Philip Best

School of Physics and Astronomy

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Professor P N Best, FRSE

Position: Professor of Extragalactic Astrophysics
Category: Academic staff
Location: Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (ROE)
Room C21

School research affiliations

Philip is a member of the following School research institute:

Institute for Astronomy

Biography

Research interests

Observational cosmology, studies of galaxy formation, and the high redshift Universe.
Active galactic nuclei (AGN), in particular their host galaxies, and their influence on galaxy evolution.
Radio astronomy, the cosmic evolution of radio sources, their growth, and radio source shocks
Star-forming galaxies at high redshift, and the star-formation history of the Universe
Clusters and groups of galaxies, and the effect of environment on the nature and properties of galaxies.

Administrative roles

I am currently Head of the Institute for Astronomy

Teaching

I have designed, organised and lectured a number of different courses, from pre-honours to Masters level, as well as serving on the School's Teaching Committee for five years, and being Senior Director of Studies of four years. Currently, I organise and lecture the SH/IM level course "High Energy Astrophysics" as well as leading the "Telescope Group Project" and supervising Senior Honours and Integrated Masters projects.

Recent news

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Publications

Recent publications

Optical, Radio Continuum and HI Deep Spectroscopic Survey (ORCHIDSS) DOI
Kenneth Duncan, Andrew Baker, Philip Best, Sarah Blyth, Nina Hatch, Benne Holwerda, Matt Jarvis, Natasha Maddox, Daniel J. B. Smith, Marina Arnaudova, Laurent Chemin, Romeel Davé, James Dunlop, Catherine Hale, Ross McLure et al., The Messenger, 190, 2023, p. 25-27 (2023)
The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey Deep Fields Data Release 1. V. Survey description, source classifications and host galaxy properties
P. N. Best, R. Kondapally, W. L. Williams, R. K. Cochrane, K. J. Duncan, C. L. Hale, P. Haskell, K. Malek, I. McCheyne, D. J. B. Smith, L. Wang, A. Botteon et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2023)
Revisiting the alignment of radio galaxies in the ELAIS-N1 field DOI
M. Simonte, H. Andernach, M. Bruggen, P.N. Best and E. Osinga, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 672, p. 1-10 (2023)
MIGHTEE: deep 1.4 GHz Source Counts and the Sky Temperature Contribution of Star Forming Galaxies and Active Galactic Nuclei DOI
C. L. Hale, I. H. Whittam, M. J. Jarvis, P. N. Best, N. L. Thomas, I. Heywood, M. Prescott, N. Adams, J. Afonso, Fangxia An, R. A. A. Bowler, R. Davé et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 520, 2, p. 2668-2691 (2023)
V-LoTSS: The Circularly-Polarised LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey DOI
J. R. Callingham, T. W. Shimwell, H. K. Vedantham, C. G. Bassa, S. P. O'Sullivan, T. W. H. Yiu, S. Bloot, P. N. Best, M. J. Hardcastle, M. Haverkorn et al., Astronomy and Astrophysics, 670, p. 1-15 (2023)

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This article was last updated on Jun 16, 2021.