Fundamental Physics with Spider Pulsars

蜘蛛脉冲星的基础物理

• 批准号: 2487578
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2487578
• 关键词: Fundamental; Physics; Spider; Pulsars

The PhD student will contribute to several projects led by the supervisor's team which aim to find and characterise new spider pulsars and understand the mechanisms responsible for their remarkable properties. One area of investigation is a radio survey to find energetic pulsars with the new MeerKAT telescope array. Set to start in early 2020, this campaign is expected to nearly double the number of known spider population. The PhD student will help develop new analysis techniques which will take advantage of multi-wavelength datasets including optical light curves to improve the performances of the survey as well as undertake initial follow-up work. A second area of investigation is the modelling of the interaction between the pulsar and its companion, mainly via numerical simulations, to explain the binary evolution and physical properties of these systems.

博士生将为导师团队领导的几个项目做出贡献，这些项目旨在发现和发现新的蜘蛛细胞，并了解其显着特性的机制。调查的一个领域是用新的MeerKAT望远镜阵列进行无线电调查，以寻找高能恒星。该活动将于2020年初开始，预计将使已知蜘蛛种群数量增加近一倍。博士生将帮助开发新的分析技术，该技术将利用包括光学光变曲线在内的多波长数据集来提高调查的性能，并进行初步的后续工作。研究的第二个领域是脉冲星与其伴星之间相互作用的建模，主要通过数值模拟来解释这些系统的双星演化和物理特性。