MSSL-UCL Astrophysics Group
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. Please also visit our MSSL Astrophysics Blog.
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Fast-flowing gas curtails galaxy's glow (published in Science, co-author: Graziella Branduardi-Raymont, Megan Whewell, Credit: Renaud Person)
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Gaia in Space (Credit: ESA/ATG medialab; background image: ESO/S. Brunier)
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ESA's Euclid mission. MSSL is leading efforts to design and build the VIS instrument. (Credit: ESA/C. Carreau)
News
- Fast-flowing gas curtails galaxy's glow (20 June 2014, published in Science, Press release UCL, MSSL astro blog, co-author: Graziella Branduardi-Raymont, Megan Whewell)
- Congratulations to Jason Hunt on his winning the UCL Research Poster Competition 2013/2014 (MSSL news).
- ESA's Billion Star Surveyor: UCL's contribution (17 December 2013, Press Release UCL)
- "The hot and energetic Universe" science theme, Athena, selected for the second Large-class ESA mission! (28 November 2013, Press release ESA, White Paper, Working Group: Graziella Branduardi-Raymont, Matthew Page, Silvia Zane, )
- Magnetic star reveals its hidden power (15 August 2013, published in Nature, Press release UCL, ESA, co-author: Silvia Zane)
Events
- The International Biomedical and Astronomical Signal Processing (BASP) Frontiers workshop 2015 (Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, 25-30 January 2015, SOC: Jason McEwen)
- Physics of Neutron Stars - 2014 (St. Petersburg, Russia, 28 July - 1 August 2014, SOC: Silvia Zane)
- Science on the Sphere (Royal Society Chicheley Hall, 14-15 July 2014, SOC Chair: om Kitching, Jason McEwen)
- Gaia & Galactic Plane Surveys (NAM 2014, Portsmouth, 23 June 2014, SOC: George Seabroke)
- NAM2014 (Portsmouth, 23-26 June 2014, SOC: Silvia Zane)
- MSSL Astrophysics group seminars
- MSSL Astrophysics Journal Club
- UCL P&A Astrophysics group seminars
