Project information
MUNI Award in Science and Humanities 3
(Space-Based High-Energy Astrophysics)
- Project Identification
- MUNI/I/0003/2020
- Project Period
- 7/2020 - 6/2025
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Masaryk University
- Grant Agency of Masaryk University
- MASH - MUNI Award in Science and Humanities
- MU Faculty or unit
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Faculty of Science
- prof. Mgr. Norbert Werner, Ph.D.
- Mgr. Romana Grossová, Ph.D.
- Mgr. Filip Hroch, Ph.D.
- Mgr. Matej Kosiba, Ph.D.
- Mgr. Orsolya Eszter Kovács
- Mgr. Samuel Kováčik, Ph.D.
- Mgr. Tomáš Plšek
- Jean-Paul Bernhard Riffald Souza Breuer, Ph.D.
- RNDr. Jakub Řípa, Ph.D.
- Dr. Martin Topinka, PhD.
The “Hot and Energetic Universe” is one of the most interesting areas of astrophysics and also one of European Space Agency‘s top priorities in its Cosmic Vision. It includes the study of the hot gaseous atmospheres permeating massive galaxies and clusters of galaxies, accreting black holes, enormous stellar explosions called gamma ray-bursts (GRBs), gravitational wave signals, etc. Most of the energetic photons emitted by these phenomena are absorbed by the Earth‘s atmosphere and thus need to be observed by space observatories. The lecture will be focused on cutting edge space-based high-energy astrophysics at Masaryk University performed using both large space observatories and new innovative nanosatellites partially developed in collaboration with the budding space industry in Brno.
Publications
Total number of publications: 47
2021
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MIRISIM: a simulator for the Mid-Infrared Instrument on JWST
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, year: 2021, volume: 500, edition: 3, DOI
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Predictions for anisotropic X-ray signatures in the circumgalactic medium: imprints of supermassive black hole driven outflows
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, year: 2021, volume: 508, edition: 2, DOI
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Simulations of expected signal and background of gamma-ray sources by large field-of-view detectors aboard CubeSats
Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, year: 2021, volume: 7, edition: 2, DOI
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Substructures in the core of Abell 2319
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, year: 2021, volume: 504, edition: 2, DOI
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The HERMES-Technologic and Scientific Pathfinder
Proc. SPIE 11444, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 114441R, year: 2021
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The scientific payload on-board the HERMES-TP and HERMES-SP CubeSat missions
Proc. SPIE 11444, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 114441T, year: 2021
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Timing techniques applied to distributed modular high-energy astronomy: the H.E.R.M.E.S. project
Proc. SPIE 11444, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 114444X, year: 2021
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Voyage through the hidden physics of the cosmic web
Experimental Astronomy, year: 2021, volume: 51, edition: 3, DOI
2020
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A Black Hole Feedback Valve in Massive Galaxies
Astrophysical Journal, year: 2020, volume: 899, edition: 1, DOI
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A comparison of trapped particle models in low Earth orbit
Proc. SPIE 11444, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 114443P, year: 2020