• Extreme and Rapid Accretion in Supermassive Black Holes

    Salle de Conférence - IRAP Roche 9 avenue du Colonel Roche, Toulouse, FR

    Claudio Ricci (U. Geneva) Accreting supermassive black holes are known to be variable, changing in brightness across all wavelengths and timescales. In recent years, a remarkable subset of these Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) has been discovered to show extreme spectral variability. These changing-look events are thought to arise from extreme and rapid changes in how […]

  • Mapping the atmospheres of brown dwarfs and young giant exoplanets

    Salle Lyot - IRAP Belin 14 avenue Edouard Belin, Toulouse, FR

    Benjamin Charnay (LAB Bordeaux) large-scale spectroscopic surveys such as 4MOST, will open a new era in our understanding of black hole accretion physics.Brown dwarfs and young giant exoplanet are subject to variability and colour changes, known as the L/T transition, fundamental for their thermal evolution. Clouds are expected to be the main driver of the […]