US-Netherlands Dissertation Enhancement: Large-Scale Structure in the Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster of Galaxies

这个为期一年的奖项将支持北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校物理和天文学系学生马修·弗利诺的学位论文增强项目。他将与荷兰格罗尼根大学Kapteyn天文研究所的Marinus van de Weygairt教授和莱顿大学莱顿天文台的Melanie Johnston-Hollitt教授合作。Fleenor先生的研究将探索时钟-网状超星系团(HRS)的动力学和形态特征，以评估结构形成的层次合并图是否准确地预测了存在的子结构的多样性和运动学。Fleenor先生将受益于相关领域专家的培训：i)综合非光学(特别是无线电)观测，以此作为解释局部区域的动态和运动学状态的一种手段；ii)将观测数据集与宇宙尺度的计算机模拟进行比较。

0407532RoseThis one-year award will support a dissertation enhancement project of Matthew Fleenor, a student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He will work with Professor Marinus van de Weygaert at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute at the University of Gronigen and Prof. Melanie Johnston-Hollitt at Leiden Observatory, University of Leiden, both in The Netherlands. Mr. Fleenor's research will probe the dynamical and morphological characteristics of the Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster (HRS) to evaluate whether the hierarchical merging picture of structure formation accurately predicts the variety and kinematics of substructures present. Mr. Fleenor will benefit from training by experts in related fields: i) the integration of non-optical (particularly radio) observations as a means of interpreting the dynamic and kinematic state of localized regions, and ii) the comparison of the observational datasets with cosmological-scale computer simulations.