Primary Recipient

WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$302,010.00

Award Date

6/12/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

This project addresses the frontier problems of plasma dissipation and radiation in accretion flows onto black holes, when the density is so low that Coulomb coupling is inadequate to heat the electrons. Using magnetohydrodynamic turbulence generated by t