Alma Mater Studiorum Universit`a degli Studi di Bologna ... - Inaf
Alma Mater Studiorum Universit`a degli Studi di Bologna ... - Inaf
Alma Mater Studiorum Universit`a degli Studi di Bologna ... - Inaf
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Acknowledgments<br />
Probably the most important result is that during this PhD I have grown not only as scientist but<br />
as person. For this, I owe many people a debt of gratitude for all my life.<br />
I am privileged for having Robert Laing as supervisor, this thesis would not have been possible<br />
without his help and patience. I have learned many valuable things from him, and I also wish to<br />
express gratitude for believing in me. One simply could not wish for a better supervisor.<br />
I thank Paola Parma and Loretta Gregorini for their help and support.<br />
I would like to acknowledge ESO (Garching) for the award of a ESO Studentship that allowed<br />
me to breath a wide spirit of research and to grow.<br />
I wish to thank Matteo Murgia, Federica Govoni and the staff of the Astronomical Observatory<br />
of Cagliari for their hospitality and support during the development of the work on 3C 449.<br />
The work on this ra<strong>di</strong>o galaxy is part of the “Cybersar” Project, which is managed by the<br />
COSMOLAB Regional Consortium with the financial support of the Italian Ministry of University<br />
and Research (MUR), in the context of the “Piano Operativo Nazionale Ricerca Scientifica,<br />
Sviluppo Tecnologico, Alta Formazione (PON 2000-2006)”. I wish to thank Luigina Feretti for<br />
provi<strong>di</strong>ng the excellent VLA dataset of 3C 449 and Greg Taylor for the use of his rotation measure<br />
code. I also thank M. Swain for provi<strong>di</strong>ng the VLA dataset for 3C 353, J. Eilek for a FITS image<br />
of 3C 465 and J. Croston, A. Finoguenov and J. Goodger for the FITS images of 3C 270, M 84 and<br />
3C 353, respectively.<br />
I am grateful to M. Bon<strong>di</strong>, G. Brunetti, A. Shukurov and J. Stöckl for many valuable<br />
comments. I also acknowledge the use of HEALPIX package (http://healpix.jpl.nasa.gov) and<br />
the provision of the models of Dineen & Coles (2005) inHEALPIX format.<br />
The last but certainly not least words are for all of You which “see all my light and love my<br />
dark”.<br />
“And thus I stand”.<br />
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