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.

Publications

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Ambrosi R (2007) X-ray tests of a microchannel plate detector and amorphous silicon pixel array readout for neutron radiography in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

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Ambrosi, Richard Malick And Fraser, George William (2007) Method and device for detecting fast neutrons

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Barstow M (2008) O VI in the local interstellar medium in Astrophysics and Space Science

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Barstow M (2008) Stellar and galactic environment survey (SAGE) in Astrophysics and Space Science

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Barstow Martin (2019) White dwarfs as probes of fundamental astrophysics in Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society

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Beardmore A (2012) The outburst of Nova CSS 081007:030559+054715 (HV Ceti) in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Bianchi L (2018) Using GALEX-SDSS-PanSTARRS-HST-Gaia to understand post-AGB evolution in Astrophysics and Space Science

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Bond Howard E. (2018) Final Hubble Space Telescope Astrometry of the Procyon Binary System in Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society

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Bridges J. C. (2007) Petrographic classification of middle ordovician fossil meteorites from Sweden in METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

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Bridges John (2008) New ideas on the early solar system in ASTRONOMY & GEOPHYSICS

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Burhanudin U (2021) Light-curve classification with recurrent neural networks for GOTO: dealing with imbalanced data in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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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

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Carpenter J (2008) Meteoroid and space debris impacts in grazing-incidence telescopes in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Carpenter J (2007) Nanometer hypervelocity dust impacts in low Earth orbit in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

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Casewell S (2009) High-resolution optical spectroscopy of Praesepe white dwarfs in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Casewell S (2008) Proper motions of field L and T dwarfs - II in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Collaboration G (2022) Gaia Data Release 3: A Golden Sample of Astrophysical Parameters in arXiv e-prints

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Collaboration G (2022) Gaia Data Release 3: Chemical cartography of the Milky Way in arXiv e-prints

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Collaboration G (2022) Gaia Data Release 3: The extragalactic content in arXiv e-prints

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Collaboration G (2022) Gaia Data Release 3: Pulsations in main sequence OBAF-type stars in arXiv e-prints

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Curran P (2007) GRB 060206 and the quandary of achromatic breaks in afterglow light curves in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

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Dobbie P (2009) A massive white dwarf member of the Coma Berenices open cluster in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Dobbie P (2009) A new detailed examination of white dwarfs in NGC 3532 and NGC 2287 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Drake J. (2021) The Normal-incidence Extreme Ultraviolet Photometer (NExtUP) in Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society

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Duffy C (2021) Evidence that short-period AM CVn systems are diverse in outburst behaviour in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Evans D (2018) Gaia Data Release 2 Photometric content and validation in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Evans P (2009) Methods and results of an automatic analysis of a complete sample of Swift -XRT observations of GRBs in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Faedi F (2009) Transit detection limits for sub-stellar and terrestrial companions to white dwarfs in Journal of Physics: Conference Series

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Fender R (2009) An anticorrelation between X-ray luminosity and Ha equivalent width in X-ray binaries in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

 
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