2016 Studentships

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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
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
Will Potter

Junior Research Fellow
Anthony Field

Visitor
Jon Hillesheim

Visitor
J Bryan Taylor

Visitor

Publications

Group connectivity in COSMOS: a tracer of mass assembly history
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 489 (2019) 5695-5708
ED Ford, C Laigle, G Gozaliasl et al.
Cosmic ray acceleration in hydromagnetic flux tubes
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 487 (2019) 4571-4579
AR Bell, JH Matthews, KM Blundell et al.
Wakefields in a cluster plasma
PHYSICAL REVIEW ACCELERATORS AND BEAMS 22 (2019) ARTN 113501
MW Mayr, L Ceurvorst, MF Kasim et al.
Population Estimates for Electromagnetically Distinguishable Supermassive Binary Black Holes
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 879 (2019) ARTN 110
JH Krolik, M Volonteri, Y Dubois et al.
Retrieving fields from proton radiography without source profiles.
Physical review. E 100 (2019) 033208-
MF Kasim, AFA Bott, P Tzeferacos et al.
Evolution of relativistic thin discs with a finite ISCO stress - I. Stalled accretion
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 489 (2019) 132-142
A Mummery, SA Balbus
Evolution of relativistic thin discs with a finite ISCO stress - II. Late time behaviour
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 489 (2019) 143-152
A Mummery, SA 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.
Monte Carlo studies for the optimisation of the Cherenkov Telescope Array layout
Astroparticle Physics 111 (2019) 35-53
A Acharyya, I Agudo, EO Angüner et al.
Overview of recent TJ-II stellarator results
NUCLEAR FUSION 59 (2019) ARTN 112019
E Ascasibar, D Alba, D Alegre et al.
Weak lensing in the Horizon-AGN simulation lightcone Small-scale baryonic effects
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 626 (2019) ARTN A72
C Gouin, R Gavazzi, C Pichon 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.
Suppressed effective viscosity in the bulk intergalactic plasma
NATURE ASTRONOMY 3 (2019) 832-837
I Zhuravleva, E Churazov, AA Schekochihin et al.
Reconstructing the EFT of inflation from cosmological data
SCIPOST PHYSICS 7 (2019) ARTN 049
A Durakovic, P Hunt, SP Patil et al.
Search for transient optical counterparts to high-energy IceCube neutrinos with Pan-STARRS1
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 626 (2019) ARTN A117
E Kankare, M Huber, SJ Smartt 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 9 (2019) 8956-
AF Savin, AJ Ross, R Aboushelbaya et al.
Probing cosmic dawn with emission lines: predicting infrared and nebular line emission for ALMA and JWST
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 487 (2019) 5902-5921
H Katz, TP Galligan, T Kimm 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 100 (2019) 033206-
JD Sadler, Y Lu, B Spiers 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.
On the observed diversity of star formation efficiencies in Giant Molecular Clouds
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 486 (2019) 5482-5491
K Grisdale, O Agertz, F Renaud et al.
HORIZON-AGN virtual observatory-2. Template-free estimates of galaxy properties from colours
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 489 (2019) 4817-4835
I Davidzon, C Laigle, PL Capak et al.
Observation of He-like Satellite Lines of the H-like Potassium K XIX Emission
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 881 (2019) ARTN 92
ME Weller, P Beiersdorfer, TE Lockard et al.
Orbital Angular Momentum Coupling in Elastic Photon-Photon Scattering.
Physical review letters 123 (2019) 113604-
R Aboushelbaya, K Glize, AF Savin et al.
Massive spheroids can form in single minor mergers
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 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 488 (2019) 2466-2472
AR Bell, JH Matthews, KM Blundell
Supersonic plasma turbulence in the laboratory.
Nature communications 10 (2019) 1758-
TG White, MT Oliver, P Mabey et al.
Thomson scattering cross section in a magnetized, high-density plasma.
Physical review. E 99 (2019) 063204-
AFA Bott, G Gregori
First demonstration of ARC-accelerated proton beams at the National Ignition Facility
Physics of Plasmas 26 (2019)
D Mariscal, T Ma, SC Wilks et al.
Laboratory measurements of geometrical effects in the x-ray emission of optically thick lines for ICF dia...
PHYSICS OF PLASMAS 26 (2019) ARTN 063302
G Perez-Callejo, LC Jarrott, DA Liedahl et al.
Laboratory study of stationary accretion shock relevant to astrophysical systems.
Scientific reports 9 (2019) 8157-
P Mabey, B Albertazzi, E Falize et al.
A scale-separated approach for studying coupled ion and electron scale turbulence
PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION 61 (2019) ARTN 065025
MR Hardman, M Barnes, CM Roach et al.
The formation and evolution of low-surface-brightness galaxies
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 485 (2019) 796-818
G Martin, S Kaviraj, C Laigle et al.
Radiation transfer in cylindrical, toroidal and hemi-ellipsoidal plasmas
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer Elsevier BV (2019)
G Pérez-Callejo, JS Wark, SJ Rose
Overview of new MAST physics in anticipation of first results from MAST Upgrade
NUCLEAR FUSION 59 (2019) ARTN 112011
JR Harrison, RJ Akers, SY Allan et al.
Field reconstruction from proton radiography of intense laser driven magnetic reconnection
PHYSICS OF PLASMAS 26 (2019) ARTN 083109
CAJ Palmer, PT Campbell, Y Ma et al.
New Horizon: On the Origin of the Stellar Disk and Spheroid of Field Galaxies at z=0.7
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 883 (2019) ARTN 25
M-J Park, SK Yi, Y Dubois et al.
Magnetogenesis at Cosmic Dawn: tracing the origins of cosmic magnetic fields
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 484 (2019) 2620-2631
H Katz, S Martin-Alvarez, J Devriendt et al.
The diverse galaxy counts in the environment of high-redshift massive black holes in Horizon-AGN
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 489 (2019) 1206-1229
M Habouzit, M Volonteri, RS Somerville et al.
Enhanced fluorescence from x-ray line coincidence pumping of K-pumped Cl and Mg-pumped Ge plasmas
X-Ray Lasers and Coherent X-Ray Sources: Development and Applications XIII SPIE (2019)
J Nilsen, D Burridge, LMR Hobbs et al.
Massive Stellar Mergers as Precursors of Hydrogen-rich Pulsational Pair Instability Supernovae
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS 876 (2019) ARTN L29
A Vigna-Gomez, S Justham, I Mandel et al.
Deviations from normal distributions in artificial and real time series: a false positive prescription
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 489 (2019) 2117-2129
PJ Morris, N Chakraborty, G Cotter
Horizon-AGN virtual observatory-1. SED-fitting performance and forecasts for future imaging surveys
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 486 (2019) 5104-5123
C Laigle, I Davidzon, O Ilbert et al.
The blind implosion-maker: Automated inertial confinement fusion experiment design
PHYSICS OF PLASMAS 26 (2019) ARTN 062706
PW Hatfield, SJ Rose, RHH Scott
Observing thermal Schwinger pair production
Physical Review A American Physical Society (APS) 99 (2019) 052120
O Gould, S Mangles, A Rajantie et al.
Probing cosmic dawn: modelling the assembly history, SEDs, and dust content of selected z similar to 9 ga...
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 484 (2019) 4054-4068
H Katz, N Laporte, RS Ellis et al.
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