Welcome to the website of the 10^th FERO meeting 

The first FERO meeting took place in February 2008, at the European Space Astronomy Center near Madrid. Since then, 8 more FERO meetings have been organised in various locations across Europe. Their main objective is to gather observational and theoretical astronomers interested in the physics of the innermost regions of accretion black holes across the whole mass scale, to present their latest results, discuss the state-of-art, and plan future observations and theoretical developments in the field.

The tenth Finding Extreme Relativistic Objects meeting will be held on March 30-April 1st, 2022, at the IRAP in Toulouse (France). 

The meeting will be structured in six broad sessions, each devoted to addressing a specific aspect of the astrophysics of accreting black holes:

- Unification of accreting black holes over the whole mass scale

- Accreting black hole inner region (corona/jet base/ISCO)

- Outflows at all scales (winds/large-scale jets/UFOs)

- Intermediate mass black holes and gravitational wave sources

- Galactic center

- Time-domain astrophysics of accreting black holes

FERO workshops have always been highly interactive events, and this meeting will follow a similar structure. For each session we envisage two long review talks, a few (2-3) contributed talks on recent highlights, and plenty of time for discussion in between.

Solicited speakers 

Didier Barret (CNRS and Toulouse University, IRAP, France)

Tomaso Belloni (INAF, Osservatorio di Brera, Italy)

Valentina Braito (INAF, Osservatorio di Brera, Italy)

Qingcui Bu (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Chris Done (University of Durham, UK)

Michal Dovciak (Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Science, Prague, Czech Republic)

Andrea Goldwurm (APC, SAP, Saclay, France)

Sébastien Guillot (IRAP, France)

Andrea Marinucci (ASI, Rome, Italy)

Giorgio Matt (University of Rome, Italy)

Michela Mapelli (INAF, Osservatori di Padova, Italy)

Odele Straub (MPE, Garching, Germany)

Gunther Witzel (MPIFR, Bonn, Germany)

Round table moderators

Matteo Guainazzi (ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherland)

Julien Malzac (CNRS and University of Toulouse, IRAP,  France)

Barbara De Marco (CAMK, Warsaw, Poland)

Pierre-Olivier Petrucci (IPAG, Grenoble, France)

Natalie Webb (CNRS and University of Toulouse, IRAP, France)   

Scientific Organizing Committee

Matteo Guainazzi (ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherland)

Julien Malzac (CNRS and University of Toulouse, IRAP, France)

Barbara De Marco (CAMK, Warsaw, Poland)

Frédéric Marin (Observatoire de Strasbourg, France) 

Delphine Porquet (LAM, France) 

Pierre-Olivier Petrucci (IPAG, Grenoble, France) 

Natalie Webb (CNRS and University of Toulouse, IRAP, France)   

Local Organizing Committee

Julien Malzac (CNRS and University of Toulouse, IRAP, France)

Dolorès Granat (CNRS and University of Toulouse, IRAP, France)