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Research project

Gravitational wave astronomy

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Nils Andersson

Professor of Applied Maths

Research interests

  • General relativistic astrosphysics
  • Black holes
  • Neutron stars
Connect with Nils

Email: N.A.Andersson@southampton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Ian Jones

Professor of Mathematical Physics

Research interests

  • Gravitational wave astronomy
  • Neutron stars
  • Radio pulsars
Connect with Ian

Email: D.I.Jones@soton.ac.uk

Professor Carsten Gundlach

Professor of Mathematical Physics

Research interests

  • Classical general relativity
  • Numerical relativity
  • Critical phenomena in gravitational collapse
Connect with Carsten

Email: C.J.Gundlach@soton.ac.uk

Professor Leor Barack

Professor of Mathematical Physics

Research interests

  • Classical General Relativity
  • Gravitational waves
  • Black Holes
Connect with Leor

Email: L.Barack@soton.ac.uk

Professor Ian Hawke

Professor

Research interests

  • Numerical relativity
  • Neutron Stars
  • Gravitational waves
Connect with Ian

Email: I.Hawke@soton.ac.uk

Professor Adam Pound

Professorial Fellow-Research

Research interests

  • General Relativity
  • Sources of gravitational waves
  • Black holes
Connect with Adam

Email: A.Pound@soton.ac.uk

Dr Andreas Schmitt

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Quantum chromodynamics
  • Superconductivity and superfluidity of dense nuclear and quark matter
Connect with Andreas

Email: A.Schmitt@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Impact of nuclear reactions on gravitational waves from neutron star mergers
P. Hammond, I. Hawke & N. Andersson, 2023, Physical Review D, 107(4)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.043023
Type: article
Building post-Newtonian neutron stars
Nils Andersson, Fabian Gittins, Shanshan Yin & Rodrigo Panosso Macedo, 2023, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 40(2)
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6382/acace5
Type: article
Gravitational waves from extreme-mass-ratio systems in astrophysical environments
2022, Physical Review Letters, 129(24)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.241103
Type: article
Gravitational waves from small spin-up and spin-down events of neutron stars
David Jones & Garvin Yim, 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518(3), 4322–4329
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac3405
Type: article
Precession of magnetars
Yong Gao, Lijing Shao, Gregory Desvignes, David Ian Jones, Michael Kramer & Garvin Yim, 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 519(1), 1080–1097
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac3546
Type: article