CAFEGROUPS · Cooling, AGN Feedback and Evolution in Groups
FP7 — People (Marie Curie Actions)
- Duration
- 2011-01-01 → 2015-12-31
- EU contribution
- €133,200
- Participants
- 2
- Scheme
- MC-IRSES
Lines connect the coordinator with its partners.
Results in brief
Cooling, AGN Feedback and Evolution in Groups
At the close of the project, CAFEGroups has met the majority of its goals, and has made significant progress during the final reporting period, despite some difficulties. During this 18-month period, the project supported 3 one-month secondments between the partner institutions in the UK, Italy and India. Having largely completed data acquisition for the project, only a limited number of new observations were proposed or carried out during the year, but the team were awarded time on a variety of European and international observatories, including the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), the 30m telescope and Northern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA) operated by the Institut de Radioastronomie Millimetrique (IRAM), and the Chandra and XMM-Newton satellite observatories operated by NASA and ESA. Team members had 10 peer-reviewed journal articles published or accepted during the period of report, with 6 more in preparation. Team members have presented results from the project at a wide variety of scientific meetings, including those of the International Astronomical Union and American Astronomical Society, bringing the results of the project to a wider audience. The project has reached seven of the eleven milestones set out in the original work plan, and expects to meet three more in the next twelve months. Unfortunately, a combination of staff changes at host institutions and financial issues (inability to reallocate funds, lack of matching funds for US team members) meant that some secondments were delayed or cancelled, and we were unable to carry out the full range of exchanges originally planned for this period. Nonetheless, we consider the project to have been generally successful and highly scientifically productive.
Data: CORDIS, © European Union
Project objective
This proposal aims to facilitate close collaboration between researchers in the UK, Italy, USA and India to study the nature and consequences of the energy transferred from supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies to the surrounding intergalactic medium (IGM) in groups of galaxies. The research combines data from opposite ends of the electromagnetic spectrum: low-frequency radio observations track the history of outbursts from the black holes, while X-ray data allow us to determine their effects on the ten-million-Kelvin gas of the IGM. The partner institutions have long records of internationally-recognised research in these areas. The University of Birmingham is one of the top few teams worldwide in the study of groups with a solid track record in X-ray astronomy (particularly using ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory), while the INAF-Istituto di Radioastronomia provide access to some of Europe's best experts in the low-frequency radio regime. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (US) is the home of NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory, and has a strong claim as the preeminent X-ray astronomy institution worldwide, while the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (India) operates the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT), the first and currently the only radio observatory to achieve high spatial resolution and sensitivity at low frequencies. The collaboration will bring together experts with diverse skills to study closely one of the outstanding puzzles of modern astrophysics, providing direct benefits to the European institutions involved, the wider scientific community, and to the European Research Area as a whole, through increased scientific returns from current European facilities, increased access to international resources, and the scientific and theoretical tools for wide range of future studies with Europe-based facilities (e.g., the European LOFAR radio observatory and ESA International X-ray Observatory).
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · BirminghamCoordinatorUnited Kingdom
- ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ASTROFISICA · ROMAItaly
Links
Data: CORDIS, © European Union