CAREER: RACING -- Resolving the Activity Cycle In the Nearest Galaxies

首席调查员(PI)米尔斯和她的团队将调查超大质量黑洞是如何被供给的，以及恒星是如何在附近星系的最内部区域形成的。该团队将使用阿塔卡马大型毫米/亚毫米阵列(ALMA)和甚大阵列(VLA)望远镜绘制寒冷气体和尘埃的地图。为了确保代表不足的少数族裔(URM)本科生更广泛的参与和纳入，国际天文学协会将建立RAISE(远程天文学实习和奖学金经验)奖学金计划。学生将参加一个偏远的暑期研究小组项目，并将在他们的整个大四期间接受指导，以确保顺利过渡到博士项目。利用ALMA、VLA和詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜的综合数据，该团队将在秒尺度上表征星系中央气体和尘埃储存库的哪些物理性质与中央恒星形成和黑洞活动相关，以促进我们对低光度活动星系核和中央恒星暴的占空比的理解。这一奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Principal Investigator (PI) Mills and her team will investigate how super-massive black holes are fed and how stars form in the innermost regions of nearby galaxies. The team will map the cold gas and dust using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Very Large Array (VLA) telescopes. To ensure broader participation and inclusion of underrepresented minority (URM) undergraduate students the PI will establish the RAISE (Remote Astronomy Internship and Scholarship Experience) Fellowship program. Students will participate in a remote summer research group project and will be mentored throughout their senior year to ensure a smooth transition to a PhD program. Using a combination of data from ALMA, the VLA, and the James Webb Space Telescope the team will characterize, at the parsec-scale, which physical properties of a galaxy’s central gas and dust reservoir are correlated with central star formation and black hole activity to advance our understanding of the duty cycles of low-luminosity active galactic nuclei and central starbursts.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.