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09-07-2018
The optical side of RadioLife
| Submitter: | Raffaella Morganti, Tom Oosterloo |
| Description: | The third PhD student of the ERC RadioLife project, Francesco Santoro, has successfully defended his PhD thesis on Friday June 1st at the University of Groningen. Already from the title, "The multi-phase ISM of radio galaxies: a spectroscopic study of ionized and warm gas" one can see that the thesis of Francesco was somewhat special inside the RadioLife project: instead of radio data, it used optical and infrared observations. The reason for this is that these data provide key information to characterise galaxies hosting the radio sources. They tell us about the stellar population and its history, the mass of the central black hole, the physical conditions and the motion of the warm gas, and how his gas may be affected by the shocks produced by the radio jet. All this enriches and complement the information obtained from the radio. Francesco has used data obtained with some of the best instruments available at the ESO-VLT: MUSE, Sinfoni and X-shooter and combined them with available radio data. To do this, he has learned about the intricacies of the data reductions and pipelines of all these instruments building up a very solid expertise. This has paid off and he can now continue his career at the MPI in Heidelberg, working at a project using his favourite instrument: the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE)! The pdf of his thesis can be found here, but if you would like a proper paper copy, please ask! Congratulations Francesco, good luck with your new position and keep up with exciting work with the ESO instruments! |
| Copyright: | ASTRON |
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