The many lives and deaths of high redshift massive quiescent galaxies

这项研究将调查最近发现的非常大质量、极早形成的静止星系，并解释它们的特殊起源、死亡和在局部宇宙中的最终位置。它是一个多学科的项目，寻求使用高性能计算、软件工程和复杂的数据分析技术来产生新的知识。预期的结果包括通过虚拟天文台对数十亿个星系进行新颖和改进的超级计算机模拟，为观测、理论和计算天体物理学提供工具和基础知识。

This Fellowship will investigate the recent discovery of very massive, extremely early forming quiescent galaxies and explain their exceptional origin, death, and ultimate place in the local Universe. It is a multidisciplinary project that seeks to produce new knowledge using high-performance computing, software engineering, and sophisticated data analysis techniques. Expected outcomes include novel and improved supercomputer simulations of several billions of galaxies processed through a virtual observatory, providing tools and fundamental knowledge for observational, theoretical, and computational astrophysics.