2011: Two populations of X-ray pulsars produced by two types of supernova (Astro Blog)
2011: The Most Distant Explosion in the Universe: A Gamma-Ray Burst at a Redshift of 9.4 (press release, paper)
2019: How Mergers Make Magnetic Stars (Nature Paper, Fabian Schneider, Video, Press Releases: Oxford, Heidelberg, MPA)
2018: An Excess of Massive Stars in the 30 Dor Starburst (Science Paper, Fabian Schneider, Oxford News Story)
2017: Gravitational Waves from a Neutron-Star Merger (aLIGO)
[aLIGO Press Release, News Stories: ESO, Oxford, SEH, ePESSTO Nature Paper]
2016: The first direct detection of gravitational waves with Advanced LIGO (aLIGO) [Press Release]
A new route towards merging massive black holes or understanding the aLIGO detections (paper, press releases: Oxford, Bonn, background information)
2012: SN 1987A: Sterne und Weltraum (July/August, by Chris Wolf, in German: Part 1, Part 2)
2012: PTF 11kx: A Type Ia Supernova with a Symbiotic Nova Progenitor (Movie: A Symbiotic Binary [Courtesy: Romano Corradi])
2011: Two populations of X-ray pulsars produced by two types of supernova (Astro Blog)
2011: The Most Distant Explosion in the Universe: A Gamma-Ray Burst at a Redshift of 9.4 (press release, paper)
Professor of Physics in the Astrophysics sub-department at the University of Oxford
Tutorial Fellow in Physics at St Edmund Hall , Oxford
Main research interests
theoretical astrophysics
stellar evolution theory and its applications to binary stellar evolution, supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, galaxy evolution, planet formation, gravitational-wave sources
stellar hydrodynamics
2010: The end of the dark ages: the gamma-ray burst of 23 April 2009 at redshift 8.2 (Nature Paper)
2008: Breakout from a Red Supergiant: First Light from a Supernova (Science Paper)
2007: SN 2006X, The Gobbling Dwarf that Exploded (Science Paper)
2007: Thomas Morris, Simulations of the SN 87A Ring Nebula (Science Paper)
Preprints on astro-ph (12 months)
Nando Patat (2009): A Visit to Oxford
