Manuela Bischetti

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My research

Galaxies and black-holes in the distant Universe  

How to black-holes and their host-galaxies grow in the distant Universe? Do supermassive black-hole winds affect the galaxy? What is the cycle of baryons in and out of galaxies?  

Contact

  • Email : manuela.bischetti@units.it - manuela.bischetti@inaf.it
  • Phone : +39 040 3199 235
  • Skype : manuela.bischetti
  • Address : Dipartimento di Fisica UniTs, Via G. Tiepolo 11, Trieste (IT)

My Expertise

Research fellow at UniTs and INAF OATs

 Trieste University and INAF Astronomical Observatory


PhD in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Science

Rome University Tor Vergata

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Cambridge 


Master degree in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Rome University La Sapienza


Teaching

Radioastronomy a.y. 2022/2023

Course for master degree students at Trieste University.

My interests

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Cold gas

 How much fuel is available for the formation of new start? Does black-hole feedback suppress the amount of cold gas in the galaxy?
(e.g. Bischetti et al. 2019a)  

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Star formation and non-thermal processes

What contributes to the sub-mm to radio emission of high-redshift galaxies?
(e.g. Bischetti et al. 2021)

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ADVERSTISING

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Galaxy overdensities

Detecting and characterising companion galaxies
(e.g. Bischetti et al. 2018)  

 

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Massive galaxy assembly

Probe the early growth of the most-massive black-holes and of their host galaxies
(e.g. Bischetti et al. 2021)  

 

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ADVERSITING

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Interferometry

Combining large collecting area and high-angular resolution

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ADVERSITING

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Black-hole driven outflows

Black-holes drive gaseous winds with velocities of 1000-10000 km/s.
(e.g. Bischetti et al. 2019b)

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Structure of gaseous disks

How does the gas move in galaxies? Disentangling rotation from gas inflows and outflows
(Feruglio, Bischetti et al. 2020)

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Quasars

Ideal targets to hunt for the most-powerful black-hole driven winds
(Bischetti et al. 2017,2022)

Publications list

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Non ci sono più i vènti da buchi neri di una volta

Uno studio pubblicato sulla rivista Nature e guidato da tre ricercatrici dell’INAF, in collaborazione con la Normale di Pisa e numerosi istituti di ricerca internazionali, ha misurato per la prima volta la frazione di venti generati dai buchi neri supermassicci al centro delle galassie nell’universo primordiale, svelando che all’epoca questi venti erano molto più frequenti e potenti rispetto a quelli osservati nelle galassie a noi vicine.

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DISTANT QUASARS REVEAL A SURPRISING PROCESS THAT CAPPED THE FIRST BLACK HOLES' GROWTH

Based on observations made with the ESO’s XSHOOTER instrument at the Very Large Telescope in Chile’s Atacama Desert, an Italian-led team of international astronomers suggest that feedback from the black holes’ formation process slowed down their growth, leading to the balance of matter that we know today. The results of the study were published today in Nature. These winds were so powerful — with velocities about a sixth of the speed of light — that they cleared the gasses from the regions surrounding these black holes, stopping them from growing further.

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Ancient Black Holes Have Revealed a Mystery at the Edge of Time and Space

A surprise discovery in the early universe has major consequences for the evolution of black holes and galaxies. Scientists led by Manuela Bischetti, a postdoctoral researcher for Italy’s National Institute for Astrophysics at the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste, have made the unexpected discovery that extremely strong winds from early supermassive black holes likely slowed their growth. Bischetti and her colleagues observed 30 quasars, extremely luminous objects often found in the center of ancient galaxies, and identified these winds as an initial stage of “black hole feedback,” a process that is central to the development of modern galaxies, including our own Milky Way, according to a study published in Nature .

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Morfologia di sette quasar dell’universo locale

Come si muovono i venti di gas freddo emessi dai quasar? Principalmente sul piano del disco galattico, e pur espandendosi lentamente – con velocità massime di 200-350 km/s – finiscono per sopprimere la nascita di nuove stelle. È quanto emerge da uno studio, guidato da Cristina Ramos Almeida dell’Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias e da Manuela Bischetti dell’Inaf di Trieste, condotto su campione di quasar luminosi osservato con Alma.

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Mezzogiorno di quasar

«Abbiamo scoperto che i quasar iperluminosi – quelli con luminosità pari a un milione di miliardi di volte quella del Sole – vivono in galassie in rapida trasformazione e interagiscono gravitazionalmente con numerose galassie vicine», spiega Bischetti, prima autrice dell’articolo e ricercatrice all’Inaf di Trieste. «Galassie che abbiamo localizzato a solamente 10 o 20 mila anni luce dal quasar: una distanza piccolissima in termini astrofisici, e che fa sì che il vicinato di questi quasar sia molto “affollato”. Con tutta probabilità, il quasar e le galassie del vicinato si fonderanno dando origine a una galassia gigante, come quelle che vediamo, già evolute, nell’universo vicino. Nel nostro studio abbiamo catturato la fase di pre-assemblaggio delle galassie giganti e abbiamo visto che i quasar sono protagonisti essenziali di questo processo».

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Greedy black holes in the early Universe generate galactic storms

Scientists at the Kavli Institute, in collaboration with researchers at various institutes in Italy, have discovered that in the early Universe, at the time when the first stars and first galaxies formed, the first massive black holes became extremely greedy, by gobbling enormous amount of matter, and generated extremely powerful winds. These winds reached velocities in excess of 1,000 kilometres per second, and certainly affected the galaxies in which the black holes were hosted. The data was collected by the Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) in Chile. The project was led by Manuela Bischetti, former student at the Kavli Institute.

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