Doktorat na Univerzi v Lundu (Švedska)
application deadline: April 18
Doctoral student in Astrophysics
The position is placed at the Division of Astrophysics in the Department of Physics to work with Ross Church on binary population synthesis in support of preparations for LISA. LISA will be a space-based gravitational wave interferometer, comprising three spacecraft, flying in a triangular formation with laser interferometers along each arm. It will detect mHz-frequency gravitational waves from the assembly and merger of supermassive black holes at high redshifts, and from stellar binary star systems in the Milky Way. The project will also explore the connection between LISA and GaiaNIR. GaiaNIR is a proposal for an all-sky astrometric survey at infra-red wavelengths, to extend Gaia's science into the dust-obscured bulge and galactic centre. There is an overlap between the work needed to prepare for LISA observations of compact binaries and the pre-mission studies for GaiaNIR.
The student will work primarily within the Stellar Dynamics and Evolution group, headed by Ross Church, which works on a range of topics related to understanding the evolution and dynamics of single and binary stars. The student will collaborate with the group headed by David Hobbs, which focusses on developing space-based astronomical instrumentation and using it to understand the Milky Way galaxy.
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