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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

A characteristic approach to the quasi-normal mode problem
Lars Samuelsson, Nils Andersson & Asimina Maniopoulou, 2007, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 24(16), 4147-4160
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/24/16/010
Type: article
Non-axisymmetric instability and fragmentation of general relativistic quasi-toroidal stars
B. Zink, N. Stergioulas, I. Hawke, C. Ott, E. Schnetter & E. Muller, 2007, Physical Review D, 76(2), 24019
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.024019
Type: article
3D collapse of rotating stellar iron cores in general relativity with microphysics
C.D. Ott, H. Dimmelmeier, A. Marek, H.-T. Janka, I. Hawke, B. Zink & E. Schnetter, 2007, Physical Review Letters, 98(26), 261101-[4pp]
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.261101
Type: article
On the gravitational radiation from the collapse of neutron stars to rotating black holes
Luca Baiotti, Ian Hawke & Luciano Rezzolla, 2007, Classical and Quantum Gravity
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/24/12/S13
Type: article
Rotating collapse of stellar iron cores in general relativity
Christian D. Ott, Harald Dimmelmeier, Andreas Marek, Hans-Thomas Janka, Burkhard Zink, Ian Hawke & Erik Schnetter, 2007, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 24(12), S139-S154
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/24/12/S10
Type: article