Research Interests 

1. •Wide-Field surveys (AGNs, Galaxies, CV, White dwarfs and hot subdworfs)
   

2. •Active Galactic Nuclei and Quasars  (Central Engine and Environment)
   

3. •Compact Groups of Galaxies
   

4. •Observational Astronomy
   
   

My main area of study is the multiwavelength observations and interpretation of the processes going on around supermassive black holes (BH): the nature of the power source in active galactic nuclei (AGNs); the cosmological evolution of supermassive BH and their host galaxies, and relationships with environment in small and large scales. One of my long-term interests has been variability of the radiation from AGNs to probe what is going on around the supermassive BH (structure and kinematics of the broad/narrow-line emission regions) and power generation.

Education

1. •1995 Ph.D. (Physics & Mathematics, Specialisation - Astronomy & Radioastronomy) Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia.
   

2. •1986 M.Sc. (Physics, Specialisation - Astrophysics) Yerevan State University, Department of Astrophysics, Armenia.1984 
   

3. •B.Sc. (Physics) Yerevan State University, Faculty of Physics, Armenia.
   

Recent publications [ADS]

Published Refereed papers

Kovačević, A.; Popović, L. Č.; Shapovalova, A. I.; Ilić, D.; Burenkov, A. N.; Chavushyan, V.H. [2014AdSpR..54.1414K] Time series analysis of active galactic nuclei: The case of Arp 102B, 3C 390.3, NGC 5548 and NGC 4051

Paggi, A.; Milisavljevic, D.; Masetti, N.; Jiménez-Bailón, E.; Chavushyan, V.; D'Abrusco, R.; Massaro, F.; Giroletti, M.; Smith, H. A.; Margutti, R.; and 6 coauthors [2014AJ....147..112P] Optical Spectroscopic Observations of γ-Ray Blazar Candidates. I. Preliminary Results.

Parisi, P.; Masetti, N.; Rojas, A. F.; Jiménez-Bailón, E.; Chavushyan, V.; Palazzi, E.; Bassani, L.; Bazzano, A.; Bird, A. J.; Galaz, G.; and 3 coauthors [2014A&A...561A..67P] Accurate classification of 75 counterparts of objects detected in the 54-month Palermo Swift/BAT hard X-ray catalogue

Masetti, N.; Sbarufatti, B.; Parisi, P.; Jiménez-Bailón, E.; Chavushyan, V.; Vogt, F. P. A.; Sguera, V.; Stephen, J. B.; Palazzi, E.; Bassani, L.; and 8 coauthors [2013A&A...559A..58M] BL Lacertae identifications in a ROSAT-selected sample of Fermi unidentified objects

Accepted Refereed papers

León-Tavares, J.; Kotilainen, J.; Chavushyan, V.; Añorve, C.; Puerari, I.; Cruz-González, I.; Patiño-Álvarez, V.; Antón, S.; Carramiñana, A.; Carrasco, L.; and 5 coauthors. ApJ, [2014arXiv1409.2518L] The host-galaxy of the gamma-ray Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H 0323+342

Popovic, L. C.; Shapovalova, A. I.; Ilic, D.; Burenkov, A. N.; Chavushyan, V. H.; Kollatschny, W.; Kovacevic, A.; Valdes, J. R.; Leon-Tavares, J.; Bochkarev, N. G.; and 2 coauthors. A&A, [2014arXiv1408.6955P] Spectral optical monitoring of the double peaked emission line AGN Arp 102B: II. Variability of the broad line properties

López-Valdivia, R.; Bertone, E.; Chávez, M.; Tapia-Schiavon, C.; Hernández-Águila, J. B.; Valdés, J. R.; Chavushyan, V. MNRAS, [2014arXiv1408.3098L] Super-solar metallicity in G0-G3 main sequence stars with V < 15

Conference Proceedings

Richards, Joseph L; Lister, Matthew L.; Foschini, Luigi; Savolainen, Tuomas; Homan, Daniel C.; Kadler, Matthias; Readhead, Anthony C. S.; Arshakian, Tigran; Chavushyan, Vahram [2014HEAD...1410608R] The Parsec-scale Structure and Kinematics of Radio-Loud Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies

Arshakian, Tigran G.; Chavushyan, Vahram [2014IAUS..304..257A] The central pc-scale region in blazars: insights from multi-band observations

Richards, Joseph L.; Lister, M. L.; Foschini, L.; Savolainen, T.; Homan, D. C.; Kadler, M.; Hovatta, T.; Readhead, A. C.; Arshakian, T.; Chavushyan, V. [2014AAS...22325101R] The Parsec-scale Structure and Kinematics of Radio-Loud Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies