Cosmic Explosions Group

Working Group on Nuclear Astrophysics, Stars and Stellar Evolution, Supernovae, Nucleosynthesis, X-Ray Bursts and Neutron Stars, and the First Stars in the Universe.

Group Members

(by seniority)

Ethan Payne (JMSS) - supernova limits as function of metallicity and stellar rotation
Josh Cameron (Monash) - supernova limits and nucleosynthesis in globular Clusters
James Grimmett (Monash) - nucleosynthesis in hypernovae of the first stars
Zac Johnston (Monash) - Type I X-ray bursts on accreting neutron stars
Conrad Chan (Monash) - supernovae from the first stars; progenitors of ultra-metal poor stars
Athira Menon (Monash) - modelling of first stars and SN 1987A
Pamela Vo (UMN) - abundances and masses of the first stars
Tyrone Woods (Monash) - Supermassive stars, novae, ...
Alexander Heger (Monash) - kind of looking a bit into all of these

Former Group Members

Bernhard Mueller (Belfast, Monash) - supernovae
Chen Hou (UMN, China) - neutron star weather
Chris West (Metro State Collegue, Minnepolis) - isotopic galactochemical history
Ken Chen (IAU Gruber Fellow, EACOA Fellow NAOJ) - the probably biggest thermonuclear explosions
Alexey Zinger (UMN) - giant erruptions in very massive stars
Duligur Ibeling (Harvard) - the lower mass limit for core collapse supernovae
Charles McEachern (UMN) - the lowest-mass core collapse supernovae
Lauren Keek (NASA) - X-ray bursts and superbursts, theory and observation
Allan Straub (UMN) - transition to stable burning in Type I XRBs
Joel Kaardal (UCSD) - transition to stable burning in H-free Type I XRBs
Brian Crosby (MSU) - very, very massive stars
Joseph Barthel (UC Davies) - lowest mass supernovae of the earliest stars
Ryan Poitra (industry) - the upper mass-limit for primordial supermassive stars

Group Meetings

Please join daily 11:00 coffee in Rm 119, 10 College Walk, SINS group meetings, and high-energy group meetings.

Acknowledgements: This group is supported by US DOE through a block grant from nuclear physics, a topical collaboration in nuclear physics, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA), the US NSF Astronomy program, the ARC through a Future Fellowship, Monash University through a Larkins Fellowship.

Alexander Heger
Wednesday, 21-Sep-2016 17:30:10 AEST