RESEARCH

Some Recent Talks

  • Jets in Blazars and Radio Galaxies
  • AGN and Unification
  • Blazars and the Radio Galaxy/Cosmology Interface
  • Theoretical Astrophysics at GSU
  • Semi-Popular AGN Talk

    Research Interests

  • I am a theoretical astrophysicist with particular interests in astrophysical fluid dynamics,
    plasma astrophysics and relativistic astrophysics.
  • Many of my efforts involve producing analytical and numerical models of radio galaxies, astrophysical jets, quasars and blazars.
    The cosmological evolution of radio galaxies and its implication for large-scale structure in the universe is a recent focus of attention.
    I'm also interested in accretion disks in both active galactic nuclei (AGN) and in microquasars in our own galaxy.
  • I collaborate in analysis of radio, optical and X-ray observations of different types of radio sources and several classes of AGN.
    Studies of intranight optical variability or "microvariability" in different classes of AGN are of particular interest.

    More information about my research interests can be obtained by looking at the linked publications below.

  • CURRICULUM VITAE and FULL PUBLICATION LIST as a PDF file.
    Selected publications, most with links to full articles, are below.

    Selected (Relatively) Recent Publications

    Most of the following papers have co-authors who are listed here only for papers published in 2006 or later;
    co-authors of earlier papers can be found in my CV or on the individual papers.

    Most links since 2000 are to abstracts (on www.arXiv.org) which then offer the full text in either postscript or pdf formats;
    the remainder are to either postscript or pdf files. Note that the cited journal versions may be more
    up-to-date than the posted version.

    Radio Galaxy Codes

  • Modified BRW Radio Galaxy Codes

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  • Last updated, 17 September 2007