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)