I have an email, so I guess it's official now...
Dear Rhys,
We have received an information from the Head Office of the Czech Academy of Sciences saying that you are selected for the prize for young researchers, which our Institute proposed some time ago.
There will be a ceremony in Villa Lanna on 4th October 2017. Please save the date!
An official letter will follow.
Congratulations,
It comes with the glamorous title : "The Award of the CAS for young scientific employees for outstanding results of scientific work, achieved with the financial support of the CAS before reaching the age of 35."
I should get that on a badge. This is a general CAS award, not even limited to astronomy...
As far as I can tell, I think I might be the first non-Czech/Slovak winner...
http://www.avcr.cz/en/about-us/awards/prizes-of-the-cas/
Villa Lana is also super-shiny :
http://www.vila-lanna.cz/
Excuse me, I'm off to drink enough tea to shrink my head back down to its usual size...
http://www.avcr.cz/en/about-us/awards/prizes-of-the-cas/
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ReplyDeleteI forgot, I submitted a title and abstract for this months ago :
Understanding the origin of optically dark hydrogen clouds : dark galaxies or tidal debris ?
For over 20 years, cosmological dark matter simulations have predicted a factor of ~10 more satellites around massive galaxies than are actually observed. One proposed solution is that in reality the dark matter haloes accrete too little gas to form stars, but perhaps enough to be detected by atomic hydrogen (HI) surveys.
I used the Arecibo radio telescope to search part of the Virgo galaxy cluster for HI at the highest sensitivity level ever achieved. I found 6 optically dark HI clouds with line widths as large as rotating, optically bright galaxies. The clouds are isolated and their nearest galaxies are undisturbed. If rotating, they require dark matter halos to be be stable, making them excellent candidate "dark galaxies".
I investigated possible formation mechanisms of these objects using simulations, examining the effects of tidal encounters between galaxies. I confirmed the popular idea that some clouds could be "tidal debris", stripped out of galaxies by close interactions. However the simulations also show decisively that clouds like those discovered in Virgo cannot possibly be produced in this manner - they are too small, too isolated, and their line widths are too high.
In contrast, the controversial "dark galaxies" hypothesis has little difficulty in explaining the observations. Simulations show that rotating gas discs embedded in dark matter halos (of mass determined by the rotational velocity) can survive cluster interactions on ~5 Gyr timescales without dispersing. Although further work is required, this is potentially a major step forward in understanding the missing satellite problem.
Czech yourself!
ReplyDeleteWell done good sir!
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