Professor Clive Tadhunter

Professor of Astrophysics

Contact details

• Room : E16
• Phone : +44 (0)114 22 24300
• Fax : +44 (0)114 22 23555

email : c.tadhunter@sheffield.ac.uk

Research interests

• Active galaxies, quasars and galaxy evolution

Teaching

• PHY104
• PHY461

Departmental administration

• Executive committee

Professional activities

• Chair, PPARC Panel for Allocation of Telescope Time (2001-03).
• First UK representative, ESO OPC (2001-03).
• Chair, B2 (Galaxies) TAG, ESO OPC (2002-03).
• Member, e-Merlin Legacy Oversight Panel (2007- ).

Recent key publications

• Spectroscopy of the near-nuclear regions of Cygnus A: estimating the mass of the supermassive black hole. MNRAS, 342, 861-875
• Starbursts and the triggering of the activity in nearby powerful radio galaxies. MNRAS, 356, 480-494
• The co-evolution of the obscured quasar PKS1549-79 and its host galaxy: evidence for a high accretion rate and warm gas outflow. MNRAS, 370, 1633-1650
• The heating mechanism for the warm/cool dust in powerful radio-loud active galactic nuclei. ApJ, 661, 13-16