Chris Lintott

PhD Student

University College London


Room G18, Kathleen Lonsdale Building tel: 0207 679 4349
Department of Physics and Astronomy e-mail: cjl AT star.ucl.ac.uk
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom
After first becoming interested in astronomy using the half-meter reflector at Torquay Boys Grammar School, I completed my BA and MSci in Natural Sciences at Magdalene College in the University of Cambridge. At around the same time as I started work on a PhD at UCL, I was invited to work on the team producing the BBC's long-running Sky at Night program, and have been juggling academic and outreach work ever since. 2-and-a-half years into my PhD, having acheived my ambition to write a paper with more pages than authors, I am now writing up my thesis, before indulging my interest in high-redshift star formation and astrochemistry in Oxford from October. 

Collaborators 

Supervisors
 
Beyond
 
Jonathan Rawlings
 
Tom Hartquist Leeds
 
Ofer Lahav
 
Paola Caselli Arcetri
 
UCLites
 
Serena Viti
 
Ignacio Ferreras King's College London
 
David Williams
 



   
Recent Papers: 



Massive elliptical galaxies : From cores to haloes
Lintott, C.J., Ferreras, I. & Lahav, O.
Accepted by ApJ, available at astro-ph

Determing the cosmic ray ionization rate in dynamically evolving clouds
Lintott, C.J. & Rawlings, J.M.C.
Accepted by A&A, currently available at astro-ph

Hot Cores : Probes of High-Redshift Galaxies?
Lintott, C.J., Viti, S., Williams, D.A.W., Rawlings, J.M.C. and Ferreras, I.
, 2005, MNRAS, 360, 1527 Available at ADS
Extra Data available here.

Molecular Abundance Ratios as an Tracer of Accelerated Collapse 
in Regions of High-Mass Star Formation
Lintott, C.J., Viti, S., Rawlings, J.M.C., Williams, D.A., Hartquist, T.W., 
Caselli, P., Zinchenko, I and Myers, P., 2005, ApJ, 620, 795, Available at ADS



Writing and Outreach

BBC Sky at Night where I seem to have found myself co-presenter.
 
What to make of the review in the Radio Times ("There's something ineffably reassuring about watching boffins talk about space, 
and The Sky at Night's Chris Lintott is more watchable - and, indeed, more boffinish - than most.") I have no idea.


Article on connections between Das Rheingold and modern cosmology for the Royal Opera, written with Prof Ian Howarth in PS and PDF formats. 


By semi-popular demand, pdf copies of the powerpoints from two popular talks, The First Stars and 
Cosmology for the Terrified, as presented to Astronomy Ireland. 

Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics where I found myself editor.