Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0210352

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0210352

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Relativistic Plasma Astrophysics: Pulsars, IDVs and transients. We will tackle four fundamental problems in theoretical astrophysics. How do small, dead stars known as pulsars produce radio emission? Why do quasars, the most distant objects in the universe, twinkle at radio wavelengths? What is the relationship between violent bursts of gamma-ray emission and other astrophysical explosions? Why are strongly magnetized pulsars so efficient at radiating high energy photons? We will attack these questions by developing new theories for coherent emission, scintillation, particle acceleration and processes in superstrong magnetic fields, and testing them against observations

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-05-2002

End Date: 01-05-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $1,208,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Theoretical Physics | Astronomy And Astrophysics | Astronomical and Space Sciences |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Physical sciences

Other Keywords

Astronomical and Space Sciences | Astronomy And Astrophysics | Physical sciences | Theoretical Physics

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