Prof. Philip Best

- Position:
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Personal Chair in Extragalactic Astrophysics
- Research Theme:
- Astronomy
- Institution:
- Edinburgh
- Email address:
- pnb@roe.ac.uk
- Website:
- http://www.roe.ac.uk/~pnb
- Telephone number:
- +44 (0)131 668 8358
- Address:
- Institute for Astronomy, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, United Kingdom
Research interests
- Observational cosmology, studies of galaxy formation, and the high redshift Universe.
- Active galactic nuclei (AGN), in particular their host galaxies, and their influence on galaxy evolution.
- Radio astronomy, the cosmic evolution of radio sources, their growth, and radio source shocks
- Star-forming galaxies at high redshift, and the star-formation history of the Universe
- Clusters and groups of galaxies, and the effect of environment on the nature and properties of galaxies.
Teaching
I have designed, organised and lectured a number of different courses, from pre-honours to Masters level, as well as serving on the School's Teaching Committee for five years, and being Senior Director of Studies of four years. Currently, I organise and lecture the pre-honours course "Discovering Astronomy" and the Senior Honours level course "High Energy Astrophysics" as well as supervising Senior Honours and Integrated Masters projects. I am the Admissions Officer for the School, and Chair the School Board of Studies.
Research outputs
- Blazars in the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey First Data Release DOI, Astronomy & Astrophysics (2019)
- Calibrating the relation of low-frequency radio continuum to star formation rate at 1 kpc scale with LOFAR, Astronomy & Astrophysics (2019)
- LOFAR observations of the XMM-LSS field, Astronomy & Astrophysics (2019)
- LoTSS DR1, Astronomy & Astrophysics (2019)
- LoTSS/HETDEX DOI, Astronomy & Astrophysics (2019)
- LoTSS/HETDEX DOI, Astronomy & Astrophysics (2019)
- Radio-loud AGN in the first LoTSS data release, Astronomy & Astrophysics (2019)
- The environments of radio-loud AGN from the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) DOI, Astronomy & Astrophysics (2019)
- The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey - II. First data release DOI, Astronomy & Astrophysics (2019)
- The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey IV. First Data Release DOI, Astronomy & Astrophysics (2019)
Last updated: 19 Feb 2018 at 21:11