Star time - 12 million seconds

The image above - produced by Dr Tony Bird an astronomer at the University of Southampton - is part of a lenticular animation which represents Tony's 'artist's impression' of two stars observed by the INTEGRAL Satellite, called 'the High-Mass X-ray Binary IGR J17391-3021', The larger object is a supergiant star orbited by a neutron star. The Supergiant emits a dense wind which has a stable disk-like structure at the equator. Although the source was discovered in 1997 by the XTE telescope, this picture is inspired by 12 million seconds of hard X-ray observations of the the system with the INTEGRAL telescope. Lenticular imaging hasn't been used to display astronomical data before - so I'm introducing it into the Physics and Astronomy department.

Moving Time - a new application for lenticulars

I'm 'embedded' in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Southampton. I have asked members of staff from all three research groups - Quantum Light and Matter, Theory and Astronomy if I can have some data to animate which will be useful to them to use in conference posters which I don't believe has been done before. I'm hoping to get hold of some black hole data and images from LOFAR if possible to animate.

Professor Pavlos Lagoudakis has given me some data from the crossover of condensed Photons and Polaritons in microcavities to illustrate.

Images to follow...

This image shows data taken with pico-second laser pulses. I wanted to show images taken over very short time scales - and very long. from Nanotechnology to Cosmology.