E-mail: nwe@ast.cam.ac.uk
Office: Hoyle H50
Office Tel: (01223) 765847
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Research Themes: Milky Way and Local Group Star, Stars and Stellar Evolution
Research Keywords: Cassowary, Gaia, Hipparcos, Dark Matter, Dwarf Galaxies, Dynamics, RAVE, SDSS, Galactic Structure, Galaxies, Galaxy Formation/Evolution, Gravitational Lensing
Please see my personal homepage for press releases & campaigns. Thie following desription of my research interests is more technical & research-oriented.
Galactic structure and dynamics. The bar, disk and halo of the Milky Way galaxy. The M31 galaxy and the Local Group.
The dark matter problem and astroparticle physics. Extremely dark matter dominated objects such as the dwarf spheroidal and dwarf irregular galaxies of the Local Group.
Survey science, the Sloan Digital sky survey, the GAIA satellite, transient astronomy, science alerts.
Theoretical galaxy models, self-consistent solutions of the Boltzmann equation. Galactic stability and spiral structure.
Gravitational lensing and microlensing. The mathematical structure of lensing.
Solar system dynamics, extra-solar planets, numerical integration methods.
Non-linear science, integrability and chaos. Super-integrability.
Astroparticle physics. Ultra-high energy cosmic rays.
Evans N.W 2020, The early merger that made the galaxy's stellar halo, IAU Symposium 353 (Invited Review)
Myeong G., Vasiliev E., Iorio G., Evans N.W., Belokurov V. 2019, Evidence for two early accretion events that built the Milky Way stellar halo, MNRAS, 488, 1235
Belokurov V, Erkal D, Evans N.W., Koposov S, Deason A. 2018, Coformation of the disc and stellar halo, MNRAS, 478, 611
Sanders J.L., Smith L., Evans N.W. 2019. The Pattern Speed of the Bar from Transverse Velocities, MNRAS, 488, 4552
Molloy M, Smith M.C., Evans N.W., Shen J. 2015, Resonant Orbits and High Velocity Peaks towards the Bulge, ApJ, 812, 146
Koposov, S., Belokurov V., Torrealba G., Evans N.W., 2015, Beasts of the Southern Wild : Discovery of Nine Ultra-Faint Satellites in the Vicinity of the Magellanic Clouds, ApJ, 805, 130
Amorisco N.C., Evans N.W., van de Ven G., 2014 The Remnant of a Merger between Two Dwarf Galaxies in Andromeda II, Nature, 507, 335
Belokurov V., Koposov S., Evans N.W., et al., 2014 Precession of the Sagittarius stream, MNRAS, 437, 116
Kleyna J.T., Wilkinson M.I., Evans N.W., Gilmore G., 2002 Dark matter in dwarf spheroidals - II. Observations and modelling of Draco, MNRAS, 330, 792
An J., Evans N.W, 2006, A Cusp Slope-Central Anisotropy Theorem, ApJ, 642, 754
Evans, N.W., An J. 2005, Hypervirial Models of Stellar Systems, MNRAS, 360, 492
Wilkinson M.I., Evans N.W. 1999, The Present and Future Mass of the Milky Way, MNRAS, 310, 645
Evans N.W., Read J.C.A., 1998, Stability of the Power-Law Disks, MNRAS, 300, 106
Evans N.W., 1994, The Power-Law Galaxies, MNRAS, 267, 333
Belokurov V., Evans N.W., Hewett P. et al. 2009 Two new large-separation gravitational lenses from SDSS, 392, 104
Belokurov V., Evans N.W., Mooisev A., et al. 2007, The Cosmic Horseshoe: Discovery of an Einstein Ring around a Giant Luminous Red Galaxy, ApJ, 671, L9
Evans N.W, Hunter C., 2002, Lensing Properties of Cored Galaxy Models, ApJ, 575, 68
Gilmore G., Wilkinson M., Wyse R., Koch A., Evans N.W., Grebel G., 2007, The Observed Properties of Dark Matter on Small Spatial Scales, ApJ, 663, 948
Evans N.W, Ferrer F., Sarkar S. 2004, A Travel Guide to the Dark Matter Signal, Phys Rev D, 69, 123501
Belokurov V., Zucker D., Evans N.W, et al., 2007, Cats and Dogs, Hair and a Hero: A Quintet of New Milky Way Companions, ApJ, 654, 897
Belokurov V.., Evans N.W., Bell E.T., et al. 2007, The Hercules-Aquila Cloud, ApJ, 657, L89
Belokurov V., Evans N.W., Irwin M.J., et al. 2007, An Orphan in the Field of Streams, ApJ, 658, 337
Belokurov V., Zucker D., Evans N.W., et al, 2006, The Field of Streams: Sagittarius and its Siblings, ApJ, 642, L137
Verrier P., Evans N.W., 2008, A New Superintegrable Hamiltonian, JMP, 49, 2902
Evans N.W., 1990, Superintegrability in Classical and Quantum Mechanics, Phys Rev A, 41, 5666
Horner J., Evans N.W., Bailey M.E., Asher D., 2003, The populations of Comet-like bodies in the Solar System, MNRAS, 343, 105
Evans N.W., Tabachnik S., 1999, Possible Long-lived Asteroid belts in the inner Solar System, Nature, 399, 41
Professor of Astrophysics at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University
Formerly, Reader in Theoretical Physics, Oxford University and Lindemann Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Article in The Times Higher Educational Supplement : Bullying is a Feature of UK Research Universities, not a Bug
Article on Telescoper's blog: Bullying: How to Survive It in UK Universities
A Horrific Account of Bullying at a UK University: The Bullying of Hannelore