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Research project

Gravitational waves-neutron stars

Research groups:

Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
Lead researcher:

Professor Nils Andersson
Research funder:

Science And Technology Facilities Council
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Nils Andersson

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

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

We focus on mathematical modelling and mathematical physics, and investigate everything from neutron stars to superfluids.

Research outputs

Einstein-Vlasov system in spherical symmetry: Reduction of the equations of motion and classification of single-shell static solutions in the limit of massless particles

Carsten Gundlach, 2016, Physical Review D, 94(12)

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.94.124046

Type: article

Upper limits on the rates of binary neutron star and neutron star-black hole mergers from advanced LIGO’s first observing run

B.P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T.D. Abbott, D.I. Jones & G. Ashton, 2016, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 832(2), 1-15

DOI: 10.3847/2041-8205/832/2/L21

Type: article

Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo

2016, Living Reviews in Relativity, 19(1)

DOI: 10.1007/lrr-2016-1

Type: article

Completion of metric reconstruction for a particle orbiting a Kerr black hole

Cesar Merlin Gonzalez, Amos Ori, Adam Pound & Maarten Van De Meent, 2016, Physical Review D, 94(104066), 1-29

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.94.104066

Type: article

Quantised vortices and mutual friction in relativistic superfluids

Nils Andersson, Stuart Wells & James Vickers, 2016, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 33(245010), 1-11

DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/33/24/245010

Type: article