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Research project

Rolling PPARC grant

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Nils Andersson

Professor of Applied Maths

Research interests

  • General relativistic astrosphysics
  • Black holes
  • Neutron stars
Other researchers

Emeritus Professor James Vickers

Professor Carsten Gundlach

Professor of Mathematical Physics

Research interests

  • Classical general relativity
  • Numerical relativity
  • Critical phenomena in gravitational collapse

Professor Ian Jones

Professor of Mathematical Physics

Research interests

  • Gravitational wave astronomy
  • Neutron stars
  • Radio pulsars

Professor Leor Barack

Professor of Mathematical Physics

Research interests

  • Classical General Relativity
  • Gravitational waves
  • Black Holes

Dr Ian Hawke

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Numerical relativity
  • Neutron Stars
  • Gravitational waves

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

We focus on mathematical modelling and mathematical physics, and investigate everything from neutron stars to superfluids.

Research outputs

Overspinning a Kerr black hole
Marta Colleoni,
& Leor Barack
, 2015 , Physical Review D , 91 (10)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.104024
Type: article
Gravitational self-torque and spin precession in compact binaries
Sam R. Dolan,
Niels Warburton,
Abraham I. Harte,
Alexandre Le Tiec,
Barry Wardell,
& Leor Barack
, 2014 , Physical Review D , 89 (6) , 64011
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.064011
Type: article
Gravitational self-force correction to the innermost stable circular equatorial orbit of a Kerr Black Hole
Soichiro Isoyama,
Leor Barack,
Sam Dolan,
Alexandre Le Tiec,
Hiroyuki Nakano,
Abhay Shah,
Takahiro Tanaka,
& Niels Warburton
, 2014 , Physical Review Letters , 113 (16) , 1--5
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.161101
Type: article
Gravitational self-force from radiation-gauge metric perturbations
Adam Pound,
Cesar Merlin,
& Leor Barack
, 2014 , Physical Review D , 89 (2) , 1--46
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.024009
Type: article
Frequency-domain algorithm for the Lorenz-gauge gravitational self-force
Sarp Akcay,
Niels Warburton,
& Leor Barack
, 2013 , Physical Review D , 88 (10) , 1--22
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.104009
Type: article