About
I'm Roger Wesson, an astronomer working at University College London, where I investigate the dust associated with core-collapse supernovae and their progenitors, as part of the sndust group. Previously I spent four years in Chile, where I was a Fellow at the European Southern Observatory and spent 80 nights a year supporting operations at the Very Large Telescope, including nighttime support on UT3 (Melipal). Before that I was an undergraduate, postgraduate and postdoc at UCL. These pages contain information about my research.
Research
My most recent 5 publications:
- May 2022: Quantifying the dust in SN 2012aw and iPTF14hls with ORBYTS
Niculescu-Duvaz, Maria, Barlow, M. J., Dunn, W., Bevan, A., Ahmed, Omar, Arkless, David, Barker, Jon, Bartolotta, Sidney, et al. - April 2022: The Nearby Evolved Stars Survey II: Constructing a volume-limited sample and first results from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
Scicluna, P., Kemper, F., McDonald, I., Srinivasan, S., Trejo, A., Wallström, S. H. J., Wouterloot, J. G. A., Cami, J., et al. - March 2022: Dust masses for a large sample of core-collapse supernovae from optical emission line asymmetries: dust formation on 30-year timescales
Niculescu-Duvaz, Maria, Barlow, Michael J, Bevan, Antonia, Wesson, Roger, Milisavljevic, Danny, De Looze, Ilse, Clayton, Geoff C., Krafton, Kelsie, et al. - February 2022: MUSE spectroscopy of planetary nebulae with high abundance discrepancies
García-Rojas, J., Morisset, C., Jones, D., Wesson, R., Boffin, H. M. J., Monteiro, H., Corradi, R. L. M., Rodríguez-Gil, P. - January 2022: Lessons from the Ionised and Molecular Mass of Post-CE PNe
Santander-García, Miguel, Jones, David, Alcolea, Javier, Bujarrabal, Valentín, Wesson, Roger
See the full list of 161 papers on my publications page, research highlights on my research page, and where in the sky I've been looking on my sky map page
Codes
Some of the codes I've written:
- alfa - automated line fitting algorithm
- neat - nebular empirical analysis tool
- astro-ph sorter - list up to 30 days of astro-ph abstracts, sorted according to your research interests
- airmass.org - visibility plotting tool for observation planning
See more on my codes page.
Photography
I do a lot of astrophotography when I find myself in places with dark skies, and I am an ESO photo ambassador. More details on my photography page.
