Professor Mark Birkinshaw

Research summary

I work on the large-scale structure of the Universe and the properties of the massive objects contained within it, using both observation and theory. 

I worked on NASA's Chandra satellite before launch, and use it and other space-based and ground-based telescopes from X-ray to optical to radio bands to study galaxies, especially those hosting massive black holes and showing signs of unusual activity. 

In these areas I give professional and public presentations, but I also speak and write on more general astronomical and cosmological topics.

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Links

• My research page
• Publications (2009-2012)

Recent publications

• Worrall, DM, Birkinshaw, M, Young, AJ, Momtahan, K, Fosbury, RAE, Morganti, R, Tadhunter, CN & Kleijn, GV 2012, ‘The jet-cloud interacting radio galaxy PKS B2152-699 - I. Structures revealed in new deep radio and X-ray observations’. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol 424., pp. 1346-1362
• Giles, P, Maughan, B, Birkinshaw, M, Worrall, D & Lancaster, K 2012, ‘Separating the BL Lac and cluster X-ray emissions in Abell 689 with Chandra’. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol 419., pp. 503 - 512

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