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Directly tracking the re-brightening of a supermassive black hole accretion disk
R. Middei, E. Nardini, C. Done +12
Accretion onto supermassive black holes powers the most luminous persistent sources in the Universe, the so-called active galactic nuclei, whose emission is characterized by two di…
Tracking down the broadband polarimetric properties of PG 1553+113
Riccardo Middei, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Alan P. Marscher +78
We report on a nine-month monitoring campaign of the blazar PG 1553+113, relying on three observations carried out in 2025 with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and su…
Ultra-thick warm absorbers: Enlarging the parameter space of AGN ionised outflows
R. Middei, E. Piconcelli, E. Nardini +9
The analysis of X-ray absorption features in active galactic nuclei (AGN) provides a wealth of information about the physical properties of the matter surrounding supermassive blac…
Collapsing massive stars and their EM transients
Agnieszka Janiuk, Narjes Shahamat, Dominika Król
We investigate the fate of a collapsing stellar core, which is the final state of evolution of a massive, rotating star of a Wolf-Rayet type. Such stars explode as type I b/c super…