High Energy Astrophysics

The high energy astrophysics (HEA) group at Durham comprises several staff members, postdocs, PhD and Masters students collected into several smaller sub-groups. The broad aim of the HEA group is to obtain a better understanding of high energy phenomena associated with accretion onto compact objects. This work naturally complements the work carried out by other groups within the Physics department, such as Extragalactic Astronomy and the Institute for Computational Cosmology.

Undergraduate and postgraduate students working in the HEA group have the opportunity to make use of state-of-the-art facilities including ground-based telescopes (e.g. ESO's VLT), infrared satellites (e.g. ESA's Herschel), X-ray satellites (e.g. ESA's XMM-Newton) and the HESS gamma-ray experiment.

Please click on the links below to take you to the various HEA sub-groups:

• VHE Gamma-ray Astronomy
• X-ray Group
• Cosmic Ray group

The High Energy Astrophysics Group is just one part of the Durham Astronomy Research Cluster.