Visitors Programme - University of Central Lancashire, Centre for Astrophysics

中央兰开夏大学的天体物理学研究集中在三个广泛的主题：河外物理学，恒星物理学和太阳物理学。国际领导力和参与多机构合作需要一个充满活力的访客计划，以保持竞争优势，与海外专业知识交叉培养技能，并在出现时间紧迫的机会目标时培养新的和令人兴奋的合作联系。访问者计划在这方面特别具有成本效益;我们以前的赠款的效力（和重要性）以图形方式证明了自2003年以来天体物理中心200份参考出版物的三分之一是与赠款支持的35位访问者合作编写的。该应用程序旨在扩大我们以前支持的访客计划，以反映我们在高性能计算天体物理学方面的快速和显着增长，同时保持对恒星和太阳物理学主题内现有国际联系的支持。参观者参与的研究项目包括星系形成的完全自洽宇宙学化学和动力学模拟;整个宇宙中古老星系的年龄测定和化学解构;追踪今天我们周围化学元素和同位素的起源地点;通过观察和模型邻近的可见星星星团同伴来了解超大质量黑洞的成长;利用声波探测恒星内部;揭开日冕物质抛射的神秘起源;探索太阳日冕洞之间的联系，太阳风及其与地球大气层的相互作用。

Astrophysics research at the University of Central Lancashire is concentrated within three broad themes: Extragalactic, Stellar, and Solar Physics. International leadership and participation in multi-institute collaborations requires a vibrant Visitors Programme, in order to sustain a competitive advantage, cross-fertilise skillsets with overseas expertise, and foster new and exciting collaborative links when time-critical targets of opportunity arise. Visitor Programmes are particularly cost-effective in this regard; the efficacy (and importance) of our previous grant is demonstrated graphically by the fact that 1/3 of the Centre for Astrophysics 200 refereed publications since 2003 were written in collaboration with the 35 visitors supported by the grant. This application seeks to expand upon our previously-supported Visitors Programme, to reflect our rapid and significant growth in High Performance Computational Astrophysics, while maintaining support for our existing international links within the stellar and solar physics themes. Examples of research projects involving visitors include fully self-consistent cosmological chemical and dynamical simulations of galaxy formation; age-dating and chemical deconstruction of ancient galaxies throughout the Universe; tracking the origin sites of the chemical elements and isotopes surrounding us today; understanding the growth of supermassive black holes through observations and models of their neighbouring visible star cluster companions; probing the interiors of stars using sound waves; uncovering the mysterious origin of coronal mass ejections; exploring the link between coronal holes on the Sun, their solar winds, and their interaction with the Earth's atmosphere.