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
Thesis supervisions
Iron Line Reverberation Mapping With ATHENA
Supervisors
Radio to x-ray emission of jets and hotspots
Supervisors
The x-ray variability and reverberation of Active Galactic Nuclei
Supervisors
Analysis of Variability Phenomena in Soft X-Ray Sources
Supervisors
Reverberation and Spectral Variability of AGN
Supervisors
General relativistic effects in black hole X-ray coronal models
Supervisors
NuSTAR and Chandra Cross-Calibration using Galaxy Clusters
Supervisors
X-ray Observations of radio Jets from 3CR 14 and 3CR 9
Supervisors
Formation of Iron Rich Bodies via Giant Impacts
Supervisors
Formation and evolution of extreme debris disks through giant impacts of planetary embryos
Supervisors
X-ray spectral timing of GX 339-4
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
01/02/2026Evidence of mutually exclusive outflow forms from a black hole X-ray binary
Nature Astronomy
Extraction Method for Response Functions from X-Ray Light Curves of Active Galactic Nuclei by an Optimization Algorithm
The Astrophysical Journal
GRADUS.JL
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Modeling Reflection Spectra of Super-Eddington X-Ray Sources
Astrophysical Journal
Extracting the X-Ray Reverberation Response Functions from the Active Galactic Nucleus Light Curves Using an Autoencoder
Astrophysical Journal
