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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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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
  • The Square Kilometre Array (SKA)
  • Rubin-LSST
  • 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

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

The faint radio source population at 15.7 GHz – IV. The dominance of core emission in faint radio galaxies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 493:2 (2020) 2841-2853
Imogen Whittam, DA Green, Matthew Jarvis, JM Riley

The prevalence of core emission in faint radio galaxies in the SKA Simulated Skies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 471:1 (2017) 908-913
IH Whittam, Matthew Jarvis, DA Green, I Heywood, JM Riley

10C continued: a deeper radio survey at 15.7 GHz

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 457:2 (2016) 1496-1506
IH Whittam, JM Riley, DA Green, ML Davies, TMO Franzen, C Rumsey, MP Schammel, EM Waldram
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