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Nuclear and host properties of local and distant radio galaxies: similarities and differences

TYPEAstrophysics Seminar
Speaker:Ranieri Baldi
Affiliation:Technion
Organizer:Hagai Perets
Date:22.01.2014
Time:14:30 - 15:30
Location:Lidow 620
Abstract:Radio galaxies produce the most energetic phenomena in the Universe. They are associated with giant elliptical galaxies hosting the most massive black holes (>10^8 solar masses). In the local Universe the optical classification of radio galaxies reflect a clearer separation in nuclear and host properties than that based on the radio morphology. I will summarize my past results on local radio galaxies which show global evidence for co-evolution of black holes and host galaxies. Our knowledge on local radio galaxies provides the key to understand my new results on distant radio galaxies (0.7 < z < 3) selected in the COSMOS field.