This National Science Foundation (NSF) Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship (AAPF) award, funded through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, provides $110,000 to support a 3-year research and education project led by Joseph Golec at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The project will use millimeter-wave observations to study the hot gas and dark matter within galaxy clusters, the most massive structures in the universe. Key objectives include mapping the intracluster medium using the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect, investigating shock fronts from cluster mergers and the impact of active galactic nuclei feedback, and decoupling baryonic and dark matter distributions. Additionally, the project will develop a data analysis summer school for undergraduate students from underrepresented groups in astronomy to prepare them for research roles.
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