Converse of object

• study: For her graduate work, Jean chose to study astrophysics - " a wonderful field with wide open discovery space.

• include: The thoughts mostly stem from his life experiences which mostly include astrophysics, astronomy, beer, football, music and computers.

Adjective modifier

• relativistic: Significant research experience in data analysis or relativistic astrophysics Good computing skills.

• stellar: The importance of stellar astrophysics is evident in a broad range of areas.

• observational: Survey Astronomy Surveys for astronomical objects over large areas of the sky are the foundation on which much research in observational astrophysics is based.

• theoretical: There aren't a lot of opportunities for patents in theoretical astrophysics.

• nuclear: It publishes papers which report results of research in nuclear physics and related fields such as nuclear astrophysics.

• modern: A major goal of modern astrophysics is to understand how galaxies formed.

Modifies a noun

• mission: LEDAS provides an on-line astronomical database service and access to archive data from high energy astrophysics missions.

• research: Astrophysics research students are also required to attend a generic University course in research methodology which emphasizes transferable skills.

• group: These projects typically take place in the astrophysics group.

• student: Bumbling Felix Humble is a postgraduate astrophysics student, with his head firmly in outer space.

• course: In the fourth year they may choose from a variety of astrophysics courses offered in Part III of the Mathematical Tripos.

• researcher: Sitting in my rather cell-like university office, as an astrophysics researcher, I wondered if the same pattern applied to science.

Noun used with modifier

• high-energy: For his doctoral research in high-energy astrophysics he studied at the Cavendish Laboratory under Nobel Laureate Sir Martin Ryle FRS.

• particle: Proven record of high quality research in experimental particle physics or particle astrophysics.

• X-ray: XAssist is a NASA-funded project for the automation of X-ray astrophysics, with emphasis on galaxies.

• laboratory: Indeed, a new area of laboratory scale astrophysics has sprung up around table-top terawatt femtosecond lasers.

• energy: Some members of the high energy astrophysics group became founder members of the Pierre Auger Observatory that is now taking data in Argentina.

• neutrino: Areas being researched are neutrino astrophysics, the Casimir effect, quantum gravity fluctuations and laboratory astrophysics.