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Ben Cooke

I am a Research Fellow in the Astronomy and Astrophysics group at the University of Warwick working in the Centre for Space Domain Awareness (CSDALink opens in a new window).

In this work I am involved in developing a GPU-assisted pipeline to detect satellites and debris in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). This work uses a method called blind stacking which detects moving objects in a series of stationary frames. The method involves testing multiple potential paths between frames and keeping only the best pixels. See the below animation for a visual description of the method.

I completed my PhD here at Warwick under the supervision of Prof. Don Pollacco, looking at the simulation, detection and characterisation of monotransits from the TESS mission (ThesisLink opens in a new window).

Publications

First author (selected papers, most recent first)
Co-author (selected papers, most recent first)
  • Classifying LEO satellite platforms with boosted decision trees - Billy Shrive, Don Pollacco, Paul Chote et al. (inc. Benjamin F. Cooke) (RASTI 2024Link opens in a new window)
  • Exploring SDA Sensor Architectures for the Surveillance of Geosynchronous Spacecraft - James A. Blake, Don Pollacco, Robert Airey et al. (inc. Benjamin F. Cooke) (AMOS 2023Link opens in a new window)

  • A transit timing variation observed for the long-period extremely low-density exoplanet HIP 41378 f - Edward M. Bryant Daniel Bayliss, Alexandre Santerne (inc. Benjamin F. Cooke) (MNRAS 2021Link opens in a new window)

  • NGTS-11 b (TOI-1847 b): A Transiting Warm Saturn Recovered from a TESS Single-transit Event - Samuel Gill, Peter J. Wheatley, Benjamin F. Cooke et al. (ApJ 2020Link opens in a new window)
  • A remnant planetary core in the hot Neptunian desert - David J. Armstrong, Théo A. Lopez, Vardan Adibekyan et al. (inc. Benjamin F. Cooke) (Nature 2020Link opens in a new window)
  • A long period (P = 61.8-d) M5V dwarf eclipsing a Sun-like star from TESS and NGTS - Samuel Gill, Benjamin F. Cooke, Daniel Bayliss et al. (MNRAS 2020Link opens in a new window)
  • NGTS and WASP photometric recovery of a single-transit candidate from TESS - Samuel Gill, Daniel Bayliss, Benjamin F. Cooke et al. (MNRAS 2019Link opens in a new window)
  • NGTS-4b: A sub-Neptune Transiting in the Desert - Richard G. West, Edward Gillen, Daniel Bayliss et al. (inc. Benjamin F. Cooke) (MNRAS 2019Link opens in a new window)

For a full list see NASA/ADSLink opens in a new window, Google ScholarLink opens in a new window or ORCiDLink opens in a new window

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        Write to:

        Ben Cooke,
        Department of Physics,
        University of Warwick,
        Coventry CV4 7AL
        UK
         

        Contact details:

        E-Mail: Benjamin dot Cooke at warwick dot ac dot uk
        Office: F07 Millburn House