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
Kupfer T
(2020)
A New Class of Roche Lobe-filling Hot Subdwarf Binaries
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Kupfer T
(2020)
The First Ultracompact Roche Lobe-Filling Hot Subdwarf Binary
in The Astrophysical Journal
Könyves V
(2020)
Properties of the dense core population in Orion B as seen by the Herschel Gould Belt survey
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Lata S
(2019)
Short-period Variable Stars in Young Open Cluster Stock 8
in The Astronomical Journal
Lennon D
(2018)
Gaia DR2 reveals a very massive runaway star ejected from R136
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Libralato M
(2021)
2D kinematics of massive stars near the Galactic Centre
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lohr M
(2018)
The Arches cluster revisited II. A massive eclipsing spectroscopic binary in the Arches cluster
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mahy L
(2020)
The Tarantula Massive Binary Monitoring III. Atmosphere analysis of double-lined spectroscopic systems
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Marsh T
(2020)
Optical, X-ray, and ?-ray observations of the candidate transitional millisecond pulsar 4FGL J0427.8-6704
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Masini A
(2020)
The Chandra Deep Wide-field Survey: A New Chandra Legacy Survey in the Boötes Field. I. X-Ray Point Source Catalog, Number Counts, and Multiwavelength Counterparts
in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Mata-Sánchez D
(2020)
First measurement of the total gravitational quadrupole moment of a black widow companion
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Maund J
(2019)
The Origin of the Late-time Luminosity of Supernova 2011dh
in The Astrophysical Journal
Maund J
(2020)
Polarimetry of the superluminous transient ASASSN-15lh
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Maund J
(2019)
RINGO3 polarimetry of the Type I superluminous SN 2017egm
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
McAllister M
(2019)
The evolutionary status of Cataclysmic Variables: eclipse modelling of 15 systems
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Meza E
(2019)
Lower atmosphere and pressure evolution on Pluto from ground-based stellar occultations, 1988-2016
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Misra R
(2019)
Puzzling blue dips in the black hole candidate Swift J1357.2 - 0933, from ULTRACAM, SALT, ATCA, Swift, and NuSTAR
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Molyneux S
(2024)
The Quasar Feedback Survey: characterizing CO excitation in quasar host galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mong Y
(2020)
Machine learning for transient recognition in difference imaging with minimum sampling effort
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Morganti R
(2020)
The radio properties of high-excitation radio galaxies with intermediate radio powers
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Moriya T
(2020)
The Carnegie Supernova Project II Observations of SN 2014ab possibly revealing a 2010jl-like SN IIn with pre-existing dust
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mullaney J
(2021)
Processing GOTO data with the Rubin Observatory LSST Science Pipelines I: Production of coadded frames
in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
Nieder L
(2020)
Discovery of a Gamma-Ray Black Widow Pulsar by GPU-accelerated Einstein@Home
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Nieder L
(2019)
Detection and Timing of Gamma-Ray Pulsations from the 707 Hz Pulsar J0952-0607
in The Astrophysical Journal
| Description | The award was used to fund a wide range of research that led to substantial progress in (a) understanding the links between the evolution actively accreting black holes and their host galaxies via far-IR observations taken with the Herschel satellite; (b) the way in which the most massive stars explode at the ends of their lives and the environments in which they do so; (c) the time variability of a range of astrophysical objects, and in particular compact stellar remnants. |
| Exploitation Route | The outcomes can and have been used to inform future research projects and applications for observing time on highly-oversubscribed observing facilities. |
| Sectors | Education Other |
| 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 |
| Title | Parameters of 15 Cataclysmic Variables |
| Description | VizieR online Data Catalogue associated with article published in journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society with title ' The evolutionary status of Cataclysmic Variables: eclipse modelling of 15 systems.' (bibcode: 2019MNRAS.486.5535M) |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/486/5535 |