USTC Astronomy Colloquium Series: 2023 Spring
Stochastic fields in our Universe and the Bingo Telescope
Filipe Batoni Abdalla 教授
University College London
2023/06/20, 2:30pm , the 19th-floor Observatory Hall
报告人:
Filipe Abdalla did his Ph.D. in Oxford with Prof. Steve Rawlings on "Cosmology with radio interferometers" and proposed optimal ways of doing cosmology with the SKA. Then he moved for a postdoc at UCL in London and started working on optical cosmology and became a staff member there after 3 years. He worked on several projects and recently concentrated on the construction of Bingo in Brazil, where he has spent time recently as a visiting professor.摘要:
We live in an era of precision cosmology however there are several unknowns and tensions in our cosmological model such as the lack of a precise measurement of the neutrino mass with cosmology. In my talk i will outline how cosmology can tackle measuring the neutrino mass and the outline how the Bingo project can help achieving this task. The Bingo telescope is part of a project that aims to measure neutral hydrogen fluctuations in our Universe via the "intensity mapping" technique. This technique is a technique that promises greatly and that can unravel many of the properties of our Universe, including the properties of dark energy. It is a medium-sized project that was promoted by Brazilian agencies with strong Chinese collaboration. The team intends to extend the current design of the telescope in order to expand the science that can be done with such an instrument. This extension, BINGO-HR, will be able to measure fluctuations in the more distant Universe but it will also be able to measure the location of new objects, fast radio bursts, which could potentially play a role similar to supernovae in measuring the geometry of our Universe. In this talk I will also present the status of the telescope.