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Physics & Astronomy
Eddie Guerra Associate Professor Biography: Ph.D., Princeton University Field: Radio Astronomy & Theoretical Astrophysics Radio astronomy gives us a glimpse of the most distant (and thus oldest) known objects and structures in the universe. Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) often emit vast amounts of energy in radio waves which can be observed at great distances. Many of the radio-loud AGN studied are so distant that their radio waves originated at a time when the Universe was much younger than it is now. Also, many advances in cosmology, the study of the universe as a whole and single system, have come from precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background at radio wavelengths. My research includes radio observations and theoretical studies of radio-loud AGN. Various National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) telescopes are utilized, including the NRAO Very Large Array (VLA) and Very Large Baseline Array (VLBA). Recent work includes numerical models of radio jet motion and X-ray observations of radio galaxies.
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