Rolling Grant Programme in Astrophysics, Planetary Science and Space Instrumentation - 2007-2012
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Leicester
Department Name: Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
We propose a broad scientific programme encompassing astrophysics, planetary science and space intrumentation. In high energy astrophysics, we will investigate a range of phenomena including gamma-ray bursts, accretion-driven sources and high temperature galactic environments, fully utilising current missions such as XMM-Newton and Swift. Our astrophysics programme also places emphasis on dwarf stars, from hot white dwarfs through to cool dwarfs and brown dwarfs, and on exploitation of novel sky survey data from WASP and other projects. In planetary science we will further develop our expertise in modelling planetary X-ray emissions and extend our investigations of novel instrumentation, such as the Life Marker Chip, in anticipation of opportunities afforded by the Aurora and Cosmic Visions programmes. Our laboratory programme also includes the further development of Charge Coupled Device technology for application in future Space Astronomy programmes and the study of new concepts in X-ray Interferometry and X-ray Polarimetry. Finally we propose a commitment to knowledge transfer and the maintenance of a high quality and extensive public outreach activity.
Organisations
Publications
Curran P
(2007)
GRB 060206 and the quandary of achromatic breaks in afterglow light curves
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Cottis C
(2010)
Searching for the signature of radiative line driving: on the absence of Lya-N v line-locking features in a large sample of BALQSOs Radiative line driving in BALQSOs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Collaboration G
(2022)
Gaia Data Release 3: A Golden Sample of Astrophysical Parameters
in arXiv e-prints
Collaboration G
(2022)
Gaia Data Release 3: Mapping the asymmetric disc of the Milky Way
in arXiv e-prints
Collaboration G
(2022)
Gaia Data Release 3: Chemical cartography of the Milky Way
in arXiv e-prints
Collaboration G
(2020)
VizieR Online Data Catalog: Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars - GCNS (Gaia collaboration, 2021)
in VizieR Online Data Catalog
Collaboration G
(2022)
Gaia Data Release 3: Stellar multiplicity, a teaser for the hidden treasure
in arXiv e-prints
Collaboration G
(2018)
VizieR Online Data Catalog: 46 open clusters GaiaDR2 HR diagrams (Gaia Collaboration, 2018)
in VizieR Online Data Catalog
Collaboration G
(2022)
Gaia Data Release 3: Reflectance spectra of Solar System small bodies
in arXiv e-prints
Collaboration G
(2020)
VizieR Online Data Catalog: MC structure and properties (Gaia Collaboration+, 2021)
in VizieR Online Data Catalog
Collaboration G
(2022)
Gaia Data Release 3: Summary of the content and survey properties
in arXiv e-prints
Collaboration G
(2018)
VizieR Online Data Catalog: Gaia DR2 sources in GC and dSph (Gaia Collaboration+, 2018)
in VizieR Online Data Catalog
Collaboration G
(2022)
Gaia Data Release 3: The extragalactic content
in arXiv e-prints
Collaboration G
(2022)
Gaia Data Release 3: Pulsations in main sequence OBAF-type stars
in arXiv e-prints
Casewell S
(2009)
High-resolution optical spectroscopy of Praesepe white dwarfs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Casewell S
(2008)
Proper motions of field L and T dwarfs - II
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Carpenter J
(2007)
Nanometer hypervelocity dust impacts in low Earth orbit
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
Carpenter J
(2008)
Meteoroid and space debris impacts in grazing-incidence telescopes
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Burleigh M
(2008)
The 'DODO' survey - I. Limits on ultra-cool substellar and planetary-mass companions to van Maanen's star (vMa 2)
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Burhanudin U
(2021)
Light-curve classification with recurrent neural networks for GOTO: dealing with imbalanced data
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bridges John
(2008)
New ideas on the early solar system
in ASTRONOMY & GEOPHYSICS
Bridges J. C.
(2007)
Petrographic classification of middle ordovician fossil meteorites from Sweden
in METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE
Bond Howard E.
(2018)
Final Hubble Space Telescope Astrometry of the Procyon Binary System
in Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society
Bianchi L
(2018)
Using GALEX-SDSS-PanSTARRS-HST-Gaia to understand post-AGB evolution
in Astrophysics and Space Science
| Description | Rolling Grant |
| Amount | £3,407,604 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2010 |
| End | 03/2015 |