Monsters in the Dark: Supermassive Black Hole Masses and AGN Feedback in the WISDOM Project

黑暗中的怪物：WISDOM 项目中的超大质量黑洞质量和 AGN 反馈

• 批准号: 1796673
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1796673
• 关键词: Monsters; Dark; Supermassive; Black; Hole

The supermassive black holes that lurk in the hearts of galaxies play a key role in shaping their evolution. Understanding the co-evolution of galaxies and black holes, and how this evolution varies in different types of galaxies, is vital to truly understand these enigmatic objects.This project involves using high-resolution observations to resolve the structure and kinematics of clouds of gas and dust orbiting supermassive black holes in nearby galaxies. The PhD student will join an international team of astronomers, lead from Cardiff, and will use data from the state of the art telescopes (the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array, the IRAM-30m, APEX, and the Hubble Space Telescope). She/he will have the opportunity to use this data to estimate supermassive black hole masses, study the structureof nuclear accretion disks/torii, and/or probe the breakdown of star-formation laws in the regions around black holes.

潜伏在星系中心的超大质量黑洞在塑造它们的演化过程中起着关键作用。了解星系和黑洞的共同演化，以及这种演化在不同类型的星系中是如何变化的，对于真正理解这些神秘的物体至关重要。这个项目涉及使用高分辨率观测来解析附近星系中围绕超大质量黑洞旋转的气体和尘埃云的结构和运动学。这位博士生将加入一个来自加的夫的国际天文学家团队，并将使用最先进的望远镜(阿塔卡马大毫米/亚毫米阵列、IRAM-30M、APEX和哈勃太空望远镜)的数据。她/他将有机会利用这些数据来估计超大质量黑洞质量，研究核吸积盘/Torii的结构，和/或探索黑洞周围区域恒星形成规律的崩溃。