Publications
Peer-reviewed
Major contribution
- The Polarisation Sky Survey of the Universe’s Magnetism (POSSUM): Science Goals and Survey Description. B. M. Gaensler et al. (inc. E.L. Alexander), PASA (2025): 1-32. Collaboration member 2017 to present; analysis of early science and pilot results; contribution of writing.
- The Evolutionary Map of the Universe: A new radio atlas for the southern hemisphere sky. A. M. Hopkins et al. (inc. E.L. Alexander), PASA (2025). Collaboration member 2017 to present; analysis of pilot results; contribution of writing.
- Machine learning based stellar classification with highly sparse photometry data. S. E. Cody et al. (inc. E.L. Alexander), Open Research Europe 2024, 4:29. Preparation of initial dataset and analysis technique; ongoing guidence to lead author (student).
- PySSED: an automated method of collating and fitting stellar spectral energy distributions. I. McDonald et al. (inc. E.L. Alexander) RASTI 3.1 (2024): 89-107. Data preparation and presentation for paper; minor contribution to software development.
- Radio Galaxy Zoo EMU: Towards a Semantic Radio Galaxy Morphology Taxonomy. M. Bowles et al. (inc. E.L. Alexander) , MNRAS (2023). Project builder; data preperation and presentation; contribution of writing.
- The ASKAP-EMU Early Science Project: Radio Continuum Survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud. T.D. Joseph, M.D. Filipović, E.J. Crawford, I. Bojičić, E.L. Alexander et al. MNRAS 490, 1, 1202-1219 (2019). Significant part of data preparation, analysis, and presentation for paper; writing contributions.
- Spectroscopy with the Engineering Development Array: cold H+ at 63 MHz towards the Galactic center. J.B.R. Oonk, E.L. Alexander et al. MNRAS 487, 4, p. 4737–4750 (2019). Main data processing and initial analysis; contribution to writing.
- Pseudo-3D visualization of Faraday structure in polarized radio sources: methods, science use cases, and development priorities. L. Rudnick et al. (inc. E.L. Alexander). MNRAS 535, 3, 2115–2128 (2024)
- Identifying anomalous sources in the EMU Pilot Survey data using a complexity-based approach. G. Segal et al. (inc. E.L. Alexander) , MNRAS (2023).
- Hydra II: Characterisation of Aegean, Caesar, ProFound, PyBDSF, and Selavy source finders. M. M. Boyce et al. (inc. E.L. Alexander) , PASA 40, e027 (2023).
- Hydra I: An extensible multi-source-finder comparison and cataloguing tool. M. M. Boyce et al. (inc. E.L. Alexander) , PASA 40, p.e028 (2023).
- CS-ROMER: A novel compressed sensing framework for Faraday depth reconstruction. M. Cárcamo, A.M.M. Scaife, E.L. Alexander and J.P. Leahy. MNRAS (2022).
- Radio Galaxy Zoo EMU: Harnessing Citizen Science and AI to Advance Open Science Catalogues. E. Vardoulaki et al. (inc. E.L. Alexander). Proceedings IAU397 Symposium UniversAI Exploring the Universe with Artificial Intelligence.
- A New Task: Deriving Semantic Class Targets for the Physical Sciences. M. Bowles, H. Tang, E. Vardoulaki, E.L. Alexander et al. Accepted at Fifth Workshop on Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences (NeurIPS 2022).
- Moon sighting is a key part of Muslim life – how the lunar cycle determines the start of Ramadan and Eid. The Conversation, 17 Feb 2026.
- A 4G network on the Moon is bad news for radio astronomy. The Conversation, 23 Oct 2020.
- Moonsighting project unites science and religion. BBC News, 11 Jan 2026.
- Astronomers create AI to better communicate their stellar research. University of Manchester press release, 17 April 2023.
- Astronomers discover ghosts of supernovas in nearby galaxy. University of Manchester press release, 30 Oct 2019.
- Star formation may be halted by cold ionised hydrogen. ASTRON press release, 9 July 2019.
- December stargazing: what to look out for. CBBC Newsround, 8 December 2021.
- Astronomy: How to see five planets and a comet in night sky. CBBC Newsround, 19 July 2020.