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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

Self-force via m-mode regularization and 2+1D evolution. II. Scalar-field implementation on Kerr spacetime
Sam Dolan, Leor Barack & Barry Wardell, 2011, Physical Review D, 84(8), 084001-[21pp]
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.84.084001
Type: article
Periastron advance in black hole binaries
Alexandre Le Tiec, Abdul H. Mroué, Leor Barack, Alessandra Buonanno, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Norichika Sago & Andrea Taracchini, 2011, Physical Review Letters, 82(14), 141101-[5pp]
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.141101
Type: article
Entropy entrainment and dissipation in finite temperature superfluids
Nils Andersson & G.L. Comer, 2011, International Journal of Modern Physics D, 20(7), 1215-1233
DOI: 10.1142/S0218271811019396
Type: article
Hydrodynamics of rapidly rotating superfluid neutron stars with mutual friction
A. Passamonti & N. Andersson, 2011, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 413(1), 47-70
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.18111.x
Type: article
Cooling rates of neutron stars and the young neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant
2011, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 411(3), 1977-1988
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17827.x
Type: article