Rob Beswick

Rob Beswick

Professor

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5544-2354

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I am a Professor of Astrophysics, Joint-Director of the UK's SKA Regional Centre and the Head of Science Operations and User Support for the e-MERLIN/VLBI National Facility.

I play a key role within the University of Manchester's Centre for Excellence in Radio Astronomy (CERA) which draws together research and operational staff working on e-MERLIN, VLBI, ALMA, LOFAR and the SKA. 

My main areas of research are extragalactic radio astronomy, encompassing star-formation and accretion processes through cosmic time, spectral line observations at high resolution, transient astronomical events and radio interferometric techniques. I am PI (along with Ian McHardy, Southampton) of the e-MERLIN Legacy project, Legacy e-MERLIN Multi-band imaging of Nearby Galaxies (LeMMINGS), which has been granted a total of 810hrs of e-MERLIN time. This programme will image 300 nearby galaxies with sub-arcsecond resolutions and microJansky sensitivities.

Overview

I am a Professor of Astrophysics, Joint-Director of the UK's SKA Regional Centre and the Head of Science Operations and User Support for the e-MERLIN/VLBI National Facility.

I play a key role within the University of Manchester's Centre for Excellence in Radio Astronomy (CERA) which draws together research and operational staff working on e-MERLIN, VLBI, ALMA, LOFAR and the SKA. 

My main areas of research are extragalactic radio astronomy, encompassing star-formation and accretion processes through cosmic time, spectral line observations at high resolution, transient astronomical events and radio interferometric techniques. I am PI (along with Ian McHardy, Southampton) of the e-MERLIN Legacy project, Legacy e-MERLIN Multi-band imaging of Nearby Galaxies (LeMMINGS), which has been granted a total of 810hrs of e-MERLIN time. This programme will image 300 nearby galaxies with sub-arcsecond resolutions and microJansky sensitivities.

 

Contact Address:

Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, The Alan Turing Building, School of Physics and Astronomy,

The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

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Jodrell Bank Observatory,

Lower Withington, The University of Manchester,

Maccelsfield, Cheshire, SK11 9DL, UK

 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action
  • SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

Keywords

  • Star-formation
  • Supernovae
  • Distant galaxies
  • Spectral-lines
  • ISM
  • e-MERLIN
  • SKA
  • ALMA
  • Extragalactic Radio/mm-wave Astronomy
  • radio interferometry
  • Research Infrastructures

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  • The Quasar Feedback Survey: zooming into the origin of radio emission with e-MERLIN

    Ng'Endo, A. N., Harrison, C., Kharb, P., Beswick, R., Calistro-Rivera, G., Circosta, C., Mainieri, V., Molyneux, S., Mullaney, J. & Sasikumar, S., 1 Feb 2025, In: Royal Astronomical Society. Monthly Notices. 537, 2, p. 705–722

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access

  • Designing the SKA Regional Centre Network

    Salgado, J., Kitaeff, S., Bolton, R., Chrysostomou, A., Swinbank, J., Vilotte, J.-P., Goliath, S., Gaudet, S., Barbosa, D., Yates, J., Ferrari, C., Beswick, R., Wadadekar, Y., Bartolini, M. & Rees, N., 1 May 2024, Astromical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXXI, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 535, Proceedings of the conference held 24-28 October 2021 at Cape Town, South Africa. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2024, p.399. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 535.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  • Double, double, toil, and trouble. The tails, bubbles, and knots of the local compact obscured nucleus galaxy NGC 4418

    Wethers, C. F., Aalto, S., Pivon, G. C., Gallagher, J., Gorski, M., Konig, S., Onishi, K., Yang, C., Beswick, R., Barcos-Munoz, L., Combes, F., Diaz-Santos, T., Evans, A. S., Garcia-Bernete, I., Henkel, C., Imanishi, M., Martin, S., Muller, S., Nishmura, Y. & Ricci, C. & 2 others, Rigopoulou, D. & Viti, S., 1 Mar 2024, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 683, 27, p. 27

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access

  • LeMMINGs. Multiwavelength constraints on the co-existence of nuclear star clusters and AGN in nucleated galaxies

    Dullo, B. T., Knapen, J. H., Baldi, R. D., Williams, D. R. A., Beswick, R. J., McHardy, I. M., Green, D. A., Gil de Paz, A., Aalto, S., Alberdi, A., Argo, M. K., Gallagher, J. S., Klöckner, H.-R., Marcaide, J. M., Mutie, I. M., Saikia, D. J., Saikia, P., Stevens, I. R. & Torrejón, S., Aug 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • MHONGOOSE: A MeerKAT nearby galaxy H I survey

    de Blok, W. J. G., Healy, J., Maccagni, F. M., Pisano, D. J., Bosma, A., English, J., Jarrett, T., Marasco, A., Meuer, G. R., Veronese, S., Bigiel, F., Chemin, L., Fraternali, F., Holwerda, B. W., Kamphuis, P., Klockner, H.-R., Kleiner, D., Leroy, A., Mogotsi, M. & Oman, K. A. & 41 others, Schinnerer, E., Verdes-Montenegro, L., Westmeier, T., Wong, O. I., Zabel, N., Amram, P., Carigan, C., Combes, F., Brinks, E., Dettmar, R. J., Gibson, B. K., Jozsa, G. I. G., Koribalski, B. S., McGaugh, S. S., Oosterloo, T. A., Spekkens, K., Schroder, A. C., Adams, E. A. K., Athanassoula, E., Bershady, M. A., Beswick, R., Blyth, S., Elson, E. C., Frank, B. S., Heald, G., Henning, P. A., Kurapati, S., Loubser, S. I., lucero, D., Meyer, M., Namumba, B., Oh, S.-H., Sardone, A., Sheth, K., Smith, M. W. L., Sorgho, A., Walter, F., Williams, T., Woudt, P. A., Argo, M. & Zijlstra, A., 1 Aug 2024, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 688

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
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