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Grant: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM

Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM

Amount

$286,111.00

Award Date

9/01/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

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