Gas Flows and Rapid Metal Enrichment in AGN

AGN 中的气体流动和金属快速富集

• 批准号: 1108928
• 负责人: Gary Ferland
• 金额: $ 44.24万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-15 至 2016-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1108928&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Gas; Flows; Rapid; Metal; Enrichment

The award for this project allow further development of the computer code "Cloudy" to implement a new and powerful analysis technique for emission lines in active galactic nuclei (AGN), known as Independent Component Analysis. This will help connect the large array of existing spectroscopic measurements back to the physical nature of the emitting gas producing the emission lines, and from there back to the overall nature of the active galactic nucleus itself. Broader impacts of the work include training of graduate students and postdocs in AGN physics and computer code development. Cloudy is used by hundreds of researchers in astronomy and this award will support continued development and distribution of this important tool.

该项目的获奖使计算机代码“云”的进一步发展，以实现一个新的和强大的分析技术，在活动星系核（AGN）的发射线，被称为独立成分分析。 这将有助于将现有的大量光谱测量与产生发射线的发射气体的物理性质联系起来，并从那里回到活动星系核本身的整体性质。 这项工作的更广泛影响包括对AGN物理学和计算机代码开发方面的研究生和博士后进行培训。 Cloudy被数百名天文学研究人员使用，该奖项将支持这一重要工具的持续开发和分发。