Astrophysics
Welcome to the University College London (UCL) MSSL astrophysics group web-site. In synergy with MSSL's involvement in space science missions, members of the astrophysics group actively work on a wide range of astronomy and astrophysics.
News
- Overfed Black Holes Shut Down Galactic Star Formation (Mathew Page, Myrto Symeonidis et al. in Nature, Pres release, NASA)
- ESA selected Euclid! (Press release, UCL, UKSA, ESA)
- Space telescope reveal secrets of turbulent black hole (Press release, Graziella Branduardi-Raymont and Missagh Mehdipour)
- Exploding stars can make good dust factories (publication in Science, lead-author: Mikako Matsuura)
- A pulsar and its mysterious tail (Chandra Press Release, co-author: Roberto Mignani)
- The crab in action & the case of the dog that did not bark (Chandra Press Release, co-author: Roberto Mignani)
- New theory of evolution for spiral galaxy arms (NAM Press Release, Robert Grand)
- LOFT selected for a ESA's M3 mission
Events
- Second Science Meeting LOFT (Toulouse, 24-27 September 2012, SOC: Silvia Zane)
- NAM 2012: "Session HE3: Multi-wavelength observations of compact objects" (Manchester, 27-30, March 2012, SOC and organisers: Roberto Mignani, Silvia Zane)
- IAU Symp. 295: "The intriguing life of massive galaxies" (Beijing, 27-31 August, 2012, SOC-chair: Ignacio Ferreras)
- IAU Symp. 291: "Neutron stars and pulsars: Challenges and Opportunities after 80 years" (Beijing, 20-31 August, 2012, SOC: Silvia Zane)
- GREAT-ESF workshop: "Galaxy Modelling with a Gaia Mock Catalogue", Barcelona, 29 February-2 March, 2012, SOC-chair: Daisuke Kawata)
- MSSL Astrophysics group seminars
