Probing the jets of accreting supermassive black holes with radio observations

Advisor: Anne Lohfink

Accretion onto black holes is one of the most efficient processes for emitting energy from matter in the Universe. Research has shown that this accretion process is also accompanied by ejection processes (winds, relativistic outflows). These accretion and ejection processes are still very much a research focus of high energy astrophysics. In this project an undergraduate researcher will study the emission from the jets in a small sample of accreting supermassive black holes by analyzing new radio data obtained with ATCA and ASKAP. If time permits, these new radio observations will then be combined with archival multiwavelength data to create a full picture of the physical processes creating the observed radiation.