Queen's University Belfast Consolidated Grant 2014 - 2017

我们的综合赠款将天体物理研究中心的天体物理研究项目和理论原子、分子和光学物理中心的原子物理计算研究项目结合在一起，并在两个中心之间开展合作，该方案涵盖了贝尔法斯特女王大学数学和物理学院内由AGP资助的所有活动。该方案是多样化的，涉及对从太阳到太阳系天体(小行星和彗星)、围绕太阳以外的恒星运行的行星(系外行星)、正在形成恒星的星际气体云以及遥远星系中正在爆炸的恒星(超新星)等天体物理来源的观测和理论研究。它还包括计算非常复杂的离子中原子过程的数据，如单电离铁(Fe II)，并将这些结果应用于一系列天文对象，例如被称为类星体的高度活跃的、本质上明亮的星系，这些星系位于极远的距离，因此在宇宙非常年轻的时候被观测到。

Our Consolidated Grant brings together research projects in astrophysics within the Astrophysics Research Centre, and atomic physics calculations within the Centre for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, plus collaborative work between the two Centres, in a programme which covers all of the AGP-funded activities within the School of Mathematics and Physics at Queen's University Belfast. The programme is diverse, involving observational and theoretical studies of astrophysical sources ranging from the Sun to solar system bodies (asteroids and comets), planets orbiting stars other than the Sun (exoplanets), interstellar clouds of gas where stars are forming, and exploding stars in distant galaxies (supernovae). It also includes the calculation of data for atomic processes in very complex ions, such as singly ionized iron (Fe II), and the application of these results to a range of astronomical objects, such as highly active, intrinsically bright galaxies called quasars, which are at extremely large distances and hence observed when the Universe was very young.