Dr Andrew Young
B.A., M.A., Ph.D.(Cantab.)
Current positions
Associate Professor
School of Physics
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Research interests
My research interests are in high energy astrophysics, and X-ray astronomy in particular. X-rays are produced by extremely hot (million+ degree) gas. Extreme environments that produce strong X-ray emission include gas falling into black holes, the centres of “active” galaxies, jets, outflows, and clusters of galaxies. I study these systems using images and spectra from space-based X-ray observatories including Chandra, XMM-Newton and Suzaku
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Time-domain Analysis to study the Life-cycle and Evolution of Supermassive black holes
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of PhysicsDates
01/01/2025 to 31/12/2028
Bristol Open-source Relativistic Gravity
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of PhysicsDates
01/04/2024 to 31/03/2027
Publications
Recent publications
20/02/2025Extracting the X-Ray Reverberation Response Functions from the Active Galactic Nucleus Light Curves Using an Autoencoder
Astrophysical Journal
Gradus.jl: spacetime-agnostic general relativistic ray-tracing for X-ray spectral modelling
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies beyond the local X-ray Universe: an X-ray spectral sample
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Parameter dependency on the public X-ray reverberation models kynxilrev and kynrefrev
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
The effects of instrumental deadtime on NICER timing products
RAS Techniques and Instruments
