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Sabbatical Conny Aerts: Bridging Asteroseismology, Galactic Structure and Chemical Evolution KU Leuven

Conny Aerts
Astronomy

he aim is to perform the asteroseismological modeling of stars with masses above about 1.3 times the mass of the Sun and up to about 40 solar masses, which has so far been done based on high-precision time series collected with NASA Kepler (past) and TESS (operational) satellites, to improve with additional measurements. Asteroseismological modeling is a high-dimensional mathematical problem in computational astrophysics where spectroscopic ...

High-energy astrophysical neutrinos with IceCube and RNO-G Ghent University

Juliana Stachurska
Department of Physics and astronomy

IceCube has established neutrino astronomy as a research field. My project will focus on two key aspects of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos: the characterization of the astrophysical flavor composition, and extending the reach to higher energies with the radio technique. With the Starting Grant, I will be able to hire a PhD student to improve techniques used to identify the flavor of high-energy neutrino events registered with IceCube. ...

The isotropic search for and the analysis of the astrophysical stochastic background of gravitational waves. University of Antwerp

Nick Van Remortel
Particle Physics Group
My project will primarily focus on the search for and the discovery of the astrophysical stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) using novel and state-of-the-art data analysis software. In the science run of O4 starting in December 2022 and running for a year, data analysis will be performed actively on strain data. After the science run, the year-long data is combined to increase our chances of finding a hint of the SGWB. Next to that, ...

Extreme energy transformations and transfers in astrophysical and laboraasmas KU Leuven

Stefaan Poedts
Department of Mathematics, Plasma-astrophysics

The transport and conversion of vast amounts of energies in different forms is the key aspect of almost all major events in laboratory plasma experiments, in our solar system and in more remote astrophysical systems. Nevertheless, energy transfer and transformation mechanisms in plasmas are still riddled with many fundamental challenges due to their intrinsic multi-scale and multi-faceted nature. Multi-scale aspects come in when trying to ...

Translating contemporary astrophysics topics into teaching materials. University of Antwerp

Katrien Kolenberg
EduBROn, Department of Physics - other
Astrophysics is a subject that is interdisciplinary by nature. It makes use of expertise from all four components of STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths), and can act as an exemplary teaching tool for combining multiple subjects within STEM. People of all ages find the topic of space exciting and there are a multitude of space-related teaching activities for students at all levels of education (e.g., ESA Education, NASA education, ...

Extracting fundamental and astrophysics from Gravitational-wave Detection. KU Leuven

Tjonnie Li
Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT)

This proposal pursues an ambitious yet timely effort on extracting fundamental and astrophysics from gravitational-wave detection, spanning from data analysis to phenomenology related to ground and space-based interferometric detectors. In particular, I proposed to focus on 1) Gravitational Lensing of Gravitational Waves, 2) Probing General Relativity and exotic compact objects, 3) Uncovering the nature of dark matter, and 4) Core-collapse ...