Home page of Nicholas James Rattenbury

Research topics:

• Search for extra-solar planets via gravitational microlensing.
• Download my Journal Club Lecture (1.7Mb) on Planetary Microlensing. (25 February 2009)
• Automated dectection of extra-solar planet anomalies in microlensing events
• Microlensing (Phil Yock with Mikey Havoc) Ready Steady Learn on 95bFM
• 2006-OGLE-BLG-109Lb,c BBC Radio 4 Material World interview STFC Press Release
• Planetary microlensing: From Prediction to Discovery
• Download my Lovell Public Lecture (7.3Mb) on Planetary Microlensing. (14 June 2006)
• OGLE 2005-BLG-169 JBO Press release
• OGLE 2005-BLG-390 ESO Press release     BBC TV news story (25 January 2006)
• OGLE 2003-BLG-235/MOA 2003-BLG-53     TVNZ story MPEG (21 Mb) QuickTime (9 Mb)
• Stellar shape through microlensing:
• Microlensing of Close Binary Stars
• 2002-MOA-33     TVNZ story     NZ Herald
• Investigating the Galactic bulge structure and kinematics.
• High Proper Motion stars toward the Galactic Centre
• Modelling the Galactic bar using OGLE-II Red Clump Giant Stars
• Proper Motion Dispersions of Red Clump Giants in the Galactic Bulge

The Rest

• Google Map of JBCA Environs
• I am involved in producing the Jodrell Bank astronomy podcast: The Jodcast
• The Manchester Microlensing Conference and ANGLES workshop 2008
• The MOA Collaboration homepage

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