Detecting the deaths of the first stars: Investigating the physical processes in the early Universe

探测第一批恒星的死亡：研究早期宇宙的物理过程

• 批准号: FT130101219
• 负责人: Prof Jeffrey Cooke
• 金额: $ 43.77万
• 依托单位: Swinburne University of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: ARC Future Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/FT130101219
• 关键词: Detecting; deaths; first; stars; Investigating

This project will pursue the most distant supernova explosions in the Universe and investigate their host galaxies and environments. It will use a technique that has detected the most distant supernovae, probing 12 billion years into the past, and one that is able to discover, for the first time, the deaths of the first stars to have formed after the Big Bang. This project will use this technique to gather a statistical sample of supernovae to determine their occurrence rate and physical properties and to provide crucial data for a newly discovered, extremely powerful, third type of supernova. This data will test the laws in which early galaxies formed their stars and reveal the framework for the subsequent evolution of the Universe.

该项目将追踪宇宙中最遥远的超新星爆炸，并调查它们的宿主星系和环境。它将使用一种探测到最遥远的超新星的技术，探测120亿年前的过去，并首次能够发现大爆炸后形成的第一批恒星的死亡。该项目将使用这项技术来收集超新星的统计样本，以确定它们的出现频率和物理性质，并为新发现的、极其强大的第三种超新星提供关键数据。这些数据将检验早期星系形成恒星的规律，并揭示宇宙随后演化的框架。