Centre for Astrophysics Research:
News and Press Releases
- China award for outstanding PhD student at UH (17/03/2010 Zenghua Zhang)
- Youngest Extra-Solar Planet Discovered (23/02/2010 Maria Cruz Gálvez-Ortiz & Dr
John Barnes)
- Red dwarf / red giant binary found in UK / China collaboration (16/02/2010 David
Pinfield & Zenghua Zhang)
- Astronomers discover cool stars in nearby space (29/01/2010 Phil Lucas & Ben Burmingham)
- Professor James Hough awarded Herschel Medal (7/01/2010 James Hough)
- New planets found around Sun-like stars (14/12/2009 Hugh Jones, cited on 12 other cites)
- VISTA: Pioneering new survey telescope starts work (12/12/2009)
- University of Hertfordshire probes the Universe (11/12/2009 Matt Jarvis)
- MoU signed bewteen UH and the South African MeerKAT project (01/11/09 Matt Jarvis)
- Discovery of some of the most distant galaxies in the Universe (01/11/09 Samantha Hickey)
- Special relativity passes key test: new glimpses of space and time (28/10/2009 Jonathan Granot,
cited on 22 other sites)
- UH Astrophysics Summer student wins international prize (24/03/2009
David Pinfield)
- Unexpected discovery could impact on future climate models (10/02/09 James Hough)
- Project Searches For Planets Around Coolest Stars (13/01/2009
David Pinfield, cited on 11 other sites)
- SERVS: the Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey awarded 1400 hours of time on NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. SERVS will cover 18 sq.deg of sky with 12 sq.deg
covering the UH led VIDEO Survey. The project was led by Mark Lacy (Spitzer Science Centre), Matt Jarvis (University
of Hertfordshire) and Duncan Farrah (Sussex), December 2008
- "Naked eye" gamma-ray burst was aimed almost directly at the Earth, link
to nature article (10/09/2008 Jonathan Granot, cited on 3 other sites)
- Astronomers use infrared filters to get a clean view of black hole disks (24/07/2008)
- Marc Sarzi awarded a STFC Advanced Fellowship, to start October 2008.
- Is there anybody out there? Looking for new worlds (3/07/2008)
- Astronomy Picture of the Day - What is Hanny's Voorwerp? (25/06/2008, Matt Jarvis)
- Evidence of role played by colossal black holes in ending star formation in galaxies obtained (5/06/08
Marc Sarzi, cited on 2 other sites)
- Strange Ring Found Circling Dead Star (28/05/08 Jonathan Granot, cited
on 20 other sites)
- Debris from galaxy Collision can be used as a Laboratory to Study Star Formation (2/06/08 Elias Brinks).
- Stellar Birth in the Galactic Wilderness (16/04/08 Elias Brinks, cited on 1 other site).
- Herschel Kilo-Degree Survey in which UH astronomers play a leading role, given the largest open time allocation of 600hours (Matt Jarvis co-leads AGN Science, Mark Thompson
co-leads Dust & Protostars)
- Astronomy Picture of the Day article to accompany a VLT colour fig of NGC 2770 - currently hosting a bright SN and the closest known GRB/XRF (18/01/2008 Pall Jakobsson).
- CAR astronomer expresses surprise
at a claim that the polarized light from an EXP has been detected (10/01/2008 James Hough).
- New X-ray source in nearby galaxy spawns mystery, alternatve
link (9/01/2008).
- New VLA Images Unlocking Galactic Mysteries (10/01/2008 Elias Brinks).
- New spin on how stars are born (31/10/2007 Antonio Chrysostomou).
- Massive release of Milky Way survey data (12/12/2007 Janet Drew, cited on 7 other sites).
- Black hole fires at neighbouring galaxy (17/12/2007 Martin Hardcastle, cited on 4 other cites).
- Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowship awarded to Dr Mari Cruz Gálvez-Ortiz to work with Dr David Pinfield, to image extra-solar planets around cool stars.
- The European Commission funds David Pinfield's 2.8M euro Marie-Curie Initial Training Network - RoPACS, to study rocky
planets around cool stars.
- UH astronomer involved in the deepest ever spectrum of the Universe (28/11/2007 Matt Jarvis,
cited on 4 other sites).
- Astronomers learning how new stars grow (15/11/07 cited in Business Weekly)
- Dr Martin Hardcastle's Royal Society Fellowship is extended for three years from October 2007 (October 2007).
- Dr Jonathan Granot has received a Marie Curie International Re-integration Grant (September 2007).
- Dr Jonathan Granot, a theoretical astrophysicist working on gamma-ray bursts and other high-energy events, has received a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, funded
for 5 years (July 2007).
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