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Research project

Rolling PPARC grant

Staff

Lead researcher

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

Emeritus Professor James Vickers

Connect with James

Email: J.A.Vickers@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 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 Leor Barack

Professor of Mathematical Physics

Research interests

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

Email: L.Barack@soton.ac.uk

Dr Ian Hawke

Associate Professor

Research interests

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

Email: I.Hawke@soton.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

Overspinning a Kerr black hole
Marta Colleoni & Leor Barack, 2015, Physical Review D, 91(10)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.104024
Type: article
Gravitational self-force correction to the innermost stable circular equatorial orbit of a Kerr Black Hole
Soichiro Isoyama, Leor Barack, Sam Dolan, Alexandre Le Tiec, Hiroyuki Nakano, Abhay Shah, Takahiro Tanaka & Niels Warburton, 2014, Physical Review Letters, 113(16), 1-5
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.161101
Type: article
Gravitational self-torque and spin precession in compact binaries
Sam R. Dolan, Niels Warburton, Abraham I. Harte, Alexandre Le Tiec, Barry Wardell & Leor Barack, 2014, Physical Review D, 89(6), 64011
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.064011
Type: article
Gravitational self-force from radiation-gauge metric perturbations
Adam Pound, Cesar Merlin & Leor Barack, 2014, Physical Review D, 89(2), 1-46
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.024009
Type: article
Frequency-domain algorithm for the Lorenz-gauge gravitational self-force
Sarp Akcay, Niels Warburton & Leor Barack, 2013, Physical Review D, 88(10), 1-22
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.104009
Type: article