PATT travel grant for University of Southampton

这笔赠款将资助南安普顿大学物理和天文学院成员使用望远镜进行观测。该学院的研究主要集中在理解包含吸积致密物体(即黑洞、中子星和白矮星)的系统。这些系统既可以是超大质量黑洞，可以从周围吸入气体，也可以是双星系统，在双星系统中，致密天体可以剥离其伴星的物质，或者吸引其伴星的恒星风。这些天体倾向于在整个电磁频谱上发射辐射，从无线电到伽马射线。我们小组的观测工作涵盖了这一光谱，我们提议的望远镜旅行重点是在无线电、红外和光学波段进行观测。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观测，以找到可能最暗的物体。同样，这在所有波段都是这样做的。在这种情况下，这项工作的主要目标是确定被吸进星系中心的超大质量黑洞的物质发出的是什么，以及星系本身的恒星发出的是什么。

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.