Paolo Coppi

Professor, Astronomy & Physics

Past Courses Taught

Astronomy 320: Physical Processes in Astronomy
Astronomy 420/520: Computational Methods for Astrophysics
Astronomy 570: High Energy Astrophysics

Research Interests

High-Energy Plasma/Radiation Process
Cosmological VHE Particle Propagation
Blazars and VHE Astronomy
Black Hole/Neutron Star Binaries
Early Star and Structure Formation
Gas-Mediated Black Hole Mergers
QUEST Large Area Driftscan Survey
Yale-Calan Deep X-Ray/Optial/NIR Survey

Recent Publications

"The Role of Gas in the Merging of Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei. II. Black Hole Merging in a Nuclear Gas Disk", A. Escala, R. B. Larson, P. S. Coppi, and D. Mardones, 2005, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 630, p. 152.

"The Calan-Yale Deep Extragalactic Research Survey: Optical Properties and Deep Spectroscopy of Serendipitous X-ray Sources", 2005, ApJ, 621, 104

"An X-Ray-selected AGN at z=4.6 Discovered by the CYDER Survey", 2004, ApJ, 603, 36

List of Publications

Refereed
Invited Reviews
Non-Refereed
ADS Publication Search
LANL Preprint Search

Curriculum Vitae

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Public Lectures

Black Holes Large and Small

Public Software

High-Energy Radiation Processes Toolbox
EQPAIR - Hybrid Thermal/Non-Theral Plasma Emission Code
XMC - Monte Carlo Comptonization Code
IRABS - Gev/TeV Gamma-Ray Absorption Calculator