Black hole astrophysics through timing studies

开发和测试新的方法来分析和解释黑洞亮度变化中包含的图案--我们银河系中恒星质量的黑洞和活动星系核中的超大质量黑洞。该项目将专注于光学和X射线天文台的数据，并研究从亚秒到数年或数十年的一系列时间尺度的变化。该项目将涉及分析数据和从数据中提取信息方面的挑战，这些数据往往噪音大，观测时间可能非常不规律，往往来自不同的仪器。所开发的方法应该在面临类似挑战的天体物理学领域中得到应用。

Developing and testing new methods for analysing and interpreting the patterns contained in the brightness variations of black holes - bothstellar-mass black holes in our galaxy and super-massive black holes in active galactic nuclei. The project will focus on data from optical and X-ray observatories, and study variations over a range of timescales from subsecond to years or decades. The project will involve challenges in analysing and extracting information from data, which are often noisy and the timing of observations may be quite irregular, often coming from different instruments. The methods developed should have applications in the fields of astrophysics faced with similar challenges.