PATT travel grant for University of Southampton

PATT 南安普顿大学旅费补助

• 批准号: ST/G00403X/1
• 负责人: Thomas Maccarone
• 金额: $ 2.24万
• 依托单位: University of Southampton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2009 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FG00403X%2F1
• 关键词: PATT; travel; grant; University; Southampton

This grant will support trips to telescopes for observing by members of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Southampton. The research in the School focuses primarily on understanding systems containing accreting compact objects (i.e. black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs). These systems can either be supermassive black holes, which can suck in gas from their surroundings, or binary star systems, in which the compact object can either peel material off its companion, or attract its companion's stellar wind. These objects tend to emit radiation across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from radio through gamma-rays. Our group's observational efforts cover this spectrum, and the telescope trips for which we are proposing are focused on observations in the radio, infrared and optical bands. Additional work in the School consists of deep survey observations of regions of the sky without any bright objects, in order to find the faintest possible objects. This, again, is done across all wave bands. In this case, the main goal of the work is to determine what emission comes from the material that is being sucked into supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies, and what comes from stars in the galaxies themselves.

这笔拨款将用于支持南安普顿大学物理与天文学院成员的望远镜观测之旅。该学院的研究主要集中在理解包含吸积紧凑物体（即黑洞、中子星和白矮星）的系统。这些系统可以是超大质量黑洞，可以从周围环境中吸收气体，也可以是双星系统，在双星系统中，紧凑的物体可以从同伴身上剥离物质，或者吸引同伴的恒星风。这些物体倾向于在整个电磁波谱中发射辐射，从无线电到伽马射线。我们小组的观测工作涵盖了这个光谱，我们提议的望远镜之旅主要集中在无线电、红外和光学波段的观测上。该学院的其他工作包括对天空中没有任何明亮物体的区域进行深入的调查观测，以找到可能最微弱的物体。同样，这是在所有波段上完成的。在这种情况下，这项工作的主要目标是确定哪些辐射来自被星系中心的超大质量黑洞吸入的物质，以及哪些来自星系本身的恒星。