Towards a first-principles understanding of black hole accretion

由雷诺兹领导的拟议的STFC研究资助的研究计划将在相对论高能天体物理模型领域，包括超大质量黑洞和恒星质量吸积黑洞背景下的黑洞吸积盘模型。以我在美国20年的高能天体物理学家经验为基础，雷诺兹将在剑桥建立一个世界级的学生和博士后团队，探索黑洞天体物理学的方方面面，重点是将理论工作与最新(和未来)观测数据联系起来。这项工作的核心是对吸积过程的理解。这项提议旨在资助一名博士后研究助理(PDRA)，他专门从事黑洞吸积盘的理论和计算研究，从而建立我的团队的核心，我可以在其中招募最优秀和最聪明的博士生。延续指导我之前工作的方法，我们将采取一种循序渐进的方法，将大规模计算机模拟、简化系统的分析模型和最新的观测数据结合起来。

The proposed STFC research funded research programme led by Reynolds will be in the area of relativistic high energy astrophysics models including models for black hole accretion disks on the context of supermassive black holes and accreting stellar mass black holes. Building upon my 20 years of experience as a high-energy astrophysicist in the USA, Reynolds will build a world-class group of students and postdocs in Cambridge that explores all aspects of the astrophysics of black holes, with a focus on bridging theoretical work with the latest (and future) observational data. At the core of this effort is an understanding of the accretion process. This proposal seeks to fund a postdoctoral research associate (PDRA) who specializes in theoretical and computational investigations of black hole accretion disks, thereby establishing the core of my group into which I can recruit the best and brightest PhD students. Continuing the approach that has guided my previous work, we will take a step-by-step approach that coupleslarge-scale computer simulations, analytic models of reduced systems, and the latest observational data.