Personal Info

E-mail: garret(at)astro.ox.ac.uk

Tel: 01865 273604

Web Link: http://www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/~garret/

Academic Background:

Garret Cotter received his BA in Natural Sciences and PhD in Astrophysics at Cambridge University. He held postdoctoral appointments as a Research Astronomer at the Royal Greenwich Observatory and a PPARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. He became a Departmental Lecturer in Astrophysics at Oxford in 2003 and was appointed permanently in 2008.

Teaching Interests:

Undergraduate: I lecture and am course co-ordinator for the fourth-year Astrophysics Major Option. In College I teach Quantum Mechanics, Relativity and Cosmology.

Graduate: I give graduate lectures on Active Galaxies and I am admissions co-ordinator for Astrophysics.

Research Interests:

High-energy Astrophysics, particularly multi-wavelength observational studies of active galaxies; the relationships between active galaxies and galaxy evolution; the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect; next generation telescopes, particularly the Cherenkov Telescope Array.

Selected Publications:

A.A. Abdo et al., ‘The First Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope’, 2010, ApJ, 715, 429
S. Healey, R. Romani, G. Cotter et al., ‘CGRaBS: An All-Sky Survey of Gamma-Ray Blazar Candidates’, 2008, ApJS, 175, 97
R. Bolton, G. Cotter et al., ‘The radio source population at high frequency: follow-up of the 15-GHz 9C survey’, 2004, MNRAS, 354, 485
C. Kaiser and G. Cotter, ‘The death of FR II radio sources and their connection with radio relics’, 2002, MNRAS, 379, 1343
G. Cotter et al., ‘Detection of a cosmic microwave background decrement towards a cluster of mJy radio sources’, 2002, MNRAS, 331, 1