Dr Mike Goad

Reader in Observational Astronomy

Contact details

Tel: +44(0) 116 223 1293

Email: mg159@le.ac.uk

Office: Room G24D, Physics and Astronomy

Personal details

• BSc (1st class Hons)
• PhD (University College London)

PhD thesis: photoionisation models of the gas feeding supermassive black holes in nearby Active Galaxies.

• 1995 HSO: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
• 1995-1998 PDRA: Space Science Telescope Institute
• 1998 PDRA: University of St. Andrews
• 1998-2001 PPARC PDRF: University of Leicester
• 2001-2004 Temporary Lecturer: University of Southampton
• 2004-2006 PDRA  Leicester Swift Gamma-Ray Burst mission
• 2006-present Lecturer University of Leicester

Leicester PI on the Next Generation Transit Survey.

Teaching

• PA1612  Great Experiments

• PA1302: Vectors and Matrices
• PA1602: The Sun and the Stars
• PA2602: Galaxies and the Universe
• PA2615: Stellar Atmospheres
• PA3830: Physics Challenge
• PA3220: Atoms and Nuclei
• PA3605: Quasars and Cosmology

Publications

• Interpreting broad emission-line variations - II. Tensions between luminosity, characteristic size, and responsivity

Goad, M.R. and Korista, K.T. MNRAS 453, 366, 2015

• Interpreting broad emission-line variations - I. Factors influencing the emission-line response.

Goad, M.R. and Korista, K.T. MNRAS 444, 43-61, 2014

• The broad emission-line region: the confluence of the outer accretion disc with the inner edge of the dusty torus

Goad M.R., Korista K.T., and Ruff A..J. MNRAS 426(4):3086-3111 2012

Research

Active Galaxies, Ultra-luminous X-ray sources, GRBs and exoplanets. Leicester PI on the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS, http://www.ngtransits.org)