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

Professor of Physics
Subir Sarkar

Professor of Theoretical Physics
Alexander Schekochihin

Professor of Theoretical Physics
Steven Balbus

Savilian Professor of Astronomy
Garret Cotter

Associate Professor & Tutorial Fellow at Exeter College
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 Physics
Steven Rose

Professorial Research Fellow
Paul Dellar

Visitor
Michael Hardman

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Juan Ruiz Ruiz

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Denis St-Onge

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Mantas Abazorius

Graduate Student
Toby Adkins

DPhil in Theoretical Physics
Valerian Chen

Graduate Student
Plamen Ivanov

Graduate Student
Javier Maurino-Alperovich

Graduate Student
Jason Parisi

Graduate Student
John Miller

Professor
Filomena Nave

Visiting Professor
Will Potter

Junior Research Fellow
Anthony Field

Visitor
Jon Hillesheim

Visitor
J Bryan Taylor

Visitor

Publications

A Search for MeV to TeV Neutrinos from Fast Radio Bursts with IceCube
The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics American Astronomical Society (2020)
GW Sullivan, T Stürwald, K Tollefson et al.
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: First detection of a transition in spin orientation with respect to cosmic filame...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (2019)
C Welker, P Elahi, J Bryant et al.
Structure of a massive common envelope in the common-envelope wind model for Type Ia supernovae
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 633 (2020) ARTN A41
R Song, X Meng, P Podsiadlowski et al.
Corrections to weighted opacities and energy exchange rate in 3-T radiation-hydrodynamics
High Energy Density Physics Elsevier BV 35 (2020) 100734
KW McLean, SJ Rose
Role of collisionality and radiative cooling in supersonic plasma jet collisions of different materials
Physical Review E American Physical Society 101 (2020) 023205
G Gregori, Collins, Speliotopoulos et al.
Time-integrated Neutrino Source Searches with 10 years of IceCube Data
Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (2020)
S Robertson, M Rongen, C Rott et al.
The spectral evolution of disc dominated tidal disruption events
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 492 (2020) 5655-5674
SA Balbus, A Mummery
Using sparse Gaussian processes for predicting robust inertial confinement fusion implosion yields
IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science IEEE (2019) 1-6
P Hatfield, I Almosallam, R Scott et al.
Development of an analysis to probe the neutrino mass ordering with atmospheric neutrinos using three yea...
European Physical Journal C 80 (2020)
MG Aartsen, M Ackermann, J Adams et al.
Design and Performance of the first IceAct Demonstrator at the South Pole
Journal of Instrumentation IOP Publishing (2020)
GW Sullivan, I Taboada, A Taketa et al.
Search for PeV Gamma-Ray Emission from the Southern Hemisphere with 5 Years of Data from the IceCube Ob...
The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics American Astronomical Society (2020)
H Bagherpour, C Argüelles, J Auffenberg et al.
Origins of Type Ibn SNe 2006jc/2015G in interacting binaries and implications for pre-SN eruptions
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (2019)
N-C Sun, PA Crowther, P Podsiadlowski et al.
Demonstration of femtosecond broadband X-rays from laser wakefield acceleration as a source for pump-prob...
High Energy Density Physics Elsevier BV 35 (2020) 100729
K Krushelnick, RA Baggott, TZ Zhao et al.
Cosmic ray acceleration in hydromagnetic flux tubes
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 487 (2019) 4571–4579-
AR Bell, J Matthews, KM Blundell et al.
Is there really a `Hubble tension'?
arXiv (2019)
SUBIR Sarkar, M Rameez
Wakefields in a cluster plasma
Physical Review Special Topics: Accelerators and Beams American Physical Society 22 (2019) 113501
L Ceurvorst, N Bourgeois, R Pattathil et al.
Population estimates for electromagnetically distinguishable supermassive binary black holes
Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 879 (2019) 110
JH Krolik, M Volonteri, Y Dubois et al.
Reply to: Reconsidering X-ray plasmons
NATURE PHOTONICS 13 (2019) 751-753
LB Fletcher, HJ Lee, T Doppner et al.
Evolution of relativistic thin discs with a finite ISCO stress: I. Stalled accretion
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 489 (2019) 132–142-
A Mummery, S Balbus
Stellar mergers as the origin of magnetic massive stars
Nature Springer Nature 574 (2019) 211-214
P Podsiadlowski, FRN Schneider, ST Ohlmann et al.
Evolution of relativistic thin discs with a finite ISCO stress: II. Late time behaviour
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 489 (2019) 143–152-
A Mummery, S Balbus
Free Electron Relativistic Correction Factors to Collisional Excitation and Ionisation Rates in a Plasma
High Energy Density Physics Elsevier BV (2019) 100716
JJ Beesley, SJ Rose
stella: An operator-split, implicit-explicit delta f-gyrokinetic code for general magnetic field configur...
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS 391 (2019) 365-380
M Barnes, FI Parra, M Landreman
Validation of gyrokinetic simulations of a National Spherical Torus eXperiment H-mode plasma and comparis...
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion IOP Publishing 61 (2019) 115015-115015
JR Ruiz, W Guttenfelder, AE White et al.
Overview of recent TJ-II stellarator results
NUCLEAR FUSION 59 (2019) ARTN 112019
E Ascasibar, D Alba, D Alegre et al.
Evidence for anisotropy of cosmic acceleration
Astronomy and Astrophysics: a European journal EDP Sciences (2019)
J Colin, R Mohayaee, M Rameez et al.
Reconstructing the EFT of inflation from cosmological data
SciPost Physics SciPost 7 (2019) 49-
A Durakovic, P Hunt, SP Patil et al.
Search for transient optical counterparts to high-energy IceCube neutrinos with Pan-STARRS1
Astronomy and Astrophysics EDP Sciences 626 (2019) A117
N Iovine, A Ishihara, E Jacobi et al.
Investigation of Two Fermi-LAT Gamma-Ray Blazars Coincident with High-energy Neutrinos Detected by IceCub...
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 880 (2019) ARTN 103
S Garrappa, S Buson, A Franckowiak et al.
The feasibility of magnetic reconnection powered blazar flares from synchrotron self-Compton emission
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 486 (2019) 1548-1562
PJ Morris, WJ Potter, G Cotter
Energy absorption in the laser-QED regime
Scientific Reports Springer Nature 9 (2019) 8956
A Savin, B Spiers, R Wang et al.
Simulating MOS science on the ELT: Ly alpha forest tomography
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 632 (2019) ARTN A94
JEG Devriendt, P Petitjean, Y Dubois et al.
Cosmic ray spectrum and composition from PeV to EeV using 3 years of data from IceTop and IceCube
PHYSICAL REVIEW D 100 (2019) ARTN 082002
MG Aartsen, M Ackermann, J Adams et al.
Kinetic simulations of fusion ignition with hot-spot ablator mix
Physical Review E American Physical Society 100 (2019) 033206
J Sadler, Y Lu, M Mayr et al.
Efficient propagation of systematic uncertainties from calibration to analysis with the SnowStorm method ...
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics IOP Publishing 2019 (2019) 048-048
MG Aartsen, M Ackermann, J Adams et al.
HORIZON-AGN virtual observatory – 2. Template-free estimates of galaxy properties from colours
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 489 (2019) 4817–4835-
I Davidzon, C Laigle, PL Capak et al.
Inverse problem instabilities in large-scale modelling of matter in extreme conditions
Physics of Plasmas AIP Publishing 26 (2019) 112706
MF Kasim, TP Galligan, J Topp-Mugglestone et al.
Impact of main ion pressure anisotropy on stellarator impurity transport
Nuclear Fusion IOP Publishing (2019)
I Calvo, FI Parra, JL Velasco et al.
Observation of He-like satellite lines of the H-like potassium K XIX emission
Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 881 (2019) 92
ME Weller, P Beiersdorfer, TE Lockard et al.
Orbital angular momentum coupling in elastic photon-photon scattering
Physical Review Letters American Physical Society 123 (2019) 113604
R Aboushelbaya, A Savin, K Glize et al.
Massive spheroids can form in single minor mergers
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 489 (2019) 4679–4689-
RA Jackson, G Martin, S Kaviraj et al.
Cosmic ray acceleration by shocks: spectral steepening due to turbulent magnetic field amplification
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 488* (2019) 2466-2472
A Bell, J Matthews, K Blundell
Thomson scattering cross section in a magnetized, high-density plasma
Physical Review E American Physical Society 99 (2019) 063204
AFA Bott, G Gregori
Laboratory measurements of geometrical effects in the x-ray emission of optically thick lines for ICF dia...
Physics of Plasmas AIP Publishing 26 (2019) 063302
G Perez-Callejo, LC Jarrott, DA Liedahl et al.
Dependence on ion temperature of shallow-angle magnetic presheaths with adiabatic electrons
Journal of Plasma Physics Cambridge University Press 85 (2019) 795850601
A Geraldini, F Parra, F Militello
A response to Rubin & Heitlauf
arXiv (2019)
J Colin, SUBIR Sarkar, R Mohayaee et al.
Field reconstruction from proton radiography of intense laser driven magnetic reconnection
Physics of Plasmas AIP Publishing 26 (2019)
CAJ Palmer, PT Campbell, Y Ma et al.
Enhanced fluorescence from x-ray line coincidence pumping of K-pumped Cl and Mg-pumped Ge plasmas
Proceedings of SPIE Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers 11111 (2019)
J Nilsen, D Burridge, LMR Hobbs et al.
Deviations from normal distributions in artificial and real time series: a false positive prescription
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 489 (2019) 2117–2129-
P Morris, N Chakraborty, G Cotter
Axion-like-particle decay in strong electromagnetic backgrounds
Journal of High Energy Physics Springer 2019 (2019) 162
B King, BM Dillon, K Beyer et al.
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