CAREER: RACING -- Resolving the Activity Cycle In the Nearest Galaxies

职业：赛车——解决最近星系的活动周期问题

• 批准号: 2339670
• 负责人: Elisabeth Mills
• 金额: $ 82.17万
• 依托单位: University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-06-01 至 2029-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2339670&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; RACING; Resolving; Activity; Cycle

Principal Investigator (PI) Mills and her team will investigate how super-massive black holes are fed and how stars form in the innermost regions of nearby galaxies. The team will map the cold gas and dust using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Very Large Array (VLA) telescopes. To ensure broader participation and inclusion of underrepresented minority (URM) undergraduate students the PI will establish the RAISE (Remote Astronomy Internship and Scholarship Experience) Fellowship program. Students will participate in a remote summer research group project and will be mentored throughout their senior year to ensure a smooth transition to a PhD program. Using a combination of data from ALMA, the VLA, and the James Webb Space Telescope the team will characterize, at the parsec-scale, which physical properties of a galaxy’s central gas and dust reservoir are correlated with central star formation and black hole activity to advance our understanding of the duty cycles of low-luminosity active galactic nuclei and central starbursts.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

首席研究员 (PI) 米尔斯和她的团队将研究超大质量黑洞的形成方式以及附近星系最内部区域的恒星如何形成。该团队将使用阿塔卡马大型毫米/亚毫米阵列 (ALMA) 绘制冷气体和尘埃的地图。 ）和甚大阵列（VLA）望远镜，为了确保代表性不足的少数民族（URM）本科生的更广泛参与和包容，PI将建立RAISE（远程天文学实习和项目）。奖学金体验）奖学金计划。学生将参加远程夏季研究小组项目，并在整个高年级接受指导，以确保顺利过渡到博士课程，并结合来自 ALMA、VLA 和 James Webb Space 的数据。该团队将通过望远镜在秒差距尺度上表征星系中央气体和尘埃库的物理特性与中央恒星形成和黑洞活动相关，以增进我们对低光度活动星系核和中央恒星占空比的理解。星爆。这授予 NSF 的法定使命，并通过评估反映使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得支持。