Radio pulsars with LOFAR: a study of extreme physics laboratories

Projektinformationen

PULSARS WITH LOFAR

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 224838

Abgeschlossenes Projekt

Startdatum 1 Mai 2008

Enddatum 30 April 2012

Finanziert unter

• Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Gesamtkosten € 100 000,00

EU-Beitrag € 100 000,00

Koordiniert durch

STICHTING ASTRONOMISCH ONDERZOEK IN NEDERLAND
Netherlands

Ziel

A radio pulsar is formed when the iron core of a massive star collapses in a supernova explosion. Due to their extreme compactness and supernuclear density radio pulsars are extremely stable rotators. Our goal is 1) to use radio pulsars to improve our limited understanding of some of the most energetic events known in the universe and the source of the elements that make up planets and all forms of life: supernovae 2) to find individual radio-pulsar systems that are such stable rotators that they can be used for the first-ever direct detection of gravitational waves or in the first ever strong-field test of gravity. We can do this with LOFAR, a revolutionary new radio telescope that host institute ASTRON is currently completing. LOFAR has more collecting by itself than all other radio telescopes in the world combined. In the course of his research in the US, van Leeuwen has acquired the radio-telescope survey experience, the instrument-development skills and the pulsar-population knowledge that will be needed for this project to push the boundary of our understanding of the universe. As the host institute is close to completing the most sensitive radio telescope in the world, the researcher will have unsurpassed means to accomplish the objectives laid out above. The host institute offers the researcher a tenure position in its scientific staff where he can be at the global forefront of telescope possibilities for the next decade. We expect to foster several intense decade-long EU-US co-operations between the host and the researcher's current US collaborators and Berkeley group to 1) adapt algorithms, monitor new discoveries and improve supernova modelling; and 2) design and build several leading-edge signal processing machines. For the next decade this project can define the global scientific and technological state-of-the-art within its field.

Wissenschaftliches Gebiet

• natural sciences › physical sciences › astronomy › observational astronomy › gravitational waves
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electronic engineering › signal processing
• natural sciences › physical sciences › astronomy › observational astronomy › radio astronomy
• natural sciences › physical sciences › astronomy › planetary sciences › planets
• natural sciences › physical sciences › astronomy › stellar astronomy › supernova

Schlüsselbegriffe

• Astrophysics
• neutron stars

Programm/Programme

• FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Thema/Themen

• PEOPLE-2007-4-3.IRG - Marie Curie Action: "International Reintegration Grants"

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-3-IRG
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Finanzierungsplan

MC-IRG - International Re-integration Grants (IRG)

Koordinator

STICHTING ASTRONOMISCH ONDERZOEK IN NEDERLAND

Kontakt Verwaltung

Janneke Wubs (Ms.)

• EU-Beitrag: € 100 000,00
• Adresse: Oude Hoogeveensedijk 4 ; 7991PD DWINGELOO ; Niederlande
• Aktivitätstyp: Research Organisations
• Gesamtkosten: Keine Daten