A consolidated grant for Sheffield Astrophysics 2021-2024
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 led to the development of new CCD detectors, data acquisition and cooling systems, as well as stimulating a project to develop new additive manufacturing techniques in metal to build complex, rigid, lightweight components for astronomical instruments.
2. Outreach. The Sheffield astrophysics group give regular talks to schools and general audiences. We also give regular in-house masterclasses and workshops to school students and teachers. Over the last five years, members of the group have delivered more than 112 such talks/events, and been involved in 19 press releases, all based on their research activities.
Details are given in our attached Pathways to Impact document.
1. Knowledge exchange. This is primarily based on the building of the ULTRACAM and HiPERCAM instruments, which has led to the development of new CCD detectors, data acquisition and cooling systems, as well as stimulating a project to develop new additive manufacturing techniques in metal to build complex, rigid, lightweight components for astronomical instruments.
2. Outreach. The Sheffield astrophysics group give regular talks to schools and general audiences. We also give regular in-house masterclasses and workshops to school students and teachers. Over the last five years, members of the group have delivered more than 112 such talks/events, and been involved in 19 press releases, all based on their research activities.
Details are given in our attached Pathways to Impact document.
Organisations
Publications
Tetarenko A
(2021)
Measuring fundamental jet properties with multiwavelength fast timing of the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Stringer J
(2021)
Optical photometry of two transitional millisecond pulsars in the radio pulsar state
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hodgkin S
(2021)
Gaia Early Data Release 3 Gaia photometric science alerts
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Pelisoli I
(2021)
Optical detection of the rapidly spinning white dwarf in V1460 Her
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Killestein T
(2021)
Transient-optimized real-bogus classification with Bayesian convolutional neural networks - sifting the GOTO candidate stream
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Dhillon V
(2021)
HiPERCAM: a quintuple-beam, high-speed optical imager on the 10.4-m Gran Telescopio Canarias
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
Paice J
(2021)
The evolution of rapid optical/X-ray timing correlations in the initial hard state of MAXI J1820+070
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Duffy C
(2021)
Evidence that short-period AM CVn systems are diverse in outburst behaviour
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mong Y
(2021)
Searching for Fermi GRB optical counterparts with the prototype Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO)
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Bestenlehner J
(2021)
Melnick 33Na: a very massive colliding wind binary system in 30 Doradus
Pelisoli I
(2021)
Optical detection of the rapidly spinning white dwarf in V1460 Her
Makrygianni L
(2021)
Processing GOTO survey data with the Rubin Observatory LSST Science Pipelines II: Forced Photometry and lightcurves
in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
Wild J
(2022)
System parameters of three short-period cataclysmic variable stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Eappachen D
(2022)
Probing for the host galaxies of the fast X-ray transients XRT 000519 and XRT 110103
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Duffy C
(2022)
The return of the spin period in DW Cnc and evidence of new high state outbursts
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Crowther P
(2022)
X-ray properties of early-type stars in the Tarantula Nebula from T-ReX
Burdge K
(2022)
An F type star in a 51-minute orbital period eclipsing binary
Sun N
(2022)
A hot and luminous source at the site of the fast transient AT2018cow at 2-3 yr after its explosion
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Brown A
(2022)
Characterizing eclipsing white dwarf M dwarf binaries from multiband eclipse photometry
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Burdge KB
(2022)
A dense 0.1-solar-mass star in a 51-minute-orbital-period eclipsing binary.
in Nature