Dr. Ranieri D. Baldi
I am an observational astronomer, expert in extragalactic astrophysics, in the framework of galaxy and black hole evolution. My research interest focuses on Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), compact and bright region at the centre of a galaxies where the accretion onto black holes occurs.
RAS meeting: Radio galaxies in the local Universe
09.12.2016
eMERLIN in the SKA era
(Jodrell Bank)
11-12.09.2017
UPCOMING EVENTS
Workshop on optical spectropolarimetry
5-7.12.2017
MY LATEST RESEARCH
FR0 are a new class of low-luminosity radio galaxies, still largely unexplored but representing the majority of the local radio-loud AGN population (Baldi & Capetti 2009, 2010; Baldi, Capetti & Giovannini 2015, Baldi, Capetti, & Massaro 2018a, Baldi, Capetti & Giovannini 2018b submitted). FR0 share the same properties of FR Is from the point of view of the nuclear and host properties. However, they are compact, highly core-dominated, and lack of the prominent extended radio structures characteristic of the other FR classes.
Legacy e-MERLIN Multi-band Imaging of Nearby Galaxies (LeMMINGs) will be to provide the definitive parsec-scale, μJy sensitivity radio images of a large sample of well-known galaxies in the nearby universe. The key science aims of this project are the study of the relation between star formation, AGN activity and jet structures in large, unbiased and complete sample of more than 280 nearby galaxies