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29 faculty

29 faculty. 65 grad students. Six Major Areas of Research. Astrophysics Biological physics Condensed matter physics (nanomaterials) Gravitational physics High energy physics Nuclear physics. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS Nuclear Astrophysics Champagne & Iliadis Numerical relativity Evans

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29 faculty

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  1. 29 faculty 65 grad students

  2. Six Major Areas of Research • Astrophysics • Biological physics • Condensed matter physics (nanomaterials) • Gravitational physics • High energy physics • Nuclear physics

  3. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS Nuclear Astrophysics Champagne & Iliadis Numerical relativity Evans Compact objects & stellar seismology Evans & Clemens Active Galactic Nuclei Cecil & Christiansen Clusters of Galaxies Rose Evolution of our Galaxy & other galaxies Carney & Rose

  4. MOREHEAD PLANETARIUM MOREHEAD OBSERVATORY

  5. MOREHEAD OBSERVATORY 61-cm; f/13.5 reflector Direct CCD camera spectrograph photometer

  6. PISGAH ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE

  7. University of North Carolina Michigan State University NOAO BRAZIL

  8. Each of the four partners is building a major new instrument. The Goodman Spectrograph is UNC’s $1.8M contribution.

  9. We make our own volume phase holographic gratings Let there be light Net throughput > 90%

  10. How do we control it remotely? We build a graphical user interface (“GUI”). [Work done by under- graduate Adam Craine & Professor Cecil] We connect to the spectrograph, wherever it is, via Internet-2.

  11. UNC SOUTH AMERICA SOUTH AFRICA SOAR SALT

  12. Gravitational Physics Personnel: C. R. Evans B. Brill T. Garrett M. Peppers Research Sources of Grav. Radiation Interests: Numerical Relativity & Black Hole Dynamics Critical Phenomena in Gravitational Collapse

  13. Gravitational Physics Numerical Integration of Scalar Field on a Schwarzschild Black Hole Black Hole Interior is Excised from the Computational Domain Late-time Quasi-normal Mode Develops

  14. Gravitational Physics Ultimate Goal: Merger of Kerr Black Holes Holes Precess Orbit Precesses Frame Dragging Non-Kerr Remnant

  15. HST images explosive outflows … … [S II] flux ratios constrain gas filling factor hence ionized mass at this layer Obscured nucleus Organized as 4 towers of intertwined filaments, »90° apart, all break at same height

  16. OUR KEY PROJECT

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