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Dr Imogen Whittam

Hintze Fellow

Research theme

  • Astronomy and astrophysics

Sub department

  • Astrophysics

Research groups

  • Galaxy formation and evolution
  • Hintze Centre for Astrophysical Surveys
  • MeerKAT
  • Rubin-LSST
  • The Square Kilometre Array (SKA)
  • Euclid
imogen.whittam@physics.ox.ac.uk
Denys Wilkinson Building, room 558
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I am a Hintze Fellow at the University of Oxford and Christ Church, researching galaxy evolution. I am particularly interested in radio galaxies - galaxies which spew powerful jets of very energetic particles from their centre - and the role they play in galaxy evolution.

I have a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Cambridge, and before moving to Oxford I spent five years working as a SARAO Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the Western Cape, in South Africa, where I am still an affiliated researcher.

Research interests

Astrophysics
Galaxy Evolution
Active Galactic Nuclei
Radio Astronomy
Radio Galaxies

Selected publications

Evidence for inverse Compton scattering in high-redshift Lyman-break galaxies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 543:1 (2025) 507-517
IH Whittam, MJ Jarvis, Eric J Murphy, NJ Adams, RAA Bowler, A Matthews, RG Varadaraj, CL Hale, I Heywood, K Knowles, L Marchetti, N Seymour, F Tabatabaei, AR Taylor, M Vaccari, A Verma

MIGHTEE: multi-wavelength counterparts in the COSMOS field

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 527:2 (2023) 3231-3245
Imogen H Whittam, Matthew Prescott, Catherine L Hale, Matthew J Jarvis, Ian Heywood, Rebecca A Bowler, Peter W Hatfield, Rohan J Varadaraj

MIGHTEE: the nature of the radio-loud AGN population

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 516:1 (2022) 245-263
Ih Whittam, Mj Jarvis, Cl Hale, M Prescott, Lk Morabito, I Heywood, Nj Adams, J Afonso, Fangxia An, Y Ao, Raa Bowler, Jd Collier, Rp Deane, J Delhaize, B Frank, M Glowacki, Pw Hatfield, N Maddox, L Marchetti, Am Matthews, I Prandoni, S Randriamampandry, Z Randriamanakoto, Djb Smith, Ar Taylor, Nl Thomas, M Vaccari

The Stripe 82 1–2 GHz Very Large Array Snapshot Survey: host galaxy properties and accretion rates of radio galaxies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 480:1 (2018) 358-370
IH Whittam, M Prescott, K McAlpine, Matthew Jarvis, I Heywood
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