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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

Hydrodynamics of rapidly rotating superfluid neutron stars with mutual friction
A. Passamonti,
& N. Andersson
, 2011 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 413 (1) , 47--70
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.18111.x
Type: article
Magnetohydrodynamics of superfluid and superconducting neutron star cores
Kostas Glampedakis,
Nils Andersson,
& Lars Samuelsson
, 2011 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 410 (2) , 805--829
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17484.x
Type: article
Entropy entrainment and dissipation in finite temperature superfluids
Nils Andersson,
& G.L. Comer
, 2011 , Int.J.Mod.Phys.D , 20 (7) , 1215--1233
DOI: 10.1142/S0218271811019396
Type: article
Direct observation of the cooling of the Cassiopeia A neutron star
Craig O. Heinke,
& Wynn C. G. Ho
, 2010 , The Astrophysical Journal Letters , 719 (2) , L167--L171
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/719/2/L167
Type: article
Self force on a scalar charge in Kerr spacetime: circular equatorial orbits
Niels Warburton,
& Leor Barack
, 2010 , Physical Review D , 81 (8) , 84039
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.084039
Type: article