Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0342500

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0342500

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Structure and Evolution of High Brightness Temperature Cores of Quasars and Galaxies. Interstellar scintillation, ISS, is a revolutionary new and powerful technique which we will use to study the highest brightness temperature cores of radio quasars with unprecedented angular resolution, and probe the interstellar medium of our Galaxy in a way not previously possible. The combination of scintillation and conventional VLBI allows imaging with light-month to light-year resolution across the known Universe. Scintillation observations are challenging basic synchrotron physics by uncovering quasar cores with temperatures possibly as high as 10^15 K, and lifetimes many times longer than theory. The Ceduna and Hobart telescopes are cornerstones of our scintillation and VLBI proposals.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2003

End Date: 12-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $330,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Astronomical Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified | Astronomy And Astrophysics | Astronomical and Space Sciences |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Physical sciences

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