Thesis supervisor: Péter Ábrahám
Location of studies (in Hungarian): Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Abbreviation of location of studies: MTA
Description of the research topic:
Gaia, the currently operational space telescope of the European Space Agency, regularly releases astrometric, photometric and spectroscopic results of more than a billion stars. In parallel, Gaia also publishes photometric alerts of unexpected flux variations. The PhD student will contribute, in collaboration with the Gaia Science Alerts Group at Cambridge University, to improve the alert detection algorithms for young stellar objects. The PhD project will aslo include the follow up of published alerts for pre-main sequence stars, by obtaining new observations of the variable source, then analysing, modeling, and publishing the results.
Required language skills: excellent enlgish Recommended language skills (in Hungarian): not required Further requirements: Good knowledge of the physics of star formation, experience with astronomical databases