Steve Phillipps
| Correspondence Name |
Professor Steve Phillipps |
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Telephone Number
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+44 (0)117 954 6881
internal 46881
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Fax Number
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+44 (0)117 9255624
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| Email Address |
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| Personal Home Page |
Link to home page |
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Position
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Professor
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| Office Location |
4.12 |
The above portrait was taken in front of the Coldrick Telescope on
the roof of the H H Wills Physics Laboratory, after the discovery of
ultra-compact dwarfs.
Research
My research is centred around large surveys, both of extra-galactic and of Galactic objects, carried out using large optical telescopes. In particular, we have long running surveys of dwarf (ie low luminosity) galaxies in the nearby clusters Virgo and Fornax. The highlight of this has been the discovery of an entirely
new class of stellar systems, which we call Ultra-Compact Dwarfs or UCDs. Nearer to home, I am a member of the collaborations which are carrying out complete surveys of the plane of our own Galaxy in the hydrogen alpha emission line.
The illustration is a colour picture of modelling the destruction of dwarf galaxies in clusters.
