• Born : Newcastle-upon-Tyne 8 July 1958
• School :The Edinburgh Academy 1965-75
• BSc (Physics) : Imperial College, London: 1976-79
• PhD (Stellar Evolution) : St Andrews 1979-82
• PDRA (Helium Stars) : St Andrews 1982-88
• Royal Society European RF (Pulsating Helium Stars) : Kiel 1986-87
• Senior PDRA (CCP7 - Stellar Atmospheres) : St Andrews 1988-96
• Astronomer : Armagh Observatory 1996-

RESEARCH

• Recent Papers
• Polar Bear Survey Telescope
• Stellar evolution
• Stellar atmospheres

• STERNE/SPECTRUM grids
• Atomic data for stellar atmospheres
• SYNTHE model spectra for cool stars
• STERNEv3/SPECTRUM grids (restricted access)

• Extreme helium stars
• Hot subdwarfs
• Evolved stars in binaries
• Molecules and dust

• Catalogue of Hydrogen-Deficient Stars
• Optical and ultraviolet spectra of evolved stars (restricted)

• Review Essays
• Extreme helium stars: pulsation and evolution | ps | pdf
• R CrB stars | ps | pdf
• 
  Nucleosynthesis in Binary Stars
  by Jeffery, Tout and Lattanzio
  a Science perspective, 2006 January
  summary | full text (enhanced)
  
  

STELLAR EVOLUTION SOFTWARE

• SMK
  Stellar structure and evolution package: not currently public
  1986: CCP7 Newsletter 10, 8

ASTRONOMY

• Inside the Stars: Physics in Action (ppt)
  Schools lecture: Belfast and London/Derry 2007
• Stellar Evolution Beyond the Main Sequence
  adapted from an article in Astronomy Now, June 1998
• Stellar Spectroscopy
  an introduction by Micheal Lemke, Bamberg
• Armagh Astropark
  a virtual tour
• School Student Essays
• Sky Patrol
  links to skymaps at ScienceNet

STELLAR ATMOSPHERES SOFTWARE

• LTE-CODES
  Top-level package description
• STERNE
  Stellar atmospheres in LTE
• SPECTRUM
  Synthetic spectra in LTE
• SFIT
  Multi-parameter optimisation for stellar spectra
• Distribution and How To Install the codes.
  
• lte-codes-1.4 : Version 1.4
  Released 2004 Oct 21: Many bug fixes, more dynamic arrays in SPECTRUM, macros and new parameter definitions in SFIT, new SFIT documentation, more examples.
• lte-codes-1.5 : Version 1.5
  Pre-release 2006 Mar 15: A few bug fixes. Last public version.

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• BRUCE
  Synthetic spectra for nonradially pulsating stars: Armagh implementation (see also the BRUCE website)

TEACHING

• Stellar Structure
  A lecture course on Stellar Structure given between 1984 and 1996 at the University of St Andrews, and since 2006 at Trinity College Dublin.
• Nuffield Science Bursaries
  Armagh Observatory hosts between 2 and 4 Nuffield science bursary students each summer. More details here.

• Programming in Fortran 95
  A course in F95 given at the Armagh Observatory ( incomplete, but includes links to local copies of other well-known F90 courses)

SOFTWARE LINKS

• IDL programs including

FAST: Fourier analysis of spectroscopic time series
• GRID resources on the web

(links only)
• CCP7

software from CCP7

CALENDAR

SAILING

FINE ART

ARMAGH OBSERVATORY