Orbyts has been featured in many publications and our research projects have resulted in numerous publications! This is a compilation of the three latest features and publications
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Introducing Orbyts
Meet Orbyts: a multi-award winning movement that actively reduces barriers faced by students to STEM engagement
Astronomy & Geophysics
Opening doors with outreach: using your physics skills to engage, inspire and break down barriers
"...Remember that while one-off outreach activities can spark your audience’s interest, building long-term partnerships is often more effective. Outreach work with schools is ideally suited for this kind of approach – in fact, regular interactions with a school can tackle systemic inequalities in UK STEM education..."
Physicsworld
Celebrating International Women's Day 2025
To celebrate International Women's Day (IWD) 2025, we highlighted some of our female fellows from various hubs as well as various leadership team members! We also posted clips from a previous year's IWD Q&A session we hosted.
Publications:
A.Upadhyay, T. Furtenbacher, A. N. Perri, C. A. Bowesman, E. K. Conway, K. L. Chubb , A. Owens, C. P. Dobney, E. Bowen, D. Broner, V. Ciobanu, K. Gelborova, S. Livsey, D. Magbagbeola, M. Manjunatha, T. Mitchell, D. Morohunfola, E. Wijayakoon, S. Winter, J. Tennyson.
MARVEL analysis of high-resolution spectra of ozone (16O3). Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, p.109399.
"Accurate rotation-vibration (ro-vibrational) energy levels of the main isotopologue of ozone (16 O 3) in its ground electronic X ̃ 1 A 1 state are determined by performing MARVEL (Measured Active Rotation Vibration Energy Levels) analysis on measured line positions from 29 sources of data published in scientific literature. A total of 50276 ro-vibrational transitions are considered yielding 13664 MARVEL energy levels of 16 O 3 with their associated uncertainties. The maximum values of the energy and rotational angular…"
M. K. Mooney, C. Forsyth, M. S. Marsh, L. Bradley, T. Finnigan, F. Forde, F. Garrigan, C. Mancini-Tuffier, T. Mancini-Tuffier, E. Roberts, P. Vessoni, J. Powell, S. Clark, C. J. Lao, A. Smith, D. R. Jackson, S. Bingham, M. Sharpe, T. Hughes, G. Chisham, S. Milan.
Evaluating Auroral Forecasts Against Satellite Observations Under Different Levels of Geomagnetic Activity (2024). In: Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics) 129.8, e2023JA031478. doi: 10.1029/2023JA031478.
"The aurora and associated high energy particles and currents pose a space weather hazard to communication networks and ground-based infrastructure. Forecasting the location of the auroral oval forms an integral component of daily space weather operations. We evaluate a version of the OVATION-Prime 2013 auroral forecast model that was implemented for operational use at the UK Met Office Space Weather Operations Cent...."
Statistical survey of pitch angle anisotropy of relativistic electrons in the outer radiation belt and its variation with solar wind/geomagnetic activity
S. Chakraborty, I.J. Rae, S. Killey, B. Ojha, C. E. J. Watt, C. Potts, E. Irving, G. Elliott, K. Johnson, N. Mohammed , T. Gupta, T. Slater, X. Liu, Y. Cheng
Statistical survey of pitch angle anisotropy of relativistic electrons in the outer radiation belt and its variation with solar wind/geomagnetic activity (2024). Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 11, 1474503.
"In this study, we use 7 years (2012–2019) of pitch angle resolved electron flux measurements from Van Allen Probe-B spacecraft to study the variation of near-equatorial pitch angle distributions (PADs) of outer radiation belt (L ≥≥ 3) relativistic electrons (E ≥≥ 0.5 MeV) with different levels of geomagnetic activity."
Continuous-time quantum walks for MAX-CUT are hot
R. J. Banks, E. Haque, F. Nazef, F. Fethallah, F. Ruqaya, H. Ahsan, H. Vora, H. Tahir, I. Ahmad, I. Hewins, I. Shah, K. Baranwal, M. Arora, M. Asad, M. Khan, N. Hasan, N. Azad, S. Fedaiee, S. Majeed, S. Bhuyan, T. Tarannum, Y. Ali, D. E. Browne, and P. A. Warburton.
Continuous time quantum walks for MAX-CUT are hot (2023). arXiv:2306.10365
"By exploiting the link between time-independent Hamiltonians and thermalisation, heuristic predictions on the performance of continuous-time quantum walks for MAX-CUT are made. The resulting predictions depend on the number of triangles in the underlying MAX-CUT graph. We extend these results to the time-dependent setting with multi-stage quantum walks and Floquet systems. The approach followed here provides a novel way of understanding the role of unitary dynamics in tackling combinatorial optimisation problems with continuous-time quantum algorithms."
