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Lensing of space time around a black hole. At Oxford we study black holes observationally and theoretically on all size and time scales - it is some of our core work.

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Professor Stephen Smartt CBE FRS MRIA

Professor of Astrophysics

Research theme

  • Astronomy and astrophysics

Sub department

  • Astrophysics

Research groups

  • Hintze Centre for Astrophysical Surveys
  • Pulsars, transients and relativistic astrophysics
  • Rubin-LSST
stephen.smartt@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865273405
Denys Wilkinson Building, room 714
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Abundance Gradients Along the Galactic Disk

Chapter in The Evolution of The Milky Way, Springer Nature 255 (2000) 323-334
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The Bulge Globular Cluster NGC 6553: Observations with HST's WFPC2, STIS, and NICMOS

(1999)

Authors:

Sylvie F Beaulieu, Gerard F Gilmore, Rachel A Johnson, Stephen J Smartt, Nial Tanvir, Basilio Santiago
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VLT FORS spectra of blue supergiants in the Local Group galaxy NGC 6822

Astronomy and Astrophysics 352:1 (1999)

Authors:

B Muschielok, RP Kudritzki, I Appenzeller, F Bresolin, K Butler, W Gässier, R Häfner, HJ Hess, W Hummel, DJ Lennon, KH Mantel, W Meisl, W Seifert, SJ Smartt, T Szeifert, K Tarantik

Abstract:

Half hour exposures using the ESO VLT/FORS1 combination at Parañal in Chile have allowed us to obtain spectra for three B supergiants in the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 6822. The spectra have been analysed using non-LTE techniques and temperatures, gravities, helium content and abundances have been obtained. Overall the metallicity of NGC 6822 is found to lie between that of the LMC and of the SMC, in agreement with previous observations of H II regions and in contrast to the earlier findings of Massey et al. (1995). The analysis of Hα yields estimates of the mass-loss rates and wind momenta. These results demonstrate that significantly longer exposures with the same instruments will allow us to perform quantitative spectroscopy of blue supergiants in galaxies far beyond the Local Group.

On the parallax of WD 0346+246: a halo white dwarf candidate

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 309:4 (1999) l33-l36

Authors:

NC Hambly, SJ Smartt, ST Hodgkin, RF Jameson, SN Kemp, WRJ Rolleston, IA Steele
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A UKST survey of blue objects towards the galactic centre – a search for early-type stars

Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series EDP Sciences 139:2 (1999) 231-244

Authors:

PL Dufton, SJ Smartt, NC Hambly
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