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School of Physical and Chemical Sciences

Professor Jim Emerson

Jim

Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics

Email: j.p.emerson@qmul.ac.uk
Room Number: G. O. Jones Building, Room 231

Research

Research Interests:

My research interests

  • Survey Astronomy: I was Principal Investigator for the construction of the £36m VISTA the 'Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy' a 4m wide field survey telescope in Chile with infrared (ZYJHKs) field of view of 1.5 sq deg with 0.34 arc sec pixels, and work on results from its surveys.
  • Star Formation
  • Star clusters
  • Galactic Structure
  • Magellanic Clouds
  • Dust grains
  • My observational experience mainly in the InfraRed

Publications

My publications

see ADS and enter Emerson, J. - ignore the results on quantum topics from Joseph Emerson

    Performance

    My talks

    pdfs of recent talks will apear here 

    Grants

    My Grants

    Current:

    • STFC     £1,600k Astronomy Unit Consolidated grant
    • STFC     £   381k Doctoral training grant 2008
    • STFC      £    18k VISTA Exploitation
    • EC FP-7 £    66k Enabling Virtual Access to Latin-American Southern Observatories (EVALSO)

    Past:

    to be added

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