The Be Star Newsletter, Volume 39 - July 2007

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PhD studentship to study neutron star binaries in the Magellanic Clouds Malcolm Coe School of Physics & Astronomy, The University, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK email:  mjcoe@phys.soton.ac.uk Received: Jul 10, 2007;  Accepted: Jul 10, 2007 There is a 4-year fully-funded PhD studentship available for any European student to work on studies of the Magellanic Clouds from September 2007, or as soon as possible thereafter. In particular, the programme is focussed on the evolved stellar populations of the MCs, especially Be/neutron star binary systems. The global aim is to understand why there is such a huge population of such objects in the SMC, as opposed to the LMC. The programme makes use of spaced-based X-ray data from RXTE & Chandra, as well as ground-based optical and IR observations. An interest in observing, data-analysis and data-interpretation is important. The studentship (called a Mayflower Scholarship) is available to any European citizen. As part of the scholarship the student is expected to spend up to 20% of their time supporting the undergraduate teaching programme of the department. For further technical details on the studentship see: http://www.phys.soton.ac.uk/news/index.php?news=mayflower. For more information on the post and the science, contact Malcolm Coe (mjcoe@phys.soton.ac.uk), or look at: http://www.astro.soton.ac.uk/~mjc/res/.