Seminar papers

Choose one of the papers below to review for your end of term review. Some papers may be long or very detailed; in such cases you can choose to present only a part of the paper.

Papers listed here are a mix of theoretical, observational, and simulation-based, in no particular order. This is deliberate; I want you to read the abstracts of each of these papers to get a feel. A few classic papers are also in this list. While presenting these, you should try to bring out how they have impacted research in the field.

  1. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Survey: Quasar Luminosity Function from Data Release 3
  2. J021659-044920: a relic giant radio galaxy at z ~ 1.3 Yash
  3. Giant radio galaxies in the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey. I. Radio and environmental properties
  4. Simulating the dynamics and non-thermal emission of relativistic magnetized jets I. Dynamics
  5. A candidate sub-parsec binary black hole in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 7674
  6. The morphology of extragalactic radio sources of high and low luminosity Janmejoy
  7. First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole Several other papers in the special issue on the first EHT results are also suitable for a seminar.
  8. Discovery of rare double-lobe radio galaxies hosted in spiral galaxies Pushpak
  9. The many lives of active galactic nuclei: cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies
  10. Radio-loud and Radio-quiet QSOs Anirban
  11. Discovery of a Probable Physical Triple Quasar Soham
  12. Electromagnetic extraction of energy from Kerr black holes.
  13. A Fundamental Relation between Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies Rajendra Prasad
  14. The Demography of Massive Dark Objects in Galaxy Centers
  15. Towards a unified model for black hole X-ray binary jets Swarnim
  16. The host galaxies and classification of active galactic nuclei Soumil
  17. VLA Observations of Objects in the Palomar Bright Quasar Survey
  18. Nuclear Emission in Spiral Nebulae
  19. Magnetically Arrested Disk: an Energetically Efficient Accretion Flow
  20. Nonthermal Electrons in Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flow Models of Sagittarius A*
  21. Doppler factors, Lorentz factors and viewing angles for quasars, BL Lacertae objects and radio galaxies
  22. Angle-dependent Compton reflection of X-rays and gamma-rays
  23. On the fate of gas accreting at a low rate on to a black hole
  24. Broad Iron Lines in Active Galactic Nuclei Manish
  25. On the fundamental dichotomy in the local radio-AGN population: accretion, evolution and host galaxy properties
  26. Advection-dominated Accretion: Underfed Black Holes and Neutron Stars
  27. Accretion disc electrodynamics - a model for double radio sources
  28. Massive black hole binaries in active galactic nuclei Biswanath
  29. The LoTSS view of radio AGN in the local Universe. The most massive galaxies are always switched on Ramananda
  30. The host galaxies of radio-loud active galactic nuclei: mass dependences, gas cooling and active galactic nuclei feedback Eshita
  31. The Discovery of a Highly Accreting, Radio-loud Quasar at z = 6.82 Sayak
  32. XMM-Newton Observations of Broad Iron K-alpha Emission from Seyfert 1.9 Galaxy MCG-5-23-16
  33. High-redshift SDSS Quasars with Weak Emission Lines Ritish
  34. High-fidelity VLA imaging of the radio structure of 3C 273 Rahul