| Grant number: | 12/00029-6 |
| Support type: | Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International |
| Duration: | March 25, 2012 - April 08, 2012 |
| Field of knowledge: | Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Astronomy - Extragalactic Astrophysics |
| Principal Investigator: | Gastão Cesar Bierrenbach Lima Neto |
| Grantee: | Gastão Cesar Bierrenbach Lima Neto |
| Visiting researcher: | Melville Paul Ulmer |
| Visiting researcher institution: | Northwestern University, Evanston, United States |
| Home Institution: | Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas (IAG). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
Abstract
Professor Melville Ulmer will spend two weeks at IAG/USP where he will give a series of lectures on astronomical satellites, focusing on X-ray astronomy. These lectures will be part of a mini-course offered by the Graduate Astronomy Program at IAG. During the first week we will focus on technical topics such as the design and development of satellites. In the second week of the course he will address the scientific case for an X-ray satellite, specifically, clusters of galaxies. Prof. Ulmer will discuss current issues that are driving the study of galaxy clusters through X-ray observations (e.g., state of the gas in the outskirts of clusters, cooling-flow and feedback, acoustic waves in the intra-cluster gas, the impact of cluster collisions in the hydrodynamics of the intracluster medium). (AU)