Ken Rice
Professor W K M Rice
- Position
- Personal Chair of Computational Astrophysics
- Category
- Academic staff
- Location
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Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (ROE)
Room R8
- Email: wkmr [at] roe.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8384
- Personal home page
- Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Ken is a member of the following School research institute:
Research interests
My research interests are in theoretical and computational astrophysics . One focus is the evolution of accretion discs and how this relates to the formation of stars and planets. I am particularly interested in accretion discs that are massive enough for their own self-gravity to play a role in their evolution. I also have an interest in the formation and evolution of planets and planetary systems. In particular, I am interested in how planets can migrate very close to their parent stars and what happens to such planets when they do end up in these very close orbits.
Ken has featured in the following recent School news stories:
Stars and planets
In this video Ken describes how he uses computer simulations to model the formation of stars and how this influences the subsequent formation of planets.Recent publications
- , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532, 4, p. 4632-4644
- , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 531, 4, p. 4464-4481
- Populating The Milky Way Characterising Planet Demographics by Combining Galaxy Formation Simulations and Planet Population Synthesis Models DOI, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 686, p. 1-17
- , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 531, 1, p. 1276-1293
- Introducing two improved methods for approximating radiative cooling in hydrodynamical simulations of accretion discs DOI, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 531, 1, p. 1746-1755