CAREER: RACING -- Resolving the Activity Cycle In the Nearest Galaxies

首席研究员（PI）米尔斯和她的团队将研究超大质量黑洞是如何被喂养的，以及恒星是如何在附近星系的最内层区域形成的。该团队将使用阿塔卡马大型毫米/亚毫米阵列（阿尔马）和甚大阵列（VLA）望远镜绘制冷气体和尘埃。为了确保代表性不足的少数民族（URM）本科生更广泛的参与和包容，PI将建立RAISE（远程天文学实习和奖学金经验）奖学金计划。学生将参加一个远程夏季研究小组项目，并将在整个高年级得到指导，以确保顺利过渡到博士课程。利用来自阿尔马，VLA和詹姆斯韦伯太空望远镜的数据组合，该团队将在秒差距尺度上描述，星系中心气体和尘埃库的哪些物理性质与中心星星的形成和黑洞活动有关，以促进我们对低质量恒星占空比的理解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的评估被认为值得支持。影响审查标准。

Principal Investigator (PI) Mills and her team will investigate how super-massive black holes are fed and how stars form in the innermost regions of nearby galaxies. The team will map the cold gas and dust using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Very Large Array (VLA) telescopes. To ensure broader participation and inclusion of underrepresented minority (URM) undergraduate students the PI will establish the RAISE (Remote Astronomy Internship and Scholarship Experience) Fellowship program. Students will participate in a remote summer research group project and will be mentored throughout their senior year to ensure a smooth transition to a PhD program. Using a combination of data from ALMA, the VLA, and the James Webb Space Telescope the team will characterize, at the parsec-scale, which physical properties of a galaxy’s central gas and dust reservoir are correlated with central star formation and black hole activity to advance our understanding of the duty cycles of low-luminosity active galactic nuclei and central starbursts.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.