Richard Lieu

Professor

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Research Areas

  • Quantum electrodynamics of strong magnetic fields
  • Acceleration of particles in relativistic shocks
  • Extreme-Ultraviolet source catalogs
  • Thermal and non-thermal processes in clusters of galaxies
  • Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in the cosmic microwave background
  • Cosmological applications of gravitational lensing and time delay

Education

  • 1978, BSc (1st class honors), Imperial College London
  • 1981, PhD, Imperial College London

Employment

  • Aug 2004 - present: Professor, Department of Physics, UAH
  • Aug 1999 - present: Associate Professor, UAH
  • Aug 1995 - Aug 1999: Assistant Professor, UAH
  • Nov 1991 - Aug 1995: Assistant Research Astronomer at
    the Center for EUV Astrophysics, University of California, Berkeley
  • Aug 1985 - Oct 1991: Research Assistant at the Astrophysics
    Group, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London
  • Aug 1981 - June 1985: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dept. of
    Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Past Graduate Students

  • Max Bonamente, Ph.D.
  • Amy Bandas, MS

Current Graduate Students

  • Esra Bulbul, Ph.D.

External Funding

  • $1M in research funding (NASA)

Representative Presentations and Papers

  • "The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in a sample of 31 clusters - a
    comparison between the X-ray predicted and WMAP
    observed CMB temperature decrement", Lieu, R., Mittaz, J.P.D., and
    Zhang, S.N., 2006, ApJ, 648, 176
  • "Average magnification of clumping of matter", T.W.B. Kibble and
    R. Lieu 2005, ApJ, 632, 718
  • "The phase coherence of light from extragalactic sources -
    direct evidence against first order Planck scale fluctuations in
    time and space", 2003, ApJ, 585, L77
  • "EUV Emission from Clusters of Galaxies: Inverse Compton Radiation
    from a Relic Population of Cosmic Rays?", C.L. Sarazin and R. Lieu, 1998,
    ApJ, 494, L177
  • "The Diffuse EUV Emission from the Coma Cluster - Evidence for a Cooler
    Component at sub-MK Temperatures", R. Lieu, J.P.D. Mittaz,
    S. Bowyer, J.O. Breen, F.J.Lockman, E.M. Murphy and C. -Y. Hwang, 1996,
    Science, 274, 1335
  • "The First EUVE Source Catalog", S. Bowyer, R. Lieu, M. Lampton,
    J. Lewis, X. Wu, J.J. Drake and R. Malina, 1993, ApJS,
    93, 569
  • "Enhanced Shock Acceleration in Relativistic Jets and Cosmic Ray
    Origin In Active Galactic Nuclei", J.J. Quenby and R. Lieu, 1989, Nature,
    342, 654