Daily Image
28-11-2014
Meet the Radio Life team!
| Submitter: | Raffaella Morganti |
| Description: | The ERC Advanced Grant "Exploiting new radio telescopes to understand the role of AGN in galaxy evolution", better known as "RadioLife", is up-and-running since 1.5 years. The proposal has obtained 2.5 million euro to set up a science team dedicated to exploring the full impact of radio AGN on galaxy evolution using LOFAR and Apertif. This team is now finally complete! The picture shows the great team of students, postDocs and software engineer which the PI, Raffaella Morganti, has put together. From left to right top row: Francesco Santoro(PhD), Filippo Maccagni (PhD), Kristina Nyland (PostDoc), Jeremy Harwood (PostDoc), Leith Godfrey (PostDoc), Bradley Frank (PostDoc, part-time RadioLife), Nicolas Vilchez (software engineer), Raymond Oonk (PostDoc, part-time RadioLife). Bottom row, from left to right: Marisa Brienza (PhD), Raffaella Morganti (PI), Elizabeth Mahony (PostDoc, part-time RadioLife). The goal is to achieve a better understanding of the dynamic life of radio sources, their duty-cycle and whether HI has a role in all this. Several exciting results have already been obtained in this initial period and you can find them in some of the past Daily Images and in published papers. To list just some of the results: the self-calibration pipeline for LOFAR data (Daily Image 27-Jul-2014 from Nicolas as part of the CITT), the identification and characterization of HI absorption and HI absorption stacking (part of Filippo's thesis Daily Images 20-Aug-2014 and 1-Sep-2014), the identification of jet-driven molecular outflows (Daily Image 7-Jul-2014) and the tracing of the interaction of the radio jet with the surrounding quiescent medium in Centaurus A using integral field spectroscopy with VIMOS and MUSE@VLT (part of Francesco's thesis). We expect many more successes to come and many more Daily Images posted! |
| Copyright: | Astron |
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