Department of High Energy Astrophysics

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Research Topics

  1. Particle acceleration in cosmic and space plasma
  2. Physics of black holes, relativistic jets, and accretion disks
  3. X-ray astronomy: timming, spectroscopy, and imaging
  4. γ-ray astronomy with H.E.S.S., SST-1M, and CTAO
  5. Neutrino astrophysics with Hyper-Kamiokande
  6. Gravitational-wave astronomy with Virgo and ET
  7. Solar activity and space weather
  8. Extremely low-frequency EM waves in the Earth ionosphere

Publications

Ongoing Research Grants

  1. NSC OPUS 2023/49/B/ST9/00142 "Badanie wpływu koronalnych wyrzutów masy na pogodę kosmiczną w dwóch cyklach słonecznej aktywności (cyklach 23 i 24)" (PI: G. Michałek)
  2. Program MEN 2023/WK/13 "Wsparcie udziału polskich zespołów naukowych w międzynarodowych projektach infrastruktury badawczej: Polskie Konsorcjum Projektu Virgo" (PI: A. Królak, Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences; PI @ UJ: Ł. Stawarz)
  3. NSC OPUS 2023/49/B/ST9/02777 "Badania fal grawitacyjnych w dobie odkryć LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA" (PI: T. Bulik, University of Warsaw; PI @ UJ: Ł. Stawarz)
  4. Program MEN 2022/WK/15 "Wsparcie udziału polskich zespołów naukowych w międzynarodowych projektach infrastruktury badawczej: Hyper-Kamiokande" (PI: E. Rondio, National Centre for Nuclear Research; PI @ UJ: Ł. Stawarz)
  5. EU H2020-MSCA-RISE 2019 872549-SK2HK "From Super-Kamiokande to Hyper-Kamiokande" (PI @ UJ: K. Ziętara);

Recent PhD Dissertations (since 2018)

  1. 16.05.2025 — Angel Priyana Noel "X-ray flux and spectral variability of blazars" (Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Michał Ostrowski)
  2. 16.09.2024 — Dominika Król "Physics of Evolving Black Holes and Their Relativistic Jets: From Collapsing Massive Stars to Active Galactic Nuclei" (Supervisor: dr hab. Łukasz Stawarz)
  3. 02.12.2022 — Emily Kosmaczewski "Multi-Wavelength Diagnostics of Cosmic Dust: From Galactic Dust Clouds to Young Active Galaxies" (Supervisor: dr hab. Łukasz Stawarz)
  4. 21.10.2022 — Anna Wójtowicz "Radio emission in early-type galaxies: radio loudness, jet duty cycle, and large-scale environment" (Supervisor: dr hab. Łukasz Stawarz)
  5. 15.10.2021 — Karthik Balasubramaniam "Fluorescent Iron Lines in Various Types of Radio-Loud Active Galactic Nuclei" (Supervisor: dr hab. Łukasz Stawarz)
  6. 16.07.2021 — Rameshan Thimmappa "A Comprehensive and Novel Analysis of the Chandra X-ray Observatory Data for the Pictor A Radio Galaxy" (Supervisor: dr hab. Łukasz Stawarz)
  7. 09.04.2021 — Anitha Ravishankar "Study of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) using STEREO and SOHO observations" (Supervisor: dr hab. Grzegorz Michałek)
  8. 06.12.2018 — Natalia Żywucka-Hejzner "Morphological study of TeV emission from 1ES 0414+009 and Centaurus A with H.E.S.S. data" (Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Michał Ostrowski)
  9. 07.09.2018 — Roberta Del Vecchio "New study of afterglow light curves in gamma ray bursts" (Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Michał Ostrowski)

Backgroudn image: A supercomputer simulation of merging black holes sending out gravitational waves. Scientists believe there may be a way to use these waves to find missing pieces in our understanding of the universe. Illustration by Chris Henze/NASA