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Dr. Matthias Kadler

Dr. Karl Remeis-Sternwarte, Bamberg
Astronomisches Institut der 
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Mail Address:	Matthias Kadler Dr. Karl Remeis Sternwarte, Bamberg Sternwartstrasse 7 96049 Bamberg, Germany
Email:	Matthias.Kadler [at] sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de
Phone:	(+49) 951 9522226
Fax:	(+49) 951 9522222

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Hello. I am an astronomer, working at the Dr. Remeis Sternwarte Bamberg, the astronomical institute of the university of Erlangen-Nuremberg. My main research interests are black holes and the relativistic plasma jets being ejected from their immediate vicinity. Such jets are observed in both Galactic, stellar-mass black hole systems, and in extragalactic, supermassive black hole system and they dominate the emission of these objects over the whole spectrum from radio to gamma-ray energies. Such jets show fascinating phenomena like (apparent) superluminal motion, intraday variability, and dramatic outbursts. Curiously, this jet-production takes place only in a relatively small fraction of all black-hole systems: the radio-loud objects. How do black holes form jets? How are they collimated and accelerated? How do they interact with the environment of their host galaxies?

In collaboration with colleagues in Bamberg, at the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie in Bonn, and at institutes all over the world, I am trying to address these and other questions with the help of astronomical observations across the electromagnetic spectrum. We are particularly focusing on radio observations of jets using the special technique of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) with the VLBA and the LBA, radio single-dish observations with the Effelsberg 100-m telescope, X-ray observations with XMM-Newton, Suzaku, Swift, and INTEGRAL, and gamma-ray observations with GLAST. I am a GLAST/LAT affiliated scientists and do a lot of my work in collaboration with the LAT Science Working Group (SWG) on Blazars and other AGN. Have a look at the website on "radio activities" of the GLAST/LAT AGN Science Working Group that I maintain together with Greg Taylor and Lars Fuhrmann.