
Professor Diana Worrall
Current positions
Emeritus Professor
School of Physics
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Research interests
My primary research interests are in extragalactic astrophysics and X-ray astronomy. Current projects focus primarily on the environments, active nuclei, and jets of radio galaxies, and the multi-wavelength emission of all classes of radio-loud AGN. My publication list is available via a search on the NASA Astrophysics Data System (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/).
I'm Assistant General Secretary of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a scientific editor of MNRAS, and was President of Division D (High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics) of the IAU from 2012 to 2015.
Earlier years were spent as a research scientist in the United States, at the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics at NASA/GSFC, at the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences at UC-San Diego, and at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). I helped to establish the Chandra X-ray Center where I was a scientist for several years.
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Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
29/07/2022X-Ray Jets in the High-redshift Quasars J1405+0415 and J1610+1811
Astrophysical Journal
Beyond Simple AGN Unification with Chandra-observed 3CRR Sources at 0.5 < z < 1
Astrophysical Journal
Discovery of Candidate X-ray Jets in High-Redshift Quasars
Astrophysical Journal
AGN feedback in the FR II galaxy 3C 220.1
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
A high-resolution view of the jets in 3C 465
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society