Hertfordshire Astronomy 2015-18
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Hertfordshire
Department Name: School of Physics, Astronomy and Maths
Abstract
The Centre for Astrophysics Research carries out observational programmes spanning the wavelength range from X-ray to radio - supporting this by computer modelling and simulation. Our research ranges from observations of high-redshift galaxies at long wavelengths through to novel statistical analyses of observations seeking to detect planets outside our Solar System. In between these extremes, we carry out the largest multi-wavelength surveys conducted to date to understand the properties of the Milky Way and Magellanic System. Our research makes use of observations from all of the main European and international astronomical observatories, including ground-based observatories at optical, radio and submillimetre wavelengths, and space observatories at wavelengths ranging from the far infrared to X-rays. Computer simulations gives us a better understanding of the physical processes detected in our observations, and we need to apply advanced data-mining techniques to work with the ~terabyte datasets we are generating. Below is a brief description of our research in each of these areas.
We perform searches of nearby stars to discover planets. We especially target low mass M stars since they are the dominant type of star in the Universe and have not yet been searched. We focus on detection through Doppler wobble and by looking for planets periodically eclipsing their parent star. During the period of the grant we expect to make the first detections of Earth-mass planets in the habitable zones of nearby stars. We also discover, follow-up and model the properties of the coolest brown dwarfs whose temperatures overlap with those of planets. These studies aim to clarify the population of brown dwarfs and to establish how their modes of formation fit in with those of their brethren of different masses, ie. heavier (stars) or lighter (planets).
The Milky Way is our home galaxy. Material within it, in the form of gas and dust is the raw material for forming stars and planetary systems. At the end of stellar lives some of this material remains locked up in stellar remnants but much of it is returned in late superwind phases and supernova explosions. The cycle between accretion in youth and outflow in old age enriches the gaseous medium and rules its dynamics, via the thermal and mechanical energy injected into the
gas. By using large area imaging surveys, our research looks at how gas, dust and stars within the Milky Way and its major satellite, the Magellanic Clouds, are linked up. Our surveys span the optical to sub-mm domains tracing stars, extinction, molecular clouds, their dust properties and associated star formation.
Looking beyond the Milky Way, it is possible to appraise how stars form and evolve in different environments, from small dwarf galaxies to the outer parts of other galaxies like our own. We study the gas content of galaxies, providing the material for star formation, and link what we find to stellar populations and to star forming regions in the full range of local galaxies. By understanding the processes that trigger star formation and stellar evolution in the nearby Universe, we can apply this understanding to the very earliest galaxies and the first generations of stars in the distant Universe. Indeed some of our work focuses on high redshift galaxies detected with great efficiency at sub-millimetre wavelengths, and look forward to exploiting ALMA for such studies.
A new generation of surveys is mapping out the most distant galaxies, and allows us to investigate what links the processes of star formation and the growth of supermassive black holes. We also use detailed X-ray and radio
observations to measure the energy injected by jets ejected from supermassive black holes into distant galaxies and clusters of galaxies, affecting star formation and gas properties, and playing a long-term role in their evolutionary history.
We perform searches of nearby stars to discover planets. We especially target low mass M stars since they are the dominant type of star in the Universe and have not yet been searched. We focus on detection through Doppler wobble and by looking for planets periodically eclipsing their parent star. During the period of the grant we expect to make the first detections of Earth-mass planets in the habitable zones of nearby stars. We also discover, follow-up and model the properties of the coolest brown dwarfs whose temperatures overlap with those of planets. These studies aim to clarify the population of brown dwarfs and to establish how their modes of formation fit in with those of their brethren of different masses, ie. heavier (stars) or lighter (planets).
The Milky Way is our home galaxy. Material within it, in the form of gas and dust is the raw material for forming stars and planetary systems. At the end of stellar lives some of this material remains locked up in stellar remnants but much of it is returned in late superwind phases and supernova explosions. The cycle between accretion in youth and outflow in old age enriches the gaseous medium and rules its dynamics, via the thermal and mechanical energy injected into the
gas. By using large area imaging surveys, our research looks at how gas, dust and stars within the Milky Way and its major satellite, the Magellanic Clouds, are linked up. Our surveys span the optical to sub-mm domains tracing stars, extinction, molecular clouds, their dust properties and associated star formation.
Looking beyond the Milky Way, it is possible to appraise how stars form and evolve in different environments, from small dwarf galaxies to the outer parts of other galaxies like our own. We study the gas content of galaxies, providing the material for star formation, and link what we find to stellar populations and to star forming regions in the full range of local galaxies. By understanding the processes that trigger star formation and stellar evolution in the nearby Universe, we can apply this understanding to the very earliest galaxies and the first generations of stars in the distant Universe. Indeed some of our work focuses on high redshift galaxies detected with great efficiency at sub-millimetre wavelengths, and look forward to exploiting ALMA for such studies.
A new generation of surveys is mapping out the most distant galaxies, and allows us to investigate what links the processes of star formation and the growth of supermassive black holes. We also use detailed X-ray and radio
observations to measure the energy injected by jets ejected from supermassive black holes into distant galaxies and clusters of galaxies, affecting star formation and gas properties, and playing a long-term role in their evolutionary history.
Planned Impact
The public engagement programmes of the Centre for Astrophysics Research (CAR) will benefit the following: (i) the public through its Open Evenings at the Observatory. Six events a year are normally oversubscribed with bookings of ~400 per event. A large fraction of the visitors are family groups - which is important as parents, along with teachers, are most influential in the career choice of young people. A large number of activities engage the visitors so they get an understanding of a working observatory, learn what scientists do, and hear about some of their front line research; (ii) the Observatory hosts about 50 group visits annually, including private parties, brownie and scout troops. The programme, being similar to that of Open Evenings, gives the many young people attending the same experiences; (iii) CAR delivers 'cutting-edge' astronomy courses to teachers, including those whose initial training was not in physics. Delivered at the Science Learning Centre co-located with the Observatory (now a Science Learning Regional Consortium responsible for almost 50% of English schools) it helps teachers to better understand some of the concepts they teach, and gives them increased confidence to deliver the material in their classes; (iv) CAR continues to work with Astrium (now Airbus Defence and Space) on the EChO project (Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory) with related research and technology assessment exercises. This work focuses on simulating the expected properties of EChO M dwarfs and their transiting planets, and how these affect (and constrain) technological aspects of the proposed mission.
The above programmes have run for many years and will continue to do so as there is a clear demand and the extensive feedback remains very positive. New programmes, who they benefit and in what ways they will benefit include: (i) a proposal, which will be resubmitted to the STFC PE Small Awards, will take advantage of the automation of five of the seven domed telescopes, typical aperture 0.4m, to offer teachers the opportunity through both face-to-face and a web-based course to acquire the skills to propose observations, access the already considerable archive and most importantly to develop science-driven projects for their students. Although such opportunities exist on larger telescopes a key aspect of this proposal is that it will show what science can be done on a size of telescope that schools could aspire to; (ii) Dr James Geach, a recent appointment, and a Royal Society University Research Fellow (2013-18), is a member of the SpaceWarps 2 project. This provides CAR with the opportunity to be directly involved in a citizen science project, with - in this case - members of the public examining astronomical images to find galaxies so massive that they warp space and time (gravitational lensing); (iii) A few years ago UH, together with Manchester, Leeds & Oxford invested £125,000 each in the Consortium of Universities for Goonhilly Astronomy (CUGA) and in the wider goals of Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd (GES Ltd). The aim is develop Goonhilly's large dishes for radio astronomy, deep-space communication, and associated science and technology outreach. Progress to date has been slow, however very recently GES have now managed to complete the purchase option with BT and are now in ownership of the site. Although CAR will be involved in the scientific development of the facilities it will also be able to use its considerable experience to help develop the outreach programmes. These will be for the public visiting the southwest who will be able to learn about the technical and engineering developments that are part of modern communications and radio astronomy.
The above programmes have run for many years and will continue to do so as there is a clear demand and the extensive feedback remains very positive. New programmes, who they benefit and in what ways they will benefit include: (i) a proposal, which will be resubmitted to the STFC PE Small Awards, will take advantage of the automation of five of the seven domed telescopes, typical aperture 0.4m, to offer teachers the opportunity through both face-to-face and a web-based course to acquire the skills to propose observations, access the already considerable archive and most importantly to develop science-driven projects for their students. Although such opportunities exist on larger telescopes a key aspect of this proposal is that it will show what science can be done on a size of telescope that schools could aspire to; (ii) Dr James Geach, a recent appointment, and a Royal Society University Research Fellow (2013-18), is a member of the SpaceWarps 2 project. This provides CAR with the opportunity to be directly involved in a citizen science project, with - in this case - members of the public examining astronomical images to find galaxies so massive that they warp space and time (gravitational lensing); (iii) A few years ago UH, together with Manchester, Leeds & Oxford invested £125,000 each in the Consortium of Universities for Goonhilly Astronomy (CUGA) and in the wider goals of Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd (GES Ltd). The aim is develop Goonhilly's large dishes for radio astronomy, deep-space communication, and associated science and technology outreach. Progress to date has been slow, however very recently GES have now managed to complete the purchase option with BT and are now in ownership of the site. Although CAR will be involved in the scientific development of the facilities it will also be able to use its considerable experience to help develop the outreach programmes. These will be for the public visiting the southwest who will be able to learn about the technical and engineering developments that are part of modern communications and radio astronomy.
Organisations
- University of Hertfordshire (Lead Research Organisation)
- Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (Collaboration)
- National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) (Collaboration)
- IBM (Collaboration)
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Collaboration)
- KEELE UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- National Institute for Nuclear Physics (Collaboration)
- Murchison Widefield Array (Collaboration)
- New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (Collaboration)
- University of Hertfordshire (Collaboration)
- University of Warwick (Collaboration)
- University of Toledo (Collaboration)
- Paris Institute of Astrophysics (Collaboration)
- National University of Distance Education (Collaboration)
- James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (Collaboration)
- Max Planck Society (Collaboration)
- Astrobiology Center (CAB) (Collaboration)
- University of Graz (Collaboration)
- Radboud University Nijmegen (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (Collaboration)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- University of Manchester (Collaboration)
- HARVARD UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- National Institute for Astrophysics (Collaboration)
- Lowell Observatory (Collaboration)
- Karl Schwarzschild Observatory (Collaboration)
- QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST (Collaboration)
- IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- Florida International University (FIU) (Collaboration)
- University of California, San Diego (UCSD) (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF KENT (Collaboration)
Publications
Alonso-García J
(2021)
Variable stars in the VVV globular clusters II. NGC 6441, NGC 6569, NGC 6626 (M 28), NGC 6656 (M 22), 2MASS-GC 02, and Terzan 10
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Alonso-García J
(2018)
Milky Way demographics with the VVV survey IV. PSF photometry from almost one billion stars in the Galactic bulge and adjacent southern disk
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Alonso-García J
(2017)
Extinction Ratios in the Inner Galaxy as Revealed by the VVV Survey
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
An F
(2018)
A Machine-learning Method for Identifying Multiwavelength Counterparts of Submillimeter Galaxies: Training and Testing Using AS2UDS and ALESS
in The Astrophysical Journal
Anglada-Escudé G
(2016)
A terrestrial planet candidate in a temperate orbit around Proxima Centauri.
in Nature
Anglada-Escudé G
(2016)
A terrestrial planet candidate in a temperate orbit around Proxima Centauri
in Nature
Anglada-Escudé G
(2016)
NO EVIDENCE FOR ACTIVITY CORRELATIONS IN THE RADIAL VELOCITIES OF KAPTEYN'S STAR
in The Astrophysical Journal
Anglada-Escudé G
(2015)
Exoplanet detection. Comment on "Stellar activity masquerading as planets in the habitable zone of the M dwarf Gliese 581".
in Science (New York, N.Y.)
Arora B
(2016)
Ionospheric Modelling using GPS to Calibrate the MWA. II: Regional Ionospheric Modelling using GPS and GLONASS to Estimate Ionospheric Gradients
in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
Avison A
(2016)
Excited-state hydroxyl maser catalogue from the methanol multibeam survey - I. Positions and variability
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Description | The research across 7 post-doc supported areas, ranged from exo-planet research out to the properties of the youngest galaxies at high redshift. A highight from each is given below. 1. The Herts team discovered the planets around Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System, and Barnard's star - the star with the largest apparent motion on the sky (as well as many other planets around the closest stars). 2. ESO VLT X-Shooter spectra of 196 ultra-cool dwarfs have revealed both spectroscopic diversity and unresolved multiplicity: this is opening the way to a future, better-optimised ~500-strong population of diversity-calibrating benchmark companions to Gaia stars. 3. Both Herts-led Galactic Plane H-alpha surveys are complete and the photometric data on about half-a-billion stars are being readied for final world releases -- science enabled by the the data (now combined with Gaia DR2 proper motions) has included the first measures of young stellar motions in the outer Milky-Way and the easy discovery of many massive runaway stars . 4. In a theoretical programme of work, we developed a model of superbubble feedback in disk galaxies that successfully reproduces many of the features of the high-energy observations of the Milky Way for the first time. 5. Our understanding of the process of star formation and to what extent radio continuum emission is a good proxy for this, received a major boost through the publication of "A Radio Continuum Study of Dwarf Galaxies", a survey at a wavelength of 6cm of 40 galaxies in the Local Volume. 6. Our work on the LOFAR wide-area survey led to the publication of the first survey data release, which gives public access to the deepest wide-area radio survey ever carried out, and allowed us to show quantitatively for the first time that radio-loud active galaxies are capable of supplying the energy required to maintain the temperature in groups and clusters of galaxies. 7. The powerful combination of SCUBA2 and ALMA have provided a view of the dust properties of ~5000 `normal' star-forming galaxies assembling their stars only 1-2 billion years after the Big Bang, revealing that these distant early systems, on average, contain dust with apparently very similar properties to dust in more local star-forming galaxies. |
Exploitation Route | The research of the centre routinely informs the Bayfordbury Observatory based outreach programme, and other related activities. The majority of our research is embedded in international collaborations. The research to date provided valuable input into the follow-on STFC consolidated grant - the new award began in April 2018. Graduate students benefitting from involvement in these research programmes are increasingly employable outside academia as experienced highly-trained data scientists. |
Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Education Culture Heritage Museums and Collections |
Description | The astronomy research carried out routinely informs our outreach activities (open nights and group visits at Bayfordbury Observatory; visits to schools). It is becoming increasingly common that some of our PhD students, working in areas related to the grant and benefiting from the data associated, take the high-level 'big data' mining and management skills they acquire with us, into the UK commercial sector. |
First Year Of Impact | 2016 |
Sector | Education,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
Impact Types | Cultural |
Description | Early Career and Returning to Research Grant |
Amount | £4,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Hertfordshire |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 07/2017 |
End | 01/2018 |
Description | Hertfordshire Astronomy 2018-2021 |
Amount | £1,912,238 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/R000905/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2018 |
End | 03/2021 |
Description | Newton Fund STFC-NARIT Capacity building for Thai Radio Astronomy |
Amount | £59,440 (GBP) |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2017 |
End | 02/2018 |
Description | Partnership for Advanced Computing - 60 million core hours |
Amount | £0 (GBP) |
Organisation | Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | Belgium |
Start |
Description | Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship |
Amount | £45,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | SRF/R1/191013 |
Organisation | The Royal Society |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2019 |
End | 08/2020 |
Description | STFC UK-China SKA Radio Astronomy training programme |
Amount | £11,148 (GBP) |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2016 |
End | 08/2016 |
Description | University of Hertfordshire "Skill Up" travel grant |
Amount | £500 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Hertfordshire |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2018 |
End | 03/2019 |
Title | A Large Scale, Low Frequency Murchison Widefield Array Survey of Galactic HII regions between 260 < l < 340 |
Description | A database of HII regions detected at low frequency. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2015 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | None as of yet. |
URL | http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/ |
Title | Broad absorption line quasars in LDR1 |
Description | VizieR online Data Catalogue associated with article published in journal Astronomy & Astrophysics with title 'The origin of radio emission in broad absorption line quasars: Results from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey.' (bibcode: 2019A&A...622A..15M) |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/622/A15 |
Title | Evolution Of Cosmic Star Formation In The Scuba-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey |
Description | This dataset consists of tabulated data from the figures included in the referenced publication. The following datasets are included: Stacked SFR obscuration (IRX=IR/UV) of UVJ-selected star-forming galaxies: Weighted mean IRX as a function of Muv & stellar mass (Figure 12): MUV_irx1.dat Weighted mean IRX as a function of beta, over all masses and redshifts: beta_irx.dat Weighted mean IRX as a function of beta, binned by stellar mass (Figure 13): beta_irx_mstar.dat Weighted mean IRX as a function of beta, binned by redshift (Figure 14): beta_irx_z.dat Cosmic SFR density as a function of redshift for massive galaxies log(Ms/Msol)>10 (Figure 15): All mass-selected galaxies: sfrd_massive.dat UV-luminous galaxies Muv10: sfrd_hiLUV.dat IR-luminous galaxies detected at 450µm: sfrd_IRdet.dat Cosmic SFR density as a function of redshift corrected to all stellar masses (Figure 16): All mass-selected galaxies: sfrd_uvlfcorr.dat UV-luminous galaxies Muv10: sfrd_hiLUV_uvlfcorr.dat Full details of the binning and stacking methodology are explained in the paper. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/1405547 |
Title | HD20794 HARPS radial velocities |
Description | VizieR online Data Catalogue associated with article published in journal Astronomy & Astrophysics with title 'Evidence for at least three planet candidates orbiting HD20794.' (bibcode: 2017A&A...605A.103F) |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/605/A103 |
Title | Herschel/SPIRE FTS [CI] lines in KINGFISH gal. |
Description | VizieR online Data Catalogue associated with article published in journal Astronomical Journal (AAS) with title '[C I](1-0) and [C I](2-1) in resolved local galaxies.' (bibcode: 2019ApJ...887..105C) |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/887/105 |
Title | LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey |
Description | VizieR online Data Catalogue associated with article published in journal Astronomy & Astrophysics with title 'The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey. I. Survey Description and Preliminary Data Release.' (bibcode: 2017A&A...598A.104S) |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/598/A104 |
Title | LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey DR1 source catalog |
Description | VizieR online Data Catalogue associated with article published in journal Astronomy & Astrophysics with title 'The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey. II. First data release.' (bibcode: 2019A&A...622A...1S) |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/622/A1 |
Title | LoTSS/HETDEX. Optical quasars. I. |
Description | VizieR online Data Catalogue associated with article published in journal Astronomy & Astrophysics with title 'LoTSS/HETDEX: Optical quasars. I. Low-frequency radio properties of optically selected quasars.' (bibcode: 2019A&A...622A..11G) |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/622/A11 |
Title | Massive outflows associated with ATLASGAL clumps |
Description | VizieR online Data Catalogue associated with article published in journal Astronomical Journal (AAS) with title 'Massive outflows associated with ATLASGAL clumps.' (bibcode: 2018ApJS..235....3Y) |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/235/3 |
Title | NCJM catalog of M dwarfs (Cook+, 2016) |
Description | Locating ultracool companions to M dwarfs is important for constraining low-mass formation models, the measurement of substellar dynamical masses and radii, and for testing ultracool evolutionary models. We present an optimized method for identifying M dwarfs which may have unresolved ultracool companions. We construct a catalogue of 440 694 M dwarf candidates, from Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, Two Micron All-Sky Survey and Sloan Digital Sky Survey, based on optical- and near-infrared colours and reduced proper motion. With strict reddening, photometric and quality constraints we isolate a subsample of 36 898 M dwarfs and search for possible mid-infrared M dwarf + ultracool dwarf candidates by comparing M dwarfs which have similar optical/near-infrared colours (chosen for their sensitivity to effective temperature and metallicity). We present 1082 M dwarf + ultracool dwarf candidates for follow-up. Using simulated ultracool dwarf companions to M dwarfs, we estimate that the occurrence of unresolved ultracool companions amongst our M dwarf + ultracool dwarf candidates should be at least four times the average for our full M dwarf catalogue. We discuss possible contamination and bias and predict yields of candidates based on our simulations. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Spectroscopically identified UCD companion in the brown dwarf desert around an M dwarf. |
URL | http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-3?-source=J/MNRAS/457/2192&-out.max=50&-out.form=HTML%20Ta... |
Title | Photometric variability of massive YSOs |
Description | VizieR online Data Catalogue associated with article published in journal Astronomy & Astrophysics with title 'On the photometric variability of massive young stellar objects.' (bibcode: 2018A&A...619A..41T) |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/619/A41 |
Title | Radial velocities & photometry of AD Leonis & GJ 674 |
Description | VizieR online Data Catalogue associated with article published in journal Astronomical Journal (AAS) with title 'AD Leonis: radial velocity signal of stellar rotation or spin-orbit resonance?' (bibcode: 2018AJ....155..192T) |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/AJ/155/192 |
Title | SMASH: Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History |
Description | VizieR online Data Catalogue associated with article published in journal Astronomical Journal (AAS) with title 'SMASH: Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History.' (bibcode: 2017AJ....154..199N) |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/AJ/154/199 |
Title | Star cluster formation in a tidal debris |
Description | VizieR online Data Catalogue associated with article published in journal Astronomy & Astrophysics with title 'Massive star cluster formation and evolution in tidal dwarf galaxies.' (bibcode: 2019A&A...628A..60F) |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/628/A60 |
Title | VizieR Online Data Catalog: GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA survey (Hurley-Walker+, 2016) |
Description | Data base of sources detected in the Galactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA survey. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Significant applications to other research projects and area. |
URL | http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016yCat.8100....0H |
Title | YZ Ceti CARMENES and HARPS radial velocity curve |
Description | VizieR online Data Catalogue associated with article published in journal Astronomy & Astrophysics with title 'The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Characterization of the nearby ultra-compact multiplanetary system YZ Cet.' (bibcode: 2020A&A...636A.119S) |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/636/A119 |
Description | A pilot for KuGARS: the Ku-band Galactic Reconnaissance Survey |
Organisation | University of Hertfordshire |
Department | Centre for Astrophysics Research (CAR) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Data reduction |
Collaborator Contribution | Planning and execution |
Impact | Still in data reduction phase. |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | BISTRO SCUBA polarimetry of Gould Belt |
Organisation | James Clerk Maxwell Telescope |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | co-investigator |
Collaborator Contribution | expertise on the role of magnetic fields in star formation |
Impact | papers published and in preparation |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | GAIA benchmark brown dwarf group |
Organisation | Astrobiology Center (CAB) |
Country | Spain |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | A collaboration exploiting GAIA for benchmark brown dwarf science. 20 collaborators across 9 institutes in 5 countries. Includes membership of the GAIA Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (CU8 and CU3 on Astrophsyical/UCD characterisation, and astrometry) from CAR itself and other institutes. CAR leads ongoing International telescope time proposal initiatives in this work. We also maintain a spectroscopic database being used for quality assurance of the Gaia results especially at the faint end where other ground based comparison datasets are limited. |
Collaborator Contribution | A collaboration exploiting GAIA for benchmark brown dwarf science. 20 collaborators across 9 institutes in 5 countries. Includes membership of the GAIA Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (CU8 and CU3 on Astrophsyical/UCD characterisation, and astrometry) from CAR itself and other institutes. CAR leads ongoing International telescope time proposal initiatives in this work. We also maintain a spectroscopic database being used for quality assurance of the Gaia results especially at the faint end where other ground based comparison datasets are limited. |
Impact | Telescope time from joint proposals. Refereed papers resulting from this time and our collaborative work. |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | GAIA benchmark brown dwarf group |
Organisation | Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands |
Country | Spain |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | A collaboration exploiting GAIA for benchmark brown dwarf science. 20 collaborators across 9 institutes in 5 countries. Includes membership of the GAIA Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (CU8 and CU3 on Astrophsyical/UCD characterisation, and astrometry) from CAR itself and other institutes. CAR leads ongoing International telescope time proposal initiatives in this work. We also maintain a spectroscopic database being used for quality assurance of the Gaia results especially at the faint end where other ground based comparison datasets are limited. |
Collaborator Contribution | A collaboration exploiting GAIA for benchmark brown dwarf science. 20 collaborators across 9 institutes in 5 countries. Includes membership of the GAIA Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (CU8 and CU3 on Astrophsyical/UCD characterisation, and astrometry) from CAR itself and other institutes. CAR leads ongoing International telescope time proposal initiatives in this work. We also maintain a spectroscopic database being used for quality assurance of the Gaia results especially at the faint end where other ground based comparison datasets are limited. |
Impact | Telescope time from joint proposals. Refereed papers resulting from this time and our collaborative work. |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | GAIA benchmark brown dwarf group |
Organisation | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
Department | NASA Ames Exploration Center |
Country | United States |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | A collaboration exploiting GAIA for benchmark brown dwarf science. 20 collaborators across 9 institutes in 5 countries. Includes membership of the GAIA Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (CU8 and CU3 on Astrophsyical/UCD characterisation, and astrometry) from CAR itself and other institutes. CAR leads ongoing International telescope time proposal initiatives in this work. We also maintain a spectroscopic database being used for quality assurance of the Gaia results especially at the faint end where other ground based comparison datasets are limited. |
Collaborator Contribution | A collaboration exploiting GAIA for benchmark brown dwarf science. 20 collaborators across 9 institutes in 5 countries. Includes membership of the GAIA Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (CU8 and CU3 on Astrophsyical/UCD characterisation, and astrometry) from CAR itself and other institutes. CAR leads ongoing International telescope time proposal initiatives in this work. We also maintain a spectroscopic database being used for quality assurance of the Gaia results especially at the faint end where other ground based comparison datasets are limited. |
Impact | Telescope time from joint proposals. Refereed papers resulting from this time and our collaborative work. |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | GAIA benchmark brown dwarf group |
Organisation | National Institute for Nuclear Physics |
Department | National Institute for Nuclear Physics - Torino |
Country | Italy |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | A collaboration exploiting GAIA for benchmark brown dwarf science. 20 collaborators across 9 institutes in 5 countries. Includes membership of the GAIA Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (CU8 and CU3 on Astrophsyical/UCD characterisation, and astrometry) from CAR itself and other institutes. CAR leads ongoing International telescope time proposal initiatives in this work. We also maintain a spectroscopic database being used for quality assurance of the Gaia results especially at the faint end where other ground based comparison datasets are limited. |
Collaborator Contribution | A collaboration exploiting GAIA for benchmark brown dwarf science. 20 collaborators across 9 institutes in 5 countries. Includes membership of the GAIA Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (CU8 and CU3 on Astrophsyical/UCD characterisation, and astrometry) from CAR itself and other institutes. CAR leads ongoing International telescope time proposal initiatives in this work. We also maintain a spectroscopic database being used for quality assurance of the Gaia results especially at the faint end where other ground based comparison datasets are limited. |
Impact | Telescope time from joint proposals. Refereed papers resulting from this time and our collaborative work. |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | GAIA benchmark brown dwarf group |
Organisation | National University of Distance Education |
Country | Spain |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | A collaboration exploiting GAIA for benchmark brown dwarf science. 20 collaborators across 9 institutes in 5 countries. Includes membership of the GAIA Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (CU8 and CU3 on Astrophsyical/UCD characterisation, and astrometry) from CAR itself and other institutes. CAR leads ongoing International telescope time proposal initiatives in this work. We also maintain a spectroscopic database being used for quality assurance of the Gaia results especially at the faint end where other ground based comparison datasets are limited. |
Collaborator Contribution | A collaboration exploiting GAIA for benchmark brown dwarf science. 20 collaborators across 9 institutes in 5 countries. Includes membership of the GAIA Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (CU8 and CU3 on Astrophsyical/UCD characterisation, and astrometry) from CAR itself and other institutes. CAR leads ongoing International telescope time proposal initiatives in this work. We also maintain a spectroscopic database being used for quality assurance of the Gaia results especially at the faint end where other ground based comparison datasets are limited. |
Impact | Telescope time from joint proposals. Refereed papers resulting from this time and our collaborative work. |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | GAIA benchmark brown dwarf group |
Organisation | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
Country | China |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | A collaboration exploiting GAIA for benchmark brown dwarf science. 20 collaborators across 9 institutes in 5 countries. Includes membership of the GAIA Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (CU8 and CU3 on Astrophsyical/UCD characterisation, and astrometry) from CAR itself and other institutes. CAR leads ongoing International telescope time proposal initiatives in this work. We also maintain a spectroscopic database being used for quality assurance of the Gaia results especially at the faint end where other ground based comparison datasets are limited. |
Collaborator Contribution | A collaboration exploiting GAIA for benchmark brown dwarf science. 20 collaborators across 9 institutes in 5 countries. Includes membership of the GAIA Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (CU8 and CU3 on Astrophsyical/UCD characterisation, and astrometry) from CAR itself and other institutes. CAR leads ongoing International telescope time proposal initiatives in this work. We also maintain a spectroscopic database being used for quality assurance of the Gaia results especially at the faint end where other ground based comparison datasets are limited. |
Impact | Telescope time from joint proposals. Refereed papers resulting from this time and our collaborative work. |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | GAIA benchmark brown dwarf group |
Organisation | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | A collaboration exploiting GAIA for benchmark brown dwarf science. 20 collaborators across 9 institutes in 5 countries. Includes membership of the GAIA Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (CU8 and CU3 on Astrophsyical/UCD characterisation, and astrometry) from CAR itself and other institutes. CAR leads ongoing International telescope time proposal initiatives in this work. We also maintain a spectroscopic database being used for quality assurance of the Gaia results especially at the faint end where other ground based comparison datasets are limited. |
Collaborator Contribution | A collaboration exploiting GAIA for benchmark brown dwarf science. 20 collaborators across 9 institutes in 5 countries. Includes membership of the GAIA Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (CU8 and CU3 on Astrophsyical/UCD characterisation, and astrometry) from CAR itself and other institutes. CAR leads ongoing International telescope time proposal initiatives in this work. We also maintain a spectroscopic database being used for quality assurance of the Gaia results especially at the faint end where other ground based comparison datasets are limited. |
Impact | Telescope time from joint proposals. Refereed papers resulting from this time and our collaborative work. |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | GAIA benchmark brown dwarf group |
Organisation | University of Toledo |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | A collaboration exploiting GAIA for benchmark brown dwarf science. 20 collaborators across 9 institutes in 5 countries. Includes membership of the GAIA Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (CU8 and CU3 on Astrophsyical/UCD characterisation, and astrometry) from CAR itself and other institutes. CAR leads ongoing International telescope time proposal initiatives in this work. We also maintain a spectroscopic database being used for quality assurance of the Gaia results especially at the faint end where other ground based comparison datasets are limited. |
Collaborator Contribution | A collaboration exploiting GAIA for benchmark brown dwarf science. 20 collaborators across 9 institutes in 5 countries. Includes membership of the GAIA Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (CU8 and CU3 on Astrophsyical/UCD characterisation, and astrometry) from CAR itself and other institutes. CAR leads ongoing International telescope time proposal initiatives in this work. We also maintain a spectroscopic database being used for quality assurance of the Gaia results especially at the faint end where other ground based comparison datasets are limited. |
Impact | Telescope time from joint proposals. Refereed papers resulting from this time and our collaborative work. |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | Gaia-ESO Survey |
Organisation | Keele University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Drew is member of the steering committee. UH team contributes photometric data useful for setting up spectroscopic targets |
Collaborator Contribution | Execute and analyse VLT spectroscopy (large ESO programme) |
Impact | Some Publications. |
Start Year | 2011 |
Description | Gaia-ESO Survey |
Organisation | National Institute for Astrophysics |
Department | Arcetri Observatory |
Country | Italy |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Drew is member of the steering committee. UH team contributes photometric data useful for setting up spectroscopic targets |
Collaborator Contribution | Execute and analyse VLT spectroscopy (large ESO programme) |
Impact | Some Publications. |
Start Year | 2011 |
Description | Gaia-ESO Survey |
Organisation | Paris Institute of Astrophysics |
Country | France |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Drew is member of the steering committee. UH team contributes photometric data useful for setting up spectroscopic targets |
Collaborator Contribution | Execute and analyse VLT spectroscopy (large ESO programme) |
Impact | Some Publications. |
Start Year | 2011 |
Description | Gaia-ESO Survey |
Organisation | University of Cambridge |
Department | Institute of Astronomy |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Drew is member of the steering committee. UH team contributes photometric data useful for setting up spectroscopic targets |
Collaborator Contribution | Execute and analyse VLT spectroscopy (large ESO programme) |
Impact | Some Publications. |
Start Year | 2011 |
Description | Gaia-ESO Survey |
Organisation | University of Oxford |
Department | Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Drew is member of the steering committee. UH team contributes photometric data useful for setting up spectroscopic targets |
Collaborator Contribution | Execute and analyse VLT spectroscopy (large ESO programme) |
Impact | Some Publications. |
Start Year | 2011 |
Description | High Resolution Spectral Age Studies of Nearby Dwarf Irregular Galaxies |
Organisation | University of Hertfordshire |
Department | Centre for Astrophysics Research (CAR) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Assisted in planning observations |
Collaborator Contribution | Project Lead |
Impact | Awaiting news of whether time has been allocated |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | IPHAS |
Organisation | Harvard University |
Department | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Principal Investigator institute All observing requests since the survey's 2003 inception written by PI. UH has taken prominent roles in science exploitation and is in charge of major catalogue releases (e.g. DR2 in 2014, and another major release being prepared for late 2018 merging data from IPHAS and its companion survey UVEX). |
Collaborator Contribution | Have contributed to observing effort, formulation of policy and science exploitation. Not all partners listed (see website for complete list). Data collection finally end in the second half of 2017. |
Impact | Publications including a world-accessible database of astronomical photometry - see publications area on iphas website, www.iphas.org. |
Description | IPHAS |
Organisation | Imperial College London |
Department | Department of Physics |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Principal Investigator institute All observing requests since the survey's 2003 inception written by PI. UH has taken prominent roles in science exploitation and is in charge of major catalogue releases (e.g. DR2 in 2014, and another major release being prepared for late 2018 merging data from IPHAS and its companion survey UVEX). |
Collaborator Contribution | Have contributed to observing effort, formulation of policy and science exploitation. Not all partners listed (see website for complete list). Data collection finally end in the second half of 2017. |
Impact | Publications including a world-accessible database of astronomical photometry - see publications area on iphas website, www.iphas.org. |
Description | IPHAS |
Organisation | Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands |
Country | Spain |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Principal Investigator institute All observing requests since the survey's 2003 inception written by PI. UH has taken prominent roles in science exploitation and is in charge of major catalogue releases (e.g. DR2 in 2014, and another major release being prepared for late 2018 merging data from IPHAS and its companion survey UVEX). |
Collaborator Contribution | Have contributed to observing effort, formulation of policy and science exploitation. Not all partners listed (see website for complete list). Data collection finally end in the second half of 2017. |
Impact | Publications including a world-accessible database of astronomical photometry - see publications area on iphas website, www.iphas.org. |
Description | IPHAS |
Organisation | Radboud University Nijmegen |
Department | Department of Astrophysics |
Country | Netherlands |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Principal Investigator institute All observing requests since the survey's 2003 inception written by PI. UH has taken prominent roles in science exploitation and is in charge of major catalogue releases (e.g. DR2 in 2014, and another major release being prepared for late 2018 merging data from IPHAS and its companion survey UVEX). |
Collaborator Contribution | Have contributed to observing effort, formulation of policy and science exploitation. Not all partners listed (see website for complete list). Data collection finally end in the second half of 2017. |
Impact | Publications including a world-accessible database of astronomical photometry - see publications area on iphas website, www.iphas.org. |
Description | IPHAS |
Organisation | University College London |
Department | Department of Physics & Astronomy |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Principal Investigator institute All observing requests since the survey's 2003 inception written by PI. UH has taken prominent roles in science exploitation and is in charge of major catalogue releases (e.g. DR2 in 2014, and another major release being prepared for late 2018 merging data from IPHAS and its companion survey UVEX). |
Collaborator Contribution | Have contributed to observing effort, formulation of policy and science exploitation. Not all partners listed (see website for complete list). Data collection finally end in the second half of 2017. |
Impact | Publications including a world-accessible database of astronomical photometry - see publications area on iphas website, www.iphas.org. |
Description | IPHAS |
Organisation | University of Cambridge |
Department | Institute of Astronomy |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Principal Investigator institute All observing requests since the survey's 2003 inception written by PI. UH has taken prominent roles in science exploitation and is in charge of major catalogue releases (e.g. DR2 in 2014, and another major release being prepared for late 2018 merging data from IPHAS and its companion survey UVEX). |
Collaborator Contribution | Have contributed to observing effort, formulation of policy and science exploitation. Not all partners listed (see website for complete list). Data collection finally end in the second half of 2017. |
Impact | Publications including a world-accessible database of astronomical photometry - see publications area on iphas website, www.iphas.org. |
Description | IPHAS |
Organisation | University of Graz |
Department | Institute of Physics |
Country | Austria |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Principal Investigator institute All observing requests since the survey's 2003 inception written by PI. UH has taken prominent roles in science exploitation and is in charge of major catalogue releases (e.g. DR2 in 2014, and another major release being prepared for late 2018 merging data from IPHAS and its companion survey UVEX). |
Collaborator Contribution | Have contributed to observing effort, formulation of policy and science exploitation. Not all partners listed (see website for complete list). Data collection finally end in the second half of 2017. |
Impact | Publications including a world-accessible database of astronomical photometry - see publications area on iphas website, www.iphas.org. |
Description | IPHAS |
Organisation | University of Manchester |
Department | School of Physics and Astronomy Manchester |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Principal Investigator institute All observing requests since the survey's 2003 inception written by PI. UH has taken prominent roles in science exploitation and is in charge of major catalogue releases (e.g. DR2 in 2014, and another major release being prepared for late 2018 merging data from IPHAS and its companion survey UVEX). |
Collaborator Contribution | Have contributed to observing effort, formulation of policy and science exploitation. Not all partners listed (see website for complete list). Data collection finally end in the second half of 2017. |
Impact | Publications including a world-accessible database of astronomical photometry - see publications area on iphas website, www.iphas.org. |
Description | IPHAS |
Organisation | University of Warwick |
Department | Department of Physics |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Principal Investigator institute All observing requests since the survey's 2003 inception written by PI. UH has taken prominent roles in science exploitation and is in charge of major catalogue releases (e.g. DR2 in 2014, and another major release being prepared for late 2018 merging data from IPHAS and its companion survey UVEX). |
Collaborator Contribution | Have contributed to observing effort, formulation of policy and science exploitation. Not all partners listed (see website for complete list). Data collection finally end in the second half of 2017. |
Impact | Publications including a world-accessible database of astronomical photometry - see publications area on iphas website, www.iphas.org. |
Description | LITTLE THINGS |
Organisation | Florida International University (FIU) |
Department | Department of Physics |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | co-wrote the proposal; responsible for all observations; designed and debugged the calibration and reduction scripts; co-author on papers |
Collaborator Contribution | co-wrote the proposal; participates in the calibration and reduction of the data; co-authors on papers |
Impact | Deidre A. Hunter et al. 2012 The Astronomical Journal 144 134 doi:10.1088/0004-6256/144/5/134 and see: http://www2.lowell.edu/users/dah/littlethings/ |
Start Year | 2007 |
Description | LITTLE THINGS |
Organisation | IBM |
Department | IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights |
Country | United States |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | co-wrote the proposal; responsible for all observations; designed and debugged the calibration and reduction scripts; co-author on papers |
Collaborator Contribution | co-wrote the proposal; participates in the calibration and reduction of the data; co-authors on papers |
Impact | Deidre A. Hunter et al. 2012 The Astronomical Journal 144 134 doi:10.1088/0004-6256/144/5/134 and see: http://www2.lowell.edu/users/dah/littlethings/ |
Start Year | 2007 |
Description | LITTLE THINGS |
Organisation | Lowell Observatory |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | co-wrote the proposal; responsible for all observations; designed and debugged the calibration and reduction scripts; co-author on papers |
Collaborator Contribution | co-wrote the proposal; participates in the calibration and reduction of the data; co-authors on papers |
Impact | Deidre A. Hunter et al. 2012 The Astronomical Journal 144 134 doi:10.1088/0004-6256/144/5/134 and see: http://www2.lowell.edu/users/dah/littlethings/ |
Start Year | 2007 |
Description | LITTLE THINGS |
Organisation | Max Planck Society |
Department | Max Planck Institute for Astronomy |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | co-wrote the proposal; responsible for all observations; designed and debugged the calibration and reduction scripts; co-author on papers |
Collaborator Contribution | co-wrote the proposal; participates in the calibration and reduction of the data; co-authors on papers |
Impact | Deidre A. Hunter et al. 2012 The Astronomical Journal 144 134 doi:10.1088/0004-6256/144/5/134 and see: http://www2.lowell.edu/users/dah/littlethings/ |
Start Year | 2007 |
Description | LITTLE THINGS |
Organisation | National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) |
Department | Array Operations Center (AOC) |
Country | United States |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | co-wrote the proposal; responsible for all observations; designed and debugged the calibration and reduction scripts; co-author on papers |
Collaborator Contribution | co-wrote the proposal; participates in the calibration and reduction of the data; co-authors on papers |
Impact | Deidre A. Hunter et al. 2012 The Astronomical Journal 144 134 doi:10.1088/0004-6256/144/5/134 and see: http://www2.lowell.edu/users/dah/littlethings/ |
Start Year | 2007 |
Description | LITTLE THINGS |
Organisation | New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology |
Department | Physics Department |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | co-wrote the proposal; responsible for all observations; designed and debugged the calibration and reduction scripts; co-author on papers |
Collaborator Contribution | co-wrote the proposal; participates in the calibration and reduction of the data; co-authors on papers |
Impact | Deidre A. Hunter et al. 2012 The Astronomical Journal 144 134 doi:10.1088/0004-6256/144/5/134 and see: http://www2.lowell.edu/users/dah/littlethings/ |
Start Year | 2007 |
Description | Low Frequency Insights into the Radio Continuum - Star Formation Rate Relation |
Organisation | National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) |
Country | United States |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Successfully proposed and obtained low frequency LOFAR observations of two nearby galaxies. |
Collaborator Contribution | Assisted with developing the science and technical proposal case. |
Impact | Reduced data. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Low Frequency Insights into the Radio Continuum - Star Formation Rate Relation |
Organisation | University of Hertfordshire |
Department | Centre for Astrophysics Research (CAR) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Successfully proposed and obtained low frequency LOFAR observations of two nearby galaxies. |
Collaborator Contribution | Assisted with developing the science and technical proposal case. |
Impact | Reduced data. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Non-thermal radio haloes surrounding dwarf irregular galaxies |
Organisation | University of Southampton |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Assisted in proposal planning |
Collaborator Contribution | Project Lead |
Impact | Awaiting news of whether time has been allocated |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | Probing the Radio Continuum - Star Formation Rate relation |
Organisation | University of Hertfordshire |
Department | Centre for Astrophysics Research (CAR) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Assisted in preparing observing proposal |
Collaborator Contribution | Project Lead |
Impact | Awaiting news of whether time has been allocated. |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | The Murchison Widefield Array Galactic and Extragalactic group |
Organisation | Murchison Widefield Array |
Country | Peru |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Contributed to commissioning of the instrument. Early science and first catalogue of HII regions. |
Collaborator Contribution | Extragalactic catalogue, design of data reduction pipeline and post processing. |
Impact | Numerous publications |
Start Year | 2012 |
Description | The Radio Continuum - Star Formation Rate relation revisited |
Organisation | University of Hertfordshire |
Department | Centre for Astrophysics Research (CAR) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Planning data acquisition, data reduction. |
Collaborator Contribution | Previous observations. |
Impact | PhD dissertation, Ged Kitchener |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | The WEAVE project |
Organisation | Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands |
Country | Spain |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Survey Working Group member for the SCIP survey. |
Collaborator Contribution | Survey implentation and execution. |
Impact | Currently in implementation phase. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | VPHAS+ |
Organisation | Imperial College London |
Department | Department of Physics |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Drew is Principal Investigator of this ESO/VST public survey. Drew and PDRA + students are managing the survey and exploiting the data for science. |
Collaborator Contribution | Some contributed funds to the purchase of the H-alpha filter used by the survey. Some are contributing survey management/processing effort (e.g. Cambridge, Graz and Tautenburg), others are involved in or planning science exploitation. |
Impact | Refereed journal papers, contributions to conferences, processed data uploaded to ESO archive and CDS in Strasbourg |
Start Year | 2006 |
Description | VPHAS+ |
Organisation | Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands |
Country | Spain |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Drew is Principal Investigator of this ESO/VST public survey. Drew and PDRA + students are managing the survey and exploiting the data for science. |
Collaborator Contribution | Some contributed funds to the purchase of the H-alpha filter used by the survey. Some are contributing survey management/processing effort (e.g. Cambridge, Graz and Tautenburg), others are involved in or planning science exploitation. |
Impact | Refereed journal papers, contributions to conferences, processed data uploaded to ESO archive and CDS in Strasbourg |
Start Year | 2006 |
Description | VPHAS+ |
Organisation | Karl Schwarzschild Observatory |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Drew is Principal Investigator of this ESO/VST public survey. Drew and PDRA + students are managing the survey and exploiting the data for science. |
Collaborator Contribution | Some contributed funds to the purchase of the H-alpha filter used by the survey. Some are contributing survey management/processing effort (e.g. Cambridge, Graz and Tautenburg), others are involved in or planning science exploitation. |
Impact | Refereed journal papers, contributions to conferences, processed data uploaded to ESO archive and CDS in Strasbourg |
Start Year | 2006 |
Description | VPHAS+ |
Organisation | University College London |
Department | Department of Physics & Astronomy |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Drew is Principal Investigator of this ESO/VST public survey. Drew and PDRA + students are managing the survey and exploiting the data for science. |
Collaborator Contribution | Some contributed funds to the purchase of the H-alpha filter used by the survey. Some are contributing survey management/processing effort (e.g. Cambridge, Graz and Tautenburg), others are involved in or planning science exploitation. |
Impact | Refereed journal papers, contributions to conferences, processed data uploaded to ESO archive and CDS in Strasbourg |
Start Year | 2006 |
Description | VPHAS+ |
Organisation | University of Cambridge |
Department | Cambridge Astronomy Survey Unit (CASU) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Drew is Principal Investigator of this ESO/VST public survey. Drew and PDRA + students are managing the survey and exploiting the data for science. |
Collaborator Contribution | Some contributed funds to the purchase of the H-alpha filter used by the survey. Some are contributing survey management/processing effort (e.g. Cambridge, Graz and Tautenburg), others are involved in or planning science exploitation. |
Impact | Refereed journal papers, contributions to conferences, processed data uploaded to ESO archive and CDS in Strasbourg |
Start Year | 2006 |
Description | VPHAS+ |
Organisation | University of Graz |
Country | Austria |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Drew is Principal Investigator of this ESO/VST public survey. Drew and PDRA + students are managing the survey and exploiting the data for science. |
Collaborator Contribution | Some contributed funds to the purchase of the H-alpha filter used by the survey. Some are contributing survey management/processing effort (e.g. Cambridge, Graz and Tautenburg), others are involved in or planning science exploitation. |
Impact | Refereed journal papers, contributions to conferences, processed data uploaded to ESO archive and CDS in Strasbourg |
Start Year | 2006 |
Description | VPHAS+ |
Organisation | University of Manchester |
Department | School of Physics and Astronomy Manchester |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Drew is Principal Investigator of this ESO/VST public survey. Drew and PDRA + students are managing the survey and exploiting the data for science. |
Collaborator Contribution | Some contributed funds to the purchase of the H-alpha filter used by the survey. Some are contributing survey management/processing effort (e.g. Cambridge, Graz and Tautenburg), others are involved in or planning science exploitation. |
Impact | Refereed journal papers, contributions to conferences, processed data uploaded to ESO archive and CDS in Strasbourg |
Start Year | 2006 |
Description | VPHAS+ |
Organisation | University of Warwick |
Department | Department of Physics |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Drew is Principal Investigator of this ESO/VST public survey. Drew and PDRA + students are managing the survey and exploiting the data for science. |
Collaborator Contribution | Some contributed funds to the purchase of the H-alpha filter used by the survey. Some are contributing survey management/processing effort (e.g. Cambridge, Graz and Tautenburg), others are involved in or planning science exploitation. |
Impact | Refereed journal papers, contributions to conferences, processed data uploaded to ESO archive and CDS in Strasbourg |
Start Year | 2006 |
Description | Visit to Queen's University Belfast |
Organisation | Queen's University Belfast |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Dr Rodgers-Lee used skill-up travel fund from UH was used to collaborate with Dr. Brian Reville at Queen's University Belfast. |
Collaborator Contribution | Expertise. |
Impact | Unsure, also with the dates above. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | post-AGB objects in the UWISH2 survey |
Organisation | University of Kent |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Exploitation of the UWISH2 survey |
Collaborator Contribution | Co-supervision of MSc student Survey database hosted at University of Kent |
Impact | 4 publications |
Start Year | 2012 |
Title | Agatha |
Description | Disentangling periodic signals from correlated noise in a periodogram framework |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Impact | Not yet - used for a number of papers submitted to journals |
URL | https://phillippro.shinyapps.io/Agatha/ |
Title | Agatha: disentangling periodic signals from correlated noise in a periodogram framework |
Description | The Agatha algorithm is to find the weak signals embedded in correlated noise. This web app is based on the code in GitHub: https://github.com/phillippro/agatha. The corresponding paper is titled "Agatha: disentangle periodic signals from correlated noise in a periodogram framework" by Feng F., Tuomi M., Jones H. R. A., published in MNRAS, 2017. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | Listed as one of the main tools for detection of exoplanets by the Reddot campaign (https://reddots.space/toolkit/). It has been used to find several exoplanets (HD177565b, Tau Ceti g and h, HD20794 b,c,d,e, HD 76920b etc. ) |
URL | https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?cites=14272985763360637287&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en |
Title | LOFAR Tier 1 pipeline |
Description | A fully automatic LOFAR data reduction pipeline for imaging. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | A number of publications have already used this software. |
URL | https://github.com/mhardcastle/ddf-pipeline |
Title | PEXO |
Description | PEXO, a package for Precise EXOplanetology to facilitate the efficient modeling of timing, astrometry, and radial velocity data, which will benefit not only exoplanet science but also various astrophysical studies in general. PEXO is general enough to account for binary motion and stellar reflex motions induced by planetary companions and is precise enough to treat various relativistic effects both in the solar system and in the target system. We also model the post-Newtonian barycentric motion for future tests of general relativity in extrasolar systems. We benchmark PEXO with the pulsar timing package TEMPO2 and find that PEXO produces numerically similar results with timing precision of about 1 ns, space-based astrometry to a precision of 1 µas, and radial velocity of 1 µm s-1 and improves on TEMPO2 for decade-long timing data of nearby targets, due to its consideration of third-order terms of Roemer delay. PEXO is able to avoid the bias introduced by decoupling the target system and the solar system and to account for the atmospheric effects that set a practical limit for ground-based radial velocities close to 1 cm s-1. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | Aside from moving exoplanet software on, this software is potentially critical to pulsar timing data as well as finding gravitational waves. In particular, it reveals some bugs in pulsar timing software some expressed in the PEXO paper and another one below. The pulsar timing model actually depends on other factors such as ephemerides and GPS location of the telescopes. It is more sensitive to models than atomic clocks. The pulsar timing codeTEMPO2 uses the light arrival time at the target barycenter to calculate the ephemerides of the target star. However, it should be the light emission proper time due to the Roemer delay in the target system (as correctly pointed out in eqs. 61, 64, and 71 of Edwards et al. 2006), similar to the solar system TDB. This potential bug is more significant than the Shapiro delay one. This bug is evident from the following code in DDGRmodel.C t0 = psr[p].param[param_t0].val[0]; ct = psr[p].obsn[ipos].bbat; tt0 = (ct-t0)*SECDAY; ... x = psr[p].param[param_a1].val[0]+xdot*tt0; ecc = psr[p].param[param_ecc].val[0]+edot*tt0; |
URL | https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/phillippro/pexo/binder |
Description | Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy - training in Botswana/Namibia |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Development of radio astronomy skills in Botswana/Namibia as part of the wider drive to develop expertise across a number of African countries (as part of the "Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy" - A Newton Fund Project) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=ST%2FM007693%2F1 |
Description | International Women's Day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | International Women's Day events at UH |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Invited Review at Tracing the Flow: Galactic Environments and the Formation of Massive Stars |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | I gave an invited review of star formation surveys to the international conference Tracing the Flow: Galactic Environments and the Formation of Massive Stars which was held at Windermere in July 2018 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Press Release |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Press Release describing the results contained in 2 of my publications on Eruptive Protostars that were published together. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Public evening |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Public evening at Bayfordbury observatory |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Radio Astronomy for Development in Africa - A Newton Fund Project |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Development of radio astronomy skills in Zambia as part of the wider drive to develop expertise across a number of African countries. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
URL | http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=ST%2FM007693%2F1 |
Description | Reaching out with Rosetta (Edinburgh International Science Festival) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Reaching out with Rosetta (Edinburgh International Science Festival 11th April 205) Public awareness of Rosetta mission and its broad implications, 10 min talks by panel speakers (Helen Keen (Host), Prof Hugh Jones, Prof Monica Grady, Ken Macleod, Marcus Chown, Jennifer Rodger-Casebow) and then panel discussion. Event lasted for 1.5 hours. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Summer student project supervision (Nuffield bursary students through SetPoint) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | I host 6th form students (2-10 per year) at my institute to carry out 4 week summer research projects in astronomy. These students come through SetPoint and are given Nuffield bursaries to support them during their projects. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016 |
Description | TV interview with ITN London news |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | TV interview on ITN London news in January 2017 (following the related press release) regarding 2 publications on eruptive protostars that were published together. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |