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)