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Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto

Jet Simulations, Experiments and Theory (JETSET)

MRTN-CT-2004-005592

Principal investigator
Tom Ray (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland)

Researcher in charge at CAUP
Paulo J. V. Garcia

JETSET is a four-year Marie Curie Research Training Network (RTN) designed to build a vibrant interdisciplinary European research and training community centred on rigorous and novel approaches to plasma jet studies, with a focus on flows produced during star formation. The theme of the network is at the confluence of astrophysical observations, theoretical and computational modeling, laboratory experiments, and Grid technology. The core strategy of the network will be to create, for the first time, a powerful interdisciplinary synergy between these domains of expertise within Europe, and use it to break new ground in several key areas related to plasmas jets, both in space and in the laboratory. Our main scientific goals will focus on understanding the driving mechanisms of jets around young stars (including their possible crucial link with planet-forming disks); the cooling/heating processes, instabilities and shock structures in stellar and lab jets; and the impact of jets on energy balance and star formation in the galactic medium. The network will overcome regional fragmentation and increase European competitiveness and visibility in these areas by coordinating between nodes the use of resources, and by implementing the joint development of state-of-the-art analysis tools. Lasting world-class results will include: unique sets of theoretical models for jet production with synthetic predictions; coordinated databases of multi-wavelength jet observations; complete sets of laser and pulsed power device experimental benchmarks; cross-validated simulation codes; and the setting up to a European Grid computing facilities. The network training program will provide a core of top-ranking early stage and experienced researchers with in-depth, multidisciplinary expertise in high demand strategic European research fields, such as plasma fusion and numerical fluid-dynamics simulations in climatology, engineering (aircrafts, spacecrafts, automobiles), and medical imaging.

Funding institution
European Commission

Start: 1 February 2005
End: 31 January 2009

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European Union  Sixth Framework Programme  Marie Curie Actions

Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences

Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA) is a new but long anticipated research infrastructure with a national dimension. It embodies a bold but feasible vision for the development of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Sciences in Portugal, taking full advantage and fully realizing the potential created by the national membership of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO). IA resulted from the merging the two most prominent research units in the field in Portugal: the Centre for Astrophysics of the University of Porto (CAUP) and the Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics of the University of Lisbon (CAAUL). It currently hosts more than two-thirds of all active researchers working in Space Sciences in Portugal, and is responsible for an even greater fraction of the national productivity in international ISI journals in the area of Space Sciences. This is the scientific area with the highest relative impact factor (1.65 times above the international average) and the field with the highest average number of citations per article for Portugal.

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