Dr Stuart Littlefair
RCUK Fellow in Astrophysics
Contact details
- Room : E47
- Phone : +44 (0)114 22 24525
- Fax : +44 (0)114 22 23555
email : s.littlefair@sheffield.ac.uk
Research interests
- Interacting binary stars
- Brown dwarfs and low-mass stars
- Star formation
- High time resolution Astrophysics
Teaching
- PHY 104
- PHY 319
- PHY 480
- PHY 401
- Astronomy Labs
Professional activities
- Member PPARC/STFC Time Allocation Committees 2004-2007
Recent key publications
- Rotation of young stars in Cepheus OB3b, Littlefair et al, 2008, MNRAS, in press
- Pre-main-sequence variability across the radiative-convective gap, Saunders et al, 2009, MNRAS, 397, 405
- Optical variability of the ultracool dwarf TVLM 513-46546: evidence for inhomogeneous dust clouds, Littlefair et al, 2008, MNRAS, 391, 88L
- On the evolutionary status of short-period cataclysmic variables, Littlefair et al, 2008, MNRAS, 388, 1528
- A Brown Dwarf Mass Donor in an Accreting Binary. Littlefair et al, 2006, Science, 314, 1578-1580