Dr. Chris Messenger

Research Fellow
Room 466

Tel: x3536

Email: Christopher.Messenger@glasgow.ac.uk

Research Interests: My work involves the analysis of gravitational wave data. I am specifically interested in wide area parameter space searches for gravitational waves from continuously emitting sources.

IGR page


Dr Antonio Herrera Martin

PhD Student

Room 604
School of Physics and Astronomy
Kelvin Building
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Scotland

Email: a.herrera-martin.1@research.gla.ac.uk

Tel: +44 141 330 2960
Fax: +44 141 330 8600


Dr Enrique Perez

CONACyT Postdoctoral Fellowship

Room 608
School of Physics and Astronomy
Kelvin Building
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Scotland

Email:

Tel: +44 141 330 5388
Fax: +44 141 330 8600


Dr Peter Levens

PhD Student

I am working with Dr. Nicolas Labrosse and Prof. Lyndsay Fletcher on solar tornado-like prominences – these features appear to be the rotating legs of prominences.

My research has mostly been using UV and EUV observations from the Hinode and IRIS satellites and the ground-based THEMIS telescope in the Canary Islands. In 2014 and 2015 I was part of an international team that coordinated and performed observations with Hinode, IRIS, and THEMIS. I had the opportunity to spend four weeks making observations of prominences at THEMIS as part of that campaign. I also spent four months at the Observatoire de Paris in Meudon, working with Dr. Brigitte Schmieder on analysing IRIS data that we gathered in 2014.

I have also spent some time developing a radiative transfer code that simulates the emission of ionised magnesium (Mg II) lines in prominences. This work has built upon the already-substantial code for modelling hydrogen, helium, and calcium in prominences, provided to me by Dr. Nicolas Labrosse. The aim of this work was to extend previous prominence Mg II models to explain recent IRIS observations.

I am currently at the end of my PhD, writing my thesis.

Publications:

“Comparing UV/EUV line parameters and magnetic field in a quiescent prominence with tornadoes” — P. J. Levens, N. Labrosse, B. Schmieder, A. López Ariste, L.Fletcher. 2017, Astronomy and Astrophysics, (accepted, awaiting publication) [doi] [arXiv]

“Reconstruction of a helical prominence in 3D from IRIS spectra and images” — B. Schmieder, M. Zapiór, A. López Ariste, P. J. Levens, N. Labrosse, R. Gravet. 2017, Astronomy and Astrophysics, (accepted, awaiting publication) [doi] [arXiv]

“Halpha Doppler shifts in a tornado in the solar corona” — B. Schmieder, P. Mein, N. Mein P. J. Levens, N. Labrosse, L. Ofman. 2017, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 597, A109 [doi] [arXiv]

“Magnetic Field in Atypical Prominence Structures: Bubble, Tornado, and Eruption”P. J. Levens, B. Schmieder, A. López Ariste, N. Labrosse, K. Dalmasse, B. Gelly. 2016, The Astrophysical Journal, 826, 164L [doi] [arXiv]

“Structure of Prominence Legs: Plasma and Magnetic Field”P. J. Levens, B. Schmieder, N. Labrosse, A. López Ariste. 2016, The Astrophysical Journal, 818, 31L [doi] [arXiv]

“A solar tornado observed by EIS: Plasma diagnostics”P. J. Levens, N. Labrosse, L.Fletcher, B. Schmieder. 2015, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 582, A27 [doi] [arXiv]

Conference proceedings:

“Prominence and tornado dynamics observed with IRIS and THEMIS” — B. Schmieder, P. J. Levens, N. Labrosse, P. Mein, A. López Ariste, M. Zapiór. 2017, American Astronomical Society, SPD meeting No. 48

“Prominence plasma and magnetic field structure – A coordinated observation with IRIS, Hinode and THEMIS” — B. Schmieder, N. Labrosse, P. J. Levens, A. López Ariste. 2016, 41st COSPAR Scientific Assembly

“Magnetic Field and Plasma Diagnostics from Coordinated Prominence Observations” — B. Schmieder, P. J. Levens, K. Dalmasse, N. Mein, P. Mein, A. López Ariste, N. Labrosse, P. Heinzel. 2016, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 504

“Polarimetric measurements in prominences and “tornadoes” observed by THEMIS” — B. Schmieder, A. López Ariste, P. J. Levens, N. Labrosse, K. Dalmasse. 2014, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium No. 305

Contact information:

Room 604
School of Physics and Astronomy
Kelvin Building
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Scotland

Email: p.levens.1@research.gla.ac.uk

Tel: +44 141 330 2960


Dr Hamish Reid

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My research efforts are focussed towards the active Sun, in particular with flares and electron beams.  To investigate this phenomena I use multi-wavelength observational studies with a particular focus on radio and X-ray wavelengths.  I also use numerical simulations to model electron transport including the kinetic plasma processes that are involved with generating the radio emission we observe in space weather.

Room 608
School of Physics and Astronomy
Kelvin Building
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Scotland

Email: hamish.reid@glasgow.ac.uk
Tel: +44 141 330 5388
Fax: +44 141 330 8600

Refereed Publications


Dr Salma Islam

PhD Student

I am working with Prof. Martin Hendry.

Room 604
School of Physics and Astronomy
Kelvin Building
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Scotland

Email: s.islam.1@research.gla.ac.uk

Tel: +44 141 330 2960
Fax: +44 141 330 8600


Dr Duncan Stackhouse

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PhD Student

I work on electron acceleration in Solar Flares. Taking a particular interest in the distribution of these electrons and processes behind the acceleration.

Room 604
School of Physics and Astronomy
Kelvin Building
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Scotland

Email: d.stackhouse.1@research.gla.ac.uk

Tel: 2960
Fax: +44 141 330 8600


Dr Graham Kerr

PhD Student

I have now completed my PhD, which was supervised by Prof Lyndsay Fletcher, and am about to start a postdoctoral fellowship at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (~April 2017).

My research interests are in solar physics, particularly in energy and radiation transport through the solar atmosphere during solar flares. I have expertise in data analysis using both imaging and spectroscopic observations from the Hinode, IRIS and SDO spacecraft, as well as using the numerical codes RADYN and RH to simulate solar flares, and the radiation they produce. I am eager to use a combination of both observations and numerical simulations to better understand the processes involved in solar flares.

Publications

“Simulations of the  Mg II k  and Ca II 8542 lines from an Alfvén Wave-heated flare chromosphere”, G.S. Kerr, L. Fletcher, A.J.B. Russell, & J.C. Allred. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 827 (2), 2016. [doi] 

“IRIS Observations of the Mg II h & k Lines During a Solar Flare”, G.S. Kerr, P.J.A. Simões, J. Qiu & L. Fletcher. Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 582 (A50), 2015. [doi]

“The Radiated Energy Budget of Chromospheric Plasma in a Major Solar Flare Deduced from Multi-Wavelength Observations”, R.O. Milligan, G.S. Kerr, B.R. Dennis, H.S. Hudson, L. Fletcher, J.C. Allred, P.C. Chamberlin, J. Ireland, M. Mathioudakis, & F.P. Keenan. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 793 (2), 2014. [doi]

“Physical Properties of White-Light Sources in the 2011 Feb 15 Solar Flare”, G.S. Kerr & L. Fletcher. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 783 (2), 2014. [doi] 

“Hard X-ray and Ultraviolet Observations of the 2005 January 15 Two Ribbon Flare”, J. Cheng, G.S Kerr, & J. Qiu. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 744 (1), 2012. [doi]

Conference Proceedings

“Observations and modelling of Helium lines in solar flares”, P.J.A. Simões, L. Fletcher, N. Labrosse, & G.S. Kerr. In: Coimbra Solar Physics Meeting 2015: Ground-based Solar Observations in the Space Instrumentation Era. ASP Conference Series, Vol. 504, 2016.

A C.V can be found here.

I am active in public outreach, and throughout the 2015-2016 academic year I worked with St. Vincent’s Primary School in East Kilbride as part of the Rolls-Royce Science Prize. Our team was awarded second place with a project that was focused on the ‘Earth in Space’. To learn more about our entry click here.

Room 604
School of Physics and Astronomy
Kelvin Building
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Scotland

Email: Graham.s.kerr@nasa.gov

Tel: +44 141 330 2960
 


Dr. Craig Stark

Now based at the University of St. Andrews


Dr Marina Battaglia

Now working at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland.

I am interested in particle acceleration and propagation processes in solar flares. I use satellite data, mainly from RHESSI to better understand the physics of those processes.

Email: marina.battaglia.astro@gmail.com

Personal homepage
(the contents of which are the responsibility of Marina Battaglia)


Dr Erin MacDonald

Postgraduate Student
Room 464

Tel: x7168

Email: e.p.macdonald.glasgow@gmail.com

IGR page


Dr Matthew Pitkin

Research Fellow
Room 464

Tel: x7168

Email: Matthew.Pitkin@glasgow.ac.uk

Research Interests: My research involves targeted searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars using GEO 600 and LIGO data. My work also includes searches for quasi-normal mode oscillations in neutron stars induced by glitches.

IGR page

M Pitkin Homepage


Dr Luis Teodoro


Honorary Research Fellow

Now at NASA Ames, CA


Professor Ernest W Laing

Honorary Senior Research Fellow

School of Physics and Astronomy
Kelvin Building
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Scotland


Dr Robin M Green


Honourary Research Fellow

School of Physics and Astronomy
Kelvin Building
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Scotland

Email: Robin.Green@glasgow.ac.uk


Dr Norman Gray


Research Fellow

I’m working on ‘Semantic Resource Discovery for the Virtual Observatories’ (aka ‘astronomical data management’, or ‘astroinformatics’, or some variant on that).

Recent projects (PI or Co-I):

  • Sensitivity review ‘Knowledge Exchange’ project, working with The National Archives and GU Computing Science, 2013.
  • MaRDI-Gross ‘Managing Research Data Infrastructures in Big Science’, 2011–2012, JISC
  • AstroDAbis, 2011, JISC
  • Managing Research Data – Gravitational Waves, 2009–2011, JISC
  • Explicator ‘Intelligent access to foreign data models’, 2007–2009, EPSRC
  • SKUA ‘Semantic Knowledge Underpinning Astronomy’, 2008–2009, JISC
  • AGAST ‘Advanced Grid Authorisation through Semantic Technologies’, 2008–2009, JISC

…plus time on projects led by others

Virtual Observatory:

  • Vice-chair, then chair, of IVOA Semantics WG (2010–present)
  • Member of IVOA Technical Coordination Group

Teaching

  • Special Relativity, second year (2000–02 & 2010–)
  • General Relativity, honours (biennially since 2002–03)

Room 605
School of Physics and Astronomy
Kelvin Building
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Scotland

Email: Norman.Gray@glasgow.ac.uk
Tel: +44 141 330 7111

Personal homepage
(the contents of which are the responsibility of Dr Norman Gray)

Refereed Publications


Professor Gordon Emslie

Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Western Kentucky University.


Dr David Clarke


Honourary Research Fellow

Stellar Astronomy and Atmospheric Physics – Development of optical equipmemt for undertaking spectropolarimetric measurements of stars and of the radiation from the daytime sky associated with scattering processes within stellar shells, the interstellar medium and the Earth’s atmosphere.

School of Physics and Astronomy
Kelvin Building
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Scotland

Email: David.Clarke@glasgow.ac.uk


Dr Hugh Hudson


My research now centers on observations of solar X-rays and flare physics. I also work on solar global structure topics, mainly via RHESSI data. Also there’s an ongoing solar search for axions. I maintain a Web-based archive of flare/CME cartoons and have served as editor of the Yohkoh Science Nuggets, a program now ended. Now I edit the RHESSI Science Nuggets instead. Contributions are always welcome!

Room 620
School of Physics and Astronomy
Kelvin Building
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Scotland

Email: Hugh.Hudson@glasgow.ac.uk
Tel: +44 141 330 6427
Fax: +44 141 330 8600

Personal homepage
(the contents of which are the responsibility of Hugh Hudson)


Mr Iain Sim


Research IT Manager

Room 238
School of Physics and Astronomy
Kelvin Building
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Scotland

Email: Iain.Sim.2@glasgow.ac.uk
Tel: +44 141 330 2956
Fax: +44 141 330 8600


Personal homepage

(the contents of which are the responsibility of Mr Iain Sim)


Rachael McLauchlan


Research Support Secretary

Room 608
School of Physics and Astronomy
Kelvin Building
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Scotland

Email: Rachael.McLauchlan@glasgow.ac.uk
Tel: +44 141 330 4152


Colin Hunter

Observatory Technician

University Observatory
Acre Road
Maryhill
Glasgow G20 0TL

Email: Colin.Hunter@glasgow.ac.uk
Tel: 0141 330 8556
Fax: +44 141 330 8600

Personal homepage
(the contents of which are the responsibility of Mr Colin Hunter)


Dr Alexander Russell


Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellow

I am investigating whether MHD waves can transport large amounts of energy from the solar corona to the chromosphere during solar flares, and possible mechanisms by which these waves might accelerate electrons to high energies. I am especially keen to exploit parallels with auroral physics, building bridges between solar and magnetospheric physics. My work is supported by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851.

Room 620
School of Physics and Astronomy
Kelvin Building
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Scotland

Email: Alexander.Russell@glasgow.ac.uk
Tel: +44 141 330 6427
Fax: +44 141 330 8600

Personal homepage
(the contents of which are the responsibility of Alexander Russell)


Dr Alasdair Wilson

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I am a postdoctoral research associate primarily interested in the theoretical and numerical modeling of both laboratory and astrophysical plasmas. In particular my past work has involved low temperature, partially ionized plasmas.

Room 616
School of Physics and Astronomy
Kelvin Building
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Scotland

Email: Alasdair.Wilson@glasgow.ac.uk

Tel: +44 141 330 3816


Dr Fraser Watson

I am working on a PhD in Solar Physics with Dr. Lyndsay Fletcher and I am currently busy with automated feature detection in solar images making use of image processing techniques. At the moment, my research involves looking at the fragmentation and breakup of solar active regions by studying MDI magnetograms I am also actively involved with the Astro group outreach program and had an active role in planetarium shows in schools as part of the Constellation Project with Professor John Brown. This was a project to promote Astronomy during IYA2009.

Room 604
School of Physics and Astronomy
Kelvin Building
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Scotland

Email: f.watson@astro.gla.ac.uk

Tel: +44 141 330 2960
Fax: +44 141 330 8600

Personal homepage
(the contents of which are the responsibility of Fraser Watson)