Professor Andrew H Jaffe

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Professor of Astrophysics and Cosmology

Contact

+44 (0)20 7594 7526a.jaffe Website

Assistant

Miss Louise Hayward +44 (0)20 7594 7679

Location

1018BBlackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

Summary

I am a cosmologist, and currently head of the Astrophysics Group in the Department of Physics.

Research Interests

Statistical Cosmology. Testing cosmological theories: Bayesian probability; Theory and analysis of fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave background; Large Scale Structure; Statistics of the galaxy distribution and large scale flows. Theoretical Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics. Supermassive Black Holes in the centers of galaxies -- their detection and use as probes of the history of structure formation.

Projects

The Planck Surveyor Satellite .

Web pages

My blog is more up to date, but not entirely academic.

Teaching

2012-17

Second-year Quantum Mechanics.

2008-11

Undergraduate Cosmology

2007-08

Fourier Series and Transforms for physicsts.
First-year professional skills seminars
Third-year professional skills: Presentations
Second-year laboratory

Publications

Journals

Collaboration TEBEX, Abitbol M, Aboobaker AM, et al.Collaboration TEBEX, Abitbol M, Aboobaker AM, Ade P, Araujo D, Aubin F, Baccigalupi C, Bao C, Chapman D, Didier J, Dobbs M, Feeney SM, Geach C, Grainger W, Hanany S, Helson K, Hillbrand S, Hilton G, Hubmayr J, Irwin K, Jaffe A, Johnson B, Jones T, Klein J, Korotkov A, Lee A, Levinson L, Limon M, MacDermid K, Miller AD, Milligan M, Raach K, Reichborn-Kjennerud B, Reintsema C, Sagiv I, Smecher G, Tucker GS, Westbrook B, Young K, Zilic K close, The EBEX Balloon Borne Experiment - Detectors and Readout

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Collaboration TEBEX, Aboobaker AM, Ade P, et al.Collaboration TEBEX, Aboobaker AM, Ade P, Araujo D, Aubin F, Baccigalupi C, Bao C, Chapman D, Didier J, Dobbs M, Geach C, Grainger W, Hanany S, Helson K, Hillbrand S, Hubmayr J, Jaffe A, Johnson B, Jones T, Klein J, Korotkov A, Lee A, Levinson L, Limon M, MacDermid K, Matsumura T, Miller AD, Milligan M, Raach K, Reichborn-Kjennerud B, Sagiv I, Savini G, Spencer L, Tucker C, Tucker GS, Westbrook B, Young K, Zilic K close, The EBEX Balloon Borne Experiment - Optics, Receiver, and Polarimetry

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Didier J, Miller AD, Araujo D, et al.Didier J, Miller AD, Araujo D, Aubin F, Geach C, Johnson B, Korotkov A, Raach K, Westbrook B, Young K, Aboobaker AM, Ade P, Baccigalupi C, Bao C, Chapman D, Dobbs M, Grainger W, Hanany S, Helson K, Hillbrand S, Hubmayr J, Jaffe A, Jones T, Klein J, Lee A, Limon M, MacDermid K, Milligan M, Pascale E, Reichborn-Kjennerud B, Sagiv I, Tucker C, Tucker GS, Zilic K close, Intensity-Coupled-Polarization in Instruments with a Continuously Rotating Half-Wave Plate

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Sellentin E, Jaffe AH, Heavens AF, On the use of the Edgeworth expansion in cosmology I: how to foresee and evade its pitfalls

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Suzuki A, Arnold K, Edwards J, et al.Suzuki A, Arnold K, Edwards J, Engargiola G, Ghribi A, Holzapfel W, Lee AT, Meng XF, Myers MJ, O'Brient R, Quealy E, Rebeiz G, Richards P, Rosen D, Siritanasak P close, Multi-chroic dual-polarization bolometric detectors for studies of the Cosmic Microwave Background

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