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Career

  • 2017-present Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics
    • Deputy Director, Institute of Astromony
    • Deputy Director, Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge
  • 2011-2017 Reader in Astrophysics and Cosmology
  • 2006 -2011 University Lecturer, Institute of Astronomy and DAMTP
  • 2002 -2007 Royal Society University Research Fellow
  • 2000 -2002 PPARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  • 1998 -present Fellow, Queens' College

Research

I have a range of research interests in physical and theoretical cosmology, mostly centred on the issue of testing the cosmological model and the origin of cosmic structure with cosmological observations. A particular focus is the the origin, interpretation, and measurement of temperature anisotropies and polarization in the CMB. I am a Core Team member of the Planck High-Frequency Instrument and a member of the Simons Observatory with particular interests in lensing of the CMB, constraining the key cosmological parameters and searching for B-mode polarization induced by gravitational waves from the early universe.

Selected Publications

Publications list on ADS

 

Publications

Clover-measuring the CMB B-mode polarisation
CE North, PAR Ade, MD Audley, C Baines, RA Battye, ML Brown, P Cabella, PG Calisse, AD Challinor, WD Duncan, P Ferreira, WK Gear, D Glowacka, DJ Goldie, PK Grimes, M Halpern, V Haynes, GC Hilton, KD Irwin, BR Johnson, ME Jones, AN Lasenby, PJ Leahy, J Leech, S Lewis, B Maffei, L Martinis, P Mauskopf, SJ Melhuish, D O'Dea, SM Parsley, L Piccirillo, G Pisano, CD Reintsema, G Savini, R Sudiwala, D Sutton, AC Taylor, G Teleberg, D Titterington, V Tsaneva, C Tucker, R Watson, S Withington, G Yassin, J Zhang
– Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Symposium on Space Terahertz Technology 2007 Isstt 2007
(2007)
238
21 cm angular-power spectrum from the dark ages
A Lewis, A Challinor
– Physical Review D
(2007)
76,
083005
Bianchi model CMB polarization and its implications for CMB anomalies
A Pontzen, A Challinor
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2007)
380,
1387
Relativistic cosmology and large-scale structure
CG Tsagas, A Challinor, R Maartens
– Physics Reports
(2007)
465,
61
Systematic errors in cosmic microwave background polarization measurements
D O'Dea, A Challinor, BR Johnson
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2007)
376,
1767
Information content of the lensed CMB power spectra
A Challinor, A Lewis, G Rocha, S Smith
– New Astronomy Reviews
(2007)
51,
421
Constraining fundamental physics with the cosmic microwave background
A Challinor
(2006)
Weak gravitational lensing of the CMB
A Lewis, A Challinor
– Physics Reports
(2006)
429,
1
What can be learned from the lensed cosmic microwave background B-mode polarization power spectrum? - art. no. 023517
S Smith, A Challinor, G Rocha
– Physical Review D
(2006)
73,
023517
Clover experiment:: The receiver block
G Pisano, PAR Ade, C Calderon, AD Challinor, P De Bernardis, L Dunlop, WK Gear, Y Giraud-Héraud, DJ Goldie, KJB Grainge, KG Isaak, B Johnson, ME Jones, AN Lasenby, B Maffei, PD Mauskopf, SJ Melhuish, A Orlando, L Piccirillo, AC Taylor, S Withington, G Yassin
– Dome C: Astronomy and Astrophysics Meeting
(2006)
14,
245
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Research Group

Relativity and Gravitation

Room

B2.08

Telephone

01223 764341