ALMAGAL: The ALMA Study of High-Mass Protocluster Formation in the Milky Way

了解大质量恒星的形成是广泛天体物理学的核心，从宇宙的星星形成历史到星系的物理和化学演化以及黑洞、脉冲星和伽马射线爆发的起源。ALMAGAL是一个阿尔马大型计划，旨在观测1000个年轻的高质量区域，研究高质量恒星及其相关星团的形成和演化。这个博士项目将涉及ALMAGAL观测的分析，以研究检测到的源的属性，区域及其环境的动态，以及原恒星的演化状态。ALMAGAL是大型国际合作，可能有机会花时间在一些合作机构工作。也将有机会参加并有可能领导对ALMAGAL研究的来源的后续观察。ALMAGAL观测的分析结果将与大质量星星形成的数值模拟进行比较，以帮助限制形成最大质量恒星所需的初始条件。

Understanding the formation of massive stars is central to wide range of astrophysics, from the star formation history of the Universe to the physical and chemical evolution of galaxies and the origin of black holes, pulsars and gamma ray bursts. ALMAGAL is an ALMA Large Programme to observe 1000 young, high mass regions to study the formation and evolution of high mass stars and their associated stellar clusters. This PhD project will involve the analysis of the ALMAGAL observations to study the properties of the sources detected, the dynamics of the regions and their environments, and the evolutionary status of the protostars.ALMAGAL is large international collaboration and there may be opportunities to spend time working at some of the partner institutions. There will also be opportunities to take part in, and potentially, lead follow-up observations of the sources studied with ALMAGAL. The results of the analysis of the ALMAGAL observations will be compared with numerical simulations of massive star formation to help constrain the initial conditions required to form the most massive stars.