Dr. Nigel Hambly

- Position:
-
Senior Researcher
- Research Theme:
- Astronomy
- Institution:
- Edinburgh
- Email address:
- nch@roe.ac.uk
- Website:
- http://www.roe.ac.uk/~nch
- Telephone number:
- +44 (0)131 668 8234
- Address:
- Institute for Astronomy, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, United Kingdom
Research interests
I am the IfA Wide Field Astronomy Units's science archive architect, and an experienced survey astronomer and survey software developer. Both the SuperCOSMOS Science Archive and the WFCAM Science Archive systems were designed by me. I have much experience in managing small research and development teams for both hardware and software processing and archiving systems. I am also a member of the European Space Agency's Gaia mission Data Processing and Analysis Consortium.
My personal astronomy research interest is in very low luminosity degenerate stars, that is white dwarfs and brown dwarfs. Because these objects are rare, cool and faint, their detection requires access to panoramic deep survey datasets in the optical and infrared. Hence my work in survey astronomy for the scientific community enables me to pursue this personal research interest.
Research outputs
- Gaia Data Release 2, Astronomy & Astrophysics (2018)
- The Age of the Galactic Stellar Halo from Gaia White Dwarfs DOI, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2018)
- The White Dwarf Luminosity Functions from the Pan-STARRS 1 3π Steradian Survey DOI, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2018)
- Gaia reveals evidence for merged white dwarfs DOI, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 479, 1 (2018)
- Gaia Data Release 2 DOI, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 616 (2018)
- Gaia Data Release 2. Kinematics of globular clusters and dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way DOI, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 616 (2018)
- Gaia Data Release 2. Mapping the Milky Way disc kinematics DOI, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 616 (2018)
- Gaia Data Release 2. Observational Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams DOI, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 616 (2018)
- Gaia Data Release 2. Observations of solar system objects DOI, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 616 (2018)
- Gaia Data Release 2. Processing the spectroscopic data DOI, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 616 (2018)