Tim Bedding's Home Page

I am a professor in the Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA), in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney.
Our research group is focussed on asteroseismology (the study of stellar oscillations).

• List of publications: refereed, all publications (including preprints that may still be in press). Publications as first author and as second author. Publications sorted by citation count (and as first author).
• Entries in publication databases: Google scholar, Orcid database, Scopus database and Web of Science (publons).
• Interested in a PhD Project on stellar oscillations (asteroseismology)?
• Public outreach:
  • Detection of pulsating stars in the Pleiades Cluster using NASA's TESS Mission, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
  • Video: From Maxwell to Einstein: Let there be light.
  • Discovery of regular pulsations in delta Scuti stars using NASA's TESS Mission, published in Nature. Watch an animation (with sound) on YouTube and read more on NASA's web page.
  • Measurement using NASA's Kepler Mission of rotation inside red giant stars, published as a Letter to Nature.
  • Discovery of Kepler-22b, a planet with a radius 2.4 times that of the Earth, in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star (published in The Astrophysical Journal).
  • Results from Kepler on solar-like oscillations in a delta Scuti star, published as a Letter to Nature.
  • Results from Kepler on gravity modes in red giant stars, published as a Letter to Nature. Also see images and a sound file (March 2011).
  • Discovery of g-mode period spacings in a red giant with Kepler (March 2011).
  • Launch of NASA's Kepler mission (March 2009).
  • Vibrations reveal stars' inner secrets (May 2006). ABC News Online
  • Star near Southern Cross is 'ringing' (Dec 2005). See also the news article on Universe Today and the press release by the European Southern Observatory
  • Astronomers take the pulse of a Sun-like star (Jan 2001).
• Animations of stellar oscillations
• Introduction to Interferometry astro-ph/9609092
• Occasional address at a graduation ceremony (April 2011)
• Research links: TESS viewing tool, NASA MAST Portal, TESS data availability, TESS light curve inspector, TESS target lists, Slack
• School of Physics links: IT support, lecture dem catalogue, admin helpdesk.
• University links: Staff intranet, Parking. form
• Journals: Science, MNRAS, A&A ARA&A

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Tim Bedding     School of Physics, University of Sydney 2006, AUSTRALIA
                Phone: +61 2 9351 2680         Fax:   +61 2 9351 7726
                E-mail: tim.bedding at sydney.edu.au