2016 Studentships

For more information on Funded DPhil studentships in Theroetical Astrophysics & Plasma Physics, see here.

People

Michael Barnes

Associate Professor
James Binney

Professor of Physics
Felix Parra Diaz

Associate Professor
Subir Sarkar

Head, Particle Theory Group
Alexander Schekochihin

Professor of Theoretical Physics
Steven Balbus

Savilian Professor of Astronomy & Head of Astrophysics
Garret Cotter

Associate Professor; Tutorial Fellow (Exeter)
Julien Devriendt

Associate Professor
Philipp Podsiadlowski

Professor of Physics
Adrianne Slyz

Tutorial Fellow & Associate Professor
Caroline Terquem

Professor of Physics
Tony Bell

Professor, FRS
Gianluca Gregori

Professor of Physics
Peter Norreys

Professor of Inertial Fusion Science
Steven Rose

Professorial Research Fellow
Paul Dellar

Visitor
Will Potter

Junior Research Fellow
Mantas Abazorius

Graduate Student
Toby Adkins

DPhil in Theoretical Physics
Archie Bott

Graduate student
Valerian Chen

Graduate Student
Michael Hardman

Graduate Student
Plamen Ivanov

Graduate Student
Javier Maurino-Alperovich

Graduate Student
Jason Parisi

Graduate Student
John Miller

Professor
Bill Dorland

Visiting Professor
Anthony Field

Visitor
Jon Hillesheim

Visitor
Filomena Nave

Visiting Professor
J Bryan Taylor

Visitor

Publications

First-order mean motion resonances in two-planet systems: general analysis and observed systems
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 482 (2019) 530-549
C Terquem, JCB Papaloizou
Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays from shocks in the lobes of powerful radio galaxies
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 482 (2019) 4303-4321
JH Matthews, AR Bell, KM Blundell et al.
Zooming in on supermassive black holes
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 483 (2019) 3488-3509
RS Beckmann, J Devriendt, A Slyz
Intrinsic rotation driven by turbulent acceleration
PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION 61 (2019) ARTN 025003
M Barnes, FI Parra
Search for Multimessenger Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-energy Neutrinos with Advanced LIGO dur...
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 870 (2019) ARTN 134
A Albert, M Andre, M Anghinolfi et al.
$\texttt{stella}$: a mixed implicit-explicit, delta-f gyrokinetic code for general magnetic field confi...
Journal of Computational Physics Elsevier (2019)
M Barnes, F Parra-Diaz, M Landreman
Galaxies flowing in the oriented saddle frame of the cosmic web
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 483 (2019) 3227-3254
K Kraljic, C Pichon, Y Dubois et al.
The use of geometric effects in diagnosing ion density in ICF-related dot spectroscopy experiments
High Energy Density Physics 30 (2019) 45-51
G Pérez-Callejo, DA Liedahl, MB Schneider et al.
Large tangential electric fields in plasmas close to temperature screening
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 60 (2018)
JL Velasco, I Calvo, JM García-Regana et al.
A theoretical explanation for the Central Molecular Zone asymmetry
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 475 (2018) 2383-2402
MC Sormani, RG Tress, M Ridley et al.
Galaxy orientation with the cosmic web across cosmic time
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 481 (2018) 4753-4774
S Codis, A Jindal, NE Chisari et al.
Turbulent hydrodynamics experiments in high energy density plasmas
HIGH POWER LASER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 6 (2018) ARTN e44
A Casner, G Rigon, B Albertazzi et al.
A hybrid gyrokinetic ion and isothermal electron fluid code for astrophysical plasma
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS 360 (2018) 57-73
Y Kawazura, M Barnes
Electron acceleration by wave turbulence in a magnetized plasma
NATURE PHYSICS 14 (2018) 475-+
A Rigby, F Cruz, B Albertazzi et al.
Laboratory evidence of dynamo amplification of magnetic fields in a turbulent plasma.
Nature communications 9 (2018) 591-
P Tzeferacos, A Rigby, AFA Bott et al.
Is the Milky Way still breathing? RAVE-Gaia streaming motions
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 475 (2018) 2679-2696
I Carrillo, I Minchev, G Kordopatis et al.
Single-shot frequency-resolved optical gating for retrieving the pulse shape of high energy picosecond pu...
The Review of scientific instruments 89 (2018) 103509-
R Aboushelbaya, AF Savin, L Ceurvorst et al.
Erratum: "Setup for meV-resolution inelastic X-ray scattering measurements and X-ray diffraction at the M...
The Review of scientific instruments 89 (2018) 129901-129901
EE McBride, TG White, A Descamps et al.
Optimized up-down asymmetry to drive fast intrinsic rotation in tokamaks
NUCLEAR FUSION 58 (2018) ARTN 026003
J Ball, FI Parra, M Landreman et al.
Is dark matter self-interacting?
NATURE ASTRONOMY 2 (2018) 856-857
S Sarkar
The origin of the Gaia phase-plane spiral
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 481 (2018) 1501-1506
J Binney, R Schonrich
Polarization of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich signal due to electron pressure anisotropy in galaxy clusters
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 474 (2018) 2389-2400
I Khabibullin, S Komarov, E Churazov et al.
ALICE: A non-LTE plasma atomic physics, kinetics and lineshape package
HIGH ENERGY DENSITY PHYSICS 26 (2018) 56-67
EG Hill, G Perez-Callejo, SJ Rose
Electrostatic potential variations on stellarator magnetic surfaces in low collisionality regimes
JOURNAL OF PLASMA PHYSICS 84 (2018) ARTN 905840407
I Calvo, J Luis Velasco, FI Parra et al.
Ultrafast Imaging of Laser Driven Shock Waves using Betatron X-rays from a Laser Wakefield Accelerator.
Scientific reports 8 (2018) 11010-
JC Wood, DJ Chapman, K Poder et al.
The TRAPPIST-1 system: orbital evolution, tidal dissipation, formation and habitability
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 476 (2018) 5032-5056
JCB Papaloizou, E Szuszkiewicz, C Terquem
An excess of massive stars in the local 30 Doradus starburst.
Science (New York, N.Y.) 359 (2018) 69-71
FRN Schneider, H Sana, CJ Evans et al.
Modelling blazar flaring using a time-dependent fluid jet emission model - an explanation for orphan flar...
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 473 (2018) 4107-4121
WJ Potter
Experimental platform for the investigation of magnetized-reverse-shock dynamics in the context of POLAR
HIGH POWER LASER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 6 (2018) UNSP e43
B Albertazzi, E Falize, A Pelka et al.
Laser-driven strong magnetostatic fields with applications to charged beam transport and magnetized high...
Physics of Plasmas American Institute of Physics (2018)
SJ Rose, JJ Santos, M Bailly-Grandvaux et al.
A three-phase amplification of the cosmic magnetic field in galaxies
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 479 (2018) 3343-3365
S Martin-Alvarez, J Devriendt, A Slyz et al.
Production of photoionized plasmas in the laboratory with x-ray line radiation.
Physical review. E 97 (2018) 063203-
S White, R Irwin, JR Warwick et al.
On the maximum energy of non-thermal particles in the primary hotspot of Cygnus A
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 473 (2018) 3500-3506
AT Araudo, AR Bell, KM Blundell et al.
The impact of baryons on the matter power spectrum from the Horizon-AGN cosmological hydrodynamical simul...
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 480 (2018) 3962-3977
NE Chisari, MLA Richardson, J Devriendt et al.
Do SN 2002cx-like and SN Ia-CSM Objects Share the Same Origin?
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 861 (2018) ARTN 127
X Meng, P Podsiadlowski
Stellarator impurity flux driven by electric fields tangent to magnetic surfaces
NUCLEAR FUSION 58 (2018) ARTN 124005
I Calvo, FI Parra, J Luis Velaso et al.
Joint constraints on Galactic diffuse neutrino emission from ANTARES and IceCube
Astrophysical Journal Letters American Astronomical Society 868 (2018) L20-L20
A Albert, M André, M Anghinolfi et al.
Optimisation of confinement in a fusion reactor using a nonlinear turbulence model
JOURNAL OF PLASMA PHYSICS 84 (2018) ARTN 905840208
EG Highcock, NR Mandell, M Barnes et al.
Turbulent heating in an inhomogeneous magnetized plasma slab
JOURNAL OF PLASMA PHYSICS 84 (2018) ARTN 905840306
M Barnes, P Abiuso, W Dorland
Differential limit on the extremely-high-energy cosmic neutrino flux in the presence of astrophysical bac...
PHYSICAL REVIEW D 98 (2018) ARTN 062003
MG Aartsen, M Ackermann, J Adams et al.
Fornax A, Centaurus A, and other radio galaxies as sources of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 479 (2018) L76-L80
JH Matthews, AR Bell, KM Blundell et al.
Cosmic CARNage II: the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function in observations and galaxy formation...
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 480 (2018) 1197-1210
R Asquith, FR Pearce, O Almaini et al.
Implementation of a Faraday rotation diagnostic at the OMEGA laser facility
HIGH POWER LASER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 6 (2018) ARTN e49
A Rigby, J Katz, AFA Bott et al.
Using Real and Simulated Measurements of the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect to Constrain Models of AGN...
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 865 (2018) ARTN 109
A Spacek, MLA Richardson, E Scannapieco et al.
Axion driven cosmic magneto-genesis prior to the QCD crossover
Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (2018)
F Miniati, G Gregori, B Reville et al.
Bondi or not Bondi: the impact of resolution on accretion and drag force modelling for supermassive black...
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 478 (2018) 995-1016
RS Beckmann, A Slyz, J Devriendt
The dipole anisotropy of AllWISE galaxies
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Blackwell Publishing Inc. 477 (2018) 1772-1781
M Rameez, R Mohayaee, S Sarkar et al.
Self-consistent modelling of our Galaxy with Gaia data
ASTROMETRY AND ASTROPHYSICS IN THE GAIA SKY 12 (2018) 111-118
J Binney
Solution to a collisionless shallow-angle magnetic presheath with kinetic ions
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion IOP Publishing (2018)
A Geraldini, FI Parra, F Militello
The role of mergers in driving morphological transformation over cosmic time
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) (2018)
G Martin, S Kaviraj, JEG Devriendt et al.
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