J. P. Leahy (original) (raw)
I'm a senior lecturer in Radio Astronomy in the University of Manchester's School of Physics and Astronomy. I'm in the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics.
Teaching
Current
- PHYS30692: Stars and Stellar Evolution (See Blackboard for course content)
- I also demonstrate astrophysics experiments in the second year lab, and supervise BSc dissertations and MPhys projects
Very old course pages
- PHYS 20602 Vector Spaces for Quantum Mechanics(content now taught in PHYS30202).
- PHYS 30392 Cosmology Research Interests Magnetic fields in the interstellar, intracluster, and intergalactic media.
- DRAGNs. See myAtlas of DRAGNs(with Alan Bridle & Richard Strom).
- The Cosmic Microwave Background
- Numerical modelling of jets.
- Techniques of synthesis imaging, especially using eMERLIN.
Current projects
- POSSUM A survey of polarized radio emission covering 75% of the sky with ASKAP
- The C-Band All Sky Survey, a survey at 5 GHz to complement the higher-frequency CMB observations by_Planck_ and WMAP.
- The eMerlin Legacy programme on Extragalactic Jet Physics
- Studies of the Galactic synchrotron emission and Faraday rotation at 1.5 GHz using Arecibo (GALFACTS) and Penticton (GMIMS), with my research student Indy Leclercq.
- Galactic Synchrotron polarization, as a CMB foreground contaminant. With my former student Zamri Zainal Abidin, I used the 100-m Effelsberg Radio Telescope to map polarized emission away from the Galactic plane, in collaboration with Wolfgang and Patricia Reich and Richard Wielebinski.
Is the Universe Screwy?
(No it isn't, as a matter of fact).
The Original Schrödinger's Cat paper on-line! (also hereand hereand here, but these all have html errors).
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Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
Alan Turing Building
University of Manchester
Manchester M13 9PL
j.p.leahy@manchester.ac.uk