User:Robminchin
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I am a Senior Scientist with USRA at NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA),[2][3] having previously worked for USRA and Cornell University at Arecibo Observatory, and at Cardiff University on HIPASS and other surveys for extra-galactic neutral hydrogen. I was first author on the paper announcing the discovery of the dark galaxy candidate VIRGOHI 21 in 2005[4][5][6][7][8] and a follow-up paper carrying out high-resolution synthesis imaging of it using the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in 2007.[9] I have also been involved in the discoveries of methanimine in Arp 220 in 2008[10][11][12] and of a nuclear outburst in NGC 660 in 2013.[13][14][15] I lead the Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey, which discovered a giant bridge of hydrogen between galaxies in 2014[16][17] and a large ring of gas close to the Triangulum Galaxy in 2016.[18]
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Durham University (MSci 1997)
Robert Minchin | |
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| Education | Reading School, Penglais School |
| Alma mater | Cardiff University, University of Wales (PhD 2001) Durham University (MSci 1997) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Radio Astronomy |
| Institutions | Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, Arecibo Observatory, Cardiff University, Cornell University, Universities Space Research Association |
| Thesis | Properties of galaxies found in a deep blind neutral hydrogen survey (2001) |
| Doctoral advisor | Mike Disney |
Radio astronomer Robert Minchin shared photos of people putting wooden and metal storm shutters over the control room windows [at Arecibo Observatory] … But around 11:05 p.m. Tuesday, Minchin said he'd lost power. “Will be tweeting by SMS if network stays up,” he said. As of Thursday afternoon, that was the last message he'd sent.
— Washington Post (22 September 2017)[1]
I have also been quoted in the media commenting on research at Cambridge University on the possibility of "tepid" dark matter,[19] on the funding problems at Arecibo Observatory[20][21], on the opening of the Five hundred metre Aperture Spherical Telescope[3][22] and on the science being done with Arecibo.[23][24] I was interviewed for Tom Scott's YouTube channel in 2017,[25] and for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Mercury magazine in 2018[26] and 2019.[3]
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