Grant: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM
Primary Recipient
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM
Amount
$286,111.00
Award Date
9/01/2009
Administering Agency
CDFA Number
47.082
CDFA Program Title
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support
Description
Relativistic jets are collimated beams of ultra-hot, magnetized plasma, shooting away at very close to the speed of light from black holes and neutron stars. Microquasars are X-ray binaries (neutron stars or black holes in orbit around a normal star) that