Steve Fossey

Stephen John Fossey is a British astronomer working at UCL Observatory, which is part of University College London (UCL).[1] He is one of the three editors of The Observatory magazine.[2]

Steve Fossey
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of London
Known forSN 2014J, HD 80606b
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
InstitutionsUniversity College London, UCL Observatory
ThesisThe diffuse interstellar features and interstellar relationships (1990)
Websitewww.ucl.ac.uk/star/people/sfossey.html

Fossey's research interests are in the interstellar medium, exoplanets and time-domain astronomy. Along with Ingo Waldmann and David Kipping, Fossey discovered in 2009 that the exoplanet HD 80606b (previously known from radial velocity) transits its host star.[3][4] Fossey also discovered supernova SN 2014J, the closest supernova for each for several decades, in January 2014.[5]

Education

Fossey studied at University College London (UCL), receiving his Bachelor of Science with Honours in 1983. This was followed in 1990 by a PhD in Astronomy (also at UCL).[1] Fossey later became a member of staff at ULO (University of London Observatory).

Research and publications

The areas of research that Fossey takes most interest in are extrasolar planets, the interstellar medium, and molecular astrophysics.[6] He has authored over a dozen refereed scientific papers on these topics.[7] His first scientific publication was a single-author letter in Nature.[8]

Fossey is an editor of The Observatory magazine.[9]

References
  1. "profile". Ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  2. "The Observatory Magazine: Contact Information". Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  3. "systemic". Oklo.org. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  4. "European Week of Astronomy and Space Sciences - Press Releases". Star-www.herts.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  5. "Supernova in Messier 82 discovered by UCL students". Ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  6. "London's Global University". UCL. 2013-12-19. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  7. "Author query results for Fossey, S". NASA ADS. Retrieved 2015-04-09.
  8. Fossey, S. J. (1991). "Red Rectangle emission". Nature. 353 (6343): 393. Bibcode:1991Natur.353..393F. doi:10.1038/353393b0. S2CID 4329633.
  9. "The Observatory Magazine". Ulo.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
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