Canada Research Chair in Multi-Messenger Astrophysics

加拿大多信使天体物理学研究主席

• 批准号: 1000232568-2019
• 负责人: Haggard, Daryl
• 金额: $ 8.74万
• 依托单位: McGill University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Canada Research Chairs
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=695197
• 关键词: Canada; Research; Chair; Multi; Messenger

Professor Haggard investigates the extreme endpoints of matter in the universe: black holes and neutron stars. This project explores how these exotic objects evolve by attracting matter gravitationally and via explosive collisions. Haggard and her team will pursue intensive, multi-wavelength studies of supermassive black holes, including the Milky Ways Sagittarius A*, and search for cosmic flashes from merging neutron stars and black holes. She helped lead the groundbreaking discovery of the first electromagnetic (visual light) counterpart to a gravitational wave source, the neutron star merger GW170817, and will now pave the way for the emerging field of multi-messenger astrophysics.

哈格德教授研究了宇宙中物质的极端端点：黑洞和中子星。这个项目探索了这些奇异的物体是如何通过引力和爆炸性碰撞吸引物质而进化的。哈格德和她的团队将对超大质量黑洞进行密集的多波长研究，包括银河系人马座A*，并寻找合并中子星和黑洞的宇宙闪光。她帮助领导了第一个电磁（可见光）对应引力波源的开创性发现，中子星星合并GW 170817，现在将为多信使天体物理学的新兴领域铺平道路。