PhD Theses
Below are PhD thesis submitted by research students supervised by Astrophysics and Space Physics staff. Publications associated with these theses can be found on our publications web page. A thesis template which has been modified by Joseph Roche can be here.
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Quasi-Periodic Pulsations in Solar Flares and the Earth's Ionosphere High Res | Low Res
Laura Hayes
Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher (DIAS)
Submitted: September 2018 -
"Modelling and Monitoring Geomagnetically Induced Currents in Ireland” High Res | Low Res
Seán Blake
Supervisors: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher (TCD), Prof. Alan Jones (DIAS)
External Examiner: Dr. Antti Pulkkinen (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Submitted: September 2017 -
"LOFAR Tied-array Imaging and Spectroscopy of Solar Radio Bursts” High Res | Low Res
Diana Morosan
Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
External Examiner: Prof. Dale Gary (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
Submitted: September 2016 -
"X-Ray and Radio Diagnostics of Accelerated Electrons in Solar Active Regions"
Aidan O'Flannagain
Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
External examiner: Prof. Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi (Mullard Space Science Laboratory)
Submitted: December 2014
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"Radio Spectroscopy and Imaging Coronal Shocks"
Pietro Zucca
Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
External examiner: Dr. Alec MacKinnon (University of Glasgow)
Submitted: December 2014
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"Plasma Diagnostics and Hydrodynamic Evolution of Solar Flares"
Daniel Ryan
Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
External examiner: Dr. David Williams (Mullard Space Science Laboratory)
Submitted: October 2013
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"The Dynamics and Kinematics of Coronal Mass Ejections and Shock Waves"
Eoin Carley
Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
External examiner: Dr. Nicole Vilmer (Observatoire de Paris)
Submitted: October 2013
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"Radio Interferometric Studies of Cool Evolved Stellar Winds"
Eamon O'Gorman
Supervisor: Prof. Graham M. Harper
External examiner: Prof. Tom Millar (Queen's University Belfast)
Submitted: October 2013
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"Sunspot Group Evolution and the Global Magnetic Field of the Sun"
Paul Higgins
Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
External examiner: Prof. Lyndsay Fletcher (University of Glasgow)
Submitted: October 2012
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"Fields and Flares: Understanding the Complex Magnetic Topologies of Solar Active Regions"
Sophie Murray
Supervisors: Dr. D. Shaun Bloomfield and Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
External examiner: Prof. Louise Harra (Mullard Space Science Laboratory)
Submitted: October 2012
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"EG Andromedae: A Symbiotic System as an Insight into Red Giant Chromospheres"
Joseph Roche
Supervisors: Prof. Brian R. Espey and Prof. Graham M. Harper
External Examiner: Prof. Mihalis Mathioudakis (Queens University Belfast)
Submitted: January 2012
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"Propagation of Coronal Mass Ejections in the Inner Heliosphere"
Shane Maloney
Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
External examiner: Dr. David Berghmans (Royal Observatory of Belgium)
Submitted: October 2011
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"Kinematic Properties of Globally-Propagating Waves in the Solar Corona"
David M. Long
Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
External examiner: Prof. Astrid Veronig (University of Graz)
Submitted: October 2011
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"The Evolution and Space Weather Effects of Solar Coronal Holes"
Larisza D. Krista
Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
External examiner: Prof. Gerry Doyle (Armagh Observatory)
Submitted: February 2011
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"The Kinematics and Morphology of Solar Coronal Mass Ejections"
Jason P. Byrne
Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
External examiner: Prof. Richard Harrison (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
Submitted: October 2010
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"EUV Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Active Sun"
Claire L. Raftery
Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
External examiner: Dr. Helen Mason (University of Cambridge)
Submitted: December 2009
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"Fields, Fractals and Flares: Characterising Magnetic Complexity in Solar Active Regions"
Paul A. Conlon
Supervisor: Prof. Peter T. Gallagher
External examiner: Prof. Manolis Georgoulis (Academy of Athens)
Submitted: October 2009
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"Red Giant Mass Loss: Studying Evolved Stellar Winds with FUSE and HST/STIS"
Cian Crowley
Supervisor: Prof. Brian R. Espey
External examiner: Dr. Alex Brown (University of Colorado)
Submitted: February 2006