About
I'm Roger Wesson, an astronomer working at University College London, where I carry out research on evolved stars and their outflows 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 at UCL, where I was an undergraduate, postgraduate and postdoc. These pages contain information about my research.
Research
My most recent 5 publications:
- June 2020: A MUSE view of high-ADF planetary nebulae
García-Rojas, J., Boffin, H. M. J., Wesson, R., Jones, D., Corradi, R. L. M., Rodríguez-Gil, P., Monreal-Ibero, A. - June 2020: The impact of strong recombination on temperature determination in planetary nebulae
Gómez-Llanos, V., Morisset, C., García-Rojas, J., Jones, D., Wesson, R., Corradi, R. L. M., Boffin, H. M. J. - June 2020: The post-common-envelope binary central star of the planetary nebula PN G283.7-05.1: A possible post-red-giant-branch planetary nebula central star
Jones, David, Boffin, Henri M. J., Hibbert, Jacob, Steinmetz, Thomas, Wesson, Roger, Hillwig, Todd C., Sowicka, Paulina, Corradi, Romano L. M., et al. - June 2020: White Paper on MAAT@GTC
Prada, Francisco, Content, Robert, Goobar, Ariel, Izzo, Luca, Pérez, Enrique, Agnello, Adriano, del Burgo, Carlos, Dhillon, Vik, et al. - June 2020: Post-RGB Planetary Nebulae
Jones, D., Boffin, H. M. J., Hibbert, J., Steinmetz, T., Wesson, R., Hillwig, T. C., Sowicka, P., Corradi, R. L. M., et al.
See the full list of 144 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
- observability.date - 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.
