Roberto Serafinelli
Postdoctoral Researcher
I am a CAS/ANID postdoctoral researcher at the IEA. I study active galactic nuclei, mostly in the X-rays.
Projects
I am currently studying warm absorbers, i.e. outflowing gas that absorbs the X-ray emission from the central source, in local AGN. The origin and location of this gas outflowing from the innermost parts of the AGN is still debated. Additionally, I also study multi-wavelength outflows at small and large scale, which might be a powerful tool to unveil the role of supermassive black holes in shaping the galaxy that host them. Furthermore, I am interested in the multi-wavelength study of dual AGN and binary supermassive black holes, which are the byproducts of galaxy mergers.
Highlights
- I am an associate external member of the Italian National Institute of Astrophyics (INAF)
- I am a member of several scientific collaborations, such as LISA, Athena, Lunar Gravitational-Wave Antenna (LGWA), Son of X-Shooter (SOXS), and BASS
- We published a paper with one of the first detection of an Ultra-Fast Outflow entraining a distant ionized absorber. https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/07/aa35275-19/aa35275-19.html ESA press release https://sci.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/-/61487-how-black-holes-shape-galaxies
- We performed the first systematic search for supermassive black hole binaries in the X-rays https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abb3c3
Publications
Extracurricular activities
In my spare time, I love to listen to heavy music and go to concerts, reading, and hiking.
Contact me
roberto.serafinelli [at] mail.udp.cl