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
Intrinsic rotation driven by turbulent acceleration
PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION 61 (2019) ARTN 025003
M Barnes, FI Parra
Identifying the progenitors of present-day early-type galaxies in observational surveys
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 474 (2018) 3140-3151
G Martin, S Kaviraj, JEG Devriendt et al.
Setup for meV-resolution inelastic X-ray scattering measurements and X-ray diffraction at the Matter in E...
The Review of scientific instruments 89 (2018) 10F104-
EE McBride, TG White, A Descamps 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.
Reply to 'Thomson scattering in inhomogeneous plasmas: The Role of the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem'
Scientific Reports 8 (2018)
PM Kozlowski, DO Gericke, SP Regan et al.
Neutrino Interferometry for High-Precision Tests of Lorentz Symmetry with IceCube
Nature Physics Nature Publishing Group (2018)
I Collaboration, MG Aartsen, M Ackermann et al.
Search for nonstandard neutrino interactions with IceCube DeepCore
Physical Review D, Particles and fields American Physical Society 97 (2018) ARTN 072009
MG Aartsen, M Ackermann, J Adams et al.
Observation of Laser Power Amplification in a Self-Injecting Laser Wakefield Accelerator
Physical Review Letters 120 (2018)
MJV Streeter, S Kneip, MS Bloom et al.
A Search for Neutrino Emission from Fast Radio Bursts with Six Years of IceCube Data
Astrophysical Journal University of Chicago Press 857 (2018) ARTN 117
MG Aartsen, M Ackermann, J Adams et al.
Gas flows in the circumgalactic medium around simulated high-redshift galaxies
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 474 (2018) 4279-4301
PD Mitchell, J Blaizot, J Devriendt et al.
Electron acceleration by wave turbulence in a magnetized plasma
Nature Physics 14 (2018) 475-479
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.
Measurement of temperature and density using non-collective X-ray Thomson scattering in pulsed power prod...
Scientific Reports 8 (2018)
JC Valenzuela, C Krauland, D Mariscal 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.
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.
Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations at 6-56 GeV with IceCube DeepCore.
Physical Review Letters 120 (2018) 071801-071801
MG Aartsen, M Ackermann, J Adams et al.
Galaxy evolution in the metric of the cosmic web
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 474 (2018) 547-571
K Kraljic, S Arnouts, C Pichon et al.
The evolution of Kerr discs and late-time tidal disruption event light curves
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 481 (2018) 3348-3356
SA Balbus, A Mummery
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.
Analytical modelling of the expansion of a solid obstacle interacting with a radiative shock
HIGH POWER LASER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 6 (2018) ARTN e30
T Michel, E Falize, B Albertazzi 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
Astrophysical neutrinos and cosmic rays observed by IceCube
ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH 62 (2018) 2902-2930
MG Aartsen, M Ackermann, J Adams et al.
A sensitive EUV Schwarzschild microscope for plasma studies with sub-micrometer resolution.
The Review of scientific instruments 89 (2018) 023703-
U Zastrau, C Rödel, M Nakatsutsumi 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.
Guiding of relativistic electron beams in dense matter by laser-driven magnetostatic fields
Nature Communications 9 (2018)
M Bailly-Grandvaux, JJ Santos, C Bellei 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.
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.
Channel optimization of high-intensity laser beams in millimeter-scale plasmas.
Physical review. E 97 (2018) 043208-
L Ceurvorst, A Savin, N Ratan 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
Advantages to a diverging Raman amplifier
Communications Physics 1 (2018)
JD Sadler, LO Silva, RA Fonseca et al.
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.
Evolution of the Design and Fabrication of Astrophysics Targets for Turbulent Dynamo (TDYNO) Experiments ...
FUSION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 73 (2018) 434-445
SA Muller, DN Kaczala, HM Abu-Shawareb 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-ray acceleration by relativistic shocks: limits and estimates
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 473 (2018) 2364-2371
AR Bell, AT Araudo, JH Matthews 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.
Generation of Internal Waves by Buoyant Bubbles in Galaxy Clusters and Heating of Intracluster Medium
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Blackwell Publishing Inc. (2018)
C Zhang, E Churazov, AA Schekochihin
Self-inhibiting thermal conduction in a high-, whistler-unstable plasma
Journal of Plasma Physics 84 (2018)
S Komarov, AA Schekochihin, E Churazov 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.
Evidence that particle acceleration in hotspots of FR II galaxies is not constrained by synchrotron cooli...
Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings 297-299 (2018) 242-248
AT Araudo, AR Bell, KM Blundell
COSMOS2015 photometric redshifts probe the impact of filaments on galaxy properties
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 474 (2018) 5437-5458
C Laigle, C Pichon, S Arnouts 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
Action-based dynamical models of dwarf spheroidal galaxies: application to Fornax
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 480 (2018) 927-946
R Pascale, L Posti, C Nipoti et al.
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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