Dr. Duncan H. Forgan

 
 

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.  I study self-gravity in circumstellar discs, using smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations with radiative transfer (see my CV).  I also carry out theoretical calculations for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).  Use the links above to find out about me, my research, my publications and other content (including my blog).

 

EMAIL         dhf (at) roe.ac.uk

Twitter    dh4gan

TEL             +44(0)131 668 8387 

ADDRESS   Dr. Duncan Forgan

                    East Tower

                    Royal Observatory Edinburgh

                    Blackford Hill

                    EH9 3HJ  UK

  1. RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  2. 1.Forgan (2012), ‘Oscillations in the Habitable Zone of Alpha Centauri B’, MNRAS, in press

  3. 2.Rice, Forgan and Armitage (2012), ‘Convergence in SPH self-gravitating discs,’ MNRAS, 420, 1640

  4. 3.Forgan and Rice (2012), ‘Cloud Angular Momentum and Disc Fragmentation’, MNRAS, 420, 299

  5. 4.Starling and Forgan (2011), ‘Virulence as a Model for Interstellar Colonisation’, IJA, submitted

  6. 5.Forgan and Rice (2011a), ‘The Jeans Mass and Disc Fragmentation’, MNRAS, 417, 1928

LATEST NEWS

1/9/2011 - 30/9/11: I’ve been doing work experience in BBC Scotland’s Specialist Factual Department

6/6/2011 - 23/06/11: I’m a Visiting Fellow at JILA, part of the University of Colorado at Boulder

2/6/2011: I gave a seminar at Northwestern University on ‘Estimating Fragment Masses’

2/6/2011: I’ve been awarded the RAS Penston Thesis Prize for best PhD thesis in Astronomy/Astrophysics!