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
2023
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A multifrequency characterization of the extragalactic hard X-ray sky: Presenting the second release of the Turin-SyCAT
Astronomy and Astrophysics, year: 2023, volume: 670, edition: February, DOI
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GRBAlpha: The smallest astrophysical space observatory : I. Detector design, system description, and satellite operations
Astronomy & Astrophysics, year: 2023, volume: 677, edition: September, DOI
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Localisation of gamma-ray bursts from the combined SpIRIT plus HERMES-TP/SP nano-satellite constellation
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, year: 2023, volume: 40, edition: February, DOI
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Radio Emission of Nearby Early-type Galaxies in the Low and Very Low Radio Luminosity Range
Astrophysical Journal, year: 2023, volume: 944, edition: 2, DOI
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The Fuzzy Onion: A Proposal
Proceedings of Corfu Summer Institute 2022 "School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity" PoS(CORFU2022), year: 2023
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The peak flux of GRB 221009A measured with GRBAlpha
Astronomy & Astrophysics, year: 2023, volume: 677, edition: September, DOI
2022
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Athena charged particle diverter simulations: effects of micro-roughness on proton scattering using Geant4
Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 12181: Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, year: 2022
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Black-hole activity feedback across vast scales
Year: 2022, type: Article in Periodical (without peer review)
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Cosmological constraints from gas mass fractions of massive, relaxed galaxy clusters
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, year: 2022, volume: 510, edition: 1, DOI
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Early results from GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2
Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 12181: Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, year: 2022