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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

Cooling rates of neutron stars and the young neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant
Dmitry G. Yakovlev,
Wynn C. G. Ho,
Peter S. Shternin,
Craig O. Heinke,
& Alexander Y. Potekhin
, 2011 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 411 (3) , 1977--1988
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17827.x
Type: article
Self force on a scalar charge in Kerr spacetime: eccentric equatorial orbits
Niels Warburton,
& Leor Barack
, 2011 , Physical Review D
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.124038
Type: article
Self force via m-mode regularization and 2+1D evolution: foundations and a scalar-field implementation on Schwarzschild
Leor Barack,
& Sam Dolan
, 2011 , Physical Review D , 83 (2) , 024019--[31pp]
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.024019
Type: article
Self-force via m-mode regularization and 2+1D evolution. II. Scalar-field implementation on Kerr spacetime
Sam Dolan,
Leor Barack,
& Barry Wardell
, 2011 , Physical Review D , 84 (8) , 084001--[21pp]
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.84.084001
Type: article
Periastron advance in black hole binaries
Alexandre Le Tiec,
Abdul H. Mroué,
Leor Barack,
Alessandra Buonanno,
Harald P. Pfeiffer,
Norichika Sago,
& Andrea Taracchini
, 2011 , Physical Review Letters , 82 (14) , 141101--[5pp]
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.141101
Type: article