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Helen Russell

Anne McLaren Fellow and STFC Rutherford Fellow, Faculty of Science

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Biography

STFC Rutherford & Anne McLaren Fellow, University of Nottingham (2019 - )

STFC Rutherford Fellow, University of Cambridge (2017 - 2019)

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge (2014 - 2017)

International Junior Research Fellow, Durham University (2013 - 2014)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Waterloo (2010 - 2013)

PhD in Astronomy, University of Cambridge (2006 - 2010)

Research Summary

I am an observational astronomer using X-ray, sub-mm and optical telescopes to understand the most energetic events in the lives of massive galaxies. Powerful jets of high-energy particles launched… read more

Selected Publications

  • RUSSELL, H. R., NULSEN, P. E. J., CAPRIOLI, D., CHADAYAMMURI, U., FABIAN, A. C., KUNZ, M. W., MCNAMARA, B. R., SANDERS, J. S., RICHARD-LAFERRIERE, A., BELEZNAY, M., CANNING, R. E. A., HLAVACEK-LARRONDO, J. and KING, L. J., 2022. The structure of cluster merger shocks: turbulent width and the electron heating time-scale MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 514(1), 1477-1493
  • REYNOLDS, CHRISTOPHER S., MARSH, M. C. DAVID, RUSSELL, HELEN R., FABIAN, ANDREW C., SMITH, ROBYN, TOMBESI, FRANCESCO and VEILLEUX, SYLVAIN, 2020. Astrophysical Limits on Very Light Axion-like Particles from Chandra Grating Spectroscopy of NGC 1275 ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL. 890(1),
  • RUSSELL, H. R., MCNAMARA, B. R., FABIAN, A. C., NULSEN, P. E. J., COMBES, F., EDGE, A. C., MADAR, M., OLIVARES, V., SALOME, P. and VANTYGHEM, A. N., 2019. Driving massive molecular gas flows in central cluster galaxies with AGN feedback MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 490(3), 3025-3045
  • RUSSELL, H. R., FABIAN, A. C., MCNAMARA, B. R., MILLER, J. M., NULSEN, P. E. J., PIOTROWSKA, J. M. and REYNOLDS, C. S., 2018. The imprints of AGN feedback within a supermassive black hole's sphere of influence MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 477(3), 3583-3599

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