IAU Symposium #194: Activity in Galaxies and Related Phenomena

Devoted to V.A. Ambartsumian’s 90^th anniversary

 

August 17-21, 1998, Byurakan, Armenia

 

 

IAU Symp. 194 was devoted to V.A. Ambartsumian’s 90^th anniversary, who was the first astrophysicist who understood what a rich treasure was hidden under the activity phenomena in galaxies. In 50-s he began with his collaborators his systematic investigations in this field and obtained really very impressive results concerning various evidences of the activity in galaxies. In the last forty years a vast amount of observational data was accumulated. Moreover, nowadays collection of new data takes place with an increasing rate. And now when a great quantity of observational data on active phenomena is provided owing to new technology it was necessary to discuss the results more often. There was a need to display the main tendencies in physical explanations of the phenomena in question as well as in the observational possibilities. Ground-based new large telescopes and especially HST provided astronomers not only with a new amount of data but gave them qualitatively new type information which should be comprehended in connection with the established physical laws.

 

Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC): Halton Arp (Germany), Francesco Bertola (Italy), Alexander Boyarchuk (Russia), Geoffrey Burbidge (USA), Edward Khachikian (Co-Chair, Armenia), Daniel Kunth (France), Malcolm Longair (UK), Jayant Narlikar (India), Yervant Terzian (Co-Chair, USA), Virginia Trimble (USA), Daniel Weedman (USA), Lodewijk Woltjer (France), Anatoly Zasov (Russia).

 

Local Organizing Committee: Haik Harutyunian (Chair), Areg Mickaelian (Secretary).

 

Scientific Topics:

 

·         The Phenomena of Activity

·         Forms of Activity of Galaxies

·         Activity of Galaxies in Optics

·         Activity of Galaxies in Radio and IR

·         Activity of Galaxies in X- and Gamma Rays

·         Galaxies with UV-excess

·         HST Mission on Activity of Galaxies

·         Starburst Phenomenon in Active Galaxies

·         The Activity of Normal Galaxies

·         Activity Processes in our Galaxy

·         Variability Phenomena in Active Galaxies

·         Physical Nature of Activity Processes

 

100 scientists from 22 countries (USA, Japan, China, Mexico, Australia, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, Ireland, Bulgaria, Brazil, Egypt, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia, and Armenia) participated in the symposium, including 70 foreign (13 from former USSR), and 30 from Armenia. Among the participants, there were a number of distinguished scientists, such as Halton Arp, Kenneth Kellermann, Jack Sulentic, Daniel Weedman, David Sanders, Suzy Collin-Zahn, Malcolm Longair, Patrick Osmer, Vahe Petrosian, Yervant Terzian, Francesco Bertola, Felix Mirabel, Ian Robson, Philippe Veron, Gerard Lelievre, Thierry Courvoisier, Richard Lovelace, Alexei Fridman, Michael Dopita, and others.

 

Altogether 136 contributions were presented, including 27 invited reviews on the invitation of the SOC of the Symposium (by H. Arp (2), W. Baan, A. Boyarchuk, Georg Brutian, S. Collin-Zahn, T. Courvoisier, M. Dopita, A. Fridman, T. Kawaguchi, K. Kellermann, E. Khachikian, J. Krolik, M. Longair, R. Lovelace, F.D. Macchetto, F. Mirabel, P. Osmer, V. Petrosian, I. Robson (2), M. Romanova, R. Sambruna, D. Sanders, M. Turatto, Y. Terzian, and D. Weedman), 25 contributed oral talks, and 84 posters.

 

The IAU Symp. 194 in Byurakan was important from the point of view of putting together various multiwavelength data on AGN and their interpretation in view of the unified model. The experts discussed multiwavelength properties of different AGN and elaborated strategy for their further studies.

 

Proceedings: Active Galactic Nuclei and Related Phenomena, Eds. Ye. Terzian, D.W. Weedman, & E.Ye. Khachikian, International Astronomical Union (IAU), Vol. 194, ASP, San Francisco, 1999, 480 p. (in English).

 

 

Full List of Participants

 

ABAZAJIAN Kevork N., University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

ABRAHAMIAN Martin G., Yerevan State University (YSU), Armenia

ALEXANDER David M., Dept. of Physical Sci., Univ. of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK

ALI Gamal B., Astron. Dept., Natl. Res. Inst. of Astron. & Geophys., Cairo, Egypt

AMIRKHANIAN Artur S., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia

ANDREASIAN Ruben R., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia

ARP Halton C., Max-Planck-Institut fьr Astrofisik, Garching, Germany

ARSHAKIAN Tigran G., Cavendish Laboratory, Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

ASATRIAN Norair S., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia

BAAN Willem A., NFRA - Westerbork Observatory, Dwingeloo, Netherlands

BALAYAN Smbat K., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia

BERGMAN Thaisa Storchi, Departamento de Astronomia, Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

BERTOLA Francesco, Depatment of Astronomy, University of Padova, Italy

BEST Philip N., Sterrewacht Leiden, Huygens Lab., Netherlands

BOCHKAREV Nikolai G., Sternberg Astronomical Inst., Moscow State Univ., Moscow, Russia

BOYARCHUK Alexander A., Inst. of Astronomy, Russian Acad. of Sci. (INASAN), Moscow, Russia

BURENKOV Alexandr A., Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), Zelenchuk, Russia

BUSON Lucio Maria, Osservatorio di Capodimonte, Napoli, Italy

CAPPELLARI Michele, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Padova, Italy

CHATTERJEE Tapan Kumar, FCFM, Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico

CLAVEL Jean, Astrophys. Div., ISO project, European Space Agency (ESA), Madrid, Spain

COLLIN-ZAHN Suzy, Observatoire de Paris, Section de Meudon, France

COURVOISIER Thierry J.-L., INTEGRAL Science Data Centre, Geneva Obs., Versoix, Switzerland

CUNNIFFE John, Dunsink Observatory, Dublin, Ireland

DENISSYUK Eduard K., Astrophysical Institute, Kazakh Academy of Sci., Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan

DIETRICH Matthias, Landessternwarte Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

DODONOV Serguei N., Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), Zelenchuk, Russia

DOPITA Michael Andrew, Mt. Stromlo & Siding Springs Observatory, Inst. of Advanced Studies, Australian Natl. Univ., Australia

EGIKIAN Anahit G., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia

FRIDMAN Alexei M., Inst. of Astronomy, Russian Acad. of Sci. (INASAN), Moscow, Russia

GRIGORYAN Levon S., Institute of Applied Problems in Physics, Yerevan, Armenia

GURZADYAN Vahagn G., Dept. of Theor. Physics, Yerevan Physics Inst., Yerevan, Armenia

GYULBUDAGHIAN Armen L., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia

GYULZADIAN Marietta V., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia

HAGEN-THORN Vladimir A., Astronomical Inst., St. Petersburg State University, Russia

HAKOPIAN Susanna A., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia

HARUTYUNIAN Haik A., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia

HIRST Paul, X-ray Astron. Group, Dept. Physics & Astron., University of Leicester, UK

HOVHANNISSIAN Martin A., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, Armenia

HUANG Keliang, Physics Dept., Nanjing Normal Univ., Nanjing, China

ISKUDARIAN Sofik G., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia

ISRAELIAN Garik L., Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

KAISER Mary Elizabeth, Dept. of Physics and Astron., Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA

KALLOGHLIAN Arsen T., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia

KANDALYAN Rafik A., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia

KAWAGUCHI Toshihiro, Dept. of Astronomy, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

KELLERMANN Kenneth I., National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA, USA

KHACHIKIAN Edward Ye., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia

KORATKAR Anuradha P., Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA

KOVALEV Yuri Yu., Astron. Space Center, P.N.Lebedev Physical Inst., Moscow, Russia

KROLIK Julian H., Dept. of Physics & Astron., Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA

LAURENT Olivier, Centre d’Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay, SAp, CE Saclay-Orme des Merisiers, Gif sur Yvette, France

LEEUW Lerothodi L., Joint Astron. Centre and Univ. of Central Lanchashire, Hilo, Hawaii, USA

LELIEVRE Gerard H., Observatoire de Paris DASGAL, France

LOMINADZE Jumber G., Abastumani Astrophys. Obs., Georgia

LONGAIR Malcolm S., Cavendish Laboratory, Univ. of Cambridge, UK

LOVELACE Richard V. E., Astronomy Dept., Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

MACCHETTO Ferdinando Duccio, Science Programs Division, Space Telescope Sci. Inst., Baltimore, MD, USA

MAHTESSIAN Abraham P., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia

MALUMIAN Vigen H., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia

MATVEENKO Leonid, Space Research Institute, Russian Acad. of Sci., Moscow, Russia

MELIKIAN Norair D., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia

MICKAELIAN Areg M., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia

MIRABEL I. Felix, Service d'Astrophysique, Saclay, CE/Saclay-Orme des Merisiers, Gif sur Yvette, France

MOVSESSIAN Vardan H., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia

NAPIER William McDonald, Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh, N. Ireland, UK

NAVASARDYAN Hripsime Kh., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia

NIKOGHOSSIAN Elena H., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia

NOTNI Peter, Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany

OHANIAN Gabriel A., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia

OKAZAKI Atsuo T., Faculty of Engineering, Hokkai-Gakuen Univ., Sapporo, Japan

OSMER Patrick Stewart, Department of Astronomy, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA

OTTERBEIN Kai, Landessternwarte Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

PANAJIAN Vazgen G., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia

PETROSIAN Artashes R., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia

PETROSIAN Vahй, Ctr. Sp. Sci & Astrophysics, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, USA

PETROV Georgy T., Institute of Astronomy, Bulgarian Acad. of Sci., Sofia, Bulgaria

PRONIK Iraida I., Crimean Astrophysical Obs., Ukrainian Acad. of Sci., Ukraine

ROBSON E. Ian, Joint Astronomy Center, Hawaii, Hilo, HI, USA

ROMANOVA Marina M., Astronomy Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

ROSCOE David, Univ. of Sheffield, Dept. of Applied Maths., Sheffield, UK

SADOYAN Avetis A., Department of Physics, Yerevan State University (YSU), Armenia

SAMBRUNA Rita M., Pennsylvania State Univ., Dept. of Astron. & Astrophys. PA, USA

SANDERS David B., Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA

SINANIAN Armen A., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia

SMITH Harding Eugene, Center for Astrophysics, Univ of California, San Diego, CA, USA

STEPANIAN Jivan A., Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), Zelenchuk, Russia

SULENTIC Jack W., Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

TERZIAN Yervant, Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

TRAN Hien D., Inst. of Geophys. and Planetary Physics, LLNL, Livermore, CA, USA    

TREVESE Dario, Inst. Astronomico - Univ. di Roma "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy

TURATTO Massimo, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy

VARDANYAN Rafik A., Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO), Armenia

VARDAPETIAN Ruben, INTAS, Brussels, Belgium

VERON Philippe, Observatoire de Haute Provence, Saint-Michel l'Observatoire, France

VERON Marie-Paule, Observatoire de Haute Provence, Saint-Michel l'Observatoire, France

WEEDMAN Daniel W., Pennsylviania St. Univ., Dept of Astron. & Astrophys., PA, USA

XANTHOPOULOS Emily, NRAL Jodrell Bank, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK

ZAHN Jean-Paul, Observatoire de Paris, Section de Meudon, DASGAL, France

ZASOV Anatoly V., Sternberg Astronomical Inst., Moscow State Univ., Russia