A consolidated grant for Sheffield Astrophysics 2018-2021
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sheffield
Department Name: Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
The aim of this proposal is to support a programme of internationally excellent research in astrophysics at Sheffield, building on our recent research achievements, and tied to the exploitation of leading international facilities supported by STFC and UKSA.
Planned Impact
The main ways in which our research makes an impact outside the academic community is via our knowledge exchange and outreach activities. To summarise:
1. Knowledge exchange. This is primarily based on the building of the ULTRACAM and HiPERCAM instruments, which has lead to the development of new new CCD detector, data acquisition and cooling systems, as well as stimulating a project to develop new techniques to use 3D printing build rigid, lightweight support structure for astronomical instruments.
2. Outreach. Over the last 5 years members of the Sheffield astrophsyics group have delivered 126 talks to schools and astronomical societies, have held 70 in-house workshops for school students, and been involved in 15 press releases, all based on their research activities.
Details are given in our Impact Plan that is included as an attachment.
1. Knowledge exchange. This is primarily based on the building of the ULTRACAM and HiPERCAM instruments, which has lead to the development of new new CCD detector, data acquisition and cooling systems, as well as stimulating a project to develop new techniques to use 3D printing build rigid, lightweight support structure for astronomical instruments.
2. Outreach. Over the last 5 years members of the Sheffield astrophsyics group have delivered 126 talks to schools and astronomical societies, have held 70 in-house workshops for school students, and been involved in 15 press releases, all based on their research activities.
Details are given in our Impact Plan that is included as an attachment.
Organisations
Publications
Ackley K
(2020)
Observational constraints on the optical and near-infrared emission from the neutron star-black hole binary merger candidate S190814bv
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Akter S
(2019)
Finding binary star fractions in any distribution
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Aranzana E
(2018)
Fourier time lags in the dwarf nova SS Cygni
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Arnold B
(2019)
A method to analyse velocity structure
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bagnulo S
(2020)
A search for strong magnetic fields in massive and very massive stars in the Magellanic Clouds
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Baran A
(2018)
Pulsations and eclipse-time analysis of HW Vir
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Batcheldor D
(2019)
Quantifying the AGN-driven outflows in ULIRGs (QUADROS) IV: HST/STIS spectroscopy of the sub-kpc warm outflow in F14394+5332
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bernhard E
(2022)
Quantifying the cool ISM in radio AGNs: evidence for late-time retriggering by galaxy mergers and interactions
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bernhard E
(2019)
Inferring a difference in the star-forming properties of lower versus higher X-ray luminosity AGNs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Bernhard E
(2018)
Evidence for a mass-dependent AGN Eddington ratio distribution via the flat relationship between SFR and AGN luminosity
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bestenlehner J
(2020)
The R136 star cluster dissected with Hubble Space Telescope/STIS - II. Physical properties of the most massive stars in R136
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bonnet-Bidaud J
(2020)
Fast quasi-periodic oscillations in the eclipsing polar VV Puppis from VLT and XMM-Newton observations
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Borisov G
(2018)
Rotational variation of the linear polarization of the asteroid (3200) Phaethon as evidence for inhomogeneity in its surface properties?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Bulla M
(2018)
The origin of polarization in kilonovae and the case of the gravitational-wave counterpart AT 2017gfo
in Nature Astronomy
Bulla M
(2021)
Polarized kilonovae from black hole-neutron star mergers
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Burdge K
(2020)
A Systematic Search of Zwicky Transient Facility Data for Ultracompact Binary LISA-detectable Gravitational-wave Sources
in The Astrophysical Journal
Burhanudin U
(2021)
Light-curve classification with recurrent neural networks for GOTO: dealing with imbalanced data
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Caballero-Nieves S
(2020)
A High Angular Resolution Survey of Massive Stars in Cygnus OB2: JHK Adaptive Optics Results from the Gemini Near-Infrared Imager
in The Astronomical Journal
Callingham J
(2018)
Anisotropic winds in a Wolf-Rayet binary identify a potential gamma-ray burst progenitor
in Nature Astronomy
Callingham J
(2020)
Two Wolf-Rayet stars at the heart of colliding-wind binary Apep
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Casewell S
(2018)
The first sub-70 min non-interacting WD-BD system: EPIC212235321
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Casewell S
(2020)
WD1032 + 011, an inflated brown dwarf in an old eclipsing binary with a white dwarf
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Castro N
(2018)
Mapping the core of the Tarantula Nebula with VLT-MUSE I. Spectral and nebular content around R136
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Chené A
(2019)
Investigating the origin of the spectral line profiles of the Hot Wolf-Rayet Star WR 2
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Cikota A
(2019)
Linear spectropolarimetry of 35 Type Ia supernovae with VLT/FORS: an analysis of the Si ii line polarization
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Cikota A
(2018)
Testing the magnetar scenario for superluminous supernovae with circular polarimetry
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Clark C
(2021)
Einstein@Home discovery of the gamma-ray millisecond pulsar PSR J2039-5617 confirms its predicted redback nature
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Colón K
(2018)
A Large Ground-based Observing Campaign of the Disintegrating Planet K2-22b
in The Astronomical Journal
Davies B
(2018)
The luminosities of cool supergiants in the Magellanic Clouds, and the Humphreys-Davidson limit revisited
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Delvecchio I
(2019)
The Galaxy's Gas Content Regulated by the Dark Matter Halo Mass Results in a Superlinear M BH - M ? Relation
in The Astrophysical Journal
Delvecchio I
(2020)
The Evolving AGN Duty Cycle in Galaxies Since z ~ 3 as Encoded in the X-Ray Luminosity Function
in The Astrophysical Journal
Duchêne G
(2018)
Is stellar multiplicity universal? Tight stellar binaries in the Orion Nebula Cluster
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Dufton P
(2018)
The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey XXVIII. Nitrogen abundances for apparently single dwarf and giant B-type stars with small projected rotational velocities
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Franco M
(2018)
GOODS-ALMA: 1.1 mm galaxy survey I. Source catalog and optically dark galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Franco M
(2020)
GOODS-ALMA: Using IRAC and VLA to probe fainter millimeter galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Franco M
(2020)
GOODS-ALMA: The slow downfall of star formation in z = 2-3 massive galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Föhring D
(2019)
Atmospheric scintillation noise in ground-based exoplanet photometry
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Green M
(2018)
A 15.7-Minute AM CVn Binary Discovered in K2
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Griffiths D
(2018)
Massive, wide binaries as tracers of massive star formation
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Grimmett L
(2019)
Revealing the differences in the SMBH accretion rate distributions of starburst and non-starburst galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Götberg Y
(2018)
Spectral models for binary products: Unifying subdwarfs and Wolf-Rayet stars as a sequence of stripped-envelope stars
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Han Y
(2020)
The extreme colliding-wind system Apep: resolved imagery of the central binary and dust plume in the infrared
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Higgins A
(2019)
SPLOT: a snapshot survey for polarized light in optical transients
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hynes R
(2019)
Optical and X-ray correlations during the 2015 outburst of the black hole V404 Cyg
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Jarvis M
(2019)
Prevalence of radio jets associated with galactic outflows and feedback from quasars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Kim S
(2020)
Making top-heavy IMFs from canonical IMFs near the Galactic Centre
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Kocevski D
(2018)
X-UDS: The Chandra Legacy Survey of the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey Field
in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Kupfer T
(2020)
The First Ultracompact Roche Lobe-Filling Hot Subdwarf Binary
in The Astrophysical Journal
| Description | The findings have been used to inform a variety of outreach activities, including talks to schools and amateur astronomy societies socities, as well as public lectures. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2018 |
| Sector | Other |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal |