Physics Department News
Astrophysical Discovery
Astrophysicists find two Earth-sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres - only snag is they’re stars not planets. For more information please see the link to the Warwick press release below
Institute of Physics Roy Prize Winner
Nature Paper
Andrew Levan has contributed to a Nature paper which has been published this week, reporting the most distant object ever seen in the Universe.
There is a free access podcast trailer which features both Nial Tanvir and Andrew Levan, see link
The original article can be found here
Article by Prof Tom Marsh and Dr Danny Steeghs
Professor Tom Marsh and Dr Danny Steeghs have just had a paper accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal entitled 'The expanding bipolar shell of the helium nova V445 Puppis'. This article concerns an explosive event caused by fusion of helium on the surface of a white dwarf in a binary star system. State of the art adaptive optics imaging was used to resolve the outflow from this event as it expands. The scale of the image covers less than a thousandths of a degree.
