Dr. Keith Grainge
Senior Research Associate and Affiliated Lecturer
Fellow and Director of Studies, Selwyn College
Group: Astrophysics
Address:
Room 984 Rutherford Building,
Cavendish Laboratory,
JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge CB3 0HE.
Tel: +44 (0)1223 339242
Email: kjbg1 "at" mrao.cam.ac.uk
Group Secretary / Administrator / Personal Assistant:
Karen Scrivener
Tel: +44 (0)1223 337294
Fax: +44 (0)1223 354599
Email: K.Scrivener "at" mrao.cam.ac.uk
Biography:
Keith Grainge has been a member of the Cavendish Astrophysics group since 1992, working primarily on the Cosmic Microwave Background. His PhD research was focussed on using the Ryle Telescope to detect the Sunyeav-Zel'dovich effect, and the group made the world's first SZ image using this telescope. He was Project Manager of the Very Small Array, which was a ground based radio interferometer designed to measure the primordial anisotropies in the CMB. Currently he is Project Manager of the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager, a dedicated SZ telescope aimed at conducting a blind survey for galaxy clusters.
Research Interests:
Structure formation in the Universe; anisotropies in the CMB; VSA telescope; the S-Z effect; multi-frequency galaxy cluster astrophysics; CMB foregrounds; AMI telescope; SZI/CHIP telescope; CMB polarisation; CLOVER telescope; epoch of reionisation; nature of dark matter; nature of dark energy; SKA telescope.
Research Group - Astrophysics.
Selected Publications:
"High-significance Sunyaev-Zel'dovich measurement: Abell 1914 seen with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager". MNRAS, 2006.00151
"H_0 from an orientation-unbiased sample of SZ and X-ray clusters". MNRAS, 357, 518
"High sensitivity measurements of the CMB power spectrum with the extended Very Small Array". MNRAS, 353, 732
"Measuring the Hubble constant from Ryle Telescope and X-ray observations, with application to Abell 1413". MNRAS, 333, 318
"An image of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect towards Abell 2218". Nature, 365, 320
A full list of my publications can be found here.