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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY. Professor Bob Warwick Head of Department. Astrophysics & Space Science Research at Leicester. First sounding rocket experiment – 1961 Development of an internationally competitive research programme in: X-ray Astronomy

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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

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  1. DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY Professor Bob Warwick Head of Department

  2. Astrophysics & Space Science Research at Leicester • First sounding rocket experiment – 1961 • Development of an internationally competitive research programme in: X-ray Astronomy • Involvement in highly successful missions such as:Ariel V, Einstein, EXOSAT, Ginga, ROSAT, Chandra, XMM • Parallel Developments in: Radio & Space Plasma Physics, Theoretical Astrophysics • The Queen’s Anniversary Prize 1994 • “A world-class teaching, research and consultancy programme in astronomy, space and planetary science”

  3. Astrophysics & Space Science Cont. • Purpose-built Space Research Centre (SRC) opened in 1998 • Second phase of SRC building opened 2002

  4. ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS & SPACE SCIENCE RESEARCH IN THE DEPARTMENT • Theoretical Astrophysics Group • Radio and Space Plasma Physics Group • X-ray and Observational Astronomy Group • Space Research Group • (Instrumentation, Earth Observation Science, Space Projects)

  5. The Scale of the PPARC Programme at Leicester Academic staff engaged on PPARC programmes  20 New academic posts  7 Research staff engaged on PPARC programmes  60 Clerical /Technical Support Staff  20 Postgraduate students  30 26 PPARC grants  £17.7 million SRIF2: Computing/Instrumentation  £1.7 million

  6. Major PPARC Research Projects in the Department • EPIC instrument on XMM-Newton (ESA PI) • XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (ESA PI) • HF Radar, SPEAR on Svalbard • Host of UKAFF Supercomputer • Major role in AstroGrid (e-science) • Instruments for Swift, JWST and Bepi-Columbo

  7. The Radio and Space Plasma Physics Group’s new SPEAR (Space Plasma Exploration by Active Radar) facility on Svalbard. Wave-wave interactions stimulated by SPEAR

  8. PLANETARY EXPLORATION Cassini at Saturn Beagle 2 Instrument Development in the SRC BepiColombo at Mercury

  9. A Neutron Star/Black Hole Encounter

  10. Accreting Black-holes in the Nearby Galaxy M101 OPTICAL X-RAY

  11. Subaru /XMM-Newton Deep Field X-RAY OPTICAL

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