Astrophysics News

2018

• CL led team awarded prestigious EU grant to prepare for data from ESA’s Euclid (Tom Kitching, UCL News, 2 May 2018)
• Gaia’s 3D census of over one billion stars in our Milky Way (Mark Cropper, George Seabroke, UCL News, 25 Apr. 2018)
• The Euclid Satellite and Gravitational Lensing (UCL Science Blog by Peter Taylor, 30 Jan. 2018)
• Prof. Mark Cropper awarded RAS 2018 Service Award for Astronomy (MSSL News, 15 Jan. 2018)

2017

• CSIRO and ICARA (Curtin University) in Australia collaborate with UCL’s CDT to develop next-generation data science techniques for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) (Luke Pratley and Jason McEwen, MSSL News, 12 Dec. 2017)
• First winner of UCL-University of Toronto joint funding including the collaboration between MSSL (Daisuke Kawata) and Astronomy & Astrophysics in University of Toronto (Jo Bovy) (UCL Global News, 17 Nov. 2017)
• The 3rd version of the XMM OM serendipitous source catalogue (XMM-SUSS3) has been released. (XMM-SUSS page, 12 Apr. 2017)

2016

• First Signs of Weird Quantum Property of Empty Space? (Publication in MNRAS, co-authors: Denis Gonzalez Caniulef, Roberto Turolla, Silvia Zane, Kinwah Wu, ESO Science release, UCL MAPS, Science, 30 November 2016)
• Tracing the Hercules stream with Gaia and LAMOST: new evidence for a fast bar in the Milky Way (Publication in MNRAS, co-authors: Daisuke Kawata, Jason Hunt, Gaia Image of the Week, 25 November 2016)
• Gaia sizes up 1.1 billion stars (UCL News, 14 September 2016)
• Young Magnetar Likely the Slowest Pulsar Ever Detected (Publication in MNRAS, co-author: Silvia Zane, NASA Press Release, 8 September 2016)
• Einstein’s general relativity passes another stringent test (Publication in ApJ, Lead-author: Ignacio Ferreras, UCL MAPS, 11 July, 2016)
• The greatest movie ever made, directed by astronomers, starring Our Universe (Jason McEwen, MSSL News, 19 May 2016)
• First Signs of Weird Quantum Property of Empty Space? (Publication in MNRAS, co-authors: Denis Gonzalez Caniulef, Roberto Turolla, Silvia Zane, Kinwah Wu, ESO Science release, UCL MAPS, Science, 30 November 2016)
• Tracing the Hercules stream with Gaia and LAMOST: new evidence for a fast bar in the Milky Way (Publication in MNRAS, co-authors: Daisuke Kawata, Jason Hunt, Gaia Image of the Week, 25 November 2016)
• Gaia sizes up 1.1 billion stars (UCL News, 14 September 2016)
• Young Magnetar Likely the Slowest Pulsar Ever Detected (Publication in MNRAS, co-author: Silvia Zane, NASA Press Release, 8 September 2016)
• Einstein’s general relativity passes another stringent test (Publication in ApJ, Lead-author: Ignacio Ferreras, UCL MAPS, 11 July, 2016)
• The greatest movie ever made, directed by astronomers, starring Our Universe (Jason McEwen, MSSL News, 19 May 2016)

2015

• Indian multi-wavelength space observatory, Astrosat, successful launch. MSSL provided parts for UVIT, the UV instrument on board, in particular the high voltage power supplies, based on XMM-OM and Swift-UVOT heritage, through a Canadian collaboration. (28 September 2015)
• MSSL involved in new NASA proposal (Team member: Kinwah Wu, Silvia Zane, MSSL News, NASA Press Release, 5 Aug 2015)
• ESA shortlists three space missions with major UCL contributions (UCL MAPS, 17 June 2015)
• An improved version of The XMM-OM Serendipitous Ultra-violet Source Survey (XMM-SUSS2.1) is now available. (19 May 2015)
• Magnetar near supermassive black hole delivers surprises (Publication in MNRAS, Co-author: Silvia Zane, Press Release: NASA, UCL MAPS, 14 May 2015)
• Dark matter ‘ghosts’ through galactic smash-ups (Publication in Science, Co-author: Tom Kitching, BBC News, 27 March 2015)
• Congratulations to Jason Hunt on his winning Bronze prize at SET for Britain poster competition in the House of Commons on 9 March 2015 (UCL MAPS news)

2014

• Congratulations to George Seabroke on his winning the Elizabeth Puchnarewicz Award for Outstanding Contribution to Public Outreach (3 December 2014).
• Pioneering work helps to join the dots across the known universe… and the human brain (24 November 2014, Article: The Conversation, Press Release: UCL MAPS, MSSL)
• Swift/UVOT Serendipitous Source Catalogue (UVOTSSC) first data release on Swift’s 10th Birthday (20 Nov 2014)!
• 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).

2013

• 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)