WFCAM & VISTA Science Archives
I'm now a software developer for the wide-field astronomy unit (WFAU) of the IfA at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. Presently we are developing the science archives to store the infrared survey data taken by both the WFCAM instrument installed on the UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) and the new purpose-built survey telescope VISTA in the Southern Hemisphere. Find out more here.- My WFCAM Science Archive poster (gzipped postscript) and paper (gzipped postscript) for the ADASS 2005 conference.
- HOWTO: Explore the Infrared Universe with the WSA (Adobe PDF) my poster presentation for NAM 2006.
- Astronomy, Linux and The Problem of Large File Support (Adobe PDF) my poster presentation for ADASS 2006 (and paper).
PhD Research
For my PhD I developed a radiative transfer code for high-energy astrophysical emission processes, which we cunningly named the High-Energy Astrophysics Radiative Transfer code or (the HEART code). In fact, this acronym is a rather good one, as the HEART code, will lie at the heart of any model to explain the time varying spectra from high-energy astrophysical sources. For example the HEART code can be used to model the broadband emission from relativistic jets and accretion disc coronae.
- Grab my PhD thesis (gzipped postscript) (PDF version)
- See my jet movies!
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Talks
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Explaining the Flat Radio Spectra from Astrophysical Jets
- Lunch time talk, March 2002 -
X-rays from Elliptical Galaxies (Powerpoint)
- Lunch time talk, January 2003
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Posters
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Modelling Oscillations in the Jet Emission from GRS 1915+105
- Presented at the 4th Microquasar Workshop, Cargese, Corsica, June 2002
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Modelling Flares in the Jet Emission from Microquasar GRS 1915+105
- Presented at the National Astronomy Meeting 2003, Dublin, Ireland, April 2003
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Papers
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Modelling Oscillations in the Jet Emission from Microquasar GRS 1915+105
- MNRAS, 338, 331, astro-ph/0207271 -
Modelling Oscillations in GRS 1915+105 Jet Emission
- New Views on Microquasars, p. 338, astro-ph/0207384, abstract -
X-ray Scaling Properties of Early Type Galaxies
- MNRAS, 340, 1375, astro-ph/0301153
For the rest see my Google Scholar Profile that is automatically updated with my latest papers.