Philip Lucas

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Professor Philip Lucas

DPhil, MA (Oxon), FRAS, Professor of Astrophysics

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8872-4462
1997 …2024

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Overview

I am a Professor of Astrophysics in the Centre for Astrophysics Research (CAR) at the University of Hertfordshire. CAR is part of the School of Physics, Astronomy & Mathematics.

I am also the UH Research Theme Champion for Space. This means that I represent and promote a range of research activities at UH in areas including atmospheric physics, mathematics and quantum physics, amongst others, see Space Research web pages.

 

Background

After a degree in Physics at Oxford University I studied Astrophysics for my doctorate, gaining a PhD in early 1997 under the supervision of Prof Patrick Roche on the topics of star formation and infrared instrumentation. I remained at Oxford for a further 3 years of postdoctoral work, before moving to a permanent post at the University of Hertfordshire in late 1999, initially as a full time researcher on a research fellowship. I have been lecturing in physics, astrophysics and mathematics since 2007. 

 

Research interests

My main research interests are in the areas of star formation, brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets.

I currently co-lead the Vista Variables in the Via Lactea Survey (VVV) a large infrared time domain survey of our Milky Way Galaxy.  VVV and its successor survey, VVVX, have taken photometric data for over 1 billion individual stars in southern skies from 2010--2022. The survey is performed with the Visible and Infrared Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) in Chile.

This follows on from my earlier work leading the UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey (UGPS) in northern and equatorial skies. UGPS provided infrared photometry for almost 1 billion stars. VVV/VVVX and UGPS are the current state of the art surveys of our Milky Way Galaxy in the near infrared waveband.

In addition to my survey work, I also use polarization and adaptive optics data to undertake detailed studies of individual stars.

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  • Building the largest mock astrometric catalogue of the Milky Way centre in the near infrared for the end-to-end simulation of the JASMINE satellite

    Ramos, P., Kawata, D., Ohsawa, R., Nishiyama, S., Sanders, J., Smith, L., Koshimoto, N., Minniti, D. & Lucas, P., 25 Jul 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) Proceedings Volume 13101, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VIII (2024). Ibsen, J. & Chiozzi, G. (eds.). SPIE (International Society for Optics and Phonotics), Vol. 131012T .

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  • The VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea eXtended (VVVX) ESO public survey: Completion of the observations and legacy

    Saito, R. K., Hempel, M., Alonso-García, J., Lucas, P. W., Minniti, D., Alonso, S., Baravalle, L., Borissova, J., Caceres, C., Chené, A. N., Cross, N. J. G., Duplancic, F., Garro, E. R., Gómez, M., Ivanov, V. D., Kurtev, R., Luna, A., Majaess, D., Navarro, M. G. & Pullen, J. B. & 126 others, Rejkuba, M., Sanders, J. L., Smith, L. C., Albino, P. H. C., Alonso, M. V., Amôres, E. B., Angeloni, R., Arias, J. I., Arnaboldi, M., Barbuy, B., Bayo, A., Beamin, J. C., Bedin, L. R., Bellini, A., Benjamin, R. A., Bica, E., Bonatto, C. J., Botan, E., Braga, V. F., Brown, D. A., Cabral, J. B., Camargo, D., Garatti, A. C. O., Carballo-Bello, J. A., Catelan, M., Chavero, C., Chijani, M. A., Clariá, J. J., Coldwell, G. V., Peña, C. C., Ramos, R. C., Corral-Santana, J. M., Cortés, C. C., Cortés-Contreras, M., Cruz, P., Daza-Perilla, I. V., Debattista, V. P., Dias, B., Donoso, L., D'Souza, R., Emerson, J. P., Federle, S., Fermiano, V., Fernandez, J., Fernández-Trincado, J. G., Ferreira, T., Lopes, C. E. F., Firpo, V., Flores-Quintana, C., Fraga, L., Froebrich, D., Galdeano, D., Gavignaud, I., Geisler, D., Gerhard, O. E., Gieren, W., Gonzalez, O. A., Gramajo, L. V., Gran, F., Granitto, P. M., Griggio, M., Guo, Z., Gurovich, S., Hilker, M., Jones, H. R. A., Kammers, R., Kuhn, M. A., Kumar, M. S. .. N., Kundu, R., Lares, M., Libralato, M., Lima, E., Maccarone, T. J., Cortés, P. M., Martin, E. L., Masetti, N., Matsunaga, N., Mauro, F., McDonald, I., Mejías, A., Mesa, V., Milla-Castro, F. P., Minniti, J. H., Bidin, C. M., Montenegro, K., Morris, C., Motta, V., Navarete, F., Molina, C. N., Nikzat, F., Castellón, J. L. N., Obasi, C., Ortigoza-Urdaneta, M., Palma, T., Parisi, C., Ramírez, K. P., Pereyra, L., Perez, N., Petralia, I., Pichel, A., Pignata, G., Alegría, S. R., Rojas, A. F., Rojas, D., Roman-Lopes, A., Rovero, A. C., Saroon, S., Schmidt, E. O., Schröder, A. C., Schultheis, M., Sgró, M. A., Solano, E., Soto, M., Stecklum, B., Steeghs, D., Tamura, M., Tissera, P., Valcarce, A. A. R., Valotto, C. A., Vasquez, S., Villalon, C., Villanova, S., Cádiz, F. V., Bacigalupo, R. Z., Zijlstra, A. & Zoccali, M., 24 Jun 2024, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics.

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  • The verification of periodicity with the use of recurrent neural networks

    Miller, N., Lucas, P. W., Sun, Y., Guo, Z., Cooper, W. J. & Morris, C., 23 Apr 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: RAS Techniques and Instruments. 3, 1, p. 224-233 10 p., rzae015.

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  • The 2022–2023 accretion outburst of the young star V1741 Sgr

    Kuhn, M., Hillenbrand, L. A., Connelley, M. S., Rich, R. M., Staels, B., Carvalho, A. S., Lucas, P., Fremling, C., Karambelkar, V. R., Lee, E., Ahumada, T., Ishida, E. E. ~., De, K., de Souza, R. S. & Kasliwal, M. M., 1 Apr 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529, 3, p. 2630-2646 17 p., stae205.

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  • The globular cluster VVV CL002 falling down to the hazardous Galactic centre

    Minniti, D., Matsunaga, N., Fernández-Trincado, J. G., Otsubo, S., Sarugaku, Y., Takeuchi, T., Katoh, H., Hamano, S., Ikeda, Y., Kawakita, H., Lucas, P. W., Smith, L. C., Petralia, I., Rita Garro, E., Saito, R. K., Alonso-García, J., Gómez, M. & Gabriela Navarro, M., 15 Mar 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters. 683, p. 1-6 6 p., A150.

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