Dr Philip Carter
MPhys, PhD
Expertise
I am a computational planetary scientist and astrophysicist. I study the growth of terrestrial planets and the collisions between planetary bodies that occur during planet formation.
Current positions
Lecturer
School of Physics
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Biography
I have previously held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Bristol and in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Davis. During this time I have developed expertise in planet formation and collisions and the numerical techniques used to study planetary accretion.
My scientific background is in astrophysics, having obtained my PhD in 2014 from the University of Warwick, where I carried out observational studies of ultra-compact accreting binaries.
My scientific background is in astrophysics, having obtained my PhD in 2014 from the University of Warwick, where I carried out observational studies of ultra-compact accreting binaries.
Projects and supervisions
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Selected publications
01/04/2014Two new AM Canum Venaticorum binaries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
The AM Canum Venaticorum binary SDSS J173047.59+554518.5
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
The helium-rich cataclysmic variable SBSS 1108+574
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
A search for the hidden population of AM CVn binaries in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Recent publications
02/05/2022Atmosphere loss in oblique Super-Earth collisions
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Did Earth Eat Its Leftovers? Impact Ejecta as a Component of the Late Veneer
The Planetary Science Journal
VizieR Online Data Catalog: IGAPS. merged IPHAS and UVEX of northern Galactic plane (Monguio+, 2020)
Are exoplanetesimals differentiated?
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Atmosphere loss in planet-planet collisions
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
