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DR ANDREW MELATOS



Contact Details

Organization: Physics
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
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Homepage: http://astro.ph.unimelb.edu.au/~amelatos/
Work: 8344 5436
Fax: 9347 4783
Room: 311
Level: 03
Building: Physics Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Theoretical astrophysics Neutron stars, gravitational waves, plasma physics, superfluids Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United States Princeton University Research
Norway University of Oslo Exchange, Research
United States Pennsylvania State University Exchange, Research
Germany Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) Exchange, Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science University of Sydney 31-Dec-1991
Doctor of Philosophy University of Sydney 31-Dec-1995

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) University of Melbourne Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching 01-Jan-2008
Medal University of Sydney University Medal 31-Dec-1991
Scholarship University of California Miller Fellowship for Astronomy 31-Dec-1997

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Formation and Evolution in the Extragalactic Universe Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2002
THE AUSTRALIAN VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY Chief Investigator AUST NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 09/05/2006
INTERNATIONAL DATA EXCHANGE FOR GLOBAL GRATITATIONAL WAVE ASTRONOMY Chief Investigator AUST NATIONAL UNIVERSITY ARC Special Research Initiatives E-Research (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 11/08/2006
EXPLORING THE TRANSIENT UNIVERSE Chief Investigator AUST NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Discovery Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Burial of the polar magnetic field of an accreting neutron star and gravitational wave emission
    Year: 2008
    Event name: ASTROPHYSICS OF COMPACT OBJECTS: International Conference on Astrophysics of Compact Objects
    Conference Publication: AIP Conference Proceedings
    Volume: 968
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 227-232
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(New York)
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Burial of the polar magnetic field of an accreting neutron star – II.  Hydromagnetic stability of axisymmetric equilibria
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
    Volume: 376
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 609-624
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    URL - open access http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0703203
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  • Electromagnetic strong plasma turbulence
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Physics of Plasmas
    Volume: 14
    Page numbers: 0207031-0207034
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  • Fundamental emission via wave advection from a collapsing wave packet in electromagnetic strong plasma turbulence
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Physics of Plasmas
    Volume: 14
    Page numbers: 1007021-1007024
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  • Gravitational waves from accreting neutron stars
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Advances in Space Research
    Volume: 40
    Page numbers: 1472-1479
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  • Pulsed x-ray emission from pulsar a in the double pulsar system J0737 - 3039
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Astrophysical Journal
    Volume: 670
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 1301-1306
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  • Superfluid turbulence and pulsar glitch statistics
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Astrophysical Journal
    Volume: 662
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: L99-L102
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  • Superluminal electromagnetic waves in pulsar winds
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Advances in Space Research
    Volume: 40
    Page numbers: 1505-1511
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  • Three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of asymmetric pulsar wind bow shocks
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
    Volume: 374
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 793-808
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    URL - open access http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0610454
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Numerical simulation of flow past a stationary and rotating sphere
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Sixteenth Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (16AFMC)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference
    Page numbers: 870-875
    Publisher: The University of Queensland(Brisbane)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

Conference Publications/Papers

  • A Coherent, Nonlinear TEM Wave at a Pulsar Wind Termination Shock
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Astrophysical Sources of High Energy Particles and Radiation
    Conference Publication: AIP Conference Proceedings
    Volume: 801
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 320-323
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(New York)
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  • Nonlinear Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in the Termination Shock of a Pulsar Wind
    Year: 2005
    Event name: International Symposium on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy
    Conference Publication: AIP Conference Proceedings
    Volume: 745
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 382-387
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

Publications in 2003

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Gravitational waves from an accreting neutron star with a magnetic mountain
    Year: 2003
    Event name: The Astrophysics of Gravitational Wave Sources
    Conference Publication: AIP Conference Proceedings
    Volume: 686
    Page numbers: 92-95
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(New York)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Hydromagnetic structure of a neutron star accreting at its polar caps
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 421-430
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