Anna Ho, assistant professor of astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences, is part of a team that has won an inaugural Scialog: Early Science with the LSST award, given by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA). Each team member will receive $60,000 in direct costs to support their project. The eight awards given launch a three-year initiative that aims to advance the foundational science needed to realize the full potential of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).
Ho's project, "Multimessenger Transients in AGN Disks," will look at LSST data from supermassive black holes residing in the centers of distant galaxies. A multitude of interesting phenomena are expected to occur in the accretion disks of these supermassive black holes, but actually identifying these phenomena in the LSST data is a needle in the haystack problem, said Ho.
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