Deep census of AGN 7 billion years ago

🔍 Keywords: Galaxy, AGN, optical spectrum

👨 Supervisor: 吳柏鋒 (Po-Feng Wu) - National Taiwan University (NTU)

👥 Number of Students: 1 (Max: 2)

📖 Project Description

Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) is a prevalent phenomenon in galaxies. Radiation at all wavelengths could be detected due to the energy released from the accretion events to the supermassive black holes in the center of galaxies and its interaction with ambient material.

This project will search for AGN activities in a sample of galaxies ~7 billion years ago with very high-quality galaxy spectra. The student will model the spectra and search for line emission powered by AGN, finding weak AGN that were largely missed by previous lower-quality datasets. The outcome will be a more complete census of the incidence rate of AGN in different types of galaxies.

📚 Required Background

Basic knowledge of physics and mathematics.
Additional knowledge of cosmology and galaxieswould be an asset.
Basic knowledge and skills in computer programming would be desirable.
The ability to think critically and independently.