Research
The research at the Chair of Astronomy of the University Würzburg spans several fields of modern Astronomy and Astrophysics and is undertaken in the following groups:
Main research topics:
- Supermassive Black Holes in active galactic nuclei
- Radiation processes in extragalactic jets
- Particle acceleration in non-thermal objects
- Astrophysical sources of high-energy neutrinos
- Interactions of gamma rays with metagalactic radiation fields
- Indirect signatures of dark matter
- Observations with gamma-ray telescopes MAGIC and FACT
- Contributions to future international observatories CTA, SKA, KM3NeT and JEM-EUSO
