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Dr P Crowther Applications accepted all year round Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

About the Project

Massive stars are rare, though dominate the radiative, mechanical and chemical feedback in star-forming galaxies. Metal-poor massive stars are especially important since they are believed to be the progenitors of LIGO/VIRGO/KAGRA gravitational wave mergers and can be seen collectively in the rest-frame UV light of distant star-forming galaxies. This project seeks to exploit a major new HST Legacy programme ULLYSES which is obtaining high quality UV spectroscopy of hundreds of metal-poor massive stars from 2020-22, from which physical, chemical and wind properties will be obtained, allowing refinements to mass-loss prescriptions for massive stars, including the role of metallicity in driving winds from comparison with Galactic counterparts, which directly influences their ultimate fate as core collapse supernovae.

Where will I study?

University of Sheffield

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