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Professor Peter Thomas Gallagher

Adjunct Professor (Physics)

 Peter.Gallagher@tcd.ie

 


Biography

Prof. Peter T. Gallagher is a Professor in Astrophysics in the School of Physics, Director of the Rosse Solar-Terrestrial Observatory at Birr Castle, and Associate Dean of Research. Since joining Trinity, he has established a large and prolific research group that currently includes five PhD Students, four Postdoctoral Research Fellows, and one Senior Research Fellow, with nearly €4M in funding from the European Space Agency, the European Commission, the US Government, Science Foundation Ireland, and the Irish Research Council. Prof. Gallagher's group are world-leaders in solar physics and space weather research, and have made significant contributions to our understanding of how sunspots evolve and produce solar flares, how solar storms propagate in interplanetary space, and how shock waves are formed in the Sun's atmosphere. To date, he has co-authored nearly one hundred papers in high-ranking journals (h-index: 31), including Nature Communications and Nature Physics. Prof. Gallagher is a Member of the Institute of Physics (MInstP), a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS), and has served as Chairman of the Astronomical Sciences Group of Ireland (ASGI) and Vice-Chair of the Royal Irish Academy's Astronomy and Space Research Committee. He is Director of TCD's Rosse Solar-Terrestrial Observatory in Birr Castle and Head of the Irish LOFAR radio telescope consortium. He was elected to Fellowship of Trinity College Dublin in 2012.

Research Tags

  Astronomy   Astrophysics   Atmospheres/Planets   Atomic Physics   Atomic Spectra   ESA   High Performance Computing   Imaging Sciences   Interplanetary Spacecraft   Ionospheres   Magnetospheric Phenomena   NASA   Near Earth Space Particles/Fields   Pattern Recognition   Physics   Planetary Environments   Planetary Studies   Planets   Plasma Physics   Real-Time Computing   Signal Analysis   Solar Astronomy   Solar Phenomena   Solar Physics   Solar Studies   Solar System   Space Exploration   Space Sciences   Spectroscopy   Sun

Research Projects

 Heliophysics Integrated Observatory - HELIO
 Image and Signal Processing for the SWAP and LYRA Instruments onboard PROBA2
 Advanced Image Processing for STEREO
 Solar activity and Space Weather: Causes and consequences
 Statistics of Solar Flares for Space Weather Predictions

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Representations

Details Date
Royal Irish Academy Committee on Astronomy and Space Research 2009-
Advisory Board Member for FP7 SOlar-TERRestrial Investigations and Archives (SOTERIA) 2009-
Referee for the 'Astrophysical Journal', 'Astronomy and Astrophysics', 'Solar Physics', 'Planetary and Space Science', and 'Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia'.
Panel Reviewer for NASA's Sun-Earth Connection Program
Panel Reviewer for NASA's Living With A Star Program
Reviewer for UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC)
International Heliospheric Year (IHY) Campaign Coordinator and Representative for Ireland
Coordinator for the Max Millennium Program of Solar Flare Research
Scientific Organiser for ESA/NASA RHESSI/TRACE/SOHO conference (California) December 2004
Chair for the 2nd Solar Image Recognition Workshop (Maryland) October 2004
Special Session Chair at the American Astronomical Society Solar Physics Meeting (Colorado) June 2004
Special Session Convener for the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (San Francisco) December 2003
Scientific Organiser for the 1st Solar Image Recognition Workshop (Brussels) October 2003
Scientific Organiser for the NOAA Solar X-ray Imager Data Analysis Workshop (Colorado) August 2003
Scientific Organiser for the NASA Coordinated Data Analysis Workshop series (Maryland) July 2002

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS)
Member of the Institute of Physics (MInstP)
Member of the American Astronomical Society
Member of the Irish Research Scientists' Association
Management Committee Member for European Union's COST 724 on Space Weather
Member of the ESA Technology Demonstration Satellite Team, Proba-II
Member of the ESA Space Weather Working Team
Carley, E.P. and Hayes, L.A. and Murray, S.A. and Morosan, D.E. and Shelley, W. and Vilmer, N. and Gallagher, P.T., Loss-cone instability modulation due to a magnetohydrodynamic sausage mode oscillation in the solar corona, Nature Communications, 10, (1), 2019, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Morosan, D.E. and Carley, E.P. and Hayes, L.A. and Murray, S.A. and Zucca, P. and Fallows, R.A. and McCauley, J. and Kilpua, E.K.J. and Mann, G. and Vocks, C. and Gallagher, P.T., Multiple regions of shock-accelerated particles during a solar coronal mass ejection, Nature Astronomy, 3, (5), 2019, p452-461 , Notes: [cited By 2], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Barnes, D. and Davies, J.A. and Harrison, R.A. and Byrne, J.P. and Perry, C.H. and Bothmer, V. and Eastwood, J.P. and Gallagher, P.T. and Kilpua, E.K.J. and Möstl, C. and Rodriguez, L. and Rouillard, A.P. and OdstrÄ il, D., CMEs in the Heliosphere: II. A Statistical Analysis of the Kinematic Properties Derived from Single-Spacecraft Geometrical Modelling Techniques Applied to CMEs Detected in the Heliosphere from 2007 to 2017 by STEREO/HI-1, Solar Physics, 294, (5), 2019, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Hayes, L.A. and Gallagher, P.T. and Dennis, B.R. and Ireland, J. and Inglis, A. and Morosan, D.E., Persistent Quasi-periodic Pulsations during a Large X-class Solar Flare, Astrophysical Journal, 875, (1), 2019, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Clarke, B.P. and Morosan, D.E. and Gallagher, P.T. and Dorovskyy, V.V. and Konovalenko, A.A. and Carley, E.P., Properties and magnetic origins of solar S-bursts, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 622, (A204), 2019, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Campanyà, J. and Gallagher, P.T. and Blake, S.P. and Gibbs, M. and Jackson, D. and Beggan, C.D. and Richardson, G.S. and Hogg, C., Modeling Geoelectric Fields in Ireland and the UK for Space Weather Applications, Space Weather, 17, (2), 2019, p216-237 , Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Zucca, P. and Morosan, D.E. and Rouillard, A. and Fallows, R. and Gallagher, P.T. and Magdalenic, J. and Klein, K.-L. and Vocks, C. and Mann, G., Shock Location and CME 3-D Reconstruction of a Solar Type II Radio Burst with LOFAR, (8471565), 2018, Notes: [cited By 0], Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI
Park, S.-H. and Guerra, J.A. and Gallagher, P.T. and Georgoulis, M.K. and Bloomfield, D.S., Photospheric Shear Flows in Solar Active Regions and Their Relation to Flare Occurrence, Solar Physics, 293, (8), 2018, p114-, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Vocks, C. and Mann, G. and Breitling, F. and Bisi, M.M. and Dabrowski, B. and Fallows, R. and Gallagher, P.T. and Krankowski, A. and MagdaleniÄ , J. and Marqué, C. and Morosan, D. and Rucker, H., LOFAR observations of the quiet solar corona, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 614, 2018, pA54-, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Harrison, R.A. and Davies, J.A. and Barnes, D. and Byrne, J.P. and Perry, C.H. and Bothmer, V. and Eastwood, J.P. and Gallagher, P.T. and Kilpua, E.K.J. and Möstl, C. and Rodriguez, L. and Rouillard, A.P. and OdstrÄ il, D., CMEs in the Heliosphere: I. A Statistical Analysis of the Observational Properties of CMEs Detected in the Heliosphere from 2007 to 2017 by STEREO/HI-1, Solar Physics, 293, (5), 2018, p77-, Notes: [cited By 1], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
  

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S. Adamakis, C. L. Raftery, R. W. Walsh, P. T. Gallagher, A Bayesian approach to comparing theoretic models to observational data: A case study from solar flare physics, 2011, Journal Article, SUBMITTED
Peter Gallagher, A Multiscale View of the Solar Atmosphere, SCANDINAVIAN CONFERENCE ON IMAGE ANALYSIS 2009, Oslo, Norway, June 15-18, 2009, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Peter Gallagher, Assessing our understanding of the active Sun and the active heliosphere - what observations do we need to progress?, SOHO/STEREO Workshop: Three Eyes on the Sun Multi-spacecraft studies of the corona and impacts on the heliosphere , Dorset, England, April 27-May 1, 2009, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Peter Gallagher, Propagating large-scale disturbances in the solar corona , BUKS2009: MHD waves and seismology of the solar atmosphere, Leuven, Belgium, 6-8 April, 2009, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Gallagher, P. T., Our Elusive Sun., Dublin University Physical Society, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, November, 2005, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Gallagher, P. T., Our Beautiful Sun - A Neighbour from Hell!, Science Live, Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, Ireland, November, 2005, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Gallagher, P. T., Autonomous Space Weather Monitoring and Forecasting, ESA Space Weather Week, ESTEC, The Netherlands, November, 2005, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Gallagher, P. T., Diagnostics of Chromospheric Evaporation, SOHO/CDS Team Meeting, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, UK, September, 2005, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Gallagher, P. T., Our Elusive Sun, Astronomy Ireland,, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, August, 2005, Notes: [(attracted 160 people).], Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Gallagher, P. T., Energetics and Dynamics of Chromospheric Evaporation, NASA RHESSI Spacecraft Workshop, Locarno, Switzerland, June, 2005, Invited Talk, PRESENTED

  

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Awards and Honours

Award Date
International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) Conference Presentation Award 2005
L-3 Communications Innovative Solutions Award 2003
NASA Exceptional Performance Award 2002
Hewlett-Packard Award for graduating first place in M.Sc. class 1996

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

Solar astrophysics, space exploration, image processing, spectroscopy.