Smart astronomy: using computational science to understand distant radio galaxies

射电星系是宇宙中最大的星系之一，其丰富的射电辐射由大质量黑洞提供动力。澳大利亚的射电望远镜在追溯这些大质量星系方面非常有效，这样我们就可以测量黑洞是如何形成和发展的。这些测量依赖于用我们的光学望远镜可靠地识别射电源，以对它们的距离进行重要测量。到目前为止，这一鉴定过程一直很简单，但下一代研究将追溯到很久以前，以至于鉴定将变得模棱两可。我们的项目将开发一个软件工具，应用计算科学的技术来克服这个匹配问题中的模糊性。

Radio galaxies are among the largest galaxies in the universe with their copious radio emission powered by massive black holes. Australian radio telescopes are very effective at tracing these massive galaxies back in time so we can measure how black holes formed and developed. These measurements depend on reliable identification of the radio sources with our optical telescopes to make vital measurements of their distances. Until now this identification process has been straightforward, but the next generation of studies will look so far back in time that the identification will become ambiguous. Our project will develop a software tool that applies techniques from computational science to overcome the ambiguity in this matching problem.