Mathematical Sciences

Nils Andersson

Primary position:
Deputy Head of Research
Other positions:
Head of General Relativity Group, Professor of Applied Mathematics

Background

  • BsC Theoretical Physics, Uppsala University, Sweden
  • PhD Theoretical Physics, Uppsala University, Sweden
  • Postdoc Cardiff University, UK
  • Postdoc Washington University, St Louis, USA
  • Postdoc University of Tubingen, GErmany
  • Lecturer Southampton University
  • Philip Levelhulme Prize Fellowship in Astrophysics
  • Reader Southampton University
  • STFC senior research fellow
  • Professor of Applied Mathematics, Southampton University
  • Elected Chair of Institute of Physics Gravitational Physics Group
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Publications

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Article

Andersson, Nils, Glampedakis, Kostas, Ho, Wynn C.G. and Espinoza, Cristobal M. (2012) Pulsar glitches: the crust is not enough. Physical Review Letters, 109, (24), 241103-[5pp]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.241103).
Ho, Wynn C.G. and Andersson, Nils (2012) Rotational evolution of young pulsars due to superfluid decoupling. Nature Physics, 8, 787-789. (doi:10.1038/nphys2424).
Comer, G.L., Peter, P. and Andersson, N. (2012) Cosmological two-stream instability. Physics Letters B, 715, (4-5), 289-292. (doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2012.07.069).
Andersson, N. (2012) Resistive relativistic magnetohydrodynamics from a charged multifluids perspective. Physical Review D, 86, (4), 043002-[19pp]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.86.043002).
Ho, Wynn C. G., Glampedakis, Kostas and Andersson, Nils (2012) Magnetars: super(ficially) hot and super(fluid) cool. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 422, (3), 2632-2641. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.20826.x).
Penner, A. J., Andersson, N., Jones, D. I., Samuelsson, L. and Hawke, I. (2012) Crustal failure during binary inspiral. The Astrophysical Journal, 749, (2), L36. (doi:10.1088/2041-8205/749/2/L36).
Glampedakis, K., Andersson, N. and Lander, S. K. (2012) Hydromagnetic equilibrium in non-barotropic multifluid neutron stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 420, (2), 1263-1272. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.20112.x).
Passamonti, A. and Andersson, N. (2012) Towards real neutron star seismology: accounting for elasticity and superfluidity. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 419, (1), 638-655. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19725.x).
Penner, A., Andersson, N., Samuelsson, L., Hawke, I. and Jones, D. (2011) Tidal deformations of neutron stars: the role of stratification and elasticity. Physical Review D, 84, (10), 103006-[14 pages] . (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.84.103006).
Lander, S.K., Andersson, N. and Glampedakis, K. (2011) Magnetic neutron star equilibria with stratification and type II superconductivity. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 419, (1), 732-747. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19720.x).
Ho, Wynn C.G., Andersson, Nils and Haskell, Brynmor (2011) Revealing the physics of r-modes in low-mass X-ray binaries. Physical Review Letters, 107, 101101-[5pp]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.101101).
Andersson, Nils and Comer, G.L. (2011) Entropy entrainment and dissipation in finite temperature superfluids. International Journal of Modern Physics D, 20, (7), 1215-1233. (doi:10.1142/S0218271811019396).
Ho, Wynn C.G., Maccarone, Thomas J. and Andersson, Nils (2011) Cosmic recycling of millisecond pulsars. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 730, (2), L36-[5pp]. (doi:10.1088/2041-8205/730/2/L36).
Passamonti, A. and Andersson, N. (2011) Hydrodynamics of rapidly rotating superfluid neutron stars with mutual friction. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 413, (1), 47-70. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.18111.x).
Andersson, N. (2011) The road to gravitational-wave astronomy. Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 66, (2), 239-248. (doi:10.1016/j.ppnp.2011.01.013).
Glampedakis, Kostas, Andersson, Nils and Samuelsson, Lars (2011) Magnetohydrodynamics of superfluid and superconducting neutron star cores. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 410, (2), 805-829. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17484.x).
Haskell, B. and Andersson, N. (2010) Superfluid hyperon bulk viscosity and the r-mode instability of rotating neutron stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 408, (3), 1897-1915. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17255.x).
Punturo, M., Abernathy, M., Acernese, F., Allen, B., Andersson, Nils, Arun, K., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsuglia, M., Beker, M., Beveridge, N., Birindelli, S., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Braccini, S., Bradaschia, C., Bulik, T., Calloni, E., Cella, G., Mottin, E. Chassande, Chelkowski, S., Chincarini, A., Clark, J., Coccia, E., Colacino, C., Colas, J., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Danilishin, S., Danzmann, K., De Luca, G., De Salvo, R., Dent, T., De Rosa, R., Di Fiore, L., Di Virgilio, A., Doets, M., Fafone, V., Falferi, P., Flaminio, R., Franc, J., Frasconi, F., Freise, A., Fulda, P., Gair, J., Gemme, G., Gennai, A., Giazotto, A., Glampedakis, Kostas, Granata, M., Grote, H., Guidi, G., Hammond, G., Hannam, M., Harms, J., Heinert, D., Hendry, M., Heng, I., Hennes, E., Hild, S., Hough, J., Husa, S., Huttner, S., Jones, G.A., Khalili, F., Kokeyama, K., Kokkotas, K., Krishnan, B., Lorenzini, M., Lück, H., Majorana, E., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Martin, I., Michel, C., Minenkov, Y., Morgado, N., Mosca, S., Mours, B., Müller–Ebhardt, H., Murray, P., Nawrodt, R., Nelson, J., Oshaughnessy, R., Ott, C.D., Palomba, C., Paoli, A., Parguez, G., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Pinard, L., Poggiani, R., Popolizio, P., Prato, M., Puppo, P., Rabeling, D., Rapagnani, P., Read, J., Regimbau, T., Rehbein, H., Reid, Stuart D., Rezzolla, L., Ricci, F., Richard, F., Rocchi, A., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B., Schnabel, R., Schwarz, C., Seidel, P., Sintes, A., Somiya, K., Speirits, F., Strain, K., Strigin, S., Sutton, P., Tarabrin, S., Thüring, A., van den Brand, J., van Leewen, C., van Veggel, M., van den Broeck, C., Vecchio, A., Veitch, J., Vetrano, F., Vicere, A., Vyatchanin, S., Willke, B., Woan, G., Wolfango, P. and Yamamoto, K. (2010) The Einstein Telescope: a third-generation gravitational wave observatory. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 27, (19), 194002-[1-13]. (doi:10.1088/0264-9381/27/19/194002).
Andersson, Nils, Haskell, B. and Comer, G.L. (2010) r-modes in low temperature color-flavor-locked superconducting quark stars. Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 82, (2), 023007-[15]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.82.023007).
Andersson, N. and Comer, G.L. (2010) Variational multi-fluid dynamics and causal heat conductivity. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 466, (2117), 1373-1387. (doi:10.1098/rspa.2009.0423).
Punturo, M., Abernathy, M., Acernese, F., Allen, B., Andersson, N., Arun, K., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsuglia, M., Beker, M., Beveridge, N., Birindelli, S., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Braccini, S., Bradaschia, C., Bulik, T., Calloni, E., Cella, G., Chassande Mottin, E., Chelkowski, S., Chincarini, A., Clark, J., Coccia, E., Colacino, C., Colas, J., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Danilishin, S., Danzmann, K., De Luca, G., De Salvo, R., Dent, T., Derosa, R., Di Fiore, L., Di Virgilio, A., Doets, M., Fafone, V., Falferi, P., Flaminio, R., Franc, J., Frasconi, F., Freise, A., Fulda, P., Gair, J., Gemme, G., Gennai, A., Giazotto, A., Glampedakis, K., Granata, M., Grote, H., Guidi, G., Hammond, G., Hannam, M., Harms, J., Heinert, D., Hendry, M., Heng, I., Hennes, E., Hild, S., Hough, J., Husa, S., Huttner, S., Jones, G., Khalili, F., Kokeyama, K., Kokkotas, K., Krishnan, B., Lorenzini, M., Lück, H., Majorana, E., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Martin, I., Michel, C., Minenkov, Y., Morgado, N., Mosca, S., Mours, B., Müller-Ebhardt, H., Murray, P., Nawrodt, R., Nelson, J., Oshaughnessy, R., Ott, C.D., Palomba, C., Paoli, A., Parguez, G., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Pinard, L., Poggiani, R., Popolizio, P., Prato, M., Puppo, P., Rabeling, D., Rapagnani, P., Read, J., Regimbau, T., Rehbein, H., Reid, S., Rezzolla, L., Ricci, F., Richard, F., Rocchi, A., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B., Schnabel, R., Schwarz, C., Seidel, P., Sintes, A., Somiya, K., Speirits, F., Strain, K., Strigin, S., Sutton, P., Tarabrin, S., van den Brand, J., van Leewen, C., van Veggel, M., van den Broeck, C., Vecchio, A., Veitch, J., Vetrano, F., Vicere, A., Vyatchanin, S., Willke, B., Woan, G., Wolfango, P. and Yamamoto, K. (2010) The third generation of gravitational wave observatories and their science reach. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 27, (8), 084007. (doi:10.1088/0264-9381/27/8/084007).
Sidery, T., Passamonti, A. and Andersson, N. (2010) The dynamics of pulsar glitches: contrasting phenomenology with numerical evolutions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16497.x).
Lopez-Monsalvo, C.S. and Andersson, Nils (2010) Thermal dynamics in general relativity. Proceedings of The Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, 467, (2127), 738-759. (doi:10.1098/rspa.2010.0308).
Andersson, N., Ferrari, V., Jones, D., Kokkotas, K.D., Krishnan, B., Read, J., Rezzolla, L. and Zink, B. (2010) Gravitational waves from neutron stars: promises and challenges. General Relativity and Gravitation, 43, (2), 409-436. (doi:10.1007/s10714-010-1059-4).
Haskell, B., Andersson, N. and Passamonti, A. (2009) r modes and mutual friction in rapidly rotating superfluid neutron stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 397, (3), 1464-1485. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14963.x).
Andersson, N., Glampedakis, K. and Samuelsson, L. (2009) Superfluid signatures in magnetar seismology. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 396, (2), 894-899. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14734.x).
Passamonti, A., Haskell, B. and Andersson, N. (2009) Oscillations of rapidly rotating superfluid stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 396, (2), 951-963. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14751.x).
Andersson, N., Glampedakis, K. and Haskell, B. (2009) Oscillations of dissipative superfluid neutron stars. Physical Review D, 79, (10), 103009. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.79.103009).
Glampedakis, Kostas and Andersson, Nils (2009) Hydrodynamical trigger mechanism for pulsar glitches. Physical Review Letters, 102, (14), 141101. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.141101).
Passamonti, A., Haskell, B., Andersson, N., Jones, D.I. and Hawke, I. (2009) Oscillations of rapidly rotating stratified neutron stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 394, (2), 730-741. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14408.x).
Glampedakis, K., Andersson, N. and Jones, D.I. (2009) Do superfluid instabilities prevent neutron star precession? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 394, (4), 1908-1924. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13995.x).
Haskell, B., Samuelsson, L., Glampedakis, K. and Andersson, N. (2009) Erratum: modelling magnetically deformed neutron stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 394, (3), 1711. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14151.x).
Samuelsson, Lars and Andersson, Nils (2009) Axial quasi-normal modes of neutron stars: accounting for the superfluid in the crust. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 26, (15), 155016. (doi:10.1088/0264-9381/26/15/155016).
Gabler, Michael, Sperhake, Ulrich and Andersson, Nils (2009) Nonlinear radial oscillations of neutron stars. Physical Review D, 80, (6), 064012. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.80.064012).
Glampedakis, Kostas, Samuelsson, Lars and Andersson, Nils (2008) A toy model for global magnetar oscillation. Astrophysics and Space Science, 308, (1-4), 607-611. (doi:10.1007/s10509-007-9350-x).
Samuelsson, Lars and Andersson, Nils (2008) Oscillations in the neutron star crust. Astrophysics and Space Science, 308, (1-4), 581-583. (doi:10.1007/s10509-007-9301-6).
Glampedakis, K. and Andersson, N. (2008) A hydrodynamical trigger mechanism for pulsar glitches. Pre-print, 5pp. (arXiv:0806.3664v1). (Submitted).
Haskell, B., Samuelsson, L., Glampedakis, K. and Andersson, N. (2008) Modelling magnetically deformed neutron stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 385, (1), 531-542. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.12861.x).
Sidery, T., Andersson, N. and Comer, G.L. (2008) Waves and instabilities in dissipative rotating superfluid neutron stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 385, (1), 335-348. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12805.x).
Glampedakis, K., Andersson, N. and Jones, D.I. (2008) Stability of precessing superfluid neutron stars. Physical Review Letters, 100, 081101-[4pp]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.081101).
Haskell, B, Andersson, N, Jones, D.I. and Samuelsson, L (2007) Are neutron stars with crystalline color-superconducting cores relevant for the LIGO experiment? Physical Review Letters, 99, (231101) (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.231101).
Andersson, Nils, Sidery, Trevor and Comer, Greg L (2007) Superfluid neutron star turbulence. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 381, (2), 747-756. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12251.x).
Lin, L., Andersson, N. and Comer, G.L (2007) Oscillations of general relativistic multi-fluid/multi-layer compact star. eprint arXiv:0709.0660 (2007arXiv0709.0660L). (Submitted).
Samuelsson, Lars, Andersson, Nils and Maniopoulou, Asimina (2007) A characteristic approach to the quasi-normal mode problem. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 24, (16), 4147-4160. (doi:10.1088/0264-9381/24/16/010).
Glampedakis, Kostas and Andersson, Nils (2007) Lagrangian perturbation theory for rotating magnetic stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 377, (2), 630-644. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11625.x).
Andersson, Nils and Comer, Gregory L. (2007) Relativistic fluid dynamics: physics for many different scales. Living Reviews in Relativity, 10, (1), 83pp.
Samuelsson, Lars and Andersson, Nils (2007) Neutron star asteroseismology: axial crust oscillations in the Cowling approximation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 374, (1), 256-268. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11147.x).
Andersson, Nils (2007) Modelling the dynamics of superfluid neutron stars. Astrophysics and Space Science, 308, 395-402. (doi:10.1007/s10509-007-9361-7).
Gusakov, M.E. and Andersson, N. (2006) Temperature dependent pulsations of superfluid neutron stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 372, (4), 1776-1790. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10982.x).
Andersson, Nils and Comer, G.L. (2006) A flux-conservative formalism for convective and dissipative multi-fluid systems, with application to Newtonian superfluid neutron stars. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 23, (18), 5505-5529. (doi:10.1088/0264-9381/23/18/003).
Haskell, B., Jones, D.I. and Andersson, N. (2006) Mountains on neutron stars: accreted versus non-accreted crusts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 373, (4), 1423-1439. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10998.x).
Andersson, N., Sidery, T. and Comer, G.L. (2006) Mutual friction in superfluid neutron stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 368, 162-170. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10147.x).
Andersson, N., Glampedakis, K., Haskell, B. and Watts, A.L. (2005) Modelling the spin equilibrium of neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries without gravitational radiation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 361, (4), 1153-1164. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09167.x).
Watts, A.L., Andersson, N. and Jones, D.I. (2005) The nature of low T/|W| dynamical instabilities in differentially rotating stars. The Astrophysical Journal: Letters, 618, (1), L37-L40.
Andersson, N., Glampedakis, K. and Comer, G.L. (2005) How viscous is a superfluid neutron star core? Nuclear Physics A, A763, (0375-947), 212-229.
Comer, G.L., Andersson, N. and Grosart, K. (2004) Lagrangian perturbation theory of nonrelativistic superfluid stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 355, (4), 918-928. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08370.x).
Kokkotas, K.D., Ruoff, J. and Andersson, N. (2004) w-mode instability of ultracompact relativistic stars. Physical Review D, 70, (4), 043003-[5pp]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.70.043003).
Maniopoulou, Asimina and Andersson, Nils (2004) The traditional approximation in general relativity. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 351, 1349-1358. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07872.x).
Lockitch, Keith H., Andersson, Nils and Watts, Anna L. (2004) Regularizing the r-mode problem for non-barotropic relativistic stars. Classical and Quanntum Gravity, 21, (19), 4661-4675. (doi:10.1088/0264-9381/21/19/012).
Watts, Anna L., Andersson, Nils and Williams, R.L. (2004) The oscillation and stability of differentially rotating spherical shells. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 350, (3), 927. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07695.x).
Andersson, N., Comer, G.L. and Prix, R. (2004) The superfluid two-stream instability. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 354, (1), 101-110. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08166.x).
Prix, R., Comer, G.L. and Andersson, N. (2004) Inertial modes of non-stratified superfluid neutron stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 348, 625-637. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07399.x).
Glampedakis, Kostas and Andersson, Nils (2004) Boundary-layer analysis of the core-crust interface in neutron stars. astro-ph/0411750, 1, 1-30.
Andersson, N. and Howls, C.J. (2004) The asymptotic quasinormal mode spectrum of non-rotating black holes. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 21, (6), 1623-1642. (doi:10.1088/0264-9381/21/6/021).
Andersson, N., Comer, G.L. and Prix, R. (2003) Are pulsar glitches triggered by a superfluid two-stream instability? Physical Review Letters, 90, (9), 091101-[4pp]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.091101).
Lockitch, Keith H., Friedman, John L. and Andersson, Nils (2003) Rotational modes of relativistic stars: numerical results. Physical Review D, 68, (12), 124010-[23pp]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.68.124010).
Glampedakis, Kostas and Andersson, Nils (2003) 'Quick and dirty' methods for calculating black-hole resonances. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 20, (15), 3441-3463. (doi:10.1088/0264-9381/20/15/312).
Watts, A.L., Andersson, N., Beyer, H. and Schutz, B.F. (2003) The oscillation and stability of differentially rotating spherical shells: the normal mode problem. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 342, (4), 1156-1168. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06612.x).
Andersson, Nils (2003) Gravitational waves from instabilities in relativistic stars. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 20, (7), R105-R144. (doi:10.1088/0264-9381/20/7/201).
Prix, R., Comer, G.L. and Andersson, N. (2002) Slowly rotating superfluid Newtonian neutron star model with entrainment. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 381, 178-196. (doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20011499).
Andersson, N., Jones, D.I. and Kokkotas, K.D. (2002) Strange stars as persistent sources of gravitational waves. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 337, (4), 1224-1232. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05837.x).
Jones, D.I. and Andersson, N. (2002) Gravitational waves from freely precessing neutron stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 331, (1), 203-220. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05180.x).
Watts, Anna L. and Andersson, Nils (2002) The spin evolution of nascent neutron stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 333, (4), 943-951. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05475.x).
Jones, D.I., Andersson, N. and Stergioulas, N. (2002) Time evolution of the linear perturbations of a rotating Newtonian polytrope. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 334, 933-940. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05566.x).
Andersson, N., Comer, G.L. and Langlois, D. (2002) Oscillations of general relativistic superfluid neutron stars. Physical Review D, 66, (10), 104002-[22pp]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.66.104002).
Andersson, N. and Comer, G.L. (2001) Probing neutron-star superfluidity with gravitational-wave data. Physical Review Letters, 87, (24), 241101-[4pp]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.241101).
Glampedakis, Kostas and Andersson, Nils (2001) Late-time dynamics of rapidly rotating black holes. Physical Review D, 64, (10), 104021-[20pp]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.64.104021).
Jones, D.I. and Andersson, N.A. (2001) Freely precessing neutron stars: model and observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 324, (4), 811-824. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04251.x).
Andersson, N. and Comer, G.L. (2001) On the dynamics of superfluid neutron star cores. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 328, (4), 1129. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04923.x).
Kokkotas, K.D., Apostolatos, T.A. and Andersson, N. (2001) The inverse problem for pulsating neutron stars: a 'fingerprint analysis' for the supranuclear equation of state. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 320, (3), 307-315. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.03945.x).
Glampedakis, Kostas and Andersson, Nils (2001) Scattering of scalar waves by rotating black holes. Classical Quantum Gravity, 18, (10), 1939-1966. (doi:10.1088/0264-9381/18/10/309).
Andersson, N. and Comer, G.L. (2001) Slowly rotating relativistic superfluid stars. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 18, (6), 969-1002. (doi:10.1088/0264-9381/18/6/302).
Andersson, Nils and Kokkotas, Kostas D. (2001) The r-mode instability in rotating neutron stars. International Journal of Modern Physics D, 10, 381-442. (doi:10.1142/S0218271801001062).
Lockitch, Keith H., Andersson, Nils and Friedman, John L. (2000) Rotational modes of relativistic stars: analytical results. Physical Review D, 63, (2), 024019-[26pp]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.63.024019).
Andersson, Nils, Jones, David Ian, Kokkotas, Kostas D. and Stergioulas, Nikolaos (2000) r-Mode runaway and rapidly rotating neutron stars. Astrophysical Journal, 534, L75-L78.
Andersson, N. and Glampedakis, K. (2000) Superradiance resonance cavity outside rapidly rotating black holes. Physical Review Letters, 84, 004537-[4pp]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.4537).
Andersson, Nils (1999) Black hole dynamics: a survey from the point of view of perturbation theory. Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy, 20, (3-4), 269-280.
Andersson, Nils (1999) The dynamics of rotating black holes. Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement, 136, 183-198.
Allen, Gabrielle D., Andersson, Nils, Kokkotas, Kostas D., Laguna, Pablo, Pullin, Jorge A. and Ruoff, Johannes (1999) Close-limit approximation to neutron star collisions. Physical Review D, 60, 104021-[9pp]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.60.104021).
Andersson, Nils, Kokkotas, Kostas D. and Stergioulas, Nikolaos (1999) On the relevance of the r-mode instability for accreting neutron stars and white dwarfs. Astrophysical Journal, 516, (1), 307-314. (doi:10.1086/307082).
Andersson, Nils, Kokkotas, Kostas and Schutz, Bernard F. (1999) Gravitational radiation limit on the spin of young neutron stars. Astrophysical Journal, 510, (1), 846-853. (doi:10.1086/306625).
Andersson, N., Kokkotas, K.D., Laguna, P., Papadopoulos, P. and Sipior, M.S. (1999) Construction of astrophysical initial data for perturbations of relativistic stars. Physical Review D, 60, (12), 4004-4015. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.60.124004).
Owen, Benjamin J., Lindblom, Lee, Cutler, Curt, Schutz, Bernard F., Vecchio, Alberto and Andersson, Nils (1998) Gravitational waves from hot young rapidly rotating neutron stars. Physical Review D, 58, (8), 084020-[15pp]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.58.084020).
Andersson, Nils and Kokkotas, Kostas D. (1998) Pulsation modes for increasingly relativistic polytropes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 297, (2), 493-496. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01541.x).
Allen, Gabrielle, Andersson, Nils, Kokkotas, Kostas D. and Schutz, Bernard F. (1998) Gravitational waves from pulsating stars: evolving the perturbation equations for a relativistic star. Physical Review D, 58, (12), 1-12. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.58.124012).
Andersson, Nils and Kokkotas, Kostas D. (1998) Towards gravitational wave astroseismology. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 299, (4), 1059-1068. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01840.x).
Andersson, Nils (1998) A new class of unstable modes of a rotating relativistic star. Astrophysical Journal, 502, (2, part 1), 708-713.
Andersson, Nils, Laguna, Pablo and Papadopoulos, Philippos (1998) Dynamics of scalar fields in the background of rotating black holes. II. A note on superradiance. Physical Review D, 58, (8), 1-4. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.58.087503).
Andersson, Nils (1997) Evolving test-fields in the geometry of a black hole. Physical Review D, 55, (2), 468-479. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.55.468).
Abramowicz, M.A., Andersson, N., Bruni, M., Ghosh, P. and Sonego, S. (1997) Letter to the editor. Gravitational waves from ultracompact stars: the optical geometry view of trapped modes. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 14, (12), L189-L194.
Krivan, William, Laguna, Pablo, Papadopoulos, Philippos and Andersson, Nils (1997) Dynamics of perturbations of rotating black holes. Physical Review D, 56, (6), 3395-3404. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.56.3395).
Andersson, Nils, Kojima, Yasufuni and Kokkotas, Kostas D. (1996) On the oscillation spectra of ultra compact stars: an extensive survey of gravitational-wave modes. Astrophysical Journal, 462, 855-864.
Andersson, Nils, Kokkotas, Kostas D. and Schutz, Bernard F. (1996) Spacetime modes of relativistic stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 280, 1230-1234.
Andersson, Nils and Kokkotas, Kostas D. (1996) Gravitational waves and pulsating stars: what can we hope to learn from future observations? Physical Review Letters, 77, (20), 4134-4137. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.4134).
Andersson, Nils (1996) Two simple models for gravitational-wave modes of compact stars. General Relativity and Gravitation, 28, (12), 1433-1445. (doi:10.1007/BF02113773).
Andersson, N. and Onozawa, H. (1996) Quasinormal modes of nearly extreme Reissner-Nordstrom black holes. Physical Review D, 54, (12), 7470-7475. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.54.7470).

Book Section

Andersson, N. and Jensen, B.P. (2001) Scattering by black holes. In, Pike, E. and Sabatier, Pierre (eds.) Scattering, Two Volume Set: Scattering and Inverse Scattering in Pure and Applied Science. London, UK, Academic Press.
Andersson, N. (1998) Black hole perturbations. In, Nivikov, I. and Frolov, V. (eds.) Physics of Black Holes. , Kluwer, 855-864.
Andersson, Nils (1998) More quasi than normal! In, Iyer, Bala R. and Bhawal, Biplap (eds.) Black Holes, Gravitational Radiation, and the Universe: Essays in Honor of C.V. Vishveshwara. Boston, USA, Kluwer, 335-344.
 

Research

Research Interests

I am interested in many problems in general relativistic astrosphysics, in particular related to the dynamics of black holes and neutron stars. In the last few years, my main focus has been on neutron stars and issues ranging from the fundamental physics aspects (superfluidity, elasticity etcetera)to observed dynamics(pulsar glitches, magnetar flares and spin-variability in accreting systems). My current research is mainly motivated by the promises of gravitational-wave astronomy.

Research projects

  • Relativistic superfluidity and elasticity
  • Heat and dissipation in general relativity
  • Neutron star asteroseismology (and instabilies, e.g, r-modes)
  • Neutron star dynamics (glitches, LMXB spin variability, accretion)

Primary research group:  Applied Mathematics

Research projects

General relativity

Superfluidity

Contact

Professor Nils Andersson
Mathematical Sciences
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BJ

Room Number: 54/2021

Telephone: (023) 8059 4551
Facsimile: (023) 8059 5147
Email: N.A.Andersson@soton.ac.uk