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
Libralato M
(2021)
2D kinematics of massive stars near the Galactic Centre
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Green M
(2018)
A 15.7-Minute AM CVn Binary Discovered in K2
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Walters K
(2020)
A binning-free method reveals a continuous relationship between galaxies' AGN power and offset from main sequence
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Paice J
(2019)
A black hole X-ray binary at ~100 Hz: multiwavelength timing of MAXI J1820+070 with HiPERCAM and NICER
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Schootemeijer A
(2021)
A dearth of young and bright massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Caballero-Nieves S
(2020)
A High Angular Resolution Survey of Massive Stars in Cygnus OB2: JHK Adaptive Optics Results from the Gemini Near-Infrared Imager
in The Astronomical Journal
Colón K
(2018)
A Large Ground-based Observing Campaign of the Disintegrating Planet K2-22b
in The Astronomical Journal
Arnold B
(2019)
A method to analyse velocity structure
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Ramos Almeida C
(2019)
A near-infrared study of the multiphase outflow in the type-2 quasar J1509+0434
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Kupfer T
(2020)
A New Class of Roche Lobe-filling Hot Subdwarf Binaries
in The Astrophysical Journal
Pomohaci R
(2019)
A pilot survey of the binarity of Massive Young Stellar Objects with K -band adaptive optics
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Parsons S
(2020)
A pulsating white dwarf in an eclipsing binary
in Nature Astronomy
Schaffenroth V
(2021)
A quantitative in-depth analysis of the prototype sdB+BD system SDSS J08205+0008 revisited in the Gaia era
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bagnulo S
(2020)
A search for strong magnetic fields in massive and very massive stars in the Magellanic Clouds
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Burdge K
(2020)
A Systematic Search of Zwicky Transient Facility Data for Ultracompact Binary LISA-detectable Gravitational-wave Sources
in The Astrophysical Journal
Rebassa-Mansergas A
(2019)
Accurate mass and radius determinations of a cool subdwarf in an eclipsing binary.
in Nature astronomy
Santoro F
(2020)
AGN-driven outflows and the AGN feedback efficiency in young radio galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Oosterloo T
(2019)
ALMA observations of PKS 1549-79: a case of feeding and feedback in a young radio quasar
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Callingham J
(2018)
Anisotropic winds in a Wolf-Rayet binary identify a potential gamma-ray burst progenitor
in Nature Astronomy
Föhring D
(2019)
Atmospheric scintillation noise in ground-based exoplanet photometry
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Sergison D
(2020)
Characterizing the i-band variability of YSOs over six orders of magnitude in time-scale
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Stanley F
(2018)
Deep ALMA photometry of distant X-ray AGN: improvements in star formation rate constraints, and AGN identification
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Nieder L
(2019)
Detection and Timing of Gamma-Ray Pulsations from the 707 Hz Pulsar J0952-0607
in The Astrophysical Journal
Ramsay G
(2018)
Detection of a 23.6 min periodic modulation in the optical counterpart of 3XMMJ051034.6-670353
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Nieder L
(2020)
Discovery of a Gamma-Ray Black Widow Pulsar by GPU-accelerated Einstein@Home
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Sahman D
(2018)
Discovery of an old nova shell surrounding the cataclysmic variable V1315 Aql
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Pierce J
(2019)
Do AGN triggering mechanisms vary with radio power? - I. Optical morphologies of radio-intermediate HERGs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Clark C
(2021)
Einstein@Home discovery of the gamma-ray millisecond pulsar PSR J2039-5617 confirms its predicted redback nature
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bernhard E
(2018)
Evidence for a mass-dependent AGN Eddington ratio distribution via the flat relationship between SFR and AGN luminosity
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Pala A
(2019)
Evidence for mass accretion driven by spiral shocks onto the white dwarf in SDSS J123813.73-033933.0
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bonnet-Bidaud J
(2020)
Fast quasi-periodic oscillations in the eclipsing polar VV Puppis from VLT and XMM-Newton observations
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Akter S
(2019)
Finding binary star fractions in any distribution
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
Paraskeva E
(2020)
First systematic high-precision survey of bright supernovae I. Methodology for identifying early bumps
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Snaid S
(2018)
Flickering in AGB stars: probing the nature of accreting companions
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Aranzana E
(2018)
Fourier time lags in the dwarf nova SS Cygni
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Wyrzykowski L
(2020)
Full orbital solution for the binary system in the northern Galactic disc microlensing event Gaia16aye
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Lennon D
(2018)
Gaia DR2 reveals a very massive runaway star ejected from R136
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Franco M
(2018)
GOODS-ALMA: 1.1 mm galaxy survey I. Source catalog and optically dark galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Zhou L
(2020)
GOODS-ALMA: Optically dark ALMA galaxies shed light on a cluster in formation at z = 3.5
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Franco M
(2020)
GOODS-ALMA: The slow downfall of star formation in z = 2-3 massive galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Franco M
(2020)
GOODS-ALMA: Using IRAC and VLA to probe fainter millimeter galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Platais I
(2018)
HST Astrometry in the 30 Doradus Region. II. Runaway Stars from New Proper Motions in the Large Magellanic Cloud
in The Astronomical Journal
Bernhard E
(2019)
Inferring a difference in the star-forming properties of lower versus higher X-ray luminosity AGNs
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Chené A
(2019)
Investigating the origin of the spectral line profiles of the Hot Wolf-Rayet Star WR 2
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Prentice S
(2019)
Investigating the properties of stripped-envelope supernovae; what are the implications for their progenitors?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Duchêne G
(2018)
Is stellar multiplicity universal? Tight stellar binaries in the Orion Nebula Cluster
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Burhanudin U
(2021)
Light-curve classification with recurrent neural networks for GOTO: dealing with imbalanced data
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Cikota A
(2019)
Linear spectropolarimetry of 35 Type Ia supernovae with VLT/FORS: an analysis of the Si ii line polarization
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
| 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 |