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Name: |
Stuart Lumsden |
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Title: |
Black Hole Masses and Accretion Rates in Moderate Luminosity AGN |
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Project Description: |
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Active galaxies are the brightest galaxies in the Universe. They are powered
by matter accreting onto a super-massive black hole at their core (between one
million and one billion times the mass of the sun). How the properties of
active galaxies change with the black hole mass is fundamental to our
understanding of these systems. By measuring how fast the stars are orbiting
the black hole we will measure its mass.
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