AGN SIG to launch monthly Spotlight talks with two JWST-focused presentations

The Active Galactic Nuclei Science Interest Group (AGN SIG) will hold its inaugural AGN SIG Spotlight Talk on Tuesday, January 27, 2026, at 1:00 pm ET / 10:00 am PT. The virtual kickoff will feature invited talks by Dr. Namrata Roy (affiliation listed as University of Arizona and elsewhere as Arizona State University) and Dr.

Lulu Zhang (University of Texas, San Antonio). The session will begin a regular monthly series of AGN SIG events in 2026 and launch the Spotlight and Vision series. Dr. Namrata Roy’s talk, titled Turning a New Page in the AGN Feedback Chapter: Mapping Multiphase AGN Feedback from Powerful Jets to Weak Winds, will showcase recent JWST and spatially resolved spectroscopy results.

According to the abstract, Roy will discuss how JWST IFU data reveal jets piercing surrounding gas, inflating cocoons of shocked gas, and launching fast ionized outflows in high-redshift radio galaxies, present spatially resolved empirical constraints on mass, momentum, and energy flow rates in jet-impacted regions, and connect ISM-scale diagnostics to CGM-scale probes; the abstract also highlights NASA’s HWO for detecting diffuse CGM and examines local “red geyser” galaxies with weak jets and biconical ionized outflows that may form a galactic-fountain feedback cycle.

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Science, Active Galactic Nuclei, Jwst, Agn Sig, Namrata Roy, Lulu Zhang