Visiting Fellowships at Durham

该申请寻求支持，以继续我们自1983年以来在达勒姆进行的成功访客计划。该应用程序涵盖了达勒姆大学的整个天文学研究领域，包括理论宇宙学、河外天文学、天文仪器、伽马射线天文学和高能天体物理学。在两年半的时间里，目前的资助资助了144名访客，并导致了85篇由达勒姆大学的研究人员和访客共同评审的出版物。涉及访客的研究项目的例子有：处女座财团的n体和宇宙结构形成的气体动力学模拟计划；星系形成的理论建模；经历巨大恒星爆发的年轻大质量星系的观测研究；高红移气体的理论与观测研究研究大小不一的黑洞的吸积过程，从几个太阳质量到十亿个太阳质量；超大质量黑洞的成长对星系形成的影响在形成的早期阶段对群体和集群的观察；来自包括微类星体在内的外来物体的高能伽马射线的探测和解释；为现有的望远镜如甚大望远镜和未来的望远镜如极大望远镜设计新仪器。

This application seeks support to continue the successful visitors programme that we have conducted at Durham since 1983. This application covers the entire spectrum of astronomical research at Durham which includes theoretical cosmology, extragalactic astronomy, astronomical instrumentation, gamma-ray astronomy and high energy astrophysics. The current grant has supported 144 visitors over a 2.5 year period and had led to 85 joint refereed publications involving Durham researchers and visitors. Examples of research projects involving visitors are: the Virgo Consortium's programme of N-body and gasdynamic simulations of the formation of structure in the universe; theoretical modelling of galaxy formation; observational studies of young massive galaxies undergoing huge starbursts; theoretical and observational studies of gas at high redshift; investigation of accretion processes onto black holes of a wide range of sizes, from a few to a billion solar masses; the effects of the growth of supermassive black holes on forming galaxies; observations of groups and clusters at early stages of formation; the detection and interpretation of very high energy gamma rays from exotic objects including microquasars; the design of new instruments for existing telescopes like the Very Large Telescope and future ones like the Extremely Large Telescope.