Professor Stuart Littlefair
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Professor of Astrophysics


s.littlefair@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 4525
+44 114 222 4525
F29, Hicks Building
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Professor Stuart Littlefair
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
F29
Hicks Building
Hounsfield Road
Sheffield
S3 7RH
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
F29
Hicks Building
Hounsfield Road
Sheffield
S3 7RH
- Research interests
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- Interacting binary stars
- Brown dwarfs and low-mass stars
- Star formation
- High time resolution Astrophysics
- Publications
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- Furiously fast and red: sub-second optical flaring in V404 Cyg during the 2015 outburst peak. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 459(1), 554-572. View this article in WRRO
- Magnetospherically driven optical and radio aurorae at the end of the stellar main sequence. Nature, 523(7562), 568-571.
- The planets around NN Ser: still there. View this article in WRRO
All publications
Journal articles
- Calibrating the Clock of JWST. The Astronomical Journal, 169(1), 21-21.
- Expanding the Ultracompacts: Gravitational-wave-driven Mass Transfer in the Shortest-period Binaries with Accretion Disks. The Astrophysical Journal, 977(2), 262-262.
- Kilonova Seekers: the GOTO project for real-time citizen science in time-domain astrophysics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 533(2), 2113-2132. View this article in WRRO
- A survey for radio emission from white dwarfs in the VLA Sky Survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 531(1), 1805-1822.
- Monitoring Neptune's atmosphere with small and large telescopes: results for 2019.
- Author Correction: A dense ring of the trans-Neptunian object Quaoar outside its Roche limit. Nature, 626(7997), E2-E2.
- GRB 230911A: The First Discovery of a Fermi GRB Optical Counterpart with the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO). Research Notes of the AAS, 8(1), 6-6.
- Lens Mass Estimate in the Galactic Disk Extreme Parallax Microlensing Event Gaia19dke. Acta Astronomica, 74(2), 77-111.
- Correction to: A catalogue of cataclysmic variables from 20 yr of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with new classifications, periods, trends, and oddities. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(3), 6388-6388.
- The donor star radial velocity curve in the cataclysmic variable GY Cnc confirms white dwarf eclipse modelling mass. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(2), 4353-4358.
- TIC 378898110: A bright, short-period AM CVn binary in TESS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. View this article in WRRO
- An eclipsing 47 minute double white dwarf binary at 400 pc. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- The fast X-ray transient XRT 210423 and its host galaxy. The Astrophysical Journal, 948(2).
- Photometric follow-up of 43 new eclipsing white dwarf plus main-sequence binaries from the ZTF survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521(2), 1880-1896.
- A dense ring of the trans-Neptunian object Quaoar outside its Roche limit. Nature, 614(7947), 239-243.
- A rapid optical and X-ray timing study of the neutron star X-ray binary Swift J1858.6–0814. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 520(1), 542-559.
- First detection of the outer edge of an AGN accretion disc: very fast multiband optical variability of NGC 4395 with GTC/HiPERCAM and LT/IO:O. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 519(3), 3366-3382.
- Two decades of optical timing of the shortest-period binary star system HM Cancri. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518(4), 5123-5139.
- Self-supervised clustering on image-subtracted data with deep-embedded self-organizing map. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518(1), 752-762.
- Long-term photometric monitoring and spectroscopy of the white dwarf pulsar AR Scorpii. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. View this article in WRRO
- Multi-colour optical light curves of the companion star to the millisecond pulsar PSR J2051−0827. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. View this article in WRRO
- A tentative 114 minute orbital period challenges the ultracompact nature of the X-ray binary 4U 1812–12. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 931(1). View this article in WRRO
- A 62-minute orbital period black widow binary in a wide hierarchical triple.. Nature, 605(7908), 41-45.
- Characterising eclipsing white dwarf M dwarf binaries from multi-band eclipse photometry. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. View this article in WRRO
- The SN Ia runaway LP 398-9: detection of circumstellar material and surface rotation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512(4), 6122-6133.
- The gravitational-wave optical transient observer (GOTO): prototype performance and prospects for transient science. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 511(2), 2405-2422. View this article in WRRO
- System parameters of three short-period cataclysmic variable stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 509(4), 5086-5101. View this article in WRRO
- The post-common-envelope binary central star of the planetary nebula Ou 5: a doubly-eclipsing post-red-giant-branch system. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. View this article in WRRO
- Optical detection of the rapidly spinning white dwarf in V1460 Her. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. View this article in WRRO
- Searching for Fermi GRB optical counterparts with the prototype gravitational-wave optical transient observer (GOTO). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 507(4), 5463-5476. View this article in WRRO
- Discovery and characterization of five new eclipsing AM CVn systems. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. View this article in WRRO
- The evolution of rapid optical/X-ray timing correlations in the initial hard state of MAXI J1820+070. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 505(3), 3452-3469. View this article in WRRO
- Gaia early data release 3 : Gaia photometric science alerts. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 652. View this article in WRRO
- HiPERCAM : a quintuple-beam, high-speed optical imager on the 10.4-m Gran Telescopio Canarias. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 507(1), 350-366. View this article in WRRO
- Light curve classification with recurrent neural networks for GOTO: dealing with imbalanced data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 505(3), 4345-4361. View this article in WRRO
- A quantitative in-depth analysis of the prototype sdB+BD system SDSS J08205+0008 revisited in the Gaia era. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 501(3), 3847-3870. View this article in WRRO
- Magnetic white dwarfs in post-common-envelope binaries. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. View this article in WRRO
- Processing GOTO data with the Rubin Observatory LSST Science Pipelines I: Production of coadded frames. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 38. View this article in WRRO
- Processing GOTO survey data with the Rubin Observatory LSST Science Pipelines II: Forced Photometry and lightcurves. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 38. View this article in WRRO
- Gaia 18dvy : a new FUor in the Cygnus OB3 association. The Astrophysical Journal, 899(2).
- Monitoring Neptune's atmosphere with a combination of small and large telescopes.
- A pulsating white dwarf in an eclipsing binary. Nature Astronomy. View this article in WRRO
- The first ultracompact Roche lobe–filling hot subdwarf binary. The Astrophysical Journal, 891(1). View this article in WRRO
- Full orbital solution for the binary system in the northern Galactic disc microlensing event Gaia16aye. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 633(January 2020). View this article in WRRO
- Searching for electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational-wave merger events with the prototype Gravitational-Wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO-4). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 497(1), 726-738. View this article in WRRO
- Spectroscopic and photometric periods of six ultracompact accreting binaries. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 496(2), 1243-1261. View this article in WRRO
- The pre-He white dwarf in the post-mass transfer binary EL CVn. The Astronomical Journal, 159(1). View this article in WRRO
- A black hole x-ray binary at ∼100 Hz : multiwavelength timing of MAXI J1820+070 with HiPERCAM and NICER. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. View this article in WRRO
- The evolutionary status of Cataclysmic Variables: Eclipse modelling of 15 systems. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486(4), 5535-5551. View this article in WRRO
- Lower atmosphere and pressure evolution on Pluto from ground-based stellar occultations, 1988–2016. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 625. View this article in WRRO
- The PDS 110 observing campaign – photometric and spectroscopic observations reveal eclipses are aperiodic. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485(2), 1614-1625. View this article in WRRO
- The Type II-plateau Supernova 2017eaw in NGC 6946 and Its Red Supergiant Progenitor. The Astrophysical Journal, 875(2). View this article in WRRO
- Accurate mass and radius determinations of a cool subdwarf in an
eclipsing binary. Nature Astronomy, 3, 553-560. View this article in WRRO
- Weighing Melnick 34: the most massive binary system known. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(2), 2692-2710. View this article in WRRO
- The direct detection of the irradiated brown dwarf in the white dwarf -
brown dwarf binary SDSS J141126.20+200911.1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. View this article in WRRO
- The scatter of the M dwarf mass–radius relationship. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 481(1), 1083-1096. View this article in WRRO
- The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package. The Astronomical Journal, 156(3). View this article in WRRO
- Discovery of an old nova shell surrounding the cataclysmic variable V1315 Aql. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(4), 4483-4490. View this article in WRRO
- A 15.7-minAM CVn binary discovered in K2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(4), 5646-5656. View this article in WRRO
- Erratum for the Report “A precise measurement of the magnetic field in the corona of the black hole binary V404 Cygni” by Y. Dallilar, S. S. Eikenberry, A. Garner, R. D. Stelter, A. Gottlieb, P. Gandhi, P. Casella, V. S. Dhillon, T. R. Marsh, S. P. Littlefair, L. Hardy, R. Fender, K. Mooley, D. J. Walton, F. Fuerst, M. Bachetti, A. J. Castro-Tirado, M. Charcos, M. L. Edwards, N. M. Lasso-Cabrera, A. Marin-Franch, S. N. Raines, K. Ackley, J. G. Bennett, A. J. Cenarro, B. Chinn, H. V. Donoso, R. Frommeyer, K. Hanna, M. D. Herlevich, J. Julian, P. Miller, S. Mullin, C. H. Murphey, C. Packham, F. Varosi, C. Vega, C. Warner, A. N. Ramaprakash, M. Burse, S. Punnadi, P. Chordia, A. Gerarts, H. de Paz Martín, M. Martín Calero, R. Scarpa, S. Fernandez Acosta, W. M. Hernández Sánchez, B. Siegel, F. Francisco Pérez, H. D. Viera Martín, J. A. Rodríguez Losada, A. Nuñez, Á. Tejero, C. E. Martín González, C. Cabrera Rodríguez, J. Molgó, J. Esteban Rodriguez, J. I. Fernández Cáceres, L. A. Rodríguez García, M. Huertas Lopez, R. Dominguez, T. Gaggstatter, A. Cabrera Lavers, S. Geier, P. Pessev, A. Sarajedini. Science, 360(6386), eaat9270-eaat9270. View this article in WRRO
- astroplan: An Open Source Observation Planning Package in Python. ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, 155(3). View this article in WRRO
- High-Speed Photometry of Gaia14aae: An Eclipsing AM CVn That Challenges
Formation Models. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. View this article in WRRO
- The first sub-70 minute non-interacting WD-BD system: EPIC212235321. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. View this article in WRRO
- A telescope control and scheduling system for the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO). Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VII. View this article in WRRO
- The SUrvey for Pulsars and Extragalactic Radio Bursts – II. New FRB discoveries and their follow-up. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(2), 1427-1446. View this article in WRRO
- A precise measurement of the magnetic field in the corona of the black hole binary V404 Cygni. Science, 358(6368), 1299-1302. View this article in WRRO
- A search for optical bursts from the repeating fast radio burst FRB 121102. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 472(3), 2800-2807. View this article in WRRO
- An elevation of 0.1 light-seconds for the optical jet base in an accreting Galactic black hole system. Nature Astronomy, 1(12), 859-864. View this article in WRRO
- Two white dwarfs in ultrashort binaries with detached, eclipsing, likely sub-stellar companions detected by K2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471(1), 976-986. View this article in WRRO
- Testing the white dwarf mass-radius relationship with eclipsing binaries. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470(4), 4473-4492. View this article in WRRO
- A polarized fast radio burst at low Galactic latitude. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 469(4), 4465-4482. View this article in WRRO
- SS Cancri: the shortest modulation-period Blazhko RR Lyrae. Information Bulletin on Variable Stars, 63(6213). View this article in WRRO
- Robust detection of quasi-periodic variability: A HAWK-I mini survey of late-T dwarfs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 466(4), 4250-4258. View this article in WRRO
- SDSS J105754.25+275947.5: a period-bounce eclipsing cataclysmic variable with the lowest-mass donor yet measured. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 467(1), 1024-1032. View this article in WRRO
- Flares, wind and nebulae: the 2015 December mini-outburst of V404 Cygni. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 465(1), L124-L128. View this article in WRRO
- PTF1 J082340.04+081936.5: A Hot Subdwarf B Star with a Low-mass White Dwarf Companion in an 87-minute Orbit. The Astrophysical Journal, 835(2). View this article in WRRO
- A LOFAR mini-survey for low-frequency radio emission from the nearest brown dwarfs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 463(2), 2202-2209. View this article in WRRO
- Transmission spectroscopy of the inflated exoplanet WASP-52b, and evidence for a bright region on the stellar surface. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 463(3), 2922-2931. View this article in WRRO
- Hunting For Eclipses: High Speed Observations of Cataclysmic Variables. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. View this article in WRRO
- Long-term photometry of IC 348 with the Young Exoplanet Transit Initiative network. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 462(3), 2396-2417. View this article in WRRO
- Using Gaussian processes to model light curves in the presence of flickering: the eclipsing cataclysmic variable ASASSN-14ag. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(2), 1353-1364. View this article in WRRO
- Long-term eclipse timing of white dwarf binaries: an observational hint of a magnetic mechanism at work. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(4), 3873-3887. View this article in WRRO
- HiPERCAM: A high-speed quintuple-beam CCD camera for the study of rapid variability in the universe. Proceedings of SPIE. View this article in WRRO
- A radio-pulsing white dwarf binary star. Nature, 537, 374-377. View this article in WRRO
- Atmospheric Electrification in Dusty, Reactive Gases in the Solar System and Beyond. Surveys in Geophysics, 37(4), 705-756. View this article in WRRO
- Furiously fast and red: sub-second optical flaring in V404 Cyg during the 2015 outburst peak. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 459(1), 554-572. View this article in WRRO
- An irradiated brown-dwarf companion to an accreting white dwarf. Nature, 533(7603), 366-368. View this article in WRRO
- Pulsating hot O subdwarfs in ω Centauri: mapping a unique instability strip on the extreme horizontal branch. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 589. View this article in WRRO
- The crowded magnetosphere of the post-common-envelope binary QS Virginis. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 458(3), 2793-2812. View this article in WRRO
- A large, long-lived structure near the trojan L5 point in the post common-envelope binary SDSS J1021+1744. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456(3), 2446-2456. View this article in WRRO
- Search for transiting exoplanets and variable stars in the open cluster NGC 7243. Astronomische Nachrichten, 337(3), 261-285.
- Discovery of an eclipsing dwarf nova in the ancient nova shell Te 11. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456(1), 633-640. View this article in WRRO
- Rotation periods and astrometric motions of the Luhman 16AB brown dwarfs by high-resolution lucky-imaging monitoring. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 584, A104-A104.
- pt5m– a 0.5 m robotic telescope on La Palma. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454(4), 4316-4325. View this article in WRRO
- Magnetospherically driven optical and radio aurorae at the end of the stellar main sequence. Nature, 523(7562), 568-571.
- The binary millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038 during its accretion state – I. Optical variability. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453(4), 3462-3474. View this article in WRRO
- Total eclipse of the heart: the AM CVn Gaia14aae/ASSASN-14cn. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452(1), 1060-1067. View this article in WRRO
- 14 new eclipsing white dwarf plus main-sequence binaries from the SDSS and Catalina surveys. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 449(2), 2194-2204. View this article in WRRO
- PHL 1445: an eclipsing cataclysmic variable with a substellar donor near the period minimum. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 451(1), 114-125. View this article in WRRO
- Discovery of ZZ Cetis in detached white dwarf plus main-sequence binaries. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447(1), 691-697. View this article in WRRO
- Erratum: ULTRASPEC: a high-speed imaging photometer on the 2.4-m Thai National Telescope. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 446(3), 2870-2870.
- Multiwaveband photometry of the irradiated brown dwarf WD0137−349B. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447(4), 3218-3226. View this article in WRRO
- Defocused transmission spectroscopy: a potential detection of sodium in the atmosphere of WASP-12b. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 446(1), 1071-1082. View this article in WRRO
- The substellar companion in the eclipsing white dwarf binary SDSS J141126.20+200911.1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445(2), 2106-2115. View this article in WRRO
- Testing the planetary models of HU Aquarii. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445(2), 1924-1931. View this article in WRRO
- ULTRASPEC: a high-speed imaging photometer on the 2.4-m Thai National Telescope. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 444(4), 4009-4021. View this article in WRRO
- Heavy metals in a light white dwarf: abundances of the metal-rich, extremely low-mass GALEX J1717+6757. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 444(2), 1674-1682. View this article in WRRO
- Stellar occultation by (119951) 2002 KX14on April 26, 2012. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 571, A48-A48.
- An exploration of Pluto's environment through stellar occultations. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 561.
- Angular momentum evolution of young stars. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 9(S302), 91-99.
- Hot DAVs: a probable new class of pulsating white dwarf stars. mnras, 432, 1632-1639-1632-1639. View this article in WRRO
- Clouds brown dwarfs and giant planets. Astronomische Nachrichten, 334(1-2), 40-43.
- Ground-based exploration of the outer solar system by serendipitous stellar occultations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 428(3), 2661-2667. View this article in WRRO
- Albedo and atmospheric constraints of dwarf planet Makemake from a stellar occultation.. Nature, 491(7425), 566-569.
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- Rotation of young stars in Cepheus OB3b. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 403(2), 545-557. View this article in WRRO
- Physical properties of IP Pegasi: an eclipsing dwarf nova with an unusually cool white dwarf. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 402(3), 1824-1840. View this article in WRRO
- Precise mass and radius values for the white dwarf and low mass M dwarf in the pre-cataclysmic binary NN Serpentis. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 402(4), 2591-2608. View this article in WRRO
- A stellar flare during the transit of the extrasolar planet OGLE-TR-10b (Research Note). ASTRON ASTROPHYS, 505(2), 901-902.
- SDSS unveils a population of intrinsically faint cataclysmic variables at the minimum orbital period. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 397(4), 2170-2188. View this article in WRRO
- Pre-main-sequence variability across the radiative-convective gap. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 397(1), 405-410. View this article in WRRO
- Hunting high and low: XMM monitoring of the eclipsing polar HU Aquarii. ASTRON ASTROPHYS, 496(3), 833-840.
- ULTRACAM observations of two accreting white dwarf pulsators. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 393(1), 157-170. View this article in WRRO
- A search for a new class of pulsating DA white dwarf stars in the DB gap. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 389(4), 1771-1779. View this article in WRRO
- On the evolutionary status of short-period cataclysmic variables. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 388(4), 1582-1594. View this article in WRRO
- 1RXS J173021.5-055933: a cataclysmic variable with a fast-spinning magnetic white dwarf. ASTRON ASTROPHYS, 481(1), 149-159.
- SDSS J150722.30+523039.8: a cataclysmic variable formed directly from a detached white dwarf/brown dwarf binary ?. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 381(2), 827-834. View this article in WRRO
- ULTRACAM: an ultrafast, triple-beam CCD camera for high-speed astrophysics. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 378(3), 825-840. View this article in WRRO
- The Keele-Exeter young cluster survey - I. Low-mass pre-main-sequence stars in NGC 2169. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 376(2), 580-598. View this article in WRRO
- Empirical isochrones and relative ages for young stars, and the radiative-convective gap. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 375(4), 1220-1240. View this article in WRRO
- ULTRACAM photometry of the ultracompact binaries V407 Vul and HM Cnc. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 374(4), 1334-1346. View this article in WRRO
- The nature of the close magnetic white dwarf plus probable brown dwarf binary SDSS J121209.31+013627.7. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 373(4), 1416-1422. View this article in WRRO
- A brown dwarf mass donor in an accreting binary.. Science, 314(5805), 1578-1580. View this article in WRRO
- VLT/FORS spectroscopy of faint cataclysmic variables discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 373(2), 687-699. View this article in WRRO
- Radial and rotational velocities of young brown dwarfs and very low-mass stars in the Upper Scorpius OB association and the rho Ophiuchi cloud core. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 372(4), 1879-1887. View this article in WRRO
- A search for optical bursts from the rotating radio transient J1819-1458 with ULTRACAM. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 372(1), 209-212. View this article in WRRO
- ULTRACAM observations of SDSS J170213.26+322954.1 - an eclipsing cataclysmic variable in the period gap. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 371(3), 1435-1440.
- Observations of ultracool dwarfs with ULTRACAM on the VLT: a search for weather. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 370(3), 1208-1212. View this article in WRRO
- ULTRACAM photometry of the eclipsing cataclysmic variables GY Cnc, IR Com and HT Cas. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 364(4), 1158-1167. View this article in WRRO
- Can variability account for apparent age spreads in OB association colour-magnitude diagrams ?. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 363(4), 1389-1397. View this article in WRRO
- High-speed, multicolour optical photometry of the anomalous X-ray pulsar 4U 0142+61 with ULTRACAM. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 363(2), 609-614. View this article in WRRO
- HS0943+1404, a true intermediate polar. ASTRON ASTROPHYS, 440(2), 701-709.
- The K-band spectrum of the cataclysmic variable RXJ 0502.8+1624 (Tau 4). ASTRON ASTROPHYS, 437(2), 637-639.
- Do accretion discs regulate the rotation of young stars?. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 358(2), 341-352.
- Circumstellar discs around solar mass stars in NGC 6611. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 358(1), L21-L24.
- The component masses of the cataclysmic variable V347 Puppis. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 357(3), 881-894. View this article in WRRO
- On the use of (CO)-C-12/(CO)-C-13 as a test of common-envelope evolution. ASTRON ASTROPHYS, 393(2), 611-615.
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- Testing disc reprocessing models for AGN optical variability by comparison of X-ray and optical power spectra of NGC 4395. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, staf014.
- The only inflated brown dwarf in an eclipsing white dwarf–brown dwarf binary: WD1032+011B. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- Using Gaussian Processes to detect AGN flares. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- The double low-mass white dwarf eclipsing binary system J2102-4145 and its possible evolution. Astronomy & Astrophysics.
- Measuring the Initial-Final Mass-Relation using wide double white dwarf binaries from Gaia DR3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- Heavy element production in a compact object merger observed by JWST. Nature.
- Discovery of dipolar chromospheres in two white dwarfs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- A rotating white dwarf shows different compositions on its opposite faces. Nature.
- A catalogue of cataclysmic variables from 20 years of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with new classifications, periods, trends and oddities.. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- A 5.3-min-period pulsing white dwarf in a binary detected from radio to X-rays. Nature Astronomy.
- A black widow population dissection through HiPERCAM multi-band light curve modelling. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- A dense 0.1-solar-mass star in a 51-minute-orbital-period eclipsing binary. Nature.
- OUP accepted manuscript. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. View this article in WRRO
- THE FIRST MILLIMETER DETECTION OF A NON-ACCRETING ULTRACOOL DWARF. The Astrophysical Journal, 815(1), 64-64.
- DIRECT EVIDENCE FOR AN EVOLVING DUST CLOUD FROM THE EXOPLANET KIC 12557548 B. The Astrophysical Journal, 800(2), L21-L21.
- A parameter study of the eclipsing CV in the Kepler field, KIS
J192748.53+444724.5. View this article in WRRO
- Tidally Distorted Exoplanets: Density Corrections for Short-Period
Hot-Jupiters based solely on Observable Parameters. ApJ, 789, 113.
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- Precise parameters for both white dwarfs in the eclipsing binary CSS
41177. View this article in WRRO
- Timing variations in the secondary eclipse of NN Ser. View this article in WRRO
- Optical transmission photometry of the highly inflated exoplanet
WASP-17b. View this article in WRRO
- The planets around NN Ser: still there. View this article in WRRO
- Properties of the Eclipsing Double-White Dwarf Binary NLTT 11748.
- A magnetic white dwarf in a detached eclipsing binary. View this article in WRRO
- Binaries discovered by the MUCHFUSS project; FBS 0117+396: An sdB+dM
binary with a pulsating primary.
- A deep WISE search for very late type objects and the discovery of two
halo/thick-disk T dwarfs: WISE 0013+0634 and WISE 0833+0052. View this article in WRRO
- ULTRACAM z'-band Detection of the Secondary Eclipse of WASP-12b. View this article in WRRO
- CI Aql: a Type Ia supernova progenitor?. View this article in WRRO
- Transmission photometry of WASP-12b: simultaneous measurement of the
planetary radius in three bands.
- The not-so-massive black hole in the microquasar GRS1915+105. View this article in WRRO
- Seventy six T dwarfs from the UKIDSS LAS: benchmarks, kinematics and an
updated space density.
- A J-band detection of the sub-stellar mass donor in SDSS J1433+1011. View this article in WRRO
- Eclipsing Post Common Envelope Binaries from the Catalina Surveys. View this article in WRRO
- Finding Exoplanets Orbiting Young Active Stars. I. Technique. View this article in WRRO
- An accurate mass and radius measurement for an ultracool white dwarf. View this article in WRRO
- z'-band Ground-Based Detection of the Secondary Eclipse of WASP-19b. ApJS, 201, 36.
- Pre-main-sequence isochrones -- I. The Pleiades benchmark. View this article in WRRO
- A Radial Velocity Study of CTCV J1300-3052. View this article in WRRO
- A J-band detection of the donor star in the dwarf nova OY Carinae, and
an optical detection of its `iron curtain'. View this article in WRRO
- A precision study of two eclipsing white dwarf plus M dwarf binaries. View this article in WRRO
- The shortest period detached white dwarf + main-sequence binary. View this article in WRRO
- Stellar jitter from variable gravitational redshift: implications for RV
confirmation of habitable exoplanets.
- No wide spread of stellar ages in the Orion Nebula Cluster. View this article in WRRO
- A search for optical bursts from RRAT J1819-1458: II. Simultaneous
ULTRACAM-Lovell Telescope observations. View this article in WRRO
- The first observation of optical pulsations from a soft gamma repeater:
SGR 0501+4516.
- The Planets around the Post-Common Envelope Binary NN Serpentis. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1331, 281-286. View this article in WRRO
- Cataclysmic Variables below the Period Gap: Mass Determinations of 14
Eclipsing Systems. View this article in WRRO
- Accretion-induced luminosity spreads in young clusters: evidence from
stellar rotation.
- The photometric period in ES Ceti. View this article in WRRO
- Search for p-mode oscillations in DA white dwarfs with VLT-ULTRACAM. I.
Upper limits to the p-modes.
- Probing GRB environments with time variability: ULTRASPEC fast imaging
of GRB 080210. Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 412, 2229-2240. View this article in WRRO
- Two planets orbiting the recently formed post-common envelope binary NN
Serpentis. View this article in WRRO
- Orbital Period Variations in Eclipsing Post Common Envelope Binaries. View this article in WRRO
- On the alignment of debris disks and their host stars' rotation axis
-implications for spin-orbit misalignment in exoplanetary systems.
- SDSS J0926+3624: The shortest period eclipsing binary star. View this article in WRRO
- Estimating the masses of extra-solar planets. View this article in WRRO
- Optical pulsations from the anomalous X-ray pulsar 1E 1048.1-5937.
- Optical variability of the ultracool dwarf TVLM 513-46546: evidence for
inhomogeneous dust clouds.
- Contamination and exclusion in the sigma Orionis young group. Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc., 356, 1583-1591.
- Characterising the i-band variability of YSOs over six orders of
magnitude in timescale.
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- A New Class of Roche Lobe–filling Hot Subdwarf Binaries. The Astrophysical Journal, 898(1), L25-L25.
- Detection and Timing of Gamma-Ray Pulsations from the 707 Hz Pulsar J0952−0607. The Astrophysical Journal, 883(1), 42-42. View this article in WRRO
- HIGH-SPEED PHOTOMETRY OF THE DISINTEGRATING PLANETESIMALS AT WD1145+017: EVIDENCE FOR RAPID DYNAMICAL EVOLUTION. Letters of the Astrophysical Journal, 818(1). View this article in WRRO
- Machine Learning for Transient Recognition in Difference Imaging With Minimum Sampling Effort. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. View this article in WRRO
Conference proceedings papers
- Developing the GOTO telescope control system. Proceedings of SPIE : Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VI, Vol. 11452. Online conference, 14 December 2020 - 18 December 2020.
- Configuration of readout electronics and data acquisition for the HiPERCAM instrument. Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 10709, 10 June 2018 - 15 June 2018. View this article in WRRO
- First light with HiPERCAM on the GTC. Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 10702, 10 June 2018 - 15 June 2018. View this article in WRRO
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- The Planets around the post-Common Envelope Binary NN Serpentis. PLANETARY SYSTEMS BEYOND THE MAIN SEQUENCE, Vol. 1331 (pp 281-286)
- http://pos.sissa.it/cgi-bin/reader/conf.cgi?confid=108, id.45
- http://pos.sissa.it/cgi-bin/reader/conf.cgi?confid=108, id.23
- New methods for determining the ages of PMS stars. AGES OF STARS, Vol. 4(258) (pp 103-110)
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Theses / Dissertations
Preprints
- Two almost planetary mass survivors of common envelope evolution, arXiv.
- A gravitational wave detectable candidate Type Ia supernova progenitor, arXiv.
- The Einstein Probe transient EP240414a: Linking Fast X-ray Transients, Gamma-ray Bursts and Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients, arXiv.
- Soft X-ray prompt emission from a high-redshift gamma-ray burst EP240315a, arXiv.
- Measuring the Initial-Final Mass-Relation using wide double white dwarf binaries from Gaia DR3, arXiv.
- The donor star radial velocity curve in the cataclysmic variable GY Cnc confirms white dwarf eclipse modelling mass, arXiv.
- Lens mass estimate in the Galactic disk extreme parallax microlensing event Gaia19dke, arXiv.
- JWST detection of heavy neutron capture elements in a compact object merger, Research Square Platform LLC.
- JWST detection of heavy neutron capture elements in a compact object merger, arXiv.
- The Fast X-ray Transient XRT 210423 and its Host Galaxy, arXiv.
- Photometric follow-up of 43 new eclipsing white dwarf plus main-sequence binaries from the ZTF survey, arXiv.
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- A dense $mathbf{0.1 M_{rm odot}}$ star in a 51-minute orbital period eclipsing binary, arXiv.
- A rotating white dwarf with two faces, Research Square Platform LLC.
- Self-Supervised Clustering on Image-Subtracted Data with Deep-Embedded Self-Organizing Map, arXiv.
- Multi-colour optical light curves of the companion star to the millisecond pulsar PSR J2051-0827, arXiv. View this article in WRRO
- Long-term photometric monitoring and spectroscopy of the white dwarf pulsar AR Scorpii, arXiv. View this article in WRRO
- The SNIa Runaway LP 398-9: Detection of Circumstellar Material and Surface Rotation, arXiv.
- An F type star in a 51-minute orbital period eclipsing binary, Research Square Platform LLC.
- View this article in WRRO
- Furiously fast and red: sub-second optical flaring in V404 Cyg during the 2015 outburst peak. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 459(1), 554-572. View this article in WRRO
- Research group
- Teaching activities
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PHY241 Observational Astronomy
- Professional activities and memberships
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- ESO Observing Programmes Committee Member 2013-2015
- ING Board Member
- LSST:UK Board Member"Member PPARC/STFC Time Allocation Committees 2004-2007
Departmental administration
- Head of Second Year Astrophysics
- Research Committee Member
- Space Committee Member