New Office Numbers on the Web

As part of our relocation to new offices it’s important to update our location information in the Staff Directory (https://www.staffdirectory.lancaster.ac.uk/). However, as the handover isn’t yet fully complete it is not yet possible to properly update our information. In will be into October before all the new rooms in the refurbished part of the Physics building are entered into the Facilities IT system. Once this is complete you’ll be able to update your location information in the staff directory.

If however, you’re moving to Old Engineering then you can still update your location information. I’ll send out another reminder to update location information when the new room details are on the facilities system.

Chris Arridge

 

Observational Astrophysics Seminars

The Observational Astrophysics group will be starting regular seminars this coming semester. For those that wish, I will be sending a last minute reminder around about 10 to 15 before the start of the seminar.

If you would like to receive these reminders please let me know

(s.williams7@lancaster.ac.uk) and I will add you to the list.

Steve Williams

 

Congratulations to Cherry

Congratulations to Cherry Canovan on passing her PhD viva in style!

Robin Tucker

 

Observational Astrophysics Seminar: Wednesday 5th October at 3pm

Venue: C36 Physics
Title: Extracting galaxy emission-line fluxes with J-PLUS photometric data.
Speaker: Gonzalo Vilella Rojo (CEFCA)

The J-PLUS survey was designed to carry out the photometric calibration of the J-PAS survey. To do that, it will observe ~8500 square degrees of the sky with a wide field camera (2.1 square degrees per exposure) and a set of 12 filters (7 medium/narrowband and 5 broadband) that cover the optical wavelength range from 3200 to 10500 A.

Apart from the calibration purposes, J-PLUS allows us to do studies of galaxy evolution in the local Universe thanks to a narrowband filter (~150 A) centred at the H-alpha rest-frame emission wavelength. The survey strategy puts more time in this filter to reach AB magnitude of 22.6 at S/N=3. This will allow us to get a robust estimation of the H-alpha luminosity function up to a redshift of z~0.015. Additionally, a similar filter is placed near the rest-frame emission wavelength of the [OII] doublet to work on similar purposes.

In this talk I will present the main characteristics and goals of the J-PAS and the J-PLUS surveys. After that, I will explain how we extract the H-alpha+[NII] and the [OII] emission fluxes with narrowband images.

Finally, I will comment how we correct for dust extinction, and [NII] contamination of the H-alpha line flux.

Steve Williams

 

Physics Away Day – Thursday 6th October

Please see the link below for the Physics Away Day agenda. Green Lane Conference Centre is adjacent to Lancaster House Hotel, (see location 59 on the campus map: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/maps/campus-map.pdf). You can access the Conference Centre via the perimeter road using the footpath outside the Management School.

If you are driving directly to the Away Day please note that you still need to park on campus.

Grainne Wilkinson

 

Physics and Isolab Weekly Updates

Please see below details of scheduled works on the Physics refurbishment and Isolab projects for next week.

Should you have any queries regarding these projects please contact the Senior Project Manager, Helen Wood, via the Facilities Helpdesk on facilities.helpdesk@lancaster.ac.uk or 01524 593333.

Physics scheduled works

Section 2 A:
M&E installation
Window installation
Door and frame replacements

Section 2:
Asbestos surveys
M&E surveys
External groundworks to new toilet block
Siting of new gate house and hoarding completion

Thursday 6th October:
Crane lift works

Isolab scheduled works:
Electrical 2nd fix
Mechanical 2nd fix
E.M Shielding fixing pattress brackets
Ground workers installing ducting/external area prep and service trench works.
No noisy or disruptive works to Isolab internally, but ground workers will be using a stihl saw on the service trench works.

Madeline Asquith