Towards a first-principles understanding of black hole accretion

由Reynolds领导的拟议STFC研究资助的研究方案将在相对论高能天体物理学模型领域，包括超大质量黑洞和吸积恒星质量黑洞背景下的黑洞吸积盘模型。基于我在美国担任高能天体物理学家20年的经验，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各个方面，重点是将理论工作与最新（和未来）的观测数据联系起来。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，从而建立了我的团队的核心，我可以招募最优秀和最聪明的博士生。继续指导我以前工作的方法，我们将采取一种逐步的方法，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.