The brightest burst of Blazar in the Universe

The brightest burst of Blazar in the Universe

December 11, 2017 in the meeting room of the Physics and Technology Faculty a paper published in the Nature journal was presented. This work was performed in co-author with Kuratov Kenesken Sakenovich, Kazakh scientist, associate professor of the Department of Solid State and Nonlinear Physics, al-Farabi Kazakh National University.

A work devoted to observations of the brightest of Blazar's burst which ever discovered was performed in cooperation with the Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute. Blazar is an active core in the center of the galaxy, related with a supermassive black hole, one of the most distant objects is accessible for observations in the Universe. Optical observations were carried out in the Tien-Shan observatory by using a 1.0 meter, Carl Zeiss telescope. The observed star source CTA 102 is located at a distance of 7000 Mega parsec from the Earth, in the constellation Pegasus. The brightness of Blazar at the time of the burst, fixed by our compatriot, has increased more than 250 times. 39 largest telescopes in 28 observatories from 25 countries of the world participated in the observations

The results are published in Nature (Impact Factor for 2016: 40.137). For details of the research follow this link: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24623

Department of solid state physics and nonlinear physics