Astrophysics News & Events
Yasha Shnir (from Dubna, Russia) and Massimo Vaglio (from Rome, Italy) visited our group in June-July 2021 within the COST action GWVerse, to strengthen the collaboration with different group members, on several aspects of strong gravity. Thank you for your visit!
Gr@v Ph.D. student Jorge Delgado got a best pitch award for his pitch (short talk) in the UA Research Summit 2021, in the session for students of the MAP-Fis Ph.D. programme. Congratulations Jorge!
A call for a 2 years postdoctoral grant in Strong Gravity, within the research grant “Testing the Kerr hypothesis with gravitational waves and lensing", PTDC / FIS-AST / 3041/2020, is open from 1 to 20 August 2021. See attached document for details (in Portuguese) or the Euraxess announcement (in Portuguese and English) here.
Bosonic stars are multipurpose gravitational solitions and dark matter contenders. Yet, as shown in a paper co-authored by Gr@v members. N. Sanchis-Gual, C. Herdeiro and E. Radu published in Physical Review Letters, the known solutions are just the just the tip of the iceberg... and the new configurations unveil a mechanism that provides dynamical stability.
A call for a 1 year grant for a M.Sc.holder, within the research grant “Testing the Kerr hypothesis with gravitational waves and lensing", PTDC/FIS-AST/3041/2020, is open. The call closes on June 30th 2021.
See attached documents for details or the eracareers announcement here.
Following an invitation from the Portuguese Physics Society, Gr@v members P. Cunha and C. Herdeiro gave a 12 hours lecture course on black holes for non-experts. The lectures can be watched in Youtube: Lecture 1, Lecture 2 (part1, part2), Lecture 3 and Lecture 4.
In a paper published in Phys. Rev. Lett, Gr@v member Nico Sanchis-Gual and co-authors reports a degeneracy between the gravitational-wave signals emitted in quasi-circular precessing black-hole mergers and those from extremely eccentric mergers, namely head-on collisions.
A call for a 1 year postdoctoral grant in High Energy Physics, within the research grant “From Higgs phenomenology to the unification of fundamental interactions", PTDC / FIS-PAR / 31000/2017, is open from the 19th of April to the 14th of May 2021. See the eracareers announcement (in Portuguese and English) here.