Papitto A., Pavlov G.G., Peirson A.L., Perri M., Pesce-Rollins M., Pilia M., Possenti A., Puccetti S., Ramsey B.D., Rankin J., Roberts O.J., Sgrò C., Slane P., Spandre G., Swartz D.A., Tamagawa T., Tavecchio F., Taverna R., Tawara Y., Tennant A.F., Thomas N.E., Tombesi F., Trois A., Tsygankov S.S., Turolla R., Vink J., Wu K., Xie F.
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))

MAGIC detection of GRB 201216C at z = 1.1 (2024)

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Abe H, Abe S, Acciari V, Agudo I, Aniello T, Ansoldi S, Antonelli L, Arbet Engels A, Arcaro C, Artero M, Asano K, Baack D, Babić A, Baquero A, Almeida U, Barrio J, Batković I, Baxter J, Becerra González J, Bednarek W, Bernardini E, Bernete J, Berti A, Besenrieder J, Bigongiari C, Biland A, Blanch O, Bonnoli G, Bošnjak Ž, Burelli I, Busetto G, Campoy-Ordaz A, Carosi A, Carosi R, Carretero-Castrillo M, Castro-Tirado A, Ceribella G, Chai Y, Cifuentes A, Cikota S, Colombo E, Contreras J, Cortina J, Covino S, D’Amico G, D’Elia V, Da Vela P, Dazzi F, De Angelis A, De Lotto B, Del Popolo A, Delfino M, Delgado J, Delgado Mendez C, Depaoli D, Di Pierro F, Di Venere L, Dominis Prester D, Donini A, Dorner D, Doro M, Elsaesser D, Emery G, Escudero J, Fariña L, Fattorini A, Foffano L, Font L, Fukami S, Fukazawa Y, García López R, Garczarczyk M, Gasparyan S, Gaug M, Giesbrecht Paiva J, Giglietto N, Giordano F, Gliwny P, Godinović N, Grau R, Green D, Green J, Hadasch D, Hahn A, Hassan T, Heckmann L, Herrera J, Hrupec D, Hütten M, Imazawa R, Inada T, Iotov R, Ishio K, Jiménez Martínez I, Jormanainen J, Kerszberg D, Kluge G, Kobayashi Y, Kouch P, Kubo H, Kushida J, Láinez Lezáun M, Lamastra A, Leone F, Lindfors E, Linhoff L, Lombardi S, Longo F, López-Coto R, López-Moya M, López-Oramas A, Loporchio S, Lorini A, Lyard E, Oliveira Fraga B, Majumdar P, Makariev M, Maneva G, Mang N, Manganaro M, Mangano S, Mannheim K, Mariotti M, Martínez M, Mas-Aguilar A, Mazin D, Menchiari S, Mender S, Mićanović S, Miceli D, Miener T, Miranda J, Mirzoyan R, Molero González M, Molina E, Mondal H, Moralejo A, Morcuende D, Nanci C, Nava L, Neustroev V, Nievas Rosillo M, Nigro C, Nikolić L, Nilsson K, Nishijima K, Njoh Ekoume T, Noda K, Nozaki S, Ohtani Y, Okumura A, Otero-Santos J, Paiano S, Palatiello M, Paneque D, Paoletti R, Paredes J, Pavletić L, Pavlović D, Persic M, Pihet M, Pirola G, Podobnik F, Prada Moroni P, Prandini E, Principe G, Priyadarshi C, Rhode W, Ribó M, Rico J, Righi C, Sahakyan N, Saito T, Satalecka K, Saturni F, Schleicher B, Schmidt K, Schmuckermaier F, Schubert J, Schweizer T, Sciaccaluga A, Sitarek J, Sliusar V, Sobczynska D, Spolon A, Stamerra A, Strišković J, Strom D, Strzys M, Suda Y, Suutarinen S, Tajima H, Takahashi M, Takeishi R, Tavecchio F, Temnikov P, Terauchi K, Terzić T, Teshima M, Tosti L, Truzzi S, Tutone A, Ubach S, Scherpenberg J, Vazquez Acosta M, Ventura S, Verguilov V, Viale I, Vigorito C, Vitale V, Vovk I, Walter R, Will M, Yamamoto T, Gomboc A, Jordana-Mitjans N, Melandri A, Mundell C, Shrestha M, Steele I
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))

The persistent shadow of the supermassive black hole of M 87: I. Observations, calibration, imaging, and analysis* (2024)

Astronomy and Astrophysics
Akiyama K., Alberdi A., Alef W., Algaba J.C., Anantua R., Asada K., Azulay R., Bach U., Baczko A.K., Ball D., Baloković M., Bandyopadhyay B., Barrett J., Bauböck M., Benson B.A., Bintley D., Blackburn L., Blundell R., Bouman K.L., Bower G.C., Boyce H., Bremer M., Brissenden R., Britzen S., Broderick A.E., Broguiere D., Bronzwaer T., Bustamante S., Carlstrom J.E., Chael A., Chan C.K., Chang D.O., Chatterjee K., Chatterjee S., Chen M.T., Chen Y., Cheng X., Cho I., Christian P., Conroy N.S., Conway J.E., Crawford T.M., Crew G.B., Cruz-Osorio A., Cui Y., Dahale R., Davelaar J., De Laurentis M., Deane R., Dempsey J., Desvignes G., Dexter J., Dhruv V., Dihingia I.K., Doeleman S.S., Dzib S.A., Eatough R.P., Emami R., Falcke H., Farah J., Fish V.L., Fomalont E., Ford H.A., Foschi M., Fraga-Encinas R., Freeman W.T., Friberg P., Fromm C.M., Fuentes A., Galison P., Gammie C.F., García R., Gentaz O., Georgiev B., Goddi C., Gold R., Gómez-Ruiz A.I., Gómez J.L., Gu M., Gurwell M., Hada K., Haggard D., Hesper R., Heumann D., Ho L.C., Ho P., Honma M., Huang C.W.L., Huang L., Hughes D.H., Ikeda S., Violette Impellizzeri C.M., Inoue M., Issaoun S., James D.J., Jannuzi B.T., Janssen M., Jeter B., Jiang W., Jiménez-Rosales A., Johnson M.D., Jorstad S., Jones A.C., Joshi A.V., Jung T., Karuppusamy R., Kawashima T., Keating G.K., Kettenis M., Kim D.J., Kim J.Y., Kim J., Kim J., Kino M., Koay J.Y., Kocherlakota P., Kofuji Y., Koch P.M., Koyama S., Kramer C., Kramer J.A., Kramer M., Krichbaum T.P., Kuo C.Y., La Bella N., Lee S.S., Levis A., Li Z., Lico R., Lindahl G., Lindqvist M., Lisakov M., Liu J., Liu K., Liuzzo E., Lo W.P., Lobanov A.P., Loinard L., Lonsdale C.J., Lowitz A.E., Lu R.S., MacDonald N.R., Mao J., Marchili N., Markoff S., Marrone D.P., Marscher A.P., Martí-Vidal I., Matsushita S., Matthews L.D., Medeiros L., Menten K.M., Mizuno I., Mizuno Y., Montgomery J., Moran J.M., Moriyama K., Moscibrodzka M., Mulaudzi W., Müller C., Müller H., Mus A., Musoke G., Myserlis I., Nagai H., Nagar N.M., Nakamura M., Narayanan G., Natarajan I., Nathanail A., Fuentes S.N., Neilsen J., Ni C., Nowak M.A., Oh J., Okino H., Olivares H., Oyama T., Özel F., Palumbo D.C.M., Paraschos G.F., Park J., Parsons H., Patel N., Pen U.L., Pesce D.W., Piétu V., Popstefanija A., Porth O., Prather B., Psaltis D., Pu H.Y., Ramakrishnan V., Rao R., Rawlings M.G., Raymond A.W., Rezzolla L., Ricarte A., Ripperda B., Roelofs F., Romero-Cañizales C., Ros E., Roshanineshat A., Rottmann H., Roy A.L., Ruiz I., Ruszczyk C., Rygl K.L.J., Sánchez S., Sánchez-Argüelles D., Sánchez-Portal M., Sasada M., Satapathy K., Savolainen T., Schloerb F.P., Schonfeld J., Schuster K.F., Shao L., Shen Z., Small D., Sohn B.W., Soohoo J., Salas L.D.S., Souccar K., Stanway J.S., Sun H., Tazaki F., Tetarenko A.J., Tiede P., Tilanus R.P.J., Titus M., Toma K., Torne P., Toscano T., Traianou E., Trent T., Trippe S., Turk M., Van Bemmel I., Van Langevelde H.J., Van Rossum D.R., Vos J., Wagner J., Ward-Thompson D., Wardle J., Washington J.E., Weintroub J., Wharton R., Wielgus M., Wiik K., Witzel G., Wondrak M.F., Wong G.N., Wu Q., Yadlapalli N., Yamaguchi P., Yfantis A., Yoon D., Young A., Younsi Z., Yu W., Yuan F., Yuan Y.F., Anton Zensus J., Zhang S., Zhao G.Y., Zhao S.S., Allardi A., Chang S.H., Chang C.C., Chang S.C., Chen C.C., Chilson R., Faber A., Gale D.M., Han C.C., Han K.C., Hasegawa Y., Hernández-Rebollar J.L., Huang Y.D., Jiang H., Jinchi H., Kimura K., Kubo D., Li C.T., Lin L.C.C., Liu C.T., Liu K.Y., Lu L.M., Martin-Cocher P., Meyer-Zhao Z., Montaña A., Moraghan A., Moreno-Nolasco M.E., Nishioka H., Norton T.J., Nystrom G., Ogawa H., Oshiro P., Pradel N., Principe G., Raffin P., Rodríguez-Montoya I., Shaw P., Snow W., Sridharan T.K., Srinivasan R., Wei T.S., Yu C.Y.; The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))

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
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))