My first taste at doing research in the area of black holes (supermassive black hole-AGN) was with Dr. Paul Nandra in the summer of 1999 at Goddard NASA in Greenbelt, Maryland . Following the summer, I was accepted to the doctoral program in computational astrophysics from the School of Computational Sciences at George Mason University. I studied under the advise of Dr. Peter A. Becker along the area of accretion flows, particles acceleration, shocks and jets in compact objects (supermassive black holes).
I defended my dissertation in August 2004, and accepted a research fellowship
to work at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) with
Dr. Kent Wood and Dr. Michale Wolff
on linear analysis of unstable radiative shocks in Advection Dominated Accretion Disks, and
with Dr. Charles Dermer
on particle acceleration in high-energy radiation and cosmic-ray production in
astrophysical environments, and Gamma-Ray-Bursts Cosmology. Currently, I am working at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, MD supporting NASA next generation space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to ready for launch in 2014, to study: the First Light in the Universe after the Big Bang, Assembly of Galaxies, Physics of Star Formation, and the Formation of Planetary Systems and the Conditions for Life. While supporting JWST's mission, I am continued actively collaborating my research work in black hole, GRB-Cosmology, accretion disks instability, and dark matter with research scientists at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Naval Research Laboratory, George Mason University, and India Institute of Guwahati.
14) Becker, P. A., Le, T., Das, S. `` Particle Acceleration in Viscous Accretion Disks with Shocks: Green's Function Energy Distribution'', 2010, in preparation.
13) Le, T. , Wood, S. K., Wolff, M. T., & Becker, P. A. `` Hydrodynamics Instability in Advection-Dominated Accretion Disks with Standing Shock Waves '', 2010, in preparation.
12) Das, S., Becker, P. A. & Le, T. " Dynamical Structure of Viscous Accretion Disks with Shocks," 2009, Vol 702, page 649.
11) Le, T. , & Dermer, C. D., " Gamma Ray Burst Predictions for the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope," 2009, Vol 700, page 1026.
10) Becker, P. A., Das, S., & Le, T., " Particle Acceleration and the Formation of Relativistic Outflows in Viscous Accretion Disks with Shocks,," 2008, ApJL, L93.
9) Le, T., & Dermer, C. D., " Gamma Ray Bursts in the Swift and GLAST Era," 2007,The First Glast Symposium. AIP Conference Proceeding, Vol. 921, Page 462.
8) Dermer, C. D., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., Le, T., " Correlations between Photon and High-Energy Neutrino Fluxes in Blazars and Gamma Ray Bursts," 2007, ApJL, Vol. 664, page L67
7) Le, T., & Dermer, C. D., " On the Redshift Distribution of Gamma Ray Bursts in the Swift Era," 2007, ApJ, Vol. 661, page 394
6) Le, T., & Becker, P. A., " Particle Acceleration in Advection-Dominated Accretion Disks with Shocks: Green's Function Energy Distribution," 2007, ApJ, Vol. 661, page 416.
5) Becker, P. A., Le, T., & Dermer, C. D., " Time-Dependent Stochastic Particle Acceleration in Astrophysical Plasmas: Exact Solutions Including Momentum-Dependent Escape," 2006, ApJ, Vol. 647, page 539.
4) Le, T., & Becker, P. A., " Particle Acceleration and the Production of Relativistic Outflows in Advection-Dominated Accretion Disks with Shocks," 2005, ApJ, Vol. 632, page 476.
3) Le, T., & Becker, P. A., "A Self-Consistent Model for the Formation of Relativistic Outflows in Advection-Dominated Accretion Disks with Shocks," 2004, ApJL, Vol. 617, page L25.
2) Becker, P. A., & Le, T. " Inner Boundary Conditions for Advection-Dominated Accretion onto Black Holes ," 2003, ApJ, Vol. 588, page 408. 1) Nandra, K.; Le, T.; George, I. M.; Edelson, R. A.; Mushotzky, R. F.; Peterson, B. M.; Turner, T. J. " The Origin of the X-Ray and Ultraviolet Emission in NGC 7469 ," 2000, ApJ, Vol. 544, page 734.
13) Attend the "JWST Wavefront Sensing & Control Software Subsystem CDA", Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, May 25-26, 2010 12) Attend the "Proposal Planning Subsystem System Design Review Infrastructure & Shared Components", Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, Jan. 22, 2009
11) Attend the "JWST Integrated Science Instrument Module Flight Software", Computer Science Corporation, Lanham-Seabrook, MD, April 29 - May 1, 2008
10) Attend the "JWST Preliminary Design Review", NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenville, MD, March 31 - April 4, 2008
9) Attend the "Science & Operations Center Proposal Planning Subsystem System Requirements Review", Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, Feb. 19, 2008
8) Attend the "James Webb Space Telescope Operations Scripts Subsystem Preliminary Design Review", Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, Jan. 22 - 24, 2008 7) Le, T., & Dermer, C., D., `` Gamma Ray Bursts in the Swift and GLAST Era '', 1st GLAST Symposium, Standford, Palo Alto, CA, Feb. 5-8, 2007
6) Le, T., Becker, P. A., "Jets and Accretion Disks '', Relativistic Jets: The Common Physics of AGN, Microquasars and Gamma-Ray Bursts Meeting, 2005, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, MI.
5) Le, T., Becker, P. A., "Particle Acceleration in Advection-Dominated Accretion Disks", TeV Particle Astrophysics Meeting, 2005, Fermilab, Batavia, IL.
4) Le, T., & Becker, P. A., "Self-Consistent Model for Relativistic Outflows from Advection-Dominated Accretion Disks", AAS Meeting #203, 2004, B.A.A.S.
3) Le, T., & Becker, P. A., "Advection-Dominated Accretion Flows with Outflows", AAS Meeting #199, 2001, B.A.A.S.
2) Becker, P. A., & Le, T.,"Inner Boundary Conditions for Advection-Dominated Accretion onto Black Holes", AAS Meeting #199, 2001, B.A.A.S.
1) Becker, P. A., Le, T., & Kazanas, D., " Cosmic-Ray Modified Shocks: Structure and Stability", HEAD Meeting #32, 2000, B.A.A.S.
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